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From: mason@habs11.enet.dec.com (Gary Mason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Amusing dialog boxes, damaged fonts
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Date: 11 Jun 91 14:48:33 GMT
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>Another possibility is that the bitmap fonts were compressed by Suitcase's
>utility called "Font & Sound Valet."  It seems that only Suitcase can
>uncompress and use these fonts, once they have been valet-compressed. 
>Which means, for example, you can't toss them inside the System 7 System file.
>(This is yet another good reason to backup everything before doing anything
>to anything.  If those were your only copies of the bitmaps, F&S Valet just
>made you a Suitcase addict for life.)

While an earlier post of mine pointed out that a fix from MacWeek (using
Font/DA Mover 4.1 to copy fonts from an existing, "corrupted" suitcase to 
a new one) remedied the problem for me, it turns out to be only partly
true.  I guess I don't know what the true metric for "working" is, but the
above mentioned fix worked in one case (allowed open on double click), but did
not work in another case.  In fact, in the failed case, the suitcase changed
from about 600K to over 840K after Mover copy, and still didn't work. In
neither case did I try to move the result to the System file.

Cheers...Gary
mason@habs11.enet.dec.com