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From: kuo@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Andy Y.A. Kuo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: please help me find technote
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Date: 11 Aug 89 18:13:06 GMT
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#> 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.

You might think, why don't the softwares keep track of the Fonts by their
names?  The answer is:I don't know, but I _think_(can't guerantee)
Cricket Draw and PageMaker is using that method.

My opinion: MS-Word4.0 is one of the nicest thing in the world!