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- From: jpugh@apple.com (Jon Pugh)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
- Subject: Re: HC Fonts?
- Message-ID: <jpugh-040992132039@wolverine.apple.com>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 20:35:24 GMT
- References: <leec4-170892125620@design3.meche.rpi.edu>
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- In article <leec4-170892125620@design3.meche.rpi.edu>, leec4@rpi.edu (CD
- Lee) wrote:
- >
- > I am doing a project in HC 2.1. We are designing an electronic notebook.
- > My question is : Can we install our own set of fonts into our stack?
- > If we can, how to use them?
-
- Don't. Fonts in stacks cause many things to break when you print. If you
- don't print you can probably get away with it, but the bother is too great.
- Don't do it.
-
- Fonts in stacks also cause heap corruption leading to crashes. Bad juju.
-
- Include the fonts with your stack and have the user install them. Use a
- script that checks for them and remind the user to install them if they are
- not present. Don't refuse to run though. Let the user decide if it should
- look ugly, but feel free to warn them.
-
- Jon
-