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- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!socrates!ice
- From: ice@socrates.umd.edu (Fredrik Nyman)
- Subject: Re: Good NeXT ps font collection loaded to sonata!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.010242.9928@socrates.umd.edu>
- Organization: University of Maryland University College
- References: <1992Dec16.143415.7270@socrates.umd.edu> <1gno38INNdob@menudo.uh.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:02:42 GMT
- Lines: 29
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- sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) writes:
-
- >Ok... what does one do exactly to install these fonts. I did the
- >buildafmdir and everything looks ok. However, when I use the
- >FontInstaller from Adobe, it creates afm, bitmap and outline directories.
- >Is buildafmdir supposed to create these directories also, or is this
- >something special about FontInstaller.app?
- Probably the latter. :)
-
- What you do is to open a terminal window.
-
- From there, cd to ~/Library/Fonts (if you want to keep the fonts
- for yourself) and to /LocalLibrary/Fonts if you want to make them
- public. (If the latter, you should have to su first).
-
- Then, for each font file (/somedir/fontfile.tar.Z):
- zcat /somedir/fontfile.tar.Z | tar xvf -
-
- This will unpack fontfile.tar.Z, create an appropriately named
- subdirectory and place the font and afm files there.
-
- When you've unpacked all fontfiles, run buildafmdir:
- buildafmdir
-
- You *may* have to run cacheAFMData too, but it seems that buildafmdir
- does (or is supposed to do) it automatically.
-
- Ta da. The new fonts should be available from any font panel
- except Terminal's.
-