Re: Pointless question... :)

[nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

In article <3re1cp$i2m@asia.lm.com> mportune@telerama.lm.com (Matt Portune)
writes:
>Concerning Pointless, I'm having a problem with the Chicago font.  It 
>shows up twice in the font menu.  I have the truetype Chicago, along with 
>some bitmaps of it.  But I have the same setup with other fonts too, so 
>why is it that only Chicago is showing up twice?  I tried re-installing 
>pointless as well as all my fonts, but it keeps showing up twice.  Any ideas?

It's probably a font ID number conflict.

The official font ID number for Chicago is 65534 ($FFFE).  This is probably
the ID number recorded in your bitmapped Chicago font files.  But for some
reason, the Truetype Chicago that ships with Pointless has a font ID of
16383 ($3FFF).

So that's why you have two Chicagos in your font menu--the Font Manager thinks
that since they have different font IDs, they must be different fonts.

I have the same problem in my own font menu.  Someday Real Soon Now I'm going
to get out a sector editor and change my Truetype Chicago ID to 65534.  Until
then, I just put up with it.

               - Neil Parker
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