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- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!bullwinkle!steved
- From: steved@bankone.com
- Subject: Re: The easy way to install fonts (Re: Good NeXT ps font collection loaded to sonata!)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.134338.1382@bankone.com>
- Sender: steved@bankone.com (Steve Dieringer)
- Reply-To: steved@bankone.com
- Organization: Bank One, Columbus NA
- References: <1992Dec17.230622.21768@bernina.ethz.ch>
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 13:43:38 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- There have been numerous posts about font installation, most centering on the
- old afm, bitmap, and outline directories. I've been having some problems with
- Frame 3.01 and thought you might find the following email from Frame
- interesting. I haven't gone back to the old style directories, though...
-
-
- > Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 14:37:47 PST From: ngt@frame.com
- > (Nancy Taylor) To: steved@bullwinkle.bankone.com
- > Subject: FM 3.01 for NeXT Cc: ngt@frame.com
- >
- > Steve,
- >
- > Font Problems We use more font information than other
- > applications. We rely on more font resources than other
- > applications
- >
- > The NeXT does not have the same fonts as other platforms.
- > The fonts are provided by NeXT All versions of FrameMaker
- > should support Adobe Type 1 PostScript fonts and are not
- > stored in FrameMaker. Example Bookman.This is a
- > limitation from the NeXT Co. The fonts must be kept in the
- > NeXT library not in your home directory or this will hang
- > up or crash the system. For networking put them in a local
- > library.
- > NeXT/Arachnid/3.0.1/FrameMaker.app/fminit.20/fontdir
- > he "new" style of font installation only requires that
- > the font directory contain an afm file (e.g.,
- > Courier-Bold.font/Courier-Bold.afm); it doesn't
- > require the presence of afm/Courier-Bold.afm,
- > although all NeXT-supplied fonts have them for backward
- > compatibility. However, fonts from outside vendors
- > typically don't have the afm/*.afm files, and
- > FrameMaker has been having trouble with these. To fix:
- > make sure that each font has an afm/<fontname>.afm file
- > symbolically linked to its
- > <fontname>.font/<fontname>.afm. . I hope this
- > information will be of help.
- >
- > Best Regards,
- >
- > Nancy Taylor Frame Technical Support
- >
-
- Steve
- --
- Steve Dieringer NeXTMail: steved@bankone.com
- (formerly steved@essex.com)
-