Can anybody tell me how can I change the font to be used as deafault?
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Can anybody tell me how can I change the font to be used as deafault?
Can anybody tell me how can I change the font to be used as deafault?
If you're using the Text tool to create graphical text, it should default to whatever font you used the last time you used the Text tool. If you have a font and font size you like, you can click Add in the Attributes toolbar and add that preset to My Gallery in the EasyPalette. The color, however, will not carry over to be part of the preset. Whenever you want, say, the Chancery font at size 18, you'd just double click its thumbnail. While the Text object is active, you can edit its color in the Attributes toolbar or in the Text Panel.
If you're talking about HTML Text objects, PI8 defaults to Times New Roman at 12 point in black. I have yet to find a way to have it default to a different font, size and color. Instead, you must select font attributes from the HTML Text Entry Box. Usually I just type in the HTML text with the default, then select it all and choose the font I want. Keep in mind, however, that viewers of your web pages will only see the font you selected if it is already on their own computer. It's usually best to pick a standard font like Times New Roman, Arial, Helvetica, etc. and save the fancier fonts for graphical text created with the Text tool.
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I meen the HTML text. I use ms san serif as a default font for all my web-pages and Arial for creating of leaflets.
In case for some reason I use the unusual font (aerial), I use a script for loading of the font to the page.
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I know this is an old topic. But an idea occured to me while looking at it. Maybe you could create a dummy html text in the font of your choice and save that in the magic pallette? Then you'd just drag it in and edit it whenever and wherever you need it. Just a thought.
haha, yup, that would seem to work just fine indeed... just open a Web>HTML Text Object, choose your fav font and type that font name and drag and drop into Easy Pallete>Object Libraries>My Library, and voila... drag it out onto the canvas, right click and edit text...
Hey Grafiximan, great suggestion...
Though really, when ya think about it, it isn't all that hard to just open a HTML text object, and simply make the font and size choice and type... I mean the Easy pallete way works and all, but... you would still have to go from say the effects library to your new, custom named MY Library within the object library... bla bla... so yea, with these extra moves it's probably six of one, half dozen of another http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
You're probably right. But you could save several preset html text font type/size/color this way, in case you have a particular style set for a site.
I would not worry about formating the font size and color in the HTML document.. that is what CSS is for.. just make yourself some style sheets with the fonts you would like and then apply them to your whole website in one easy <link> tag in your <head> information.
Of course this would be the prefered method to employ should one be using web editing software along with PI http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
I'd also advise against exclusively using PI for commercial sites without tweaking the codes further with an html editing software, too. Some browsers choke on PI's less than ideal codes.
Well, that all depends on the version of PI you are working with... version 7 and up have had pretty tight code, and usualy the code people refer to that PI generates that could be deemed less than ideal,are the extra row or col along the edge of the table, which are generated when there is staggering cell structures... and this because all is within one table, and given this fact I think it makes for the best solution out there for non redit generated code...
just cut that row or col out when you pop it into a web editor, but first be sure to go in and define your cell properties, because otherwise this is where the blow outs occur when previewing/viewing...
the only other thing is the context sensitivity of the browser's used, as PI generates everything capitalized... so any unix users out there might be outta luck... then again, this is a graphics app eh http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
as for the capitalized code mixing with the noncapitalized generated by most web editors, I dunno... sometimes I have gone in and fixed this manualy, while other times I have simply left things as were, and everything opened fine in IE, Netscape/Opera etc...
also, back in the older versions there was need to go in and tweak the code for some things, such as border="0" for those graphic links... but the newer versions look after this...
infact, I found that both DreamWeaver, as well Front Page were actually the culprits which generated some less than ideal code http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif
to which, well, the way I see things, if the page loads correctly cross platform, and browser, and said pages load within a very reasonable time frame concidering the content, then all is well, and you are but only a very minor concern for over burdening the web http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
I mean in a perfect world there would be no waste, yet durn it, I still end up taking the garbage out once a week http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
The major problem in creating a web page in PI is that when you have a background, it doesn't generate it on the fly like a standard html page, it puts the entire background into the image and cuts it up into pieces when it generates the html. This makes it so much slower when loading the pages. you can see it load up piece at a time. You also cannot center a page using PI unless you manually edit the html and if you can't do that, you're sort of out of luck.
I've been playing around with sample pages to see how fast/slow they load. Feel free to see for yourself - none of the links work since these are "dummy" pages.
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I find they all load slowly and I'm on DSL. I can't imagine what it would be like on dial-up.
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What PI version are you using? PI8 has a css option for generating webpages. You could fiddle around with that. As for the background being sliced up, you could try making it first then saving it as jpg or gif, compressed as small as acceptable. When making the page, turn off the visibility of the background. Insert the webpage background you just saved via PI's html properties. PI wouldn't slice it then, except in places with object layers, where you have the option to save the slices as jpg or gif. Compressing the slices as tightly as possible, as jpg or gif, whichever gives the smaller file, would speed up the loading time. Using the css option also makes tweaking the code a little easier. Worth a try http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif.
Those are all great suggestions for those who are experienced in creating web pages but so many people are just learning do to a lot of this stuff. There are also those web sites with multiple background layers to consider.
Web pages are fun to make in PI but would definitely not use it to create a professional site. It's much too difficult to edit once done.
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What Graphixman was telling you is so true but you have to know how to implement it. Here is a link to the best site I've found on Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). His tutorials are very clear and in plain English.CSS