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From: llkl@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Laurie Kleiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Installing fonts in stacks?
Message-ID: <6522@ur-cc.UUCP>
Date: 11 Apr 90 17:32:40 GMT
References: <1428@ac.dal.ca>
Reply-To: llkl@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Laurie Kleiner)
Organization: University of Rochester
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In article <1428@ac.dal.ca> ireland@ac.dal.ca writes:
>I'm writing a stack which has a text field which must use a non-proportional
>font.  I've settled 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


I had this problem with one of my stacks, too.  The easy solution is to install
the font resource right into your stack, like you would install an XCMD (I
believe you need two resources for one font, they should both have about the 
same name, just different types of resources, maybe someone else could 
elaborate on this).

However, this easy solutions has some problems - if the font is already 
installed in the system, you can get some strange system crashes and font
anomallies (in HyperCard, and in other programs if you don't reboot after
running the stack).

So, the preferred solution is to pack a suitcase with Monoco 9 and 12 along
with your stack, with documentation telling the user to install the font
in their system.

I think I got this information from Danny Goodman's (wordy but still PDG)
_Developer's Guide_.

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Laurie Kleiner                                      llkl@uhura.cc.rochester.edu 
            Old enough to know better, stupid enough to do it anyhow. 
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