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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
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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
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Microsoft owns the code I write, but the opinions are all mine.