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From: phaedrus@milton.acs.washington.edu (The Wanderer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Installing fonts in stacks?
Message-ID: <2888@milton.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 14 Apr 90 19:11:03 GMT
References: <1428@ac.dal.ca> <11097@hoptoad.uucp>
Reply-To: phaedrus@milton.acs.washington.edu (The Wanderer)
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In article <11097@hoptoad.uucp> tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) writes:
>In article <1428@ac.dal.ca> ireland@ac.dal.ca writes:
>>Is it OK to install Monaco 12 into my stack and distribute it?
[description of installation process deleted]
>>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?  
>
>I doubt it, but you have discovered why it's generally a bad idea to
>move fonts as resources.  Use Font/DA Mover.  With the option-open
>trick, it should be more than adequate, and it will prevent this kind
>of accident.

     I don't have my manuals handy at the moment, but I think you probably
will have to install Monaco 9 as well.  If you try to, say, put Helvetica 48
in a file by itself, and use Suitcase to make it available when you need a
font that large, you'll find that all the other Helveticas go away.
     The problem is the FOND resource, which tells the system what font sizes
are available in a given font.  There has to be a FOND in your document file,
or the system won't recognize the FONT there at all.  The problem is that
while your document file is open, the OS will only look at the FOND in your
document, not the corresponding FOND in the System; since the document's FOND
contains no mention of the other font sizes, the OS won't use them.
     You might be able to edit the FOND in ResEdit to include the 9-point size
without actually installing the font in the stack, but I wouldn't recommend
it; you can run into all sorts of problems that way, particularly if for some
reason Monaco 9 actually wasn't installed (say, if someone had changed the
application font).  As a rule, whenever you want to install a font in a
document, you have to install all sizes of that font that might be used while
the document is open, even if that results in duplications between the
document and the System.  This is another reason not to install fonts in
documents; they become larger than your font files.  (Of course, as Tim
mentioned, HyperCard really doesn't leave you many choices.)


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