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From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacDraw type defaults
Keywords: Try using ResEdit
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Date: 13 Jan 89 14:04:33 GMT
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In article <5355@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> adchen@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony Dunyeh Chen) writes:
|In article <49800022@hcx1> barry@hcx1.SSD.HARRIS.COM writes:
|>but does anyone know of a way to change the default
|>typeface in MacDraw? I never use Geneva in my documents . . .
|                   . . . .  What you can
|try is to use ResEdit and modify your System file.  That's where
|Chicago, Geneva and Monaco or stored. . .
|
|Open up the system file (but make sure you've got a backup in case of
|any screw ups) and go to the FONT resource.  Open FONT and Cut out
|Geneva or all of them if you want.  Then paste in from a font file you
|want to use as your system fonts.  Hope I've been of some help.

Don't try this.  This is a lot of work, easy to screw up, and I'm not
sure it works.  There are two ways an application chooses its default
font: (1) it's coded, and would require a patch to change (or it could
be in a resource and changed by ResEdit, but not everyone is sensible;
or (2) it uses the default system font, whose identity (normally
Geneva) is stored in the PRAM.  There are utilities in the sumex
archives (for instance) which let you examine and modify this memory
(it also contains things like the alarm clock setting and serial port
settings).  If an application uses the system default (Finder does,
for instance), changing this parameter will change the application's
default (and the default for all other applications which do this).

	/JBL
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