Set relative font scaling in Cocoa apps' font panel

May 07, '04 09:29:00AM

Contributed by: tinb

Here's a small tip, which is way old (from NEXTSTEP): The size field on the font panel in Cocoa apps (Command-T) can calculate sizes. Say you want to make all the fonts bigger in an RTF TextEdit document. Just select the whole text of the document, switch to the fonts panel, and enter (for example) *2.2 to scale all fonts accordingly. This would be useful in a document with multiple fonts at multiple sizes -- you don't want to set them all to the same size (which is what you'd get if you selected all and then just chose a size), but you want them all to be larger (or smaller) than they are presently.

[robg adds: This is a very useful feature, but it took me a while to understand just why it was useful -- the ability to scale multiple font sizes in one document while maintaining the relative sizing between fonts could be quite a timesaver.]

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