Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!mnetor!frank
From: frank@mnetor.UUCP (Frank Kolnick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: upgrading to NFNTs
Keywords: Adobe fonts compatibility
Message-ID: <5046@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: 16 Jul 89 15:28:59 GMT
Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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I've just received my screen font upgrade from Adobe (16 diskettes!)
and updated my system. This may be regarded as a flame...

I expected some incompatibilities, but I figure that's the price of
staying current. For example, I knew Word referenced fonts by ID rather
than name (real bad idea) but since I have everything defined by style
sheets, that wasn't too bad (would have been *much* easier if Word supported
*character* styles -- a good idea in general). XPress was, of course,
unaffected, as was Illustrator. The two big surprises were Filemaker II
(from Claris) and Cricket Draw. Filemaker not only forgot the original
fonts but arbitrarily decided to reformat all of my layouts!!! At best,
I had hoped to just 'select all' and change the fonts back, as appropriate.
However, I had to spend hours redesigning every file I had. Cricket Draw
also forgot the fonts, but now IT DOESN'T RECOGNIZE ANY OF THE NEW FONTS!!!
I.e., it's font menu is *very* short now (just the three or four standard
Mac screen fonts). This, of course, renders it useless. If anybody has
a work-around, I'd certainly appreciate some help. (Canvas is OK, btw.)

Flame not quite off, but cooling...



-- 
Frank Kolnick,
consulting for, and therefore expressing opinions independent of, Computer X
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