Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!think!ephraim From: ephraim@think.COM (Ephraim Vishniac) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Interleaf Publisher Message-ID: <36319@think.UUCP> Date: 10 Feb 89 17:05:46 GMT References: <907@stech.UUCP> Sender: news@think.UUCP Reply-To: ephraim@think.com (Ephraim Vishniac) Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA Lines: 30 In article <907@stech.UUCP> sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington) writes: >Any comments from netland out there? (By the way, I'm still very, >very, very pleased with Interleaf.) Since you ask, I just ran into a nasty problem with Interleaf the other day. An in-house user complained that her newly-installed copy of Interleaf 3.5.2 didn't show any space between words as she typed. I thought perhaps her screen fonts hadn't been installed properly, so I reinstalled them. The screen font for her paragraph text promptly changed to San Francisco. I eventually figured out that Interleaf chooses screen fonts by font number, and not by name. This is a bug, since fonts are renumbered in case of conflict. I solved the local problem by deleting all fonts in the system file, then reinstalling first the Apple fonts and then the Interleaf fonts. Interleaf technical support suggested use of Font Harmonizer. At $2495 for a copy of Interleaf, seems to me they could afford to throw in a free copy of Suitcase II to cover their bugs! Sigh. Tech support did assure me that the bug is scheduled to be fixed in some unspecified future release, and added a few disparaging remarks about their employer's approach to compatibility. Ephraim Vishniac ephraim@think.com Thinking Machines Corporation / 245 First Street / Cambridge, MA 02142-1214 "Arlo Guthrie, it seems, has found what he was looking for: God, and the Macintosh." (Boston Globe)