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In article <IZzookS00WBK43BGJo@andrew.cmu.edu> ls1i+@andrew.cmu.edu (Leonard John Schultz) writes:
>Thankyou for that explanation, Akbar.  It was very thourough.

your welcome, Jeff--er John... 2;^)

>But it left me with a question.  You mentioned that there will be no
>font/DA mover in 7.0?  How, exactly, will it be different?

the difference will be in the way you load your screen fonts into the
system. our preliminary documentation for system 7.0 (in the Toolbox
chapter) on page 45 says this about it:

	"In Release 7.0, the Finder will include a new mechanism for
	moving fonts into the system file. The new mechanism must be
	used to recognize, update, copy, move and remove all font
	resources. Existing resources ('FONT', 'FOND' and 'NFNT')
	will behave exactly as they currently do, whereas the new
	'sfnt' resource will be integrated into the system. The user
	will be able to distinguish the difference between bitmaps
	and outlines"

that's kind of sketchy but, the way i understood it was that you would only
have to place your bitmaps and outlines into the system folder and then they
would be automatically installed.

>Would it still be possible to use my current postscript and screen fonts?

most definately. Apple has made a commitment to allow our fonts and ATM
to work with the new system. there would be no need to buy "new" PostScript
typefaces all over again.

hope this helps.--d




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