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

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From: Garance A. Drosehn
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:24

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sears@tree.egr.uh.edu (Paul S. Sears) writes:
> I guess that everyone misunderstood my question.  I know how to use  
> buildafmdir and cacheAFMData to install new fonts.  I also know about  
> FontInstaller.app from Adobe.  Apparently they do not do exactly the same  
> thing, because after I install fonts with FontInstaller.app, the following  
> directories are created:
> 
> afm
> bitmap
> outline

If you look at those directories, they just contain links over to the files  
in the xxx.font directory of each font.  The only reason for these  
directories, I believe, is that this is the way font's were done in a  
previous release of NeXTSTEP (release 1.0, I imagine).  If you're running  
release 2.x or 3.0, then these three extra directores are not used by  
anything.

The Font installer creates the directories simply in case there's some  
earlier NeXT which will be looking at those fonts.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn     =     gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu
ITS Systems Programmer            (handles NeXT-type mail)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;           Troy NY    USA

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