Re: Replacing system fonts

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From: Eric Olson
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1987 15:35

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In article <5046@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> theodore@violet.berkeley.edu (Theodore W. Gray) writes:
>
>Is it possible to replace the standard system fonts (i.e. Chicago 12 and
>Geneva 9) with different (much larger) fonts?  I tried playing with ResEdit
>and F/DA mover, but nothing seemed to work.  Are these fonts actually in
>ROM now?  If so, is it still possible to somehow install a new font to 
>replace what's in ROM?
>                                                  thanx,
>                                                       theo

Yes, they're in ROM.  To stomp any ROM resource, you have to open up the
ROv# (ROM Overlay list) resource with the ID for your machine (same as the
ID's for PTCH resources: 117=Mac+, 630=SE, 376=Mac II [There are no resources
in the 64K ROM, thus, no ROv# ID=105]).  There you play the Type and ID of
the resource you want to read from the System File instead of ROM.

-Eric

Eric K. Olson		olson@endor.harvard.edu		harvard!endor!olson

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Subject: Re: Replacing system fonts
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