[comp.sys.apple] GS/OS Problem with Font Manager

aehl@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Donald J Aehl) (12/20/88)

Has anyone else noticed that the Font Scaling routines do not seem to work
corectly anymore?

I used to use Multiscribe GS 3.0 with all of the ProDOS 16 system files from
a System Disk (version 3.1).  I like to use a lot of different fonts, and when
I chose a font of a size which was not defined by a font.file on the boot disk,
then the software would make a call to the Font Manager Toolset and would
scale the closest available font to the size desired.
But now, after I have transfered Multiscribe GS onto a GS/OS disk, all I get is
garbage when I try and select a font size which is not defined.  
This also occurs when I use Appleworks GS.

I think that this is more correctly a problem with the Font Manager Toolset 
file on the GS/OS disk.  Does anyone know if it would be possible to transfer
the Toolset file from system disk 3.2 onto the GS/OS disk without messing up
the Toolsets of the GS/OS operating system.

Just curious...

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scott@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) (12/21/88)

From article <12@csd4.milw.wisc.edu>, by aehl@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Donald J Aehl):
> Has anyone else noticed that the Font Scaling routines do not seem to work
> corectly anymore?
>

YES!! The font manager is the biggest bug we have around right now.  There's
also a random bug in it that totally trashes the font lists (in memory) so 
that your font menu is total & absolute garbage.  We're desperately trying to
get Apple to fix things with it before they even think about committing it
to ROM.

As for grabbing the 3.2 tools Font Manager, I wouldn't think it'd be terribly
safe, but I haven't actually tried it.

 
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