Re: System 6.0.1 bugs?

[bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Bob Sherman)]

In <1993Jun30.175607.24420@gallant.apple.com> Jim Murphy <murph@apple.com> writes:

>     Yes, this does indeed happen. Since I've always had had my System
>folder on the desktop (where the problem does not occur), I had never seen
>it. Now I have. :-) It's really an unfortunate oversight in some new-for-
>6.0.1 honkin' cool code that makes your Finder life generally much easier.


>     Yep, I've looked into this one as well. It seems that when you have
>a TrueType font installed with no bitmaps generated, Pointless doesn't
>tell the system that there are any sizes available for use. ChooseFont
>under 6.0.1 assumes that if a font exists (that is, we have been
>told the name of a font family through any means), at least one face of
>any size also exists. The blame for this is probably ChooseFont's, but
>we'll have to argue that some more.


Since at this point there still has not been much mass distribution of
6.0.1, does the finding of these problems provide enough cause to
issue a 6.0.2 update?? If not right away, in the forseeable future??


-- 
   bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu |                         | MCI MAIL:BSHERMAN 
   an764@cleveland.freenet.edu  |                         |