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Hello out there,

Only a few answers reached me to my question about  fonts in NS 3.0. Again and  
short the problem: After upgrading to NS 3.0 fonts disapeared from my  
font-panel which were using NS 2.1 usuable without any problems. In my case it  
were only Garamonds. The two first installed font families were shown at the  
panel (and were usuable) - the second installed Garamonds were not (at my site  
this happened to ITC Garamond, Stempel Garamond, AdobeGaramond and Gramond  
Three).

Two answers seems to be represented here:

1. The 'new' buildafmdir from NS 3.0 allows only to install 256 fonts.
   Workaround: Using the 'old' buildafmdir from NS 2.1.
   (special thanks to Rob Parkhill <rob@hobbes.cuc.ab.ca> and d'Art Computer
   at Kiel/Germany).

2. Consequently giving the fonts new names (within the afm- and outline-files,
   too!) and then running 'buildafmdir' becomes an internal solution.
   For example:
   AGaramond will be renamed to AGaramont (using the T at the end). Do that
   inside the afms and outline, too! After running 'buildafmdir' a font named
   AGaramont appears in the font panel and is usuable.
   To send PS-files to other computers you have to use the option 'defined
   printer/incl. fonts' at the save-menue (I actually don't know the English
   pop-up-menue-lines - it's the third from above). This causes for example a
   Linotype not to use the built-in fonts but those which are now presented
   in the PS-file (unfortunally this doesn't work with FrameMaker).
   (Special thanks to lbrahm@denver.cba.du.edu (Lans_Brahmantyo))

Especially the second workaround isn't a very well one IMHO and insn't worth  
for a machine, which ist in all other features great. But it works ...
It might be that there is another NeXTer who knows more about. Sending a mail  
to me would be great! Furthermore for me there's only hope to NS 3.1 - which  
should be shipped without any costs to the users ...

Thanks to: -> Tim Wasko <tim@dogcow.cuc.ab.ca>, -> Rob Parkhill  
<rob@hobbes.cuc.ab.ca>, -> Otto J. Makela <otto@jyu.fi> (No NeXT Mail), -> Paul  
Lynch <paul@seer.demon.co.uk>, -> Gerhard_Moeller <gemoe@proximus.north.de>, ->  
henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton), -> Michael Ross  
<mross@antigone.uu.holonet.net>, -> lbrahm@denver.cba.du.edu (Lans_Brahmantyo).

Merry