User manual

A Mac OS 10.3 Panther overview
AppleSauce November 2003
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and so on), or end destination (such as a Web site). You
can also control which fonts are available in a particular
application. In QuarkXPress, for example, you might
want to see only PostScript fonts.
You can preview a typeface in Font Book and install or
disable it (or an entire type family) by clicking on a but-
ton at the bottom of the Font Book window.
Font Panel has also been updated. Its Character palette
lets you preview a character, such as the letter N, in
every active font. You can also create styles, such as
shadow and underline, by combining effects and fonts.
Both Font Book and Font Panel include a search func-
tion that allows you to find any font on your Mac or net-
work.
Fast user switching
OS X has always been a multi-user environment. Each
user has a set of applications, settings, desktop pictures,
and more. Switching between users, however, has
always been a tedious, disruptive process. Panther’s Fast
User Switching changes that.
Switching to another user no longer requires that you
log out, which closes and quits all open documents and
applications and then log in to another account. When
you choose a new user from a list at the far right of the
menu bar, that user’s desktop immediately rotates into
view, in the same state it was left in.
This new feature seems ideal for home or small-office
environments, where multiple people may use a single
Mac. You can add or remove user accounts from Fast
User Switching via the updated Accounts preference
pane.
More Panther enhancements
Preview A new version of OS X’s built-in universal
viewer is faster and has indexed text searching, PDF text
copy, URL support, fax viewing, and PostScript-to-PDF
and EPS-to-PDF conversion.
FileVault A new feature uses the 128-bit Advanced
Encryption Standard to encrypt and decrypt your Home
directory’s contents on-the-fly. And the Secure Delete
Trash function can completely erase files from your hard
drive.
Faxing Apple has bundled fax software with many
Macs in the past, but Panther supports sending and
receiving faxes via modem. You can now fax directly
from any application that has a Print command; you can
pull fax numbers from your Address Book. There’s also a