Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!psuvax1!psuvm!cunyvm!uupsi!dorsai!joeholms From: joeholms@dorsai.com (Joseph Holmes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc Subject: Re: installing fonts/Da's directly into applications Message-ID: Date: Mon, 25 Mar 91 16:09:45 EST References: <1991Mar9.002929.17636@csn.org> Organization: The Dorsai Diplomatic Mission > but now I'm wondering if it is possible to but _fonts_ directly into > an application? If so, do the fonts still take up space in the > system file, and cause multiple system errors? If they don't take > up space, that would be great, because then I could put more than the > 8 fonts that the 800K system disk allows! Matthew--Sure you can put fonts right into an application. Do it the same way you did DA's, i.e., hold option as you click the open button. But I don't know what you mean about saving space. Those fonts won't have t to be on the system disk, but the same amount of space will be taken up on the disk holding the application. Is that what you were hoping? The fonts won't lead to any system errors, but be sure the only sizes of each font are installed onto the application, not the system. The MacOS will use, e.g., the Courier installed in the system before it will look to the application. If you've got 12 pt. Courier installed in the system, and 12 and 24 point in, say, MSWord, the system will never find the 24 point. I hope this has been helpful. System 7 will make all this totally un unnecessary. No more font/DA mover!