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From: kurtzman@pollux.usc.edu (Stephen Kurtzman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: How about static fields???
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Date: 6 Feb 89 08:41:28 GMT
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In article <392taylorj@byuvax.bitnet> taylorj@byuvax.bitnet writes:

>Annie Fetter says she prefers field text to paint text because it looks
>better.  Unless I am sorely mistaken [...] they're both exactly the same.
>In fact, painted text is usually safer than field text
>because it won't be screwed up if you run your stack on a different system
>which doesn't contain the fonts you use.

Field text looks a whole lot better when printed on a LaserWriter. When print-
ing the painted text HyperCard can't tell that it should use a LaserWriter
font, so it just does a bit map dump.

If Apple is listening: Please make HyperCard use LaserWriter fonts for
button text. When I print my cards on the LaserWRiter the button names always
look terrible compared to the text fields.