Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!bbn!oberon!ll-xn!ames!amdahl!bnrmtv!takahash 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 Lines: 29 > 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? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Alan Takahashi ! hplabs amdahl Bell-Northern Research ! \ / Mountain View, CA ! .....!{-----}!bnrmtv!takahashi ! / \ "When you need to knock on wood is when ! 3comvax ames you realize the world's composed of !----------------------------------- aluminum and vinyl." -- Flugg's Law ! DISCLAIMER: It's all an illusion. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------