Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!ames!ptsfa!hoptoad!academ!soma!rice!titan!wert
From: wert@titan.rice.edu@rice.EDU (Scott Comer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Font ID changing (RE: Font ID number listing)
Message-ID: <448@dione.rice.EDU>
Date: Thu, 28-May-87 10:42:01 EDT
Article-I.D.: dione.448
Posted: Thu May 28 10:42:01 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 31-May-87 19:40:59 EDT
References: <3086@well.UUCP> <1069@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> <86@esquire.UUCP>
Sender: root@rice.EDU
Reply-To: wert@titan.rice.edu (Scott Comer)
Distribution: world
Organization: Rice University, Houston
Lines: 12
Keywords: fonts resource ID


You are supposed to save font name/size info in documents, not font
numbers. Font numbers have always been a no-no, and anyone with any sense
can figure out that font numbers are system file specific, while font
names/sizes are portable.

Just think about what would happen if we all started saving fRefNums to
access files instead of using their names? After all, if I close it and
then open it again, won't it have the same fRefNum? Use you head... And
use the durn font name. That's why its there.

scott out