harrow@bagels.dec.com (Jeff Harrow, NCSE BXB1-2/E02 DTN=293-5128) (11/18/87)
I ran into an interesting problem. PageMaker V2.0a was displaying text in old documents with VERY odd spacing between letters (either WAY (like 10 character widths!) too big or WAY too small). This occured with most all of the public domain fonts, but NOT with the new Apple fonts (System 4.2, Finder 6.0). An investination into the FOND (not "FONT") resources of the Apple fonts indicated that the first flag word was HEX $6000 (except for Zapf Dingbats, which showed $1000), while the other fonts showed a $0000. A glance in Inside Mac Vol. IV indicated that these two bits basically told the new font manager that this font should CREATE fractional width, rather than use the fractional width table (which of course wasn't there). Note that the Zapf Dingbats font (with the flags set to $1000) DID have a width table, hence the $1000. Soooo, if your fonts are acting odd (either VERY squished or elongated), make sure that there IS a FOND resource for that font family (re-moving it with a rescent Font/DA Mover should create the FOND resource automatically), with the first flag word set to $6000 if it is a "normal" older font with no font width table (most of them). Why doesn't Font/DA Mover (V3.6) set this as a default? I don't know...do you? Hope this saves someone else a few hours of effort. Jeff Harrow Digital Equipment Corp. (617)264-5128