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From: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Document fonts: I thought this would work -- why not?
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Date: 20 May 88 11:08:15 GMT
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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> I thought that I could option-open a document in Font/DA mover, and put
> a font in the resource fork for that document, and have it used just by
> that document.

I tried the same thing with MacDraw and no luck. I found that I had to
install the font in MacDraw itself (which I didn't really want to do).
My guess is that if a program's normal document doesn't make use of a
resource fork, it doesn't open it. In the case of MacDraw documents
(at least the one I had) there was no resource fork until I created
one. I've never checked Word documents but I bet they don't have a
resource fork either.

-- 
Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst
Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121
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