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From: rotberg@dms.UUCP (Ed Rotberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Installing Fonts & DA's in applications
Message-ID: <1001@dms.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 90 16:02:24 GMT
References: <39241@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Atari Games Inc., Milpitas, CA
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From article <39241@apple.Apple.COM>, by mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson):
>>>I just found out the other day that you can install fonts and DAs in
>>>applications.  
> 
> 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.  

Mark,

Why should I not have a custom font in my application.  I have already done
this in my commercial brdige hand dealing program (the font supports special
bridge symbols) and it works just fine.  The only problem that I have
encountered with a custom font is that if I try to use PREVIEW to examine
my printed output onscreen, it doesn't seem to want to use the application
specific font.  It works just fine to every "real" printer I've tried it
with though.  Please be specific as to why I shouldn't do this (or why I
should force my users, many of whom are NOT computer savvy, to install a font
that will be worthless for anything but my program).

	- Ed Rotberg -