Re: Formatting fonts
Re: Formatting fonts
- Subject: Re: Formatting fonts
- From: Alex Zavatone <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 16:29:51 -0500
it might be a good practice then to set this file to what you want the contents to be and duplicate it just in case the file gets reset on a regular basis.
That way, whenever the mystery service decides to reset the editing fonts back to the defaults, all you need to do is quit the app, duplicate your backup file, delete the reset plist file and replace it with a renamed copy of your preferred set.
Cheers,
- Alex
Sent from my iPad. Please pardon typos.
On Nov 3, 2014, at 4:09 PM, Nigel Garvey <email@hidden> wrote:
> Robert Poland wrote on Mon, 03 Nov 2014 06:34:24 -0700:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I understand that to format the fonts in Smile I need to set them in
>> Applescript Editor preferences, and apply them.
>>
>> What I don’t understand is why I need to do this over and over again.
> The
>> changes never last.
>>
>> Is there a patch, or, to fix this Yosemite(?) “Feature"?
>
> Hi Robert.
>
> AppleScript font and colour preferences are stored in
> ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.applescript.plist.
>
> I found in Snow Leopard that this file kept getting overwritten with the
> default formats, so I got into the habit of keeping it locked. This did
> the trick, except during a couple of system upgrades, when new
> categories of formatting were added and the file was overwritten anyway.
>
> Occasionally in Mavericks and Yosemite, I've opened (Apple)Script Editor
> and found that the AppleScript formatting has reverted to the defaults
> despite the locked file. I've not been able to pin down the cause. My
> com.apple.applescript.plist file, however, has _not_ been overwritten
> and restarting the machine has caused the file to be reread and my own
> format preferences to be restored.
>
> Just recently, I've come up with this stupid-looking script, which saves
> having to restart the computer. It does a defaults read of
> com.apple.applescript and a defaults write with the result!
>
> do shell script "asprefs=$(defaults read com.apple.applescript) ; defaults write com.apple.applescript \"$asprefs\""
>
> You have to reopen your editor after running the script to see the
> restored formatting — assuming of course that the problem on your
> machine is the same as on mine!
>
> NG
>
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