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Article: 21652 of comp.sys.next.misc
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From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Subject: A free font: Bitstream Charter
Message-ID: <OTTO.92Nov25113843@tukki.jyu.fi>
Sender: otto@jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance Company
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1992 09:38:43 GMT
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If you are interested in installing a rather nice-looking font, there is a
publicly available font called "Bitstream Charter" which works nicely with
NeXTstep, thanks to Henry Churchyard <churchh@emx.cc.utexas.edu> for the
pointer. You can get it via anonymous.ftp from:
export.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/Bitstream-Type1.tar
gatekeeper.dec.com:.9/X11/contrib/Bitstream-Type1.tar
Once you have it, extract it with (preferrably to /tmp, as there are quite
a lot of extra/unneeded files in the package -- by the way, I am assuming
you use a csh-variant here):
tar xf Bitstream-Type1.tar
and rename/move the files in the following way:
mkdir ~/Library/Fonts (if you don't have it yet)
mkdir ~/Library/Fonts/CharterBT-Roman.font
mkdir ~/Library/Fonts/CharterBT-Bold.font
mkdir ~/Library/Fonts/CharterBT-Italic.font
mkdir ~/Library/Fonts/CharterBT-BoldItalic.font
mv c0648bt_.afm ~/Library/Fonts/CharterBT-Roman.font/CharterBT-Roman.afm
mv c0648bt_.pfb ~/Library/Fonts/CharterBT-Roman.font/CharterBT-Roman
mv c0632bt_.afm ~/Library/Fonts/CharterBT-Bold.font/CharterBT-Bold.afm
mv c0632bt_.pfb ~/Library/Fonts/CharterBT-Bold.font/CharterBT-Bold
mv c0633bt_.afm ~/Library/Fonts/CharterBT-BoldItalic.font/CharterBT-BoldItalic.afm
mv c0633bt_.pfb ~/Library/Fonts/CharterBT-BoldItalic.font/CharterBT-BoldItalic
mv c0649bt_.afm ~/Library/Fonts/CharterBT-Italic.font/CharterBT-Italic.afm
mv c0649bt_.pfb ~/Library/Fonts/CharterBT-Italic.font/CharterBT-Italic
Then build the font directory files with:
cd ~/Library/Font
buildafmdir
After this, the font will be available on applications on YOUR userid.
If you wish to make it available for all users on your machine, you will
need to place the font into /Library instead of your personal ~/Library
(you will of course need write permission to /Library to be able to do
this -- you will usually have to be root to do this).
As there are no screen bitmaps in this package, and I don't know what
format they need to be (and I'm not about to buy Adobe books just for
this) the fonts are slightly slower than the usual ones on-screen.
--
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