"convert" questions

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sez brad at activadesign.com:
>I want to populate a pulldown menu with choices from the user's font
>menu. I'm sure there's a one-line command to do this (that's what I love
>about RR) but I can't find it.
   Welcome aboard, and there is indeed a one-liner for what you want:

   put the fontNames into button "FontMenu"

   It is not necessarily a good idea to let it go at that, however. The 
fontNames function is not the least bit discriminate; it will happily give you a 
list of fonts which includes "Kaufmann Bold" and "Kaufmann" as separate entries, 
and it also doesn't realize that "Zapf Dingbats" isn't a real text font. 
Detecting dingbat fonts is highly problematic (and may not even be possible in the 
first place!), but consolidating style-families into single entries should be 
possible. Once you've got a handler that consolidates families, you can still 
do what you want in a one-liner:

  put MergedStyles (the fontNames) into button "FontMenu"

   Hope this helps...