Preferred font list in font dialog

[Bryce Harrington]

In some applications, font dropdowns have a 'recently
used fonts' area at the top of the dropdown listing
fonts that have been used recently. This would be
useful with Inkscape, since on a system with a
non-trivial amount of fonts installed, it becomes
tedious to repeatedly scroll down to select a
particular font.

This list should be taken from the set of fonts
actually used in the document.

[Horkana-users (horkana-users)]

> This list should be taken from the set of fonts actually
used in the document.

Doing so in an existing document might be a little strange
but the way Microsoft Word keeps track of the most recently
used fonts (last 5 if I recall correctly) is certainly a
useful feature

[Bug Importer (bug-importer)]

Presonally, I do not like the long drop-down-font-menu.
Instead, I think it is handier to be able to select some
fonts, give them generic names, and they go into the font
toolbar. one button per generic name, (if the user sets
more than one fonts under the same generic name, that name
becomes a small drop-down-list itself).
Please visit the image showing this. (and sorry for my
horrible presenting skills).

http://img527.imageshack.us/my.php?image=inkscapefontds3.png

http://img527.imageshack.us/
my.php?image=inkscapefont2st2.png

-D

[theAdib (theadib)]

This is a RFE. put to wishlist.

[David Mathog (mathog)]

I want to second the suggestion for a short font list. The work I have been doing for the last couple of months uses
only Arial, Times New Roman, and Symbol. Unfortunately these are at opposite ends of the very long list of fonts that will never be used (except by accident) , and I have been spending a ridiculous amount of time scrolling up and down from one end of that list to the other.

The shorter list need not be automatic, I would be perfectly happy with a system where one had to manually move fonts into/out of the preferred list. Actually, I think I would prefer that.

Along similar lines, the font size list should be modifiable. As has been discussed ad nauseum the sizes shown are in
pixels, but the integers appear to correspond to point sizes. I can live with pixel units but why don't these numbers correspond to typical character sizes in points? Something like this:

10, 11.25, 12.5, 15, 17.5, 20, 22.5, 27.5, 30, 35, 40, 45

corresponding to point sizes

8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 28, 32, 36

[insaner (insaner)]

on linux (fedora 14 at least) the font dropdown does not have a vertical scroll bar, and i cannot get it to go to my desired font by typing its name (which would solve the scrolling time mentioned in comment #4)

this is a pretty big deal because i can scroll left to right on the box, which is useless, but i cant scroll up and down to select another font, and instead have to use the up/down keys to do so. that makes this dropdown box useless since i have to always go to the font dialog to choose a font

please change from wishlist to something higher..

[insaner (insaner)]

update,

it seems that its a matter of it only not being there to begin with, but after selecting a font, either by clicking or pressing enter, the scroll bar then appears the next time the dropdown is activated. though it be obvious to mention, scrolling while the scroll bar is not there does not work, nor does it cause the scroll bar to appear

the "typing find" (beginning to type the name of a font to go directly to it) doesnt work either.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

@insaner - the issue with the scroll-ability of the font dropdown list are tracked in
Bug #986936 “font selection box only scrolable horizontally and not vertically”
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/986936>

> the "typing find" (beginning to type the name of a font to go directly to it) doesnt work either.

Off-topic in this report IMHO which is a feature request about "Preferred font list in font dialog".
(can't reproduce it either)

[insaner (insaner)]

>> the "typing find" (beginning to type the name of a font to go directly to it) doesnt work either.

> Off-topic in this report IMHO which is a feature request about "Preferred font list in font dialog".

i filed that bug here:

  "font selection dropdown disables "typing find" of font"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1064717

[su_v (suv-lp)]

> This list should be taken from the set of fonts
> actually used in the document.

Implemented in trunk (initial commit: rev 12104).

See also:
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/39766>

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

The way this was fixed prevents you from trying out different fonts easily, as after setting the font, it sets the one in the 'recently used' list to 'selected' instead of the one in the font list. This means that to try out the next font, I need to scroll back down to the one I used, then continue trying them out. It's one of the most annoying changes for me in 0.91. Is there a report for this somewhere?