Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!purdue!ames!ncar!boulder!tramp!kuo From: kuo@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Andy Y.A. Kuo) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: please help me find technote Message-ID: <10710@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Date: 11 Aug 89 23:50:21 GMT Sender: news@boulder.Colorado.EDU Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder Lines: 41 >>#> 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. > > Try Font Harmony included with Suitcase II by Fifth > Generation Software Systems. If should handle any > discrepencies you are having with Font ID numbers. Font Harmony does two major things: 1.Check the font structure, it happen somehow that some fonts are defected. FH tries to convert the FOND resource to the NFNT resouce thus there can be a lot more IDs available(there WAS only 256 IDs available, and Apple reserves 128 of them.) 2.Check ID conflict, because of the rather limited possible IDs, fonts can very possible share one ID(even among some publisher's own sets, so just buying one publisher's fonts won't help). When a application calls for that ID, it can only get one font, thus you can't use the other font that has the same ID. FH resolve that conflict by making sure one font family only has one unique ID. So, in this case, use FH won't help since the problem is caused by inconsistent ID number between systems. I think the best way to solve it is: 1)make sure you have the same set of fonts,or 2)some how make all applications call a font by its name instead of the ID. -Andy Internet: kuo@tramp.Colorado.EDU