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- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!news
- From: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola)
- Subject: Installing fonts (Summary)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.220202.13095@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Reply-To: spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 22:02:02 GMT
- Lines: 39
-
- [I'm sorry if this is a repeat; NG crashed on me this morning, so I
- doubt my earlier post got out]
-
- Thanks to all the people who posted or emailed in response to my post
- on problems installing fonts.
-
- This 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; for
- example:
- 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/*
-
- You can also do all this as yourself, if you place the fonts in
- ~/Library/Fonts.
-
- The permissions problem in Step 4 in particular seems to have caused
- a lot of grief (it was my problem).
-
- In general, I remain of the opinion that a 4-step process involving
- command-line operations simply isn't the NeXTSTEP way of doing
- things.
-
- --
- -
- Stefano Pagiola
- Food Research Institute, Stanford University
- spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
- spagiola@FRI-nxt-Pagiola.stanford.edu (NeXTMail encouraged)
-