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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!wri!news
- From: Jeff Adams
- Subject: Re: More Font Installation Problems
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.163638.1432@wri.com>
- Sender: news@wri.com
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- Reply-To: jeffa@wri.com
- Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
- References: <1992Nov5.021854.26235@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 16:36:38 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.021854.26235@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola) writes:
- > I tried to install some of the PD/SW fonts on the archives, following
- > advice from the net, and got mixed results.
- >
- > As root, I placed the fonts in LocalLibrary/Fonts, then ran
- > buildafmdir and cacheAFMData on the directory. The fonts appeared in
- > the fonts panel and seemed to work (eg they would preview correctly).
- >
- > Then I logged out and back in as a regular user. But now only some
- > of the fonts work. They all show up in the font panel, but most are
- > marked unusable. Some, however, do work correctly.
- >
- > Any idea what I'm doing wrong?
-
- Try looking at the read permissions of not only the .font file but also the
- files inside this directory. If I am not mistaken, this problem occurred with
- someone I know and there where files with read permissions only for root, and
- changing this made the fonts usable by all.
-
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- Jeff Adams
- jeffa@wri.com
- Wolfram Research Inc.
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