WARNING: this DA only works on MacDraw version 1.9!! Also, you should read the limitations noted below. This is Freeware. Hope it helps you as much as it has me.
One of the most annoying problems with MacDraw is its very limited font size choices. It's difficult to make large headline size type; the laserwriter lets you set huge type, but MacDraw ends at 48 pt. If you have a Laserwriter you can print at a larger percentage, but then thin lines become thick ones and your small type becomes large type also, etc.
The Font Sizer DA is a little hack that lets you change the font size choices available under MacDraw's font menu. To use it first install it in your system file with the Font/DA Mover. When you select it from the apple menu a window will appear with the original MacDraw size choices down the left side. Down the center is a column of edit fields that lets you enter sizes to replace the originals. It will accept any size between 3 and 127 pt.
If MacDraw is running the install button should be available. Pressing it will change the sizes under MacDraw's font menu and also in the global array in RAM that MacDraw uses to store the current font sizes.
The changes are temporary; the next time you use MacDraw you will have to change the sizes again. The Save Default button lets you save your settings so the modified sizes will appear in the Font Sizer window the next time you use it.
SOME LIMITATIONS AND PROBLEMS:
1) When MacDraw saves a document it doesn't save the font sizes used in type objects. MacDraw saves only a number that corresponds to its reletive position in the font menu. Let's say you change the 48pt. slot in MacDraw's font menu to 127 pt. If you then create a document that has 127 point type in it save it to disk, quit and come back to it later the 127 point type will appear as 48 pt. The only way around this is to install 127 pt. in place of 48 pt. BEFORE you open that document. That's where the save default button comes in handy.
2) If you change the sizes on the fly and you have already created a type object with one of the old sizes MacDraw will redraw the type in the new size (i.e. you are limited to six font sizes in any document). This may not seem like too much of a problem until you notice that the selection handles surround the type as though it were still the old size. MacDraw only re-calculates the size of an object when it is edited. If you now edit that type (or just click on it with the text tool) MacDraw will re-calculate its size correctly for the new size. Another trick is to select the newly changed type object and then select its new size from the font menu. MacDraw will re-calculate its size when you do this. The best system is to just install all the sizes you want before you create a document.
3) You have to install any changes you want each time you use MacDraw. The changes are only in RAM and don't change the program on disk in any way.
4) This DA expects to find global array of six bytes (the font sizes) in RAM at a certain offset from the 68000 A5 register. If Apple has had more than on release of version 1.9 and that offset has changed then complete disaster (a bomb) is likely. I have tried this DA on as many people's MacDraw 1.9 that I could find and have had no problems. Shame on Apple if they updated without changing the version number. Let me know if any problems.
