Font by default

[Charisma]

Can anybody tell me how can I change the font to be used as deafault?

[Charisma]

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.

Nevertheless many thanks to you...

[Charisma]

Can anybody tell me how can I change the font to be used as deafault?

[gidgit]

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

[gidgit]

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

[MaryLouW]

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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http://pircnet.com/temp3/

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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[Grafixman]

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.

[sallybode]

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

[Grafixman]

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.

[stephaniebt]

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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