Having searched this forum. It is mighty depressing to see that very little has changed since my last use of Intaglio in January. Granted, the developers have to guard against featuritis, but for all the dynamic guidelines and such that makes Intaglio useful, there are many missing keyboard and mouse actions available in McDraw and ClarisDraw that allowed a user to work without having to go back up to the menus.
Also, you would think that a user could change the default font. For pity sake, how many people use Geneva these days! The standard way to change the default font, going way back to McDraw, was that the default font was only changed if the Text mode was selected and a new font was chosen before any text was typed.
Having searched this forum. It is mighty depressing to see that
very little has changed since my last use of Intaglio in January.
Granted, the developers have to guard against featuritis, but for
all the dynamic guidelines and such that makes Intaglio useful,
there are many missing keyboard and mouse actions available in
McDraw and ClarisDraw that allowed a user to work without having to
go back up to the menus.
I also thimk so ; why is it impossible to define custom keyboard or
mouse actions, as in for example RagTime ?
As I worked with Intaglio again yesterday, I found the other thing that drove me crazy was the inability to double-click a piece of text I wanted to edit.
Well said Don! I too have pointed this out, but no one answers
Come on Developers- this is supposed to be an OS X standard!!!
regards,
Tom
On 28 Jun 2009, at 12:43, “Donald C. O’Shea” email@hidden
wrote:
As I worked with Intaglio again yesterday, I found the other thing
that drove me crazy was the inability to double-click a piece of
text I wanted to edit.
<…the inability to double-click a piece of text I wanted to edit.>
Go to Preferences and click the Tools tab. Where it says ‘Double-click Graphic To’, click the ‘Edit Text’ button.
Intaglio v2.9.8 (OS 10.11) doesn’t appear to support all the characters in a font. For example, open the Character Palette, choose the Apple Symbols font and scroll down to row 950. Drag the first character in row 950 into Intaglio—it doesn’t appear.
This seems to be because Intaglio only supports characters with Unicode numbers. All characters before row 950 have Unicodes, but those after have GID numbers.
Calling Nick—is there a way to access all the glyphs in every font, directly in Intaglio? There are workarounds, but they’re clunky and/or complex. One is to access the characters in another OSX drawing program, convert to outlines, save as a PDF and import. The other is to add a font feature.
I did some Googling and it seems that other programs have the same problem. Believe it or not, Apple’s own Pages program can’t access characters with GID numbers. Apple’s Text Edit can!
