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From: briand@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Brian D Diehm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: NFNT family names...clarification...
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Date: 24 Jan 90 20:04:09 GMT
References: <1990Jan24.001341.3232@athena.mit.edu>
Reply-To: briand@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Brian D Diehm)
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In article <1990Jan24.001341.3232@athena.mit.edu> shahn@hstbme.mit.edu (Samuel Hahn) writes:
>My question ishow do I change L Univers 45 Light to just "Univers Light"?
>I've tried sing ResEdit to change the NFNT name, and it seems to work, BUT
>it also seems to leave a copy of the "old" name available so BOTH the 
>original name AND the new name appear in the font menus...
>
>Any suggestions?

The first suggestion is that you don't want to do this. Both Apple and Adobe
specifically recommend AGAINST this practice. Since Apple now recommends that
progams remember font assignment by name, you will make your files non-
transportable to other Macs this way. Or at best it will cause you a lot of
pain re-establishing the font assignments. For historical reasons, and for
ongoing reasons, Microsoft is the culprit to blame for this mess.

The way to rename the font is to rename the FOND resource. You should not ever
name NFNTs.

If in addition you want to remove the style variants from your Font menus,
simply delete the style variant FOND resources. For example, if you have a
Font menu that displays Palatino, B Palatino Bold, I Palatino Italic, and
BI Palatino BoldItalic, then you can simply delete the FOND resources for the
last three, leaving Palatino intact. Your Font menu will show only Palatino,
and you can use the style menu to apply the style variations - the linkage will
be correct and the proper bitmap font will display.

Be careful. If you inadvertently delete the Palatino FOND, you will have a lot
of unreferenced NFNTs in your system taking up room but doing you no good. It
is painstaking work to figure out which ones are unreferenced so that you can
remove them.

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