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Re: Adding fonts to the system - SUMMARY

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From: Gordon Van Huizen
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 18:02
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In article <1992Nov5.210349.1740@seer.demon.co.uk> paul@seer.demon.co.uk  
(Paul Lynch) writes:
> 
> 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.
> 

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to work in all cases anymore - in particular  
I believe it doesn't work when installing new fonts into  
/LocalLibray/Fonts.

Doing it "by hand" (or "by MetroTools" :-) is much more bulletproof.

Gordon

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From: gvh@metrosoft.com (Gordon Van Huizen)
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Subject: Re: Adding fonts to the system - SUMMARY
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