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From: nash@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Ron Nash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Font Substitution
Message-ID: <4478@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 2 Jul 88 19:47:44 GMT
References: <3625@bnrmtv.UUCP>
Reply-To: nash@csli.UUCP (Ron Nash)
Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U.
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In article <3625@bnrmtv.UUCP> takahash@bnrmtv.UUCP (Alan Takahashi) writes:

>I was playing around with the 8mm label stack from the Stack Ideas,
>and found that, when printed with a LaserWriter, some of the text
>fields did not do font substitution (i.e. Geneva was printed as
>a bit-mapped Geneva), while other fields did the substitution just
>fine and used the LaserWriter's built in fonts.


Font substitution will fail when two fields overlap by more than
a pixel or two. I believe the same problem arises when a button is
superimposed on a field. 

-Ron Nash
 Center for the Study of Language and Information
 Stanford University
 nash@csli.stanford.edu