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- From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: The easy way to install fonts (Re: Good NeXT ps font collection loaded to sonata!)
- Message-ID: <1056@rtbrain.rightbrain.com>
- Date: 10 Jan 93 01:10:11 GMT
- References: <978@rtbrain.rightbrain.com>
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- [Sorry this is late; our last two months' postings went to /dev/null!]
-
- Gordon Van Huizen writes
- > 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).
-
- I can help a little with this (my name's in the Info panel on Adobe's
- installer :-)
-
- The afm, bitmap, and outline directories were indeed the NeXTSTEP 1.0
- method of organizing fonts, which were obsoleted by NS 2.0 and the
- "font wrapper" files, which are much better. The afm, bitmap, and
- outline directories are created by the Adobe Font Installer, but only
- the afm directory has its contents updated.
-
- The sole reason for this extra step was that FrameMaker reads all the
- AFM files at startup, and the old version of FrameMaker (I think it
- was version 1.0 or 2.0) used to crash immediately on startup if the
- afm directory wasn't there. I don't know of any other application that
- requires these directories.
-
- The current (and previous) versions of FrameMaker DO NOT have this
- problem, and these directories can be safely deleted if you don't have
- the old version of FrameMaker.
-
- It has been long enough since NS 1.0 that the Adobe Installer could be
- modified to not create these directories without any particular ill
- effect, I imagine. On the other hand, a few symbolic links don't hurt
- much :-)
-
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