Doug:
I do not think this is a BB problem. Recently I moved
a PowerPoint presentation from a PC to a Mac. PowerPoint
supplies its own fonts, but these are different on PC and
on Mac. There are fewer fonts on Mac than on a PC.
(Maybe I was using different versions of PowerPoint
on both machines.) The result was just as you said.
Some parts of my presentation were corrupted.
You are right, there should be a list of resources, much like
it was true under ETH V4. Remember these Syntax.something.fnt
strings embedded in the V4 file header? It was fun to watch
these under Hex.Edit, was it not?
Wojtek
>
> Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2001 09:52:12 -0400
> From: "Douglas G. Danforth" <danforth{([at]})nowhere.xy> To: blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy> Subject: Fonts, Objects, and configuration
> Message-ID: <3B5C2C0C.7ECCF29C{([at]})nowhere.xy>
> Documentation issues in BlackBox.
>
> I naively attempted to enter a squareroot symbol into the document I was creating and
> ended up frustrated at not finding one. I have done this in the past so what has changed?
>
> Well I see that my favorite Math fonts are missing from this new machine. So I say, hmm,
> why is this so and how does BlackBox use and get its fonts? After a 10 minute search
> of the BB documentation I see nothing that addresses this issue, why not?
>
> I must guess, assume, and surmise that somewhere in the Windows registry(?) there is
> a listing of Fonts that are installed by all the other (non BB) applications on the
> machine I am using and that *somehow* BB is able to use that global knowledge of
> fonts and display it in the BB Fonts window. Guessing, guessing on my part. But,
> says I, doesn't this mean that if a document is sent to another machine without
> the special fonts that the document will be corrupted? Hmm, don't know, seems
> like it would.
>
> So I ask myself,self says I, wouldn't it be better if the BlackBox document says
> exactly what "resources" it uses and how they are installed and the consequences
> of relying on them if a resource is no longer present? Perhaps it does say this,
> but where?
>
> -Doug
>
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Received on Mon Jul 23 2001 - 15:47:48 UTC