Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!info-mac From: info-mac@uw-beaver Newsgroups: fa.info-mac Subject: Font resources moved into OTHER files Message-ID: <146@uw-beaver> Date: Sun, 9-Dec-84 23:58:51 EST Article-I.D.: uw-beave.146 Posted: Sun Dec 9 23:58:51 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Dec-84 03:26:13 EST Sender: daemon@uw-beaver Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 22 From: Michael PeirceAfter exerimenting with the resource mover a bit, I've stumbled on to the following useful item. You can move a Font into the resource fork of any textfile so that even if the system doesn't have a copy of the font handy, MacWrite will get it from the textfile itself. This means you can send a file that uses a fancy or custom font in it to someone that does not necessarily have that font. Normally you won't want to put a copy of the fonts used by a specific document into it, but for special cases, like storing a textfile on a central host, it works great. You can also move a font right into MacWrite. This allows you to make up special copys of MacWrite with special fonts built right in. For information on how to mess with fonts and the resource mover see the great documentation included with the fonts disks. (Thanks to the folks who put that together!!!) ...Michael Peirce (PEIRCE@LLL-CRG) P.S. You can also reverse this type of procedure to look at fonts that are built into applications. The font in MacTerminal is rather interesting...