kern@arecibo.aero.org (09/19/89)
I've installed several fonts into a Suitcase including Camelot, Aberdeen, Venice, and some other non-standard ones. Unfortunately, when I try to use these fonts when in FullWrite version 1.0 they come out *extremely* obsure and often with a great deal of blankspace between each letter. Is my MacIIcx the only one blessed with such a problem or has someone else come across it? JC Kern e-mail: kern@arecibo.aero.org p-mail: 1030 7th St., Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 (213) 336-3573 Zensunni curse: May you live in interesting times
ric@netcom.UUCP (Richard Bretschneider) (09/20/89)
kern@arecibo.aero.org writes: >I've installed several fonts into a Suitcase including >Camelot, Aberdeen, Venice, and some other non-standard >ones. Unfortunately, when I try to use these fonts when >in FullWrite version 1.0 they come out *extremely* obsure >and often with a great deal of blankspace between each letter. >Is my MacIIcx the only one blessed with such a problem or >has someone else come across it? I have. I believe this problem is one that got a lot of discussion when FullWrite was first released. Macintosh fonts contain some information about spacing that isn't used by most applications, but FullWrite does use it. However, a couple of system releases ago, Apple released a version of Font/DA Mover that hosed that spacing info in fonts it installed. If you use one of these "stripped" fonts with FullWrite, the character spacing is all screwed up (your description seems mild in my experience.) To make a long story short, if you go back to the original, shipped versions of the suspect fonts (you didn't touch the original disks with F/DAM, did you? ;-) you'll find the problem goes away. Of course if you got the fonts in an already hosed state you're in for a bigger search. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ric "They're probably foreigners Bretschneider with ways different from our own." These ill considered and poorly constructed ideas are my own, and I love every of them one dearly. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
userDBUG@ualtamts.BITNET (Dan Berry) (09/21/89)
In article <57979@aerospace.AERO.ORG>, kern@arecibo.aero.org writes: > >I've installed several fonts into a Suitcase including >Camelot, Aberdeen, Venice, and some other non-standard >ones. Unfortunately, when I try to use these fonts when >in FullWrite version 1.0 they come out *extremely* obsure >and often with a great deal of blankspace between each letter. I, too have had this problem. Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do about it except not use those fonts. And, worse off, it's not just THOSE fonts. There are a number of ones out there that are deranged as well. Another problem that I have is when I define the "hot-key" to be the Control-del (NOT delete/backspace) sequence. I keep getting the graphic for the del character appearing with my text. Odd, to say the least. ------- Dan Berry -- U.of Alberta. Computing Systems (Network & DataComm.) * CORRESPONDENCE: UserDBUG@UAltaMTS.BITNET * FILE TRANSFERS: ..!ubc-cs!alberta!ualtasun!dan@uunet.uu.net
KIrwin@cup.portal.com (Kent Thomas Irwin) (09/26/89)
In article <57979@aerospace.AERO.ORG>, kern@arecibo.aero.org writes: >I've installed several fonts into a Suitcase including >Camelot, Aberdeen, Venice, and some other non-standard >ones. Unfortunately, when I try to use these fonts when >in FullWrite version 1.0 they come out *extremely* obsure >and often with a great deal of blankspace between each letter. >Is my MacIIcx the only one blessed with such a problem or >has someone else come across it? Yes, this font problem is well documented in one of Ashton-Tate's Technical Documents, "FullWrite Support Note #1". I recommend you call the Ashton-Tate BBS (213-324-2188) and download this file (I think the filename is FWNOTE1.SIT There are also several technical notes dealing with some other common questions about FullWrite. ----------------------------------------------------------------- :-) Kent T. Irwin Usenet: kirwin@cup.portal.com :-) Egoware, Ltd. UUCP: sun!cup.portal.com!kirwin :-) CIS: 76703,3007 GEnie: KENT.IRWIN