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From: brian@cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Installing Fonts & DA's in applications
Message-ID: <1990Mar6.112240.1783@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 90 18:22:39 GMT
References: <39241@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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> From: mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson)
> 
> In article <1990Mar6.165630.29382@wam.umd.edu> nebel@wam.umd.edu (Chris D. Nebel) writes:
> >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?
> >
> 
> Don't do it...don't do it...don't do it.  If you need a font, ship a Suitcase
> file and ask the user to install it in their System file.  Especially don't
> do it with documents and HyperCard stacks.
> 

Why oh why, when Apple does not want you to do something, they tell
you not to do it, but never why you should not do it?
This is especially annoying when they tell you not to do something
they have in the past said you can do...

Quote from IM I (10th printing), p. 104:

	Resource files aren't limited to applications; anything stored in a
	a file can have its own resources.  For instance, an unusual font
	used in only oe document can be included in the resource file for that
	document rather than in the system resource file.

It sounds like a good scheme to me (provided you think resources
are a good idea to begin with), why did it change?
If it hasn't changed, why is a hypercard stack different?

Brian
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Brian Sturgill
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