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From: jdm@ut-emx.UUCP (Jim Meiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: System 6.0 only finds 10 & 12 point Times/Helvetica
Summary: Font/DA Juggler utility for resovling font numbering conflicts
Message-ID: <4390@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jul 88 14:38:15 GMT
References: <12@conti.ee.tulane.edu> <12282@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <14591@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
Reply-To: jdm@emx.UUCP (James Meiss)
Organization: UTexas Computation Center, Austin, Texas
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In article <14591@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> prince@cs.ucla.edu (Larry Prince) writes:

>The Suitcase (TM) User's Manual sheds a little more light on Font
>name/number conflicts...in a nutshell,  all fonts of the same family
>should reside in the same file (as stated above), and even then, there
>may be a number conflict between fonts of DIFFERENT names in different
>files. (The font "numbers" are transparant to the user.)  To clear up
>any potential numbering conflict, move as many fonts as possible into
>one suitcase file (a suitcase file will hold up to 200 fonts), then
>refile them the way you want (putting them into the same file causes an
>automatic renumbering in case there are any conflicts).

Those lucky users of Font/DA Juggler have a utility program, Font Resolver,
which does just that. 

									
				Jim Meiss				
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