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From: takahash@bnrmtv.UUCP (Alan Takahashi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Font Substitution
Message-ID: <3628@bnrmtv.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jul 88 01:38:00 GMT
References: <3625@bnrmtv.UUCP> <4478@csli.STANFORD.EDU>
Organization: Bell Northern Research, Mtn. View, CA
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> In article <3625@bnrmtv.UUCP> I wrote:
> >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
 
That's fine...the affected fields ARE overlapping with other fields.
Curiously enough, though, the problem that I'm encountering will
appear unpredictably, depending on what text I'm storing in those
fields.  Text length does not seem to be a factor, although I haven't
found any consistent pattern.  Any ideas?
 
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