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From: ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7.0b4: Problems installing fonts
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.152949.4056@cbnewsk.att.com>
Date: 23 Apr 91 15:29:49 GMT
References: <51858@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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From article <51858@apple.Apple.COM>, by nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu):
> In article <1991Apr22.083340.26099@ulrik.uio.no> Bjorn.Ness@usit.uio.no writes:
>>
>>Trying to install extra fonts by dragging fonts into the System
>>Folder gives the following error message:
>>
>>   The Name "Fontname" is already taken. Please use a
>>   different name.
>>
>>Fontname is the name on one font which is already in the System
>>File or about to be installed. Afterwards no other fonts (or
>>anything else) can be installed in the System File. Also the
>>System File can not be opened, and has to be replaced by a fresh 
>>one. 
> 
>   This is due to a bug in the new Mover (not Font/DA Mover) code which has
> been fixed.
> 
>   -- Dean Yu
>      Blue Meanie, Negative Ethnic Role Model, etc.
>      Apple Computer, Inc.
>      My opinions and so on and so forth...

Well, there's still something weird in 7.0f2.  I installed 7.0f2 over a 6.0.5
system, after first caching my 7.0b4 System file.  When I tried to open the
OLD System from the Finder (to pull out the goodies I'd installed there),
I got the same diagnostic, complaining about a font in the OLD but not in
the NEW System.

Chalk this up to incompatibilities between b4 and f2.  Or, it's a bug.  Or,
future system installers (7.0.1?) will know how to install over 7.0 and I
won't have to do this.

BTW, nothing was damaged.  I was able to use ResEdit 2.1 to move the fonts
(including the TT fonts) from the old system into a FFIL/FMOV I created on
the spot from ResEdit.  I was then able to use the Finder by-the-book to
install those fonts into the new System.

=Ned Horvath=
ehorvath@attmail.com
ehorvath@applelink.apple.com