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From: nebel@wam.umd.edu (Chris D. Nebel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Installing Fonts & DA's in applications
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Date: 6 Mar 90 16:56:30 GMT
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In article <9003060003.AA08520@gaudi> mikem@gaudi (Mike Mize) writes:
>I just found out the other day that you can install fonts and DAs in
>applications.  I tried this and was successfull but could not help but
>wonder what it would buy me.  Does anyone know of any advantage to this?

Doing this gives you a font or DA that will only be availible to the
program you put it in.  So if you had some wierd, special purpose DA
that you only used in a particular program and you didn't want to use
up a DA slot, you could install it in the program instead of the
System.  With things like Suitcase around, this case doesn't come up
very much.

Installing fonts in applications can be extremely useful if you're a
programmer.  Say for some reason you need a special font, but putting
in the System (or, worse yet, making the user install it) would be
ugly.  So, you put in right in your application, and it's there when
you need it.  No muss, no fuss, no bother.

Also, you can put fonts and DAs in _any_ file, not just applications.
This leads to an interesting trick: if you put a font in a Hypercard
stack, that stack will be able to use the font, whether or not the
font is in the System.  I believe that Apple says this is Not A Good
Thing To Do, but it's worked just fine for me.


Chris Nebel
nebel@wam.umd.edu