Apple II
File Type Notes
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                                                  Developer Technical Support

File Type:         $C8 (200)
Auxiliary Type:    $0000

Full Name:     Apple IIGS Font File
Short Name:    Font

Written by:    Matt Deatherage                                   January 1989

Files of this type and auxiliary type contain QuickDraw II fonts.
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The Apple IIGS Font Manager looks in the SYSTEM/FONTS subdirectory of the boot 
volume for files with the file type $C8 and auxiliary type $0000.  If it finds 
files of this type and auxiliary type, the Font Manager opens them as fonts.  
Files of this type and auxiliary type which are not fonts, but are in the 
SYSTEM/FONTS subdirectory, are opened as fonts, and can cause a system crash.  
However, the Font Manager does not treat files in this subdirectory as fonts 
if their auxiliary type is not $0000.

The format of a font file is as follows:

String                Font name.  A Pascal string containing the font family 
                      name of the font, as seen in the ChooseFont dialog.
Font                  Immediately following the string is an Apple IIGS 
                      QuickDraw II Font definition, as documented beginning
                      on page 16-41 of the Apple IIGS Toolbox Reference, 
                      Volume 2.

The only difference between a font in memory and a font file on disk is the 
font family name, as a Pascal string, preceding the font definition on disk.


Further Reference
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o    Apple IIGS Toolbox Reference, Volume 2

