Hi Bernd,


--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, Bernd Brinkmann
<bernd.brinkmann@...> wrote:

>
> Hello Jeff,
>
> > I am running Guide 8, 2 June 2008 version. Perhaps a kind person can
> > advise me if it is possible to change fonts or other properties for
> > constellation labels without changing star labels? I am creating a
> > star chart for some people who are new to astronomy. I have made
> > adjustments so that constellation labels are shown in full rather than
> > as 3 character abbreviations. I now want to make those constellation
> > labels easily distinguishable from star and other labels by changing
> > style, size or font. Simply underlining them would be satisfactory. I
> > cannot rely simply on colors because the chart will be printed in
> > black and white.
>
> you can adjust the font and its size only globally for screen and

printer

> separately. Go to |Display|Screen font| or |Display|Printer font|.

So all labels are

> of this font and size. Only when the star labels are set to "Bayer"

(on or auto)

> they will have a greek character set. But this also changes its size

together with

> the other labels.
>
> Clear skies
> Bernd
>
>
> Bernd Brinkmann
>
> Sternwarte Herne, MPC code A18
> Herne, Germany
>
> e-mail: info@...
> http://www.sternwarte-herne.de
>

Thanks for the reply. My searches of the Project Pluto site and of the
Guide Manual showed that the screen fonts and printer fonts could be
changed (as you have also described) but there was no mention of
making selective changes as I required. I asked because there seem to
be many "little known" features of Guide and I hoped that someone knew
of one for this purpose.
I have come up with two work arounds - there will almost certainly be
others:

1) Create the chart (post script) with star names only, then manually
insert the constellation names using Photoshop or other suitable
editor. Slow but it helps one to learn the constellation positions :)

or 2) Create a post script chart with star names and the desired
printer font. Then turn star names off and constellation names on,
change the printer font as required and create a second post script
chart. The two charts may then be aligned and "stacked" in Photoshop
or other suitable software. This method is much quicker than 1 above,
but runs the risk of having overlapping star and constellation names
because the user has no control over the positioning of one set of
names relative to the other.

Needless to say I now have my desired chart. With Guide there always
seems to be a solution!

Thanks again.
Jeff