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- From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
- Subject: Re: The easy way to install fonts (Re: Good NeXT ps font collection loaded to sonata!)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.231755.1276@metrosoft.com>
- Sender: gvh@metrosoft.com
- Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
- Organization: Metrosoft
- References: <1gqa6tINNham@menudo.uh.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 23:17:55 GMT
- Lines: 60
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- In article <1gqa6tINNham@menudo.uh.edu> 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
- >
-
- These are old directories - this is the way the NeXTSTEP
- had these files organized prior to NeXTSTEP 2.0. I don't
- know of any app that requires these directories to be
- there (except perhaps FrameMaker which has some sort of
- anlternate font installation scheme - I can't say).
-
- If an app uses the standard AppKit stuff to access fonts,
- these additional directories aren't required.
-
- > 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 from Adobe is probably doing in
- addition to creating these folders, is what our Font
- Installer does. We found that the only reliable way to
- install fonts is to:
-
- 1. Completely delete .afmcache, .fontdirectory and .fontlist
-
- 2. Run buildafmdir
-
- 3. Run cacheAFMData
-
- The advantage of having an automated installer is that it
- ensures that these three steps are completed correctly
- every time.
-
- > 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?
-
- I don't think the seperate directories have any
- advantage. I think that the Adobe installer simply does
- the right combination of deletion and running
- utilities.
-
- Gordon
-
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