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Article #16263Font ID changing (RE: Font ID number listing)
From: steig
Date: Tue, 19 May 1987 20:36
Date: Tue, 19 May 1987 20:36
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In article <3086@well.UUCP> tswift@well.UUCP (Theodore John Swift) writes:
>In an effort to find an unused font ID number for a new font I'd designed
>("Woodside", to appear soon in .mac.binaries), I went through the task of
>listing (a bunch of) fonts by name and by ID number. The new Font/DA
>Movers now transparently change font ID's to avoid conflict, ...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Are you sure about this? If the new Font/DA mover indeed changes the IDs of
fonts, without notifying the user, then there is a potential for
compatibility problems. If you take a font with, let's say, ID 230, and you
install it in a System file with no existing FONT 230, then, no problem.
But if you install it into a System file that already has FONT 230 it it,
then the ID of the newly installed font will be changed. Documents
formatted under this System in the newly-installed font will appear in a
different font when displayed under the other System, and documents
formatted under the system that has the font intact will be displayed in the
font with same ID (which is a different font) under the System with the
conflicting fonts.
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