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From: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: FONTs and ResEdit (Does it really work?)
Message-ID: <2194@cxsea.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 12:09:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: cxsea.2194
Posted: Fri Sep 11 12:09:52 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Sep-87 09:48:51 EDT
References: <13578@clyde.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: blm@cxsea.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Organization: Computer X Inc.
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Keywords: frustration font bitfiddle

In article <13578@clyde.ATT.COM> saf@moss.ATT.COM writes:
|I would like to use ResEdit to modify the Monaco font so that capital "I"
|looks different from lower case "l".  I copied the font out of the system
|file and into a new file, then tried ResEdit on it.  (BTW, the ResEdit came
|with MPW 1.0 so it is fairly current - less than a year old.)

When it comes to ResEdit, less than a year is still wildly old.

|I also get extra pixels to the right of a character if I simply click on one
|of the "boundry markers" - I don't even have to move it!
|Is it me or is ResEdit unable to actually edit fonts?  Do I have a broken
|copy (seems unlikely) or do I need a later copy?  Does anyone have a font
|editor that works!?!?!  I'd hate to have to write my own.

You have an old copy of ResEdit.  I had the same problem (in fact, it was
exactly the same problem, I was fixing I and l in Monaco), so I found a friend
with the latest ResEdit, and that fixed things.  I think the latest version is
1.1 something or the other.
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