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From: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David M. O'Rourke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Document fonts: I thought this would work -- why not?
Message-ID: <2732@polyslo.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 88 04:08:28 GMT
References: <394@kosman.UUCP>
Reply-To: dorourke@polyslo.UUCP (David O'Rourke)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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In article <394@kosman.UUCP> kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) writes:
>I tried it in MacWrite, and Word, and no such luck.  I thought I remembered
>that this worked because the system sees the resources of all open files.
>Shouldn't this work?  It sure seems like a good idea for seldom-used
>display fonts and the like.

   It depends, If MacWrite doesn't leave the file open after reading it
then MacWrite won't find the font, also just because you open a file that
doesn't mean you open the Resource Fork of the file.  I believe MacWrite
puts all of it's stuff in the data fork, so if it opens a document it
doesn't even touch the resource fork, and hence the Font is not found
since the resource fork isn't open.


David M. O'Rourke

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