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Article #47528Re: Installing Fonts & DA's in applications
From: Ed Rotberg
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 1990 16:02
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 1990 16:02
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From article <39241@apple.Apple.COM>, by mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark B. Johnson): >>>I just found out the other day that you can install fonts and DAs in >>>applications. > > Don't do it...don't do it...don't do it. If you need a font, ship a Suitcase > file and ask the user to install it in their System file. Mark, Why should I not have a custom font in my application. I have already done this in my commercial brdige hand dealing program (the font supports special bridge symbols) and it works just fine. The only problem that I have encountered with a custom font is that if I try to use PREVIEW to examine my printed output onscreen, it doesn't seem to want to use the application specific font. It works just fine to every "real" printer I've tried it with though. Please be specific as to why I shouldn't do this (or why I should force my users, many of whom are NOT computer savvy, to install a font that will be worthless for anything but my program). - Ed Rotberg -
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!motcsd!dms!rotberg From: rotberg@dms.UUCP (Ed Rotberg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Installing Fonts & DA's in applications Message-ID: <1001@dms.UUCP> Date: 7 Mar 90 16:02:24 GMT References: <39241@apple.Apple.COM> Organization: Atari Games Inc., Milpitas, CA Lines: 20