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In article <1992Nov5.195318.15445@leland.Stanford.EDU>  
spagiola@frinext.stanford.edu (Stefano Pagiola) writes:
> Thanks to everybody who either posted responses or emailed with  
> suggestions about installing fonts.
> 
> The following seems to work:
> 
> As root
> 1. place fonts in /LocalLibrary/Fonts
> 2. run buildafmdir /LocalLibrary/Fonts
> 3. run cacheAFMData /LocalLibrary/Fonts
> 4. make sure all the permissions are set so that everybody can read  
> both the .font file _and_ the files inside the .font folder; eg
> 	drwxr-xr-x  2 root        1024 Feb  8  1992 Alison.font/
> and
> 	-rw-r--r--  1 root       48588 Jan  8  1992 Alison
> 	-rw-r--r--  1 root        6597 Oct  8 00:28 Alison.afm
> 	-rw-r-----  1 root         979 Jan  8  1992 Alison.readme
> The following ensures that the permissions are correct:
> 	chmod uog+r /LocalApps/Fonts/*.font/*
> 
> The permissions problem in step 4 in particular seems to be something  
> that many people have run into (it was my problem).  
> 
> You can also do all this as yourself, if you place the fonts in  
> ~/Library/Fonts.
> 
> Once again, let me express my opinion that a 4-step procedure using  
> obscure command-line commands is most definitely NOT the NeXTSTEP way  
> of doing things.  I can just see the Apple ads from here:
> 
>    Installing fonts:
>      The EASY way (simple drag operation)...
>      and the NeXT way (drag font in folder, start terminal,
>          execute obscure Unix commands)
> 
> C'mon folks...
> --

That's why we created the Font Installer module in MetroTools. It does  
steps 1-3 and also extracts Mac fonts from Mac resource forks (plus a few  
other clean-ups).

Gordon

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