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- From: sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: The easy way to install fonts (Re: Good NeXT ps font collection loaded to sonata!)
- Date: 17 Dec 1992 16:34:37 GMT
- Organization: University of Houston
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- In article <62902@mimsy.umd.edu> alex@cs.umd.edu (Alex Blakemore) writes:
- #In article <1992Dec17.010242.9928@socrates.umd.edu> ice@socrates.umd.edu
- (Fredrik Nyman) writes:
- #> sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) writes:
- #> >Ok... what does one do exactly to install these fonts.
- #
- #if you've ever purchased any Adobe fonts, you received an app called
- #FontInstaller.app on the floppies. just double click on that app
- #and select the font package and destination and it takes care of the
- rest.
- #
- #It makes it even more worthwhile buy at least one Typeset or typeface
- from Adobe.
-
- I guess that everyone misunderstood my question. I know how to use
- buildafmdir and cacheAFMData to install new fonts. I also know about
- FontInstaller.app from Adobe. Apparently they do not do exactly the same
- thing, because after I install fonts with FontInstaller.app, the following
- directories are created:
-
- afm
- bitmap
- outline
-
- However, when I run buildafmdir on any new fonts, those directories are
- not created. My question is basically, which is better to use?
- buildafmdir is much faster, but it *seems* that FontInstaller.app does a
- better job in installing fonts.
-
- What FontInstaller does is to separate the afm bitmaps and outlines from
- each font. Is this the better way of doing it? or is buildafmdir the
- better way?
-
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