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From: julian@riacs.edu (Julian E Gomez)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Font Problems on 6.0.2 on MacPlus
Message-ID: <1358@hydra.riacs.edu>
Date: 23 Mar 89 05:16:05 GMT
References: <160700015@zaphod>
Reply-To: julian@hydra.riacs.edu.UUCP (Julian E Gomez)
Organization: Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science
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In article <160700015@zaphod> doug@zaphod.prime.com writes:
" I have a strange problem on our MacPlus at home.  After we upgraded to
" System 6.0.2 (I think this also happened with 6.0(.1?)) Hypercard no
" longer worked.  After I while I tracked this down to some fonts.  Once the
" fonts were removed Hypercard worked fine.  Here's the problem.  When I 
" open any of a number of fonts with Font/DA Mover,  or attempt to examine
" them with ResEdit the Mac either hangs, or starts having video problems.  
" Sometimes it'll come back with strange font info,  most of the time not.
" This happens with fonts that used to be just fine,  and it happens when 
" the Mac is booted from a floppy with a fresh system (we're normally using
" a 30Mb Warp drive).  I recently got some fresh copies of some fonts and it
" happens with those as well (so it's not a corruption problem). 

I've seen this caused by font files with bad resource maps, e.g.  those
from Adobe.  The problem is in the purchased disks so installing fresh
copies won't help.  Get a copy of Font Harmony from the Suitcase II
package and use it to fix your font files.

-- 
"Have you ever wondered if taxation without representation was cheaper?"

	Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez
	julian@riacs.edu