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From: brecher@well.UUCP (Steve Brecher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Suitcase II anomaly
Message-ID: <11750@well.UUCP>
Date: 20 May 89 02:43:00 GMT
References: <24495@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <48702@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <10168@claris.com> <9264@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: brecher@well.UUCP (Steve Brecher)
Organization: Software Supply, Sunnyvale, CA
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Context:  a user had problems with an obsolete version of MacDraw when making
additional fonts available via Suitcase II.  Responders indicated that the
obsolete MacDraw's font menu does not handle availability of "many" fonts.

In article <9264@polya.Stanford.EDU>, kaufman@polya.Stanford.EDU
(Marc T. Kaufman) writes:

> Suitcase [II] is randomly renumbering the FOND resources to avoid
> conflicts.

Suitcase II does not renumber FONDs.  A utility which is part of the
Suitcase II product, Font Harmony, may in some cases renumber FONDs in
suitcase files which the user chooses to process.  The original poster did
not mention using Font Harmony.  In fact, not using it (i.e., having font
number conflicts) may have been part of his problem.

(Font Harmony's renumbering is not random.)

> You can recover your old font numbers ... by using ResEdit to change the
> resource numbers of the FOND resources back to the simple numbers used
> before. ... It is not necessary to change FONT or NFNT numbers.

If a FOND is renumbered via ResEdit, it is also necessary to change the
family ID number inside the FOND, to renumber any associated FONTs, and to
change the FONT entries in the FOND's association table.
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brecher@well.UUCP (Steve Brecher)