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- From: gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)
- Subject: Re: The easy way to install fonts (Re: Good NeXT ps font collection loaded to sonata!)
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:24:39 GMT
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- sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) writes:
- > 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
-
- If you look at those directories, they just contain links over to the files
- in the xxx.font directory of each font. The only reason for these
- directories, I believe, is that this is the way font's were done in a
- previous release of NeXTSTEP (release 1.0, I imagine). If you're running
- release 2.x or 3.0, then these three extra directores are not used by
- anything.
-
- The Font installer creates the directories simply in case there's some
- earlier NeXT which will be looking at those fonts.
-
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- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
- ITS Systems Programmer (handles NeXT-type mail)
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy NY USA
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