syap@ur-tut (James Fitzwilliam) (07/23/88)
So far I've been very pleased with Font/DA Juggler Plus and the sound and FKey utilities that come with it. The manual states "Font/DA Juggler Plus allows you to select...resource files...and makes their contents available system-wide as if they had been copied to the System File." The utility does exactly that, with one exception: When using Word 3.0x, if you select Bold, Italic, etc., for a Postscript font, the program automatically uses the appropriate screen font, if it can locate it. (This makes editing much easier, and improves character spacing for printing.) Using Font/DA Juggler this is no longer the case; even though the screen fonts for Bold, Italic etc. are in "open" files, and appear in Word's Character Format (and Font) menus, the program resorts to QuickDraw's oblique on screen. Of course, one can specifi- cally change the _font_ to "BI Palatino Bold Italic," but at the expense of more keystrokes and inconvenient editing. I've tried placing the "plain" and "other" (B, I, BI) screen fonts of each family together in one font file, and installing the "other" fonts in the System. It seems that the "other" fonts are correctly recognized only when BOTH they and the "plain" fonts are installed in the System File proper. Can anyone explain this? How can Word 'see' the fonts to place them in the menus, but not to use them on the screen? Does the same thing happen with, say, Suitcase? As always, thanks in advance! James domain: syap@tut.cc.rochester.edu path: rochester!ur-tut!syap "Piano is my forte" (-: GEnie: FITZWILLIAM ========================================================================
bpja@munnari.oz (Brett P.J.Adam) (07/24/88)
in article <2326@ur-tut.UUCP>, syap@ur-tut (James Fitzwilliam) says: > > So far I've been very pleased with Font/DA Juggler Plus and the sound > and FKey utilities that come with it. The manual states "Font/DA Juggler Reading this reminded me of what I omitted from my earlier caution about changing font names. That is, I have problems with word as I am also using Suitcase. I forgot to state this earlier (I guess I take Suitcase for granted now!). Not having any experience with DA/Juggler, I can only suspect that it must be Word's problem as both utilities give rise to the same behaviour. It may be that Word is only expecting to look in the System resource file for fonts or something similar - maybe only in the one res file. Although, the resource manager should be searching all open files by default..... If anyone knows what is REALLY going on, could they E-mail me? Is it just Word or do other programs exhibit this behaviour? (I am only personally aware of Word) Thanks, and sorry about the missing details on first posting Brett Adam bpja@munnari.oz "Tell them it's a feature...!" -- anon.