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From: jeremyr@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Jeremy Roussak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Amusing dialog boxes, damaged fonts
Message-ID: <3794@sequent.cs.qmw.ac.uk>
Date: 13 Jun 91 21:08:29 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Dept, QMW, University of London, UK.
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In <1991Jun11.025615.27273@burrhus.harvard.edu> kik@isr.harvard.edu (Ken Kreshtool) writes:

>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.)

This isn't true.  If you use Font/DA Mover to copy
Suitcase-compressed bitmapped fonts while Suitcase is running,
Suitcase will decompress them as FDAM reads them and won't
recompress as it writes.  You then have a decompressed font
which can be dropped into the System file.

Jeremy Roussak