Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cica!ctrsol!ginosko!uunet!microsoft!ericsc From: ericsc@microsoft.UUCP (Eric Schlegel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: please help me find technote Message-ID: <7354@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 14 Aug 89 15:09:52 GMT References: <10698@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Reply-To: ericsc@microsoft.UUCP (Eric Schlegel) Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 35 In <10698@boulder.Colorado.EDU>kuo@tramp.Colorado.EDU(Andy Y.A. Kuo)writes: > >>>I'm writing a letter to Microsoft to report the bug regarding font >>> tracking. (Word 4.0 tracks fonts by number--every time I open a >>> document on a different Mac, all the fonts are changed.) >>document might possibly be used on more than one system. Which means it >>renders the program absolutely unusable for almost everybody. I can't >>believe even Microsoft would release software with that serious a bug in >>it. Could they? > >Actually, tracking fonts by ID is the method almost all Mac softwares >go by. > >So it is the user's responsibility to make sure the fonts installed >has the "standard" ID. Or, you could always bring your system with >you and boot from it. The tech note is #191, "Font Names," issued April 2, 1988. It may be true that many Mac programs still track fonts by resource ID. I haven't checked recently. Regardless of that, however, Apple has clearly stated in this tech note that it is NOT the user's responsibility to fix these conflicts; it is the application's job to avoid the problem in the first place, by using font names. I was majorly bummed to find out that Word 4 was still tracking by ID. Grr... I have a fascist mailer. Eric Schlegel ---- Microsoft owns the code I write, but the opinions are all mine.