{"id":158,"date":"2009-03-03T08:21:29","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T15:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fontstruct.fontshop.com\/news\/?p=158"},"modified":"2011-03-18T07:23:49","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T14:23:49","slug":"update-to-preview-widget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/2009\/03\/03\/update-to-preview-widget\/","title":{"rendered":"Update to Preview Widget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear FontStructors,<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve updated the preview widget used on the gallery pages and elsewhere on the site:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-167\" title=\"new_preview_widget1\" src=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/uploads\/2009\/03\/new_preview_widget1.png\" alt=\"new_preview_widget1\" width=\"487\" height=\"345\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Above Example: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/fontstructdev.fontshop.com\/fontstructions\/show\/155561\">Penmanship<\/a>&#8221; by &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/fontstructors\/thalamic\">Thalamic<\/a>&#8221; in the sample text mode.)<\/p>\n<p>There are a number of new and improved features which we hope will help you to get a better overview of a FontStruction and to see how it works at different sizes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Revised Menu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The preview widget now has a &#8220;VIEW&#8221; menu with three options:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;All Letters&#8221; which is the default, displaying all characters within the FontStruction<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Sample Text&#8221; which shows a standard sample text (for FontStructions with sufficient characters)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;User Input&#8221; which turns the preview widget into a text entry field where you can try typing with the FontStruction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>One-Click Pixel Preview<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the left there&#8217;s a &#8220;PXL&#8221; button which will give you a preview of your FontStruction at a one-brick-per-pixel resolution, whichever option you have chosen from the &#8220;VIEW&#8221; menu.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interactive Zoom<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Between the &#8220;PXL&#8221; button and the &#8220;VIEW&#8221; menu, there&#8217;s an interactive slider which you can use to view the FontStruction at a range of different sizes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vertical Scrolling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the right, there are scroll buttons which you can use to scroll the text vertically line-by-line.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Larger Preview on FontStruction Homepages<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On FontStruction home pages the widget is now taller and will usually show about four lines of letters. There is also an experimental feature: You can drag the bottom right-hand corner of the widget to resize it vertically.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at FontStructions in the new widget is very revealing. The importance of setting an appropriate width for the space character quickly becomes clear. It&#8217;s also great to be able to see a more extensive character set more easily. Some designs which may have looked flawed or even dull as an &#8220;ABCDEF&#8230;&#8221; in the old sampler now reveal their true qualities more readily.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve also simplified the embedded version of the widget. It doesn&#8217;t have a border anymore so it should be easier to integrate into the design of your blogs and webpages.<\/p>\n<p>Please let us know what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear FontStructors, We&#8217;ve updated the preview widget used on the gallery pages and elsewhere on the site: (Above Example: &#8220;Penmanship&#8221; by &#8220;Thalamic&#8221; in the sample text mode.) There are a number of new and improved features which we hope will help you to get a better overview of a FontStruction and to see how it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}