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- From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: More Font Installation Problems (SUMMARY)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.172802.1708@metrosoft.com>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 17:28:02 GMT
- References: <1992Nov5.195318.15445@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: gvh@metrosoft.com
- Reply-To: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
- Organization: Metrosoft
- Lines: 50
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- In article <1992Nov5.195318.15445@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola) writes:
- > 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...
- > --
-
- That's why we created the Font Installer module in MetroTools. It does
- steps 1-3 and also extracts Mac fonts from Mac resource forks (plus a few
- other clean-ups).
-
- Gordon
-
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