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From: berry@tolerant.UUCP (David Berry)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Re: Of Fonts and Files...
Message-ID: <253@tolerant.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 27-Jan-86 18:05:20 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 27 18:05:20 1986
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Organization: Tolerant Systems, Inc.  San Jose, CA
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> 
> It is true that resource files are searched in the order
> document, application, system.  But this isn't very useful
> if the application has constructed the "font menu" prior to
> opening the particular document you are interested in.
> 	- ben hyde, cambridge.

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	You are only guaranteed that the application and system files
will be searched for fonts.  In order to search the document for fonts
the application must do something special (OpenResFile on the document)
which most applications don't do (most of them only open the data fork
of the document.)  I don't know which apps open the resource fork and
which don't but I would guess that as a general rule very few open the
resource fork also and therefore very few will actually find fonts in
the document.
-- 

	David W. Berry
	{ucbvax,pyramid,idsvax,bene,oliveb}!tolerant!berry

	I'm only here for the beer.