New paths for fonts (bug in NXFontsPaths)

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From: Gerald Erdmann
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 11:04

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Hi everybody out there,

I have a little problem with making my own font paths with NeXTstep 3.0.
Hopefully somebody could help me or knows somebody who can do it (at NeXT?).

What's the problem?

I want to place fonts in others directories than /NextLibrary/Fonts, /LocalLibrary/Fonts or ~/Fonts. So after making a new font directory and
calling buildafmdir I changed the default setting NXFontPaths in GLOBAL
(see GeneralRef). That works fine.

if you open any font panel all fonts appears but only by there name. That
meens I can select all fonts but if I try to preview them or want to work
with them only the system default font (Courier) appears. :-(

Only fonts placed in the dafault path work correctly. I guess either I have to
change something else or this is a bug forgetting to adapt everything
correctly.

Is there somebody out there who could help me, also please send comments
directly to me. Thanks ..

Gerald Erdmann (erdnuss@cs.tu-berlin.de   no NeXT-mail please)

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From: erdnuss@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Gerald Erdmann)
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Subject: New paths for fonts (bug in NXFontsPaths)
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