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 UUCP {tektronix,dual,sun,ihnp4,decvax}!ucbvax!ucbernie!mazlack New style mazlack@ernie.berkeley.edu ARPA | CSNET mazlack%ernie@berkeley.ARPA BITNET mazlack@ucbernie.BITNET telephone (415) 528-0496 snail CS Dept, 571 Evans, U. California, Berkeley, CA 94720
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 ------- Chris "Johann" Borton, UC San Diego Undergraduate CS & German Literature borton@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU || ...!{ucbvax,decvax,noscvax,ihnp4}!sdcsvax!borton [until 14 June] "Zuerst 'die Pruefungen,' und dann nach Davis bis 4 Aug wenn ich nach Goettingen fliegen werde. Ich werde Euch sehr vermissen...es hat mir viel Spass gemacht und auch habe ich viel gelernt"
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.