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Subject: Re: Please Help !!!!
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Date: Wed, 29-Apr-87 12:03:00 EDT
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/* Written  8:14 pm  Apr 23, 1987 by uggora@sunybcs.UUCP in uxc.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac */
>
>        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 well-known (and loved) that MacDraw incorrectly stores fonts
by which line number it occupies in the font menu.  In other words, if you
install a new font, or examine a document on a system with different fonts
installed, it will display the text in whatever font sits in the same slot you
used on your system.

So what's the cure?  When you save your files in MacDraw, _always_ use
the PICT format.  It will end this problems, as well as a few other
subtle problems with the Draw format.

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                 Dan Crimmins                    crimmins@uiucuxc.cso.uiuc.edu
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