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Turtle Fonts

I started on a new shareware app today…it’s going to be called Turtle Fonts. I’m very unsatisfied with the available font viewers for Mac OS X…so I decided to make my own. Target features are:

That’s it…possibly it won’t even do all that in the initial release. The final app will be for Mac OS X, Mac Classic, and Windows ( yes, a REALBasic app )

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2002 at 8:20 pm and is filed under Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

6 Responses to “Turtle Fonts”

  1. Donald W. Larson Says:
    April 25th, 2002 at 11:02 am

    Greg,

    That sounds like a good project.

    I would like to request that the program also calculate the length and height of the input text string in pixels with respect to the various attributes enabled. This would give a tool to designers who often need to calculate the “room” needed for selected fonts for character strings.

    TIA

    Don

  2. Greg Pierce Says:
    April 25th, 2002 at 11:52 am

    On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 12:08:29 -0500, Donald W. Larson wrote:
    >I would like to request that the program also calculate the length and height of the input text string in
    >pixels with respect to the various attributes enabled. This would give a tool to designers who often need
    >to calculate the “room” needed for selected fonts for character strings.

    That’s a great idea, Don…I’ll add that feature to the list.

    g.

  3. Donald W. Larson Says:
    April 25th, 2002 at 5:54 pm

    Thanks, Greg!

    I look forward to seeing the initial release. Just a quick question, will you be developing it in Project Builder?

    Don

  4. Greg Pierce Says:
    April 26th, 2002 at 7:26 am

    On Thu, 25 Apr 2002 19:01:02 -0500, Donald W. Larson wrote:
    >I look forward to seeing the initial release. Just a quick question, will you be developing it in Project
    >Builder?

    As I said in the first message, I’ll use REALBasic for this…it just makes little apps like this too simple — and being able to compile cross-platform is pretty handy.

    g.

  5. Stef Says:
    July 30th, 2008 at 6:40 pm

    Blah Blah Blah… testing

  6. Stef Says:
    July 30th, 2008 at 6:41 pm

    sorry ignore that last one…
    Look forward to seeing the release…

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