bryce@cbmvax.UUCP (Bryce Nesbitt) (10/18/88)
I have about 500K of complex MacWrite documents that all share a common flaw: everywhere "Helvetica" font is used, I really need "Times". It is impractical to convert each occurrence by hand... there are thousands. Can anyone suggest a better way? The documents will be printed out onto a Laserwriter II/NT. I have resedit 1.0D4, finder 6.0, and MS-word, but few other tools. The files must remain MacWrite compatible. With resedit there ought to be some way of faking up a Times that looks like Helvetica... any hints? -Bryce Nesbitt uunet!cbmvax!bryce
drc@claris.com (Dennis Cohen) (10/18/88)
In article <5014@cbmvax.UUCP> bryce@cbmvax.UUCP (Bryce Nesbitt) writes: > >I have about 500K of complex MacWrite documents that all share a common >flaw: everywhere "Helvetica" font is used, I really need "Times". >It is impractical to convert each occurrence by hand... there are >thousands. > >Can anyone suggest a better way? I think that I can suggest two better ways. The first, and least expensive way is to get a copy of FaceLift (by Paul DuBois). It was posted here a couple of years ago. It is a special purpose application whose raison d'etre is to perform exactly the function you wish in the more general case of mass changes of font/size/style in MacWrite documents. The second alternative is to use FullWrite Professional. Its Change dialog allows you to specify that you are only affecting font or size, etc and with the wildcarding allows you to make this sort of change. Then Save As in MacWrite format. This presupposes that you have at least 2MB so that FWP will run and that you want to pop for the price of the product. If you have the hardware to support it, its really a nice WP (personal opinion). Dennis Cohen