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Re: Adding fonts to the system - SUMMARY

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From: Paul Lynch
Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 21:03

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In article <1992Nov3.172604.20721@fcom.cc.utah.edu> alex@fff.chem.utah.edu  
(Alex Dommasch) writes:
> I want to thank all the people who responded, both by news and by mail.   
Many  
> people suggested I try "buildafmdir /LocalLibrary/Fonts", which did  
cause them  
> to show up in the font panel, but as "unusable" fonts.  It turns out  
(thanks to  
> all of you for this advice) that you then have to run               
> "cacheAFMData /LocalLibrary/Fonts".  When I did this all the fonts  
showed up  
> and were usable.  (You know, it seems kind of silly that you have to do  
all  
> this just to put a new font in /LocalLibrary, when it's done  
automatically for  
> certain other directories.)

There is a NeXTanswer on this, I believe.  The above method works, but  
note that it is advisable to delete the hidden font inofrmation cache  
files in the /LocalLibrary/Fonts directory first.

The NeXTanswer says to do something that updates the modifed date on the  
Fonts directory, then launch an application with a font panel, and call up  
the font panel.  This is much more NeXT-like.

Paul
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