OTD search bar, preview text selection, copy/paste and praise!
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2020 5:13 pm
First off, if you haven't already updated to FC13 or are still thinking about it, I would highly recommend doing so...or at the very least give the demo a run. It's really that good, and it's especially solid in its current version. Many thanks to the support team who have addressed my issues to date
On with my requests and suggestions:
The text preview window in the Open Type Designer is handy, no doubt. But I often find myself accidentally erasing its contents unknowingly, because a single click will select all of its contents. I might find myself accidentally touching the mouse wheel (mine is sensitive) and, if I'm in the vicinity of the text window, often erase the contents unwillingly. This is very annoying! A simple on/off switch to allow selecting all text with single mouse click would solve this problem.
Some of my font work contains numerous lookups and finding them within the OTD tree can sometimes be challenging. Could we see some sort of search bar in the future?
Finally, copy/paste of routines within the OTD tree would be especially helpful. It's not uncommon for me to necessitate relocating and repositioning a routine(s) from another location. Sure, we all do this in the Editor when needed. But as I prefer to work from the OTD tree, it would be great to do this sort of thing here.
And related to copy/paste...it would be really helpful to allow click and drag of any routine in the tree. Using the up/down arrow to rearrange its placement, while helpful, can become a very slow method.
Thanks for all the great work!
On with my requests and suggestions:
The text preview window in the Open Type Designer is handy, no doubt. But I often find myself accidentally erasing its contents unknowingly, because a single click will select all of its contents. I might find myself accidentally touching the mouse wheel (mine is sensitive) and, if I'm in the vicinity of the text window, often erase the contents unwillingly. This is very annoying! A simple on/off switch to allow selecting all text with single mouse click would solve this problem.
Some of my font work contains numerous lookups and finding them within the OTD tree can sometimes be challenging. Could we see some sort of search bar in the future?
Finally, copy/paste of routines within the OTD tree would be especially helpful. It's not uncommon for me to necessitate relocating and repositioning a routine(s) from another location. Sure, we all do this in the Editor when needed. But as I prefer to work from the OTD tree, it would be great to do this sort of thing here.
And related to copy/paste...it would be really helpful to allow click and drag of any routine in the tree. Using the up/down arrow to rearrange its placement, while helpful, can become a very slow method.
Thanks for all the great work!