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From: captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacDraw II question
Summary: I don't know why it happens, but I know how to fix it.
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Date: 27 Apr 89 22:19:20 GMT
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In article <6964@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes:
>It copies fine, but when you try to run the new copy, all of the menus appear
>with about 8 spaces in-between each letter in each menu item (and the title).
>The application still works (assuming that you don't need the menus on the end
>of the menu bar), and all of the command-key shortcuts still work.

That happened to one of the Macs in the lab here, and after much fiddling
around, we found that simply recopying the Chicago and Geneva fonts onto the
boot disk fixed everything.  I don't know whether MD2 corrupted the fonts
or something else happened, but it's pretty strange behavior.  Anyway, I
don't think this is some form of copy-protection, since Claris (or actually
MacConnection) advertises its products as not copy-protected.  If it is, tho'
it is pretty effective.  Funny thing, various Claris pgms were affected the
same way.  Both MD2 and Claris CAD had the strange font problem, but MPaint
didn't.  Weird weird weird.

>-Michael
>-- 
>Michael Niehaus        UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!mithomas
>Apple Student Rep      ARPA:  mithomas@bsu-cs.bsu.edu
>Ball State University  AppleLink: ST0374 (from UUCP: st0374@applelink.apple.com)

-Ivan

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