Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!mcvax!dik
From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Problems with Resedit (Fonts part)
Message-ID: <8421@boring.cwi.nl>
Date: 24 Sep 89 00:41:22 GMT
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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I have some problems with fonts I modified with Resedit (version 1.1d4).
I took a base font and modified it with resedit in two ways.  The first
of these modifications looks ok (although there are problems here too!),
but the second gives problems.  Font/DA mover refuses to move it (although
it recognizes it as a font).  The message is:
	Sorry, there has been a serious problem.
	ID = 3, 0,
(Note the trailing comma!)  This is not overly helpful; can somebody shed
light on this?

Also when I try to open these fonts with Resedit with Open general, it
refuses (with both).  For some time I do see the watch, but after that it
just returns without anything opened.  What can be the reason for this?
Both are of type FONT, not NFNT.

Both fonts are still usable though.  So I really want to know whether there
is a way to rectify things.

(Without doubt the problem is with Resedit.  When I modified the second
version I entered quit when I was ready.  Resedit quitted without asking
whether it should save the modified version.  After that the Clipboard
file was still open (not closed by Resedit), and the font was completely
unusable.  Using Resedit I think the offset/width table is garbled!
I am lucky that I have a copy!)

Thanks in advance.
-- 
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