[net.micro.mac] MacDraw Fonts

mazlack@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Lawrence J. Mazlack) (06/10/86)

I have loaded a bunch of fonts onto my hard disk. MacWrite, Word, MacPaint
show them in the font list: oldest to newest. However, MacDraw lists
them newest to oldest. I want to use Chicago.  Unfortunately, I con't
select this in MacDraw because the new fonts have pushed it down out
of the window. I can't delete it and reinstall it because it is a system
font. What should I do?

Larry Mazlack
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borton@sdcc3.UUCP (Chris Borton) (06/12/86)

In article <14276@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> mazlack@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Lawrence J. Mazlack) writes:
>I have loaded a bunch of fonts onto my hard disk. MacWrite, Word, MacPaint
>show them in the font list: oldest to newest. However, MacDraw lists
>them newest to oldest. I want to use Chicago.  Unfortunately, I con't
>select this in MacDraw because the new fonts have pushed it down out
>of the window. I can't delete it and reinstall it because it is a system
>font. What should I do?
>
[You can delete it and reinstallit with ResEdit]

The patches to MacDraw that were posted in a Delphi Digest two weeks ago
allow MacDraw to scroll the Font list like Jazz does--the whole list
and then the sizes at the bottom.  This scrolling and having the fonts
in alphabetical order are dependent upon the new 128K ROMs, which are
highly recommended, especially if you have a hard drive.  An
alternative is to use the MDEF posted on net.sources.mac in
January that provides the alphabetical Font and DA lists that scroll in your
System file rather than the ROMs.

The same Delphi article (actually taken from AppleLink) described installing
your favorite fonts into MacDraw, changing their names to include a space at
the beginning.  This way, MacDraw will show them at the top of the list, no
matter what your System has, and will be consistent since it remembers fonts
in a document by their relative position on the list (sick!!!).  I tried
this, changing the names in the FOND for each with ResEdit and installing
with both Font/DA Mover 3.1 and ResEdit 1.0D12 but MacDraw goes haywire when
printing the page, spraying letters all over the place.  Just those fonts, too.

Any ideas?  Many thanks to the person forwarding those patches from AppleLink!

--Chris
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sam@cci632.UUCP (Sam Mantel) (06/16/86)

In article <14276@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>, mazlack@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Lawrence J. Mazlack) writes:
> I want to use Chicago.  Unfortunately, I con't
> select this in MacDraw because the new fonts have pushed it down out
> of the window. I can't delete it and reinstall it because it is a system
> font. What should I do?
> 
> Larry Mazlack

Hi Larry,  How are you doing?  Ever going back to Cincy?  Miss skyline??
Three possibilities come to mind for your problem:

1.  Run Andy Hertzfeld's 'sortmenu' (I think public domain) utility.  I have a 
copy if you can't find one. This will sort your font and da menus in alpha
order.  This may put other fonts you need out of reach, however.  (You use
'Yucatanese' a lot don't you?)

2.  Use resedit to remove Chicago, and then font/da mover to re-install it.

3.  Use a product called Fontastic, which definitely has the functionality
you need.

  Let me know how you do.

  Sam Mantel -- Roch, NY
  716-473-1331 home
  716-482-5000 work

wmartin@ut-ngp.UUCP (Wiley Sanders) (06/19/86)

In article <14276@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> mazlack@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Lawrence J. Mazlack) writes:
>I have loaded a bunch of fonts onto my hard disk. MacWrite, Word, MacPaint
>show them in the font list: oldest to newest. However, MacDraw lists
>them newest to oldest. I want to use Chicago.  Unfortunately, I con't
>select this in MacDraw because the new fonts have pushed it down out
>of the window. I can't delete it and reinstall it because it is a system
>font. What should I do?

I installed Geneva directly into the MacDraw application file by launching
Font/DA Mover with the Option Key depressed. This obscure Font/DA Mover
feature allows you to install any font in any file's  resource fork.
Then I transferred Geneva from "System" to "MacDraw". Now Geneva is up
there at the top of the list.