I think the additions to Font Book are pretty cool.
We were having some slowdowns in TextEdit, Word etc. when using the font palette or font menus.
With the new FontBook, you can highlight all of your fonts and ask it to verify your fonts. After doing this we found about a dozen fonts that FB recommended to remove from our list. Did that.
Then you can have it remove duplicates.
Now are word processing apps and font palettes/menus work like you would expect.
I think the additions to Font Book are pretty cool.
We were having some slowdowns in TextEdit, Word etc. when using the font palette or font menus.
With the new FontBook, you can highlight all of your fonts and ask it to verify your fonts. After doing this we found about a dozen fonts that FB recommended to remove from our list. Did that.
Then you can have it remove duplicates.
Now are word processing apps and font palettes/menus work like you would expect.
Hi, i just wanna ask, how many fonts did you have installed, when the slowdown appeared. I also think i've lots of font installed - but my fontmenus are working fine - so i just wanna find out how much is lot?
And to all the others:
I'm still running panther - wanna switch in the next half year,
but it's cool to listen to your comments - a big community has finally gotten a new toy! have fun guys!
There is an Apple supplied Automator script for this.
With Automator open click on Spotlight. Select the "Add Spotlight Comments to Finder Items" script.
Drag a folder into the workspace. Then select the above script. Hit run. This will add your comments to the Folder. If you want them added to each individual file within the folder, you have to select the files and drag them into the workspace then select the script and run.
It would be nice if someone could amend this script so that just by dragging in a folder it would add the comments to the files in that folder.
Just "Save As" as a Folder Action. It works.
Although the script launches each time, annoying.
And it'll just keep adding the same keywords if you re-drop it, not sophisticated like a custom script would be.
Start dragging one out of the row of icons at the bottom of Dashboard. As you are dragging, hit F12 to kill Dashboard. Then drop the item. It will float above all of your windows.
To get rid of it, put it back into Dashboard by dragging it, then hitting F12, then dropping it.
Start dragging one out of the row of icons at the bottom of Dashboard. As you are dragging, hit F12 to kill Dashboard. Then drop the item. It will float above all of your windows.
To get rid of it, put it back into Dashboard by dragging it, then hitting F12, then dropping it.
Thank you, but this seems to be more of a debug thing then a feature as;
A. you can only have one at a time on the desktop
B. when F12 is pressed again, the widget is purged from the desktop
C. the now purged widget is stuck on stupid untill you remove it by clicking on the add/remove panel at the bottom.
I would like to start creating my own widgets like the drag and drop ftp "Transmit". But I want them visible all the time, I hate doing the dog and pony show every time I need to use a widget. Grab file, while still holding it press F12 and now drop the file over widget, naaah I just want to drop it.
I found this from Versiontracker Amnesty Widget Browser , It gives me the ability to do want I want. It's actually pretty neat, it puts a little menu in the right hand screen with all available widgets. Just select the ones you want on the desktop, easy.
Hi, i just wanna ask, how many fonts did you have installed, when the slowdown appeared. I also think i've lots of font installed - but my fontmenus are working fine - so i just wanna find out how much is lot?
And to all the others:
I'm still running panther - wanna switch in the next half year,
but it's cool to listen to your comments - a big community has finally gotten a new toy! have fun guys!
I only have about 250 fonts installed at this time. The few that were corrupt and the duplicates must have been enough because fixing them made things work better.
I would like to start creating my own widgets like the drag and drop ftp "Transmit". But I want them visible all the time, I hate doing the dog and pony show every time I need to use a widget. Grab file, while still holding it press F12 and now drop the file over widget, naaah I just want to drop it.
That's why the Transmit widget is a stupid idea for a widget, imo. Sounds neato keen until you actually need to use it.
Not sure if I installed anything weird, but I just noticed that pressing F5 in all programs enables a word autocomplete feature. I.e. start typing a word, and press F5.
