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- From: flog@open.ch (Florian Gutzwiller)
- Subject: Re: The easy way to install fonts (Re: Good NeXT ps font collection loaded to sonata!)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.230622.21768@bernina.ethz.ch>
- Sender: news@bernina.ethz.ch (USENET News System)
- Reply-To: Florian.Gutzwiller@open.ch
- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- References: <1gqa6tINNham@menudo.uh.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:06:22 GMT
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- >
- > 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?
- >
-
- The afm and bitnap directories are leftovers from NeXTSTEP 1.0 times. The
- FrameMaker releases up to 3.0 required these dirs to exist. I haven't seen any
- other apps with this behaviour.
-
- -Florian
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