This may be extremely buggy. This is the first time someone other than me has used it. Never tested on 10.1.5.
Get it here
Version 1.5a2
- Bug Free*
- Fixed a problem that caused the Theme font to be replaced in Cocoa if minimum font size was enabled.
- New applications are now shown when you add them to the Application popup in the Font tab.
- Automatically selects the newly added application.
- Fixed a problem where the RKAlias class would not be loaded if FruitMenu or some other pref panes were clicked before Silk was opened. Blank Items will no longer appear.
- Can now actually delete presets
- Fixed a problem that causes a cocoa exception if you try to add a font by drag and drop onto a font box and there were no previous substitution rules in place. Also fixed the other exceptions that occurred after this fix. I hate exceptions because they sometimes happen deeper down than they should and prefer errors. Thanks to Philippe Martin for finding and reporting this bug.
- Can no longer set a replacement font via the font views (boxes) if there is no original font. This was easier than fixing the bugs that occurred if you tried it. Also fixed all the bugs associated with this change.
- Changed the GUI around a little bit.
*Except for the bugs that exist in silk, of course.
Version 1.5a
- Font substitution
- Theme Font Replacement
- Minimum Font Size
- Moved to .APE
- Some other bugs fixed I can't remember. Like this one caused by a bug in OS X that makes it so Silk can't get the path of a CFM unbundled application using CFBundle.
Known Problems
- Changes may not take effect immediately for the new fonts tab.
- May replace some fonts it shouldn't and might not replace others it should.
- TextEdit (the API, not the Application) selection shows fuzzy pixels. Want to fix this for next version. Not sure how yet.
- Doesn't make sure APE is installed.
- Minimum font size is wacky at times.
- The desktop seems to randomly decide when to draw shadows when Fast Theme font replacement is selected.
- If you have substitution rule for Lucida Grande to some other font and a theme font selected that is different from the rule, you will get some odd results.
- If you replace the font that is the theme font as a font substitution rule, you will get some weird results as well.
- Because of Objective-C's inherent slowness, doing font substitution on a Cocoa app that uses Cocoa text handling (Like OmniWeb and ProjectBuilder but not Chimera) can be extremely painful.
- There may be some memory leaks here and there.
Settings Fonts
- You can drag and drop just about any text selection with font information or object from the right side of the Silk Preference pane to the left side of the Silk Preference Pane's Font Tab or two the "Font Boxes" below the tables. Like if you don't like a font in Internet Explorer but don't know the name of the font, just drag a text selection containing the font onto the Original Font box or the font substitution rule table of the Font tab of the Silk preference pane. I'll make a movie later to explain this.
Posted by rosyna at 05:13 AM
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Any way to seperate the menubar support from the rest of the application fonts? Most times I would like to change the menubar font but keep the rest of the application untouched.
Thank you.
Posted by: David on January 2, 2003 11:15 AMI see now... it works on Chimera fine as long as you disable the Quartz Text rendering! Sweet! I love this!
Posted by: mrtew on January 3, 2003 12:09 PMWait, you don't have to disable Quartz text rendering, just don't do the mimimum font size or custom theme font boxes or Chimera won't work! Sorry for the multiple comments! I'm a nerd.
Posted by: mrtew on January 3, 2003 12:20 PMI've been dying to get an application/hack that would allow System Font subsititution in OS X for ages now.
Is it possible to have this functionality without using the Silk theme? I would love a stand alone application that allowed System Font subsititution.
You can set a system font (theme font is the same as the system font) and disable everything else in silk.
Posted by: Rosyna on January 3, 2003 5:48 PMIs there any way to just change the SIZE of the system font? I still like Lucida Grande, but I would love to be able to make it smaller... and haven't figured out how to do this with Silk.
Posted by: Neil on January 3, 2003 7:21 PMHm. I changed the theme font and SOME of the lucida grande system fonts changed, but not the menubar fonts or the contextual menu fonts... which is what I wanted in the first place. Hm.
Posted by: Neil on January 4, 2003 12:54 PMYa do know you probably have to restart the application after changning a theme font? And no, there is no way to set the theme font's size.
Posted by: Rosyna on January 4, 2003 3:13 PMThis is a genius program. Once you work out the kinks, I'll be first on line to buy it.
Posted by: raul on February 1, 2003 2:05 AMMy only 2 suggestions would be:
1. allow control of the main menu font size (I'd love to force it to 12 points or even 10 points).
2. Allow us to change the style of desktop text (always force bold white w/ shadow to something else... black with colored bground for example... like OS 9 or some Linux systems)
Posted by: raul on February 1, 2003 2:11 AMIs the alpha still available, as the link doesn't work?
Thanks
Posted by: Adam on March 12, 2003 6:51 AMKeep comments on topic. If a comment is unrelated to this post, it may be removed or moderated.