jg@ukc.ac.uk (J.Grant) (01/25/89)
Confession: I don't have a copy of IM 5 Problem: I want to change the standard chicago 12 font to be something else, ie I want the menu bar etc in a different font. Solution: I have created (actually altered) another font and coerced the FONT & FOND resources so that the machine (Font/DA mover) believes that it is Chicago 12. I have installed this in a system file, where it appears happily at the bottom of the screen when chicago 12 is selected. Problem: When this system file becomes the running system file on my SE, the chicago 12 font is the REAL chicago 12. If I open up Font/DA mover on the file, Chicago 12 has reverted, but when I run another system, it changes back. Question: So, is Chicago 12 in the ROMS of an SE and if so, how do I convince the machine to use a different font (or indeed the installed chicago 12 font) in the system file ?
pool@blake.acs.washington.edu (Jonathan Pool) (01/28/89)
One way to substitute your own fonts for the system fonts in ROM (Chicago & Geneva) is to put same-ID FONDs into the System file but make them point to FONTs or NFNTs with different IDs (i.e., something other than 12 for your substitute for Chicago 12, and something other than 393 and 396 for your substitute for Geneva 9 and 12).
cyosta@taux02.UUCP ( Yossie Silverman ) (01/30/89)
Simple. Open your system (or copy thereof) with ResEdit. Open the ROV# resources and add to each of them the type FONT and the id 12 (I assume you know how to work with ResEdit TMPL editing). This is all that is necessary to overide the ROM entries for these fonts. I am currently running with the Banana system (does anyone remember that far back?! :-) Chicago font rather than the ROM based one. BTW, the three ROV# resources you will find are for the three different ROMs (+,SE,MAC II) that apple has today. I am not sure which numbers match which ROM's. - Yossie -- Yossie Silverman What did the Caspian sea? National Semiconductor Ltd. (Israel) - Saki UUCP: taux01!yossie@nsc.UUCP NSA LSD FBI KGB PCP CIA MOSAD NUCLEAR MI5 SPY ASSASSINATE SDI -- OOCLAY ITAY