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- From: zimerman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Jacob Ben-david Zimmerman)
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- Subject: Sys7 font suitcases problem - a case summary
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.145238.25956@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 14:52:38 GMT
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- This post details a problem which my site had with System 7, Suitcase II
- 2.1.1 suitcases and a bunch of Adobe screen fonts...I guess the problem
- is attributable to the Finder, so I am posting it here in case anyone
- else runs into it. My apologies if this has been discussed before.
-
- Our site has a standard font package which runs to about 315 Type 1
- fonts (production dept. for large Advertising agency). Recently, while
- updating the font package, we ran into a weird problem. Our screen
- fonts are divided into ten suitcases for manageability, with the
- suitcases being split over the alphabet. For example, a suitcase might
- be named Palatino-Stempel and contain the appropriate fonts. In fact,
- it was this suitcase that caused the problem. We had just finished
- copying two new Stempel Schneidler variants into this suitcase- Stempel
- Schneidler Light and Stempel Schneidler Medium- to join the base font,
- Stempel Schneidler, which was already there. Suddenly, we got a
- message:
- "Warning: The name 'Stempel Schneidler ... (bol' is already in use.
- PLease pick a different name' or some such. This may not be the exact
- wording. In any case, the suitcase would no longer open, and we could
- not drag copy to it either, for in each case we'd get the same message.
- After about twenty minutes, I finally dragged ResEdit in and found the
- following: WHen the Finder displays the fonts available in a Suitcase,
- it does not always use the names of the font resources. If you have
- dragged in a font family (NFNT resource) named for example 'Stempel
- Schneidler Light' the Finder will give you four lines in the font
- suitcase window: Stempel Schneidler Light, Stempel Schneidler ...(bol,
- Stempel Schneidler ...(bol.ita and Stempel Schneidler ...(ita. And
- herein lies the problem. The Finder itself is truncating the name of
- the font to make room for the modifiers (bold, ital, etc.) and is
- putting in the ellipse to let you know that it has truncated the cont
- name. However, with some fonts (Stempel Schneidler is one) that are
- exactly the right length, more than one version of the font (in this
- case, the Light and Medium variants) will truncate *to the same name*.
- That is, both Stempel Schneidler Light and Stempel Schneidler Medium
- will have an entry named 'Stempel Schneidler ...(bol' which causes the
- Finder to complain because it is not allowed to display two items int he
- same window with the same name!
-
- SOLUTION: Two possibilities offhand. One, put the different versions
- in different suitcases. Tw, you can rename the fonts using ResEdit (I
- used Stempel Light Schneidler and Stempel Medium Schneidler,
- respectively) as the pointer to the Postscript font is encoded within
- the font resource and is not dependent on its name.
-
- Whew. Would this be classified as a Finder bug? :-)
-
- -JBZimmerman!
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