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- From: nerm@apple.com (Dean Yu)
- Subject: Re: Fonts and System 7.1
- Sender: news@gallant.apple.com
- Message-ID: <nerm-061192104558@90.10.20.86>
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:48:20 GMT
- References: <184146@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Organization: Apple Computer, Inc.
- Followup-To: comp.sys.mac.system
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- In article <184146@pyramid.pyramid.com>, bms@pyramid.com (Bruce Schlobohm)
- wrote:
- >
- >
- > Ok, so I've received my System 7.1 upgrade, and ATM 3.0. Last night I
- > installed them on my PB140. Originally I had moved my Finder aside
- > and renamed my old System Folder, but during the install I noticed that
- > the installer wanted to look at my System file (not there) to find
- > Fonts and Sounds. So I made a copy of my System file, placed it in
- > a new System Folder, and restarted the install. So far so good.
- >
- > The install completed and all my fonts are in the Font folder.
- > I noticed that the TrueType fonts were in suitcases with their
- > respective bitmap fonts. Should the Postscript fonts go in the
- > suitcase as well?
- >
-
- PostScript fonts can't be put into suitcases. About a year ago, when 7.1
- was in the design phase, a bunch of us were talking about how nice it would
- be if the user only had to deal with one icon that contained all possible
- information for a particular font face. This "font box" (which eventually
- degenerated into "frog box") would contain bitmap, TrueType, and PostScript
- information for a particular font. Unfortunately, it didn't take us long
- to realize that this couldn't be done in time for 7.1. Oh well...
-
- > I was able to print just fine with my Postscript fonts in the font
- > folder. However, one of the Postscript font files had the same name
- > as the matching suitcase with the bitmap fonts, so I renamed the Postscript
- > font file. Will this work?
- >
-
- No, this won't work. PostScript files have to have a certain name, which
- is based upon the full name of the font face. You should rename your
- suitcase instead.
-
- -- Dean Yu
- Blue Meanie, Negative Ethnic Role Model, etc.
- Apple Computer, Inc.
-