sandrock@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu (11/19/87)
Can someone please tell me if there is a way to modify the Chicago 12
font on a Mac Plus? I understand that although this font resides in ROM,
that there is a way this can be done.
Thanks,
Mark Sandrock, (sandrock@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu)jbm652@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu.UUCP (11/20/87)
I know there's an INIT which is available for that purpose and can be found on a few Japanese BBS's. I don't have a copy right now, but I might be able to obtain it while I'm in Japan this winter... --- John Melby, student, University of Illinois Disclaimer: When I return from Japan, my new uxf signon will have different random digits on the end. ---
jonesg@pc.ecn.purdue.edu.UUCP (11/20/87)
I also want to know where to get information on creating/modifying fonts. There are a few things of symbolic type that we can not get anywhere else but in Zapf Dingbats. I would like to make similar doo-hickeys and put them in a special package. Just point me to the appropriate manuals. Glynda Jones Davis (There she goes begging again.....tsk tsk tsk!)
lippin@spam (The Apathist) (11/22/87)
Recently sandrock@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu said: > > Can someone please tell me if there is a way to modify the Chicago 12 > font on a Mac Plus? I understand that although this font resides in ROM, > that there is a way this can be done. All you need to do is open up a resource file with another Chicago 12 font (with the same name and number) and an appropriate FOND resource. In the resource manager section of IM IV, there's a descripton of how to make ROM-override resources, but this is't necessary for fonts. --Tom Lippincott ..ucbvax!bosco!lippin "It's a multi-purpose shape: a box." -- David Byrne
ws0n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Walter Ray Smith) (11/22/87)
To replace a font in ROM, you must add entries to the 'ROv#' resources in the System file. Each ROM version has an associated resource, but I believe you can add the new entry to all the 'ROv#'s with no bad effects. ResEdit has a template for 'ROv#'s, so you just open each one, select the bottom line of *****, use the New command, and enter the resource type and ID you are replacing. For example, to replace Chicago-12, you would use type 'FONT' and ID 12. This will cause the system to use the FONT 12 resource from the System file rather than the one in ROM. If this isn't clear enough, send me mail. - Walt
garth@swatsun (Garth Snyder) (11/24/87)
> Recently sandrock@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu said: > > Can someone please tell me if there is a way to modify the Chicago > 12 font on a Mac Plus? I understand that although this font resides > in ROM, that there is a way this can be done. > > And lippin@spam.UUCP (Tom Lippincott, ..ucbvax!bosco!lippin) replied: > > All you need to do is open up a resource file with another Chicago > 12 font (with the same name and number) and an appropriate FOND > resource. In the resource manager section of IM IV, there's a > descripton of how to make ROM-override resources, but this is't > necessary for fonts. This is true as far as it goes, but if I remember correctly you can't use this method if you want to make an across-the-board change rather than just a substitution in one particular application. Note also that you don't have to open a separate resource file, you can just paste a private copy of the font into the application's resource fork and it will be used automatically. -------------------- Garth Snyder UUCP: {seismo!bpa,rutgers!liberty}!swatsun!garth Swarthmore College ARPA: garth@boulder.colorado.edu Swarthmore, PA 19081 ALSO: {hao,nbires}!boulder!garth --------------------
earleh@dartvax.UUCP (Earle R. Horton) (12/07/87)
1) Remove the ROMs from your Mac. Find someone with a PROM programmer
which can dump their contents to a disk file on your Mac through
the serial port. Temporarilly replace the ROMs if you have only
one Mac to work with. Since the PROM programmer will probably
send the file to your Mac in hex format, determine at this point
the specifications for the hex format so you can convert it to
a raw byte file.
2) Ask your Apple dealer to recommend a compatible EPROM type to
replace the ROMs in your Mac. If he doesn't know, go back to
the fellow with the PROM programmer, who can probably help you
figure it out.
3) Extract the FONT resource to a resource file. You may have to
write a program to do this. Make a copy of this file to work with.
4) Determine the size of the FONT resource which you have extracted
from the ROM. The new ROM FONT resource which you will create
must be no larger than this.
5) Modify the FONT in your work file to your specifications.
Take care that you do not increase its size.
6) Compare the contents of the file created in (1) with those of your
original FONT file from (2), and determine the starting address of
the FONT in ROM.
7) Write a program to replace the FONT in the raw file with the
modified FONT which you have created. After this step, you are
ready to program your new set of ROMs. If you have an SE, you
might at this point consider how YOUR picture would look in there.
Take care when you do this to REPLACE the bytes in your original
raw file, and never INSERT bytes when replacing ROM resources.
8) I'm just kidding, but wouldn't it be fun?
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*********************************************************************ws0n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Walter Ray Smith) (12/09/87)
You can save a lot of time by just reading the ROM into a Mac file yourself.
I mean, that's why it's connected to the processor, to be read, right? Also,
anyone willing to go to this much trouble will be willing to find the ROM
resource map and re-do it to point to the new font, no matter how big it is.
:-)
But seriously, for the imminent day when the 128K ROM upgrade is discontinued,
does anyone already know the best (i.e., most convenient) PROM to use in a Mac
512? Not that I'm advocating copying Apple ROMs, because of course that would
be illegal...
- Walt
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