Hmmm... Pressed F5 while typing, but couldn't activate any autocompletion feature. However, that command-R "Widget twirl" feature is pretty cool... Thanks for pointing it out.
Not sure if I installed anything weird, but I just noticed that pressing F5 in all programs enables a word autocomplete feature. I.e. start typing a word, and press F5.
That's not auto-complete. Not sure what the proper name for it is though.
Not sure if I installed anything weird, but I just noticed that pressing F5 in all programs enables a word autocomplete feature. I.e. start typing a word, and press F5.
now that is ingenious - i think it's using the built in dictionary! Hell it even works in Safari! THAT IS SO APPLE!
Thank you, but this seems to be more of a debug thing then a feature as;
A. you can only have one at a time on the desktop
B. when F12 is pressed again, the widget is purged from the desktop
C. the now purged widget is stuck on stupid untill you remove it by clicking on the add/remove panel at the bottom.
I would like to start creating my own widgets like the drag and drop ftp "Transmit". But I want them visible all the time, I hate doing the dog and pony show every time I need to use a widget. Grab file, while still holding it press F12 and now drop the file over widget, naaah I just want to drop it.
What if you set Dashboard to open when your dragged your mouse to a certain corner? It's under System Pref/Dashboard Expose. And then, when you were holding and dragging an item, if you took it to that corner, wouldn't Dashboard open? Hmm... I should try it out at home, but it seems like that would work.
What if you set Dashboard to open when your dragged your mouse to a certain corner? It's under System Pref/Dashboard Expose. And then, when you were holding and dragging an item, if you took it to that corner, wouldn't Dashboard open? Hmm... I should try it out at home, but it seems like that would work.
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We were having some slowdowns in TextEdit, Word etc. when using the font palette or font menus.
With the new FontBook, you can highlight all of your fonts and ask it to verify your fonts. After doing this we found about a dozen fonts that FB recommended to remove from our list. Did that.
Then you can have it remove duplicates.
Now are word processing apps and font palettes/menus work like you would expect.
Originally posted by kcmac
I think the additions to Font Book are pretty cool.
We were having some slowdowns in TextEdit, Word etc. when using the font palette or font menus.
With the new FontBook, you can highlight all of your fonts and ask it to verify your fonts. After doing this we found about a dozen fonts that FB recommended to remove from our list. Did that.
Then you can have it remove duplicates.
Now are word processing apps and font palettes/menus work like you would expect.
Hi, i just wanna ask, how many fonts did you have installed, when the slowdown appeared. I also think i've lots of font installed - but my fontmenus are working fine - so i just wanna find out how much is lot?
And to all the others:
I'm still running panther - wanna switch in the next half year,
but it's cool to listen to your comments - a big community has finally gotten a new toy! have fun guys!
Originally posted by kcmac
There is an Apple supplied Automator script for this.
With Automator open click on Spotlight. Select the "Add Spotlight Comments to Finder Items" script.
Drag a folder into the workspace. Then select the above script. Hit run. This will add your comments to the Folder. If you want them added to each individual file within the folder, you have to select the files and drag them into the workspace then select the script and run.
It would be nice if someone could amend this script so that just by dragging in a folder it would add the comments to the files in that folder.
Just "Save As" as a Folder Action. It works.
Although the script launches each time, annoying.
And it'll just keep adding the same keywords if you re-drop it, not sophisticated like a custom script would be.
Originally posted by Relic
How do you make Dashboard stay open all the time?
You can't. It wouldn't make any sense.
Can you place these on the desktop permanently?
Start dragging one out of the row of icons at the bottom of Dashboard. As you are dragging, hit F12 to kill Dashboard. Then drop the item. It will float above all of your windows.
To get rid of it, put it back into Dashboard by dragging it, then hitting F12, then dropping it.
Originally posted by lundy
You can't. It wouldn't make any sense.
