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- From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola)
- Subject: Re: More Font Installation Problems (SUMMARY)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.195318.15445@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Reply-To: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <1992Nov5.163638.1432@wri.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 19:53:18 GMT
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- Thanks to everybody who either posted responses or emailed with
- suggestions about installing fonts.
-
- The following seems to work:
-
- As root
- 1. place fonts in /LocalLibrary/Fonts
- 2. run buildafmdir /LocalLibrary/Fonts
- 3. run cacheAFMData /LocalLibrary/Fonts
- 4. make sure all the permissions are set so that everybody can read
- both the .font file _and_ the files inside the .font folder; eg
- drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Feb 8 1992 Alison.font/
- and
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root 48588 Jan 8 1992 Alison
- -rw-r--r-- 1 root 6597 Oct 8 00:28 Alison.afm
- -rw-r----- 1 root 979 Jan 8 1992 Alison.readme
- The following ensures that the permissions are correct:
- chmod uog+r /LocalApps/Fonts/*.font/*
-
- The permissions problem in step 4 in particular seems to be something
- that many people have run into (it was my problem).
-
- You can also do all this as yourself, if you place the fonts in
- ~/Library/Fonts.
-
- Once again, let me express my opinion that a 4-step procedure using
- obscure command-line commands is most definitely NOT the NeXTSTEP way
- of doing things. I can just see the Apple ads from here:
-
- Installing fonts:
- The EASY way (simple drag operation)...
- and the NeXT way (drag font in folder, start terminal,
- execute obscure Unix commands)
-
- C'mon folks...
- --
- -
- Stefano Pagiola
- Food Research Institute, Stanford University
- spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
- spagiola@FRI-nxt-Pagiola.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
-