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From: smith@coral.bucknell.edu (Greg Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Changing the Report Header font?
Message-ID: <1991Apr3.094204.3113@coral.bucknell.edu>
Date: 3 Apr 91 09:42:02 EST
References: <1991Apr1.222554.3108@coral.bucknell.edu> <12880@goofy.Apple.COM>
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA
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In article <12880@goofy.Apple.COM>, gandalf@apple.com (Martin Gannholm) writes:
> Unfortunately there is no way in HyperCard 2.0 or 2.0v2 to change the 
> report header font, size or style.

Rats.  I was afraid that was the answer.  Will it be possible in 2.1?  Will I
be able to do font substitution when version 1.1 of the StyleWriter driver
comes out?  When will StyleWriter 1.1 come out?  Even using a 4x Geneva font
doesn't look all that good on my StyleWriter.  I have to admit that this is a
very disappointing situation.  Apple advertised Laser Quality output with the
StyleWriter, but Apple only gave me four TrueType fonts and now an Apple
(Claris) product is thwarting my attempts to print my report.  (I imagine that
the other non-PostScript printers suffer from this same problem when dealing
with HC reports.)  Would it be possible for Apple to make a TrueType Geneva
available for anonymous FTP and on AppleLink?  At least a TrueType Geneva would
solve the problem of applications specifying Geneva (a standard Mac font for
text) and not providing a way to switch (I'm sure HC 2.0 isn't the only
culprit; it's just the one annoying me at the moment).  Aside from being locked
into Geneva for this header, I'm absolutely thrilled with my StyleWriter; the
low speed doesn't bother me and the output quality is fantastic!

Greg Smith

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