Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.dal.ca!dal1!ireland
From: ireland@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Installing fonts in stacks?
Message-ID: <1428@ac.dal.ca>
Date: 11 Apr 90 05:51:33 GMT
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Organisation: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

I'm writing a stack which has a text field which must use a non-proportional
font.  I've settle on Monaco 12 for ease of reading and I think it looks
better on the screen than Courier.  I've recently discovered that not all
Macs have Monaco 12 installed in the system.  Obviously when my stack is run
on such a machine the text looks awful.  I hope to distribute this stack
as happiware soon and wondered what the best solution to this problem is.
Is it OK to install Monaco 12 into my stack and distribute it?  When I opened
my system file with rescopy there were lots of font resources, some with
names, and other just with numbers, so I didn't know which contained Monaco 12.
So I reopened the system file with FontDA mover and it showed a Monaco 12
resource which I put into a new file because FontDA mover wouldn't recognize
my stack (maybe there's a trick to installing fonts in documents that I don't
know of).  Then I opened up this file containing only Monaco 12 with rescopy.
Rescopy displayed 3 files. Font #512 "Monaco" , size of 0 bytes; Font #524
size of 2906 bytes; and Fond #4 "Monaco", size of 60 bytes.  I copied all 3
into my stack, though I suspect that a resource of size 0 can't be doing much.
When I opened my stack all seemed fine until I opened a script window.  The
text in the script window looks bad, its probably Monaco 12 being scaled to
9 pt text.  Do I have to put Monaco 9 into my stack as well?  

Any help is greatly appreciated.   Keith