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Article #4351Good NeXT ps font collection loaded to sonata!
From: Otto J. Makela
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:49
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, -- /* * * Otto J. Makela <otto@jyu.fi> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ /* Phone: +358 41 613 847, BBS: +358 41 211 562 (V.32bis/USR-HST,24h/d) */ /* Mail: Kauppakatu 1B18/SF-40100 Jyvaskyla/Finland, ICBM: 62.14N25.44E */ /* * * Computers Rule 01001111 01001011 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc,comp.sys.next.software,comp.fonts Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!network.jyu.fi!tukki!otto From: otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) Subject: Good NeXT ps font collection loaded to sonata! Message-ID: <OTTO.92Dec14184942@tukki.jyu.fi> Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc Sender: otto@jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) Organization: The Crimson Permanent Assurance Company Distribution: comp Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:49:42 GMT Lines: 46