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Good NeXT ps font collection loaded to sonata!

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From: Otto J. Makela
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:49
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I've uploaded this PostScript font collection to sonata.cc.purdue.edu,
directory /pub/next/submissions/Font

There are a large number of fonts available at ftp sites, but they rarely
have been set up properly for NeXT machines nor are they often fully
PostScript type 1 compatible.  The usual situation is a bunch of randomly
named files with incorrect font names in the afm file and only partially
or erroneously encoded character sets.  I don't like this.  So I downloaded
a huge pile of fonts and sifted thru them searching for correct fonts.
Unfortunately, not many freely available fonts are "perfect", but here is
a reasonably large collection of them (about 1M compressed, 1.8M opened).

To use one font under NeXTstep 2.2, chdir to ~/Library/Fonts (make it if you
don't yet have it) and do the command:
	zcat Font-whatever.tar.Z | tar xf -
for each font you wish to install, then execute the commands:
	buildafmdir
	cacheAFMData .
If you have root access on your machine, you can install these fonts to
the /LocalLibrary/Fonts in a similar way to give access to all your users.

The fonts included in these packages are:
	ArnoldBoecklin-ExtraBold
	Baskerville-Normal
	Baskerville-Bold
	Baskerville-Italic
	Blippo-Heavy
	Bodoni-Normal
	Bodoni-Bold
	Bodoni-Italic
	Brush-Script-Italic
	Cooper-Heavy
	Garamond-Normal
	Garamond-Medium-Italic
	Goudy-Old-Style-Normal
	Goudy-Old-Style-Bold
	Goudy-Old-Style-Italic
	ParkAvenue-Normal
	Slogan-Normal

Happy Hacking,
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