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From: anson@spray.CalComp.COM (Ed Anson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Document fonts: I thought this would work -- why not?
Message-ID: <2294@spray.CalComp.COM>
Date: 19 May 88 14:31:34 GMT
References: <394@kosman.UUCP> <4840@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Reply-To: anson@spray.UUCP (Ed Anson)
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In article <4840@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> cloos@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (James H. Cloos Jr.) writes:
>Not sure why it didn't work in MacWrite or Word, but I do know that many

It is known to work well with applications, but with documents there is another
problem:

Many (most?) applications periodically do a UseResFile for the application
file, which has the effect of making the document's resource fork
invisible to the resource manager.

By the way, this is done at Apple's suggestion, because a DA might have
changed the resource search path. Since the application doesn't know that
you want to use resources from its documents, it doesn't make any provision
for that.
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