Mac/Windows: Why can I run Creator 6.0 on older operating systems?
Here are details separated for Mac and Windows: Mac: OS 9 introduced a new Font Manager API (application programming interface). This is a set of toolbox routines that allow an application to get a list of the fonts that are currently active, and the data and information about those fonts. This represents a complete departure from how these tasks were handled in earlier versions of the system. Mac OS 9 also supports the old method, which was based on the Resource Manager and which assumed all active fonts were made available to all applications as open resource files. Mac OS X only supports the new method of dealing with fonts. The technique of dealing with shared open resource files is essentially impossible to implement in a protected memory operating system. Since we see the future of this program on the Mac OS X platform, we implemented code using the new Font Manager exclusively. Font handling is a very complicated area of the program, with features like activation on the fly, mis
