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- From: ab@nova.cc.purdue.edu (Allen B)
- Subject: Re: More Font installation troubles
- Message-ID: <Bx9B9n.9Ly@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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- Organization: Purdue University
- References: <1992Nov5.020444.24718@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:56:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.020444.24718@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola) writes:
- > As root, I placed them in /LocalApps/Fonts, then ran buildafmdir and
- > cacheAFMData on that directory. All the fonts appeared in the font
- > panel and seemed to work (ie would preview) when I tried as root.
- >
- > After logging out and then back in as a regular user, all the fonts
- > were still in the font panel, but most (not all) were marked
- > unusable.
-
- Yes, by default, I've noticed, the permissions on the
- files created by buildafmdir are wrong. chmod 644 all the
- '.' files in your font directories and see if that works.
- It did for me.
-
- ab
-