shb@doc.ic.ac.uk (Simon Brock) (08/19/86)
I'm posting this for a friend who does not have access to USENET news. From
what I remember the problem with MacDraw and fonts is fixable, but I can't
remember how; the other problem I haven't seen before. Any e-mail replies
to me.
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I have two problems with MacDraw.
1. MacDraw will only handle 11 fonts at once. I want to have
about 20 available. I have heard that MacDraw can be hacked with
FEdit or similar to allow more fonts. Does anyone have details?
2. If I delete a font from the System file with Font/DA Mover, I
find that text in MacDraw files now appears in a different font.
The effect is almost exactly as if MacDraw is storing the font
information associated with a piece of text as simply an index into
its font menu. E.g. if I remove the Cairo font, text which had
been entered in Times is afterwards in Venice (or whichever font
happens to come after Times) Can anything be done about this?
I say "almost exactly", as occasionally fonts change in other
ways e.g. Bookman once turned into N Helvetica Narrow, without any
other fonts changing (including N Helvetica Narrow itself, which is
inconsistent with my suggested explanation).
It was suggested to me that the problem might be in Font/DA
mover version 3.1 rather than MacDraw, but the effect occurs for me
with both 3.1 and 3.0. On the other hand, all my System files have
been operated on at various times with Font/DA Mover version 3.1,
and if 3.1 is the problem, reverting to 3.0 might not cure the
damage. I also find that 3.0 now crashes frequently, unless it is
the first application run after startup.
I also tried adding fonts to the resource fork of the MacDraw
document, but only found that MacDraw pays no attention to them.
My system is: MacPlus, System version 3.1, Finder 5.1, MacDraw
1.7, Font/DA Mover versions 3.0 and 3.1.
I need a solution to this problem. I normally work with MacWrite
and MacDraw on a startup disk with which I do all my text
processing. The behaviour of MacDraw when fonts are added or
removed means that I have to have in the System file all the fonts
I will ever use, and never change that set. This is bad enough,
but the limitation to 11 fonts makes it unworkable.
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Thanks in advance.
Simon H Brock
Dept of Computing, UUCP : ...siesmo!mcvax!ukc!icdoc!shb
Imperial College, JANET: shb@DoC.ic.ac.uk
London SW7 2BZ
01-581-5111 x4993myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers) (08/22/86)
> I have two problems with MacDraw. > > 1. MacDraw will only handle 11 fonts at once. I want to have > about 20 available. I have heard that MacDraw can be hacked with > FEdit or similar to allow more fonts. Does anyone have details? > > 2. If I delete a font from the System file with Font/DA Mover, I > find that text in MacDraw files now appears in a different font. Can't help with the first, but the second bug is discussed in the latest *MacUser* -- Apple says that they are working on it, and hope to have it fixed in the next version of MacDraw (2.0, I believe).