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Re: The easy way to install fonts (Re: Good NeXT ps font collection loaded to sonata!)

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From: Florian Gutzwiller
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:06
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> What FontInstaller does is to separate the afm bitmaps and outlines from  
> each font.  Is this the better way of doing it?  or is buildafmdir the  
> better way?
> 

The afm and bitnap directories are leftovers from NeXTSTEP 1.0 times. The  
FrameMaker releases up to 3.0 required these dirs to exist. I haven't seen any  
other apps with this behaviour.

-Florian
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From: flog@open.ch (Florian Gutzwiller)
Subject: Re: The easy way to install fonts (Re: Good NeXT ps font collection loaded to sonata!)
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