Although the new System software does provide a Font Folder for storing bitmapped, TrueType, and PostScript™ fonts, it is not a solution to managing fonts. System 7.1's Font Folder only allows a limit of 128 open files. An open file is either a suitcase file, TrueType, or bitmapped font which resides in the Font Folder. Suitcase, however, allows the user to store up to as many as 348 open files. Additionally, System 7.1's Font Folder does not allow an application's font menus to be updated when a new font is added. Therefore, if a font is added to the Font Folder, the application must be closed and restarted before it notices the new font. Suitcase, on the other hand, supports dynamic updating of the font menu in most applications. This means that when you want a font immediately, Suitcase will allow it to be readily available (as long as the application supports this feature, which most do). Furthermore, Suitcase allows you to store fonts anywhere on a mounted volume (including a file server) rather than restricting you to a specific location.
New Features:
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--System 7.1 compatibility (2.1.2 or later is required for use with System 7.1).
Due to a new feature in the Font Manager in 7.1, it is now possible to split a family among multiple suitcase files, provided that the font number is the same in each suitcase file. That is, if you have Times 9 in one suitcase and Times 10 in another, Suitcase will not report a conflict if both have the same font number. (If the numbers are not the same — i.e., Suitcase reports a name conflict — they can be made the same simply by dragging the closed suitcases into and then out of the Fonts Folder in the System Folder.) However, only one suitcase (the one most recently opened) will be shown as the file containing Times in the Resources window, and the Show font dialog will show only the sizes/styles present in that one file.
Files should be opened either by being in the 7.1 Fonts folder or by Suitcase, but not both! That is, do not drag a suitcase that Suitcase has open, or that is in an open-at-startup set, into the Fonts folder.
--Any user-created set can be made an open-at-startup set by double-clicking its name. Double-click again to not open its members at startup. Sets which have the open-at-startup attribute have their names in italic. The Permanent set is always shown in italic; its open-at-startup attribute cannot be turned off.
-- The Option key works with the "Add..." button to suppress font conflict checking when Open Added Files is checked.
-- Suitcase automatically uses the System 7 Alias Manager (when running under System 7) to help assure that suitcases can be found after being moved/renamed.
-- NFNT / FONT / sfnt / fctb inter-file resource ID conflicts are no longer a problem. (An sfnt is a TrueType outline; an fctb is a font color table). In other words, it is no longer necessary that NFNT's in different files have unique ID's. Only FOND (font family) name/number conflicts matter, and these are detected and resolved by the Suitcase DA when a font suitcase is opened. Hence, Font Harmony will be useful only for those who want to apply its style-variant merging feature.
Other changes since 2.0:
--fixed bug with Kanji fonts (2 byte fonts)
--Suitcase’s Add dialog will no longer show suitcases that have been opened by other software (e.g., files in the 7.1 Fonts Folder and ATM 3.0’s ATM Temp file).
--List items which are so wide as to require truncation at the right if rendered in plain Chicago are now rendered in condensed Chicago.
--Fixed bug that caused renaming a user-created set to turn off its open-at-startup attribute (indicated by italics in the Sets list) if it previously had it.
--Code change to avoid DisposeResource INIT’s generating an alert when a packed (by Font & Sound Valet) font or sound was loaded (previous versions weren’t really doing anything harmful, but the results looked wrong to the DisposeResource INIT).
--If Now Utilities WYSIWYG is installed, Suitcase’s font menu display alteration feature is disabled, since the two are incompatible. The settings for the feature in the Preferences/Fonts dialog remain enabled, since they would become effective should WYSIWYG be removed.
--Sounds played from the Resources window are made purgeable (removable from RAM) after playing in case they don’t already have the purgeable resource attribute.
--Use Foreign Font IDs now causes ATM 3.0 or later to generate Multiple Master instances that were present on the foreign system but not yet generated on the local system (assuming, of course, that the master font is available on the local system).
--(For programmers) The ‘SCoc’ resource (see Suitcase manual, p. 113) is now updated when files are moved into or out of the System 7.1 Fonts folder.
--fixed bug that caused renaming of built-in sets to not be remembered
unless other sets were created/cut/renamed in same session.
--fixed bug that caused startup crash on Quadras with 040/CPU cache on
when Suitcase tried to “forget” a suitcase that was cut from a set and
remained in no other, or that was left open in the Temporary set.
--fix handling of Apple menu when Suitcase DA name is changed (e.g.,
via ResEdit).
--fixed bug that could have caused crash with applications using
custom menu definition procedures.
--fixed a variety of minor startup bugs, mostly related to system heap
sizing/usage, that could have caused a variety of problems.
--worked around bug in Apple’s Fax Extension Switcher that required it to
load after Suitcase.
--fixed bug in Suitcase DA’s font conflict checking that could have caused
heap corruption (with a variety of unpleasant symptoms) when fonts with
numbers in the range 32256 through 32767 were present.
--altered startup icon display for compatibility with IconWrap 1.2.
--worked around WordPerfect 2.0.3’s ideosyncratic handling of System 7
Apple menu items which prevented access to the Suitcase DA (or to DAs
installed in the System or in WordPerfect via Font/DA Mover).
--fixed automatic resolution of inter-file FONT and sfnt (TrueType)
resource ID conflicts.
--fixed Preferences/Fonts “Update existing font menus...” setting change
not taking effect until the next time the Suitcase DA was opened.
--changes for compatibility with ATM 3.0/Multiple Master Fonts.
Usage Notes:
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-- An updated version of Font & Sound Valet is included on this diskette. This version does not pack FOND resources, which allows files packed with this version to be opened with Finder 7.0. However, the files will be slightly larger than with previous versions of Font & Sound Valet.
-- System 7 dynamically handles the number of files you can have open at any given time, up to a maximum of 384 files. Please note that this number denotes open files of all kinds, not just suitcase files, and that the amount of available memory in the system heap may prevent you from reaching this maximum. Before opening a suitcase, Suitcase checks that at least 10 more files can be opened. If not, the message "Too many files are already open" will be displayed.
-- Due to some of the changes to support System 7, this version of Suitcase may take slightly longer when opening a large number of files from slower media (such as network file server drives). This is a result of the overhead involved in the support of System 7's Alias Manager.
-- This version of Suitcase has been tested on System 7.1 and worked correctly. If you experience a crash, it is more likely a problem with an older DA than with Suitcase. Try opening your DA's one at a time until you find the one that causes the system to crash.
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