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kern@arecibo.aero.org writes:


>I've installed several fonts into a Suitcase including
>Camelot, Aberdeen, Venice, and some other non-standard
>ones.  Unfortunately, when I try to use these fonts when
>in FullWrite version 1.0 they come out *extremely* obsure
>and often with a great deal of blankspace between each letter.
>Is my MacIIcx the only one blessed with such a problem or
>has someone else come across it?

I have.  I believe this problem is one that got a lot of 
discussion when FullWrite was first released.  Macintosh fonts
contain some information about spacing that isn't used by
most applications, but FullWrite does use it.  However, a couple
of system releases ago, Apple released a version of Font/DA Mover
that hosed that spacing info in fonts it installed.  If you 
use one of these "stripped" fonts with FullWrite, the character
spacing is all screwed up (your description seems mild in 
my experience.)  
To make a long story short, if you go back to the original, shipped
versions of the suspect fonts (you didn't touch the original 
disks with F/DAM, did you? ;-) you'll find the problem goes
away.  Of course if you got the fonts in an already hosed state
you're in for a bigger search.


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