Start dragging one out of the row of icons at the bottom of Dashboard. As you are dragging, hit F12 to kill Dashboard. Then drop the item. It will float above all of your windows.
To get rid of it, put it back into Dashboard by dragging it, then hitting F12, then dropping it.
Thank you, but this seems to be more of a debug thing then a feature as;
A. you can only have one at a time on the desktop
B. when F12 is pressed again, the widget is purged from the desktop
C. the now purged widget is stuck on stupid untill you remove it by clicking on the add/remove panel at the bottom.
I would like to start creating my own widgets like the drag and drop ftp "Transmit". But I want them visible all the time, I hate doing the dog and pony show every time I need to use a widget. Grab file, while still holding it press F12 and now drop the file over widget, naaah I just want to drop it.
Originally posted by kampfkolos
Hi, i just wanna ask, how many fonts did you have installed, when the slowdown appeared. I also think i've lots of font installed - but my fontmenus are working fine - so i just wanna find out how much is lot?
And to all the others:
I'm still running panther - wanna switch in the next half year,
but it's cool to listen to your comments - a big community has finally gotten a new toy! have fun guys!
I only have about 250 fonts installed at this time. The few that were corrupt and the duplicates must have been enough because fixing them made things work better.
Originally posted by Relic
I would like to start creating my own widgets like the drag and drop ftp "Transmit". But I want them visible all the time, I hate doing the dog and pony show every time I need to use a widget. Grab file, while still holding it press F12 and now drop the file over widget, naaah I just want to drop it.
That's why the Transmit widget is a stupid idea for a widget, imo. Sounds neato keen until you actually need to use it.
Developers, we want less complexity, not more.
Transmit should just be able to make droplets.
Originally posted by chych
Not sure if I installed anything weird, but I just noticed that pressing F5 in all programs enables a word autocomplete feature. I.e. start typing a word, and press F5.
That's not auto-complete. Not sure what the proper name for it is though.
It only works in Cocoa apps, I think.
Originally posted by chych
Not sure if I installed anything weird, but I just noticed that pressing F5 in all programs enables a word autocomplete feature. I.e. start typing a word, and press F5.
now that is ingenious - i think it's using the built in dictionary! Hell it even works in Safari! THAT IS SO APPLE!
Originally posted by Relic
Thank you, but this seems to be more of a debug thing then a feature as;
A. you can only have one at a time on the desktop
B. when F12 is pressed again, the widget is purged from the desktop
C. the now purged widget is stuck on stupid untill you remove it by clicking on the add/remove panel at the bottom.
I would like to start creating my own widgets like the drag and drop ftp "Transmit". But I want them visible all the time, I hate doing the dog and pony show every time I need to use a widget. Grab file, while still holding it press F12 and now drop the file over widget, naaah I just want to drop it.
What if you set Dashboard to open when your dragged your mouse to a certain corner? It's under System Pref/Dashboard Expose. And then, when you were holding and dragging an item, if you took it to that corner, wouldn't Dashboard open? Hmm... I should try it out at home, but it seems like that would work.
Originally posted by GreeneGirl7
What if you set Dashboard to open when your dragged your mouse to a certain corner? It's under System Pref/Dashboard Expose. And then, when you were holding and dragging an item, if you took it to that corner, wouldn't Dashboard open? Hmm... I should try it out at home, but it seems like that would work.
if you drag a widget it opens it in dashboard
Originally posted by MacCrazy
if you drag a widget it opens it in dashboard
I think the last two posts don't understand what Relic is talking about.
Or I could be confused. Or both.
Originally posted by johnq
I think the last two posts don't understand what Relic is talking about.
Or I could be confused. Or both.
I was replying to the guy who had no idea what relic meant!
Originally posted by MacCrazy
I was replying to the guy who had no idea what relic meant!
Ah, ok
Originally posted by MacCrazy
I was replying to the guy who had no idea what relic meant!
I'm not a guy.