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From: roberts@cognos.uucp (Robert Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Please Help !!!!
Message-ID: <629@cognos.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 30-Apr-87 08:14:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: cognos.629
Posted: Thu Apr 30 08:14:55 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 2-May-87 08:24:01 EDT
References: <3113@sunybcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: roberts@cognos.UUCP (Robert Stanley)
Organization: Cognos Incorporated, Ottawa, Canada
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Summary: Fonts changing in MacDraw documents

In article <3113@sunybcs.UUCP> uggora@sunybcs.UUCP (Michael Gora) writes:

>        I have a lot of Macdraw files which I have to use them within
>these few days ( very soon). Today, when I tried to print them out, I noticed
>thAT  ALL of the files have changed. All of fonts that I used in the files have
>changed to the ones that I didn't want. I didn't do any things with these files
>at all since my last changes sometimes ago. At that time all fonts in these
>file still as I wanted them to be.

It is not your documents that have changed, but the system you are running.
MacDraw has a singularly stupid mechanism for identifying the font used in a
given text object, such that changing the fonts in the system will confuse it.

The only way to recover the documents without re-editing them is to put
together a system that has EXACTLY the same font set installed as the one you
used when you created the document.  If you can't manage this, I know of no
alternative but to re-edit each document.  If only one font was used in a given
document, you can do a SELECT ALL within that document and then change the font;
this works, even though it doesn't appear to have worked (sometimes).  If you
have used several fonts within one document, you will have to change text
objects individually.

To prevent this happening in the future, keep a MacDraw-only system around with
the set of fonts you want to use.  If you need to change it, KEEP A COPY OF THE
OLD ONE, and use the INFO window of each document to record which system was
used to create it.

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