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From: ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: editing fonts with resedit
Message-ID: <1990Sep5.221912.12676@sics.se>
Date: 5 Sep 90 22:19:12 GMT
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In-Reply-To: englund@boulder.Colorado.EDU's message of 5 Sep 90 16:36:20 GMT

>>>>> In article <25696@boulder.Colorado.EDU>, englund@boulder.Colorado.EDU (ENGLUND TODD CHARLES) writes:


>My questions are:  Why does this work on a macII and not the SE?

Because ResEdit 1.3d1 is a delta-release, you shouldn't use it. It has a lot
of bugs: one of them is in the FONT-editor. Try version 1.2 instead.


> Can I give a different character assignment to each character which
>is unused (i.e. shown as a box in keycaps).

Yes. If you look at the Courier-FONT for ex., you will find that there are no
"boxes": that FONT is complete (i.e. each ASCII-number (>=32) has a char).


>I need to generate special characters for
>writing in Romanian, and have found no such fonts available.  

If you want to build your own font (or adding some characters) you must do it
for every size you want to use: for getting good printing-quality you also
have to make them in 2 x size. The best program for these sort of things is
a program like FONTastic (bitmap) or Fontographer (laser & bitmap).


    /Olle