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- From: paul@seer.demon.co.uk (Paul Lynch)
- Subject: Re: Adding fonts to the system - SUMMARY
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.210349.1740@seer.demon.co.uk>
- Sender: paul@seer.demon.co.uk
- Organization: P & L Systems
- References: <1992Nov3.172604.20721@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:03:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov3.172604.20721@fcom.cc.utah.edu> alex@fff.chem.utah.edu
- (Alex Dommasch) writes:
- > I want to thank all the people who responded, both by news and by mail.
- Many
- > people suggested I try "buildafmdir /LocalLibrary/Fonts", which did
- cause them
- > to show up in the font panel, but as "unusable" fonts. It turns out
- (thanks to
- > all of you for this advice) that you then have to run
- > "cacheAFMData /LocalLibrary/Fonts". When I did this all the fonts
- showed up
- > and were usable. (You know, it seems kind of silly that you have to do
- all
- > this just to put a new font in /LocalLibrary, when it's done
- automatically for
- > certain other directories.)
-
- There is a NeXTanswer on this, I believe. The above method works, but
- note that it is advisable to delete the hidden font inofrmation cache
- files in the /LocalLibrary/Fonts directory first.
-
- The NeXTanswer says to do something that updates the modifed date on the
- Fonts directory, then launch an application with a font panel, and call up
- the font panel. This is much more NeXT-like.
-
- Paul
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- Paul Lynch
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