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From: garth@swatsun (Garth Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Can ROM fonts be modified?
Message-ID: <1410@pompeii.swatsun.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Nov-87 12:30:32 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 24 12:30:32 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Nov-87 07:43:31 EST
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Reply-To: garth@swatsun.UUCP (Garth Snyder)
Organization: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore PA
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>  Recently sandrock@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu said:
>  
>   Can someone please tell me if there is a way to modify the Chicago
>   12 font on a Mac Plus?  I understand that although this font resides
>   in ROM, that there is a way this can be done.
>  
>  And lippin@spam.UUCP (Tom Lippincott, ..ucbvax!bosco!lippin) replied:
>  
>   All you need to do is open up a resource file with another Chicago
>   12 font (with the same name and number) and an appropriate FOND
>   resource.  In the resource manager section of IM IV, there's a
>   descripton of how to make ROM-override resources, but this is't
>   necessary for fonts.

This is true as far as it goes, but if I remember correctly you can't use
this method if you want to make an across-the-board change rather than
just a substitution in one particular application.  Note also that you
don't have to open a separate resource file, you can just paste a private
copy of the font into the application's resource fork and it will be used
automatically.

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