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From: isle@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Ken Hancock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Installing Fonts & DA's in applications
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Date: 8 Mar 90 17:46:29 GMT
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In article <1001@dms.UUCP> rotberg@dms.UUCP (Ed Rotberg) writes:
>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 -

First of all, this should really be in comp.sys.mac programmer.  I'm
putting follow-ups there.

Inside Macintosh should be used as a starting point and not the
be-all and end-all of programming the Macintosh.  Many of the
points or recommendations which were originally stated in IM
may have been changed for various reasons:

1) The certain method no longer works with the current software.
2) The folks at Apple aren't omnicient and found that they had
   boo-boo'ed and that it's a bad idea (Fonts in Applications
   is an example)
3) There's a better way...

Unfortunately, technotes aren't as widely available as they should
be.  (Actually, IM should be updated, incorporating Technote changes...)

Ken




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