Re: More Font installation troubles

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From: Allen B
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 18:56

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In article <1992Nov5.020444.24718@leland.Stanford.EDU>  
spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola) writes:
> As root, I placed them in /LocalApps/Fonts, then ran buildafmdir and  
> cacheAFMData on that directory.  All the fonts appeared in the font  
> panel and seemed to work (ie would preview) when I tried as root.
> 
> After logging out and then back in as a regular user, all the fonts  
> were still in the font panel, but most (not all) were marked  
> unusable.

Yes, by default, I've noticed, the permissions on the
files created by buildafmdir are wrong.  chmod 644 all the
'.' files in your font directories and see if that works. 
It did for me.  

ab

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