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Re: Making downloaded fonts permanent -- how?

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From: Jos Vos
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 19:49
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In article <1992Sep1.175050.8814@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu> bruno@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (Bruno Hall) writes:

>I've read the faq, which describes methods for getting rid of "sticky"
>fonts.  I'm having the opposite problem; when the PFA file is sent to
>the printer, the first ^D that comes along nukes the downloaded font.

Put the following line in front of the PFA file:

	0 serverdict begin exitserver

I never looked up whether this is the "official" method, but it works...

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From: jos@bull.nl (Jos Vos)
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Subject: Re: Making downloaded fonts permanent -- how?
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Date: 2 Sep 92 19:49:21 GMT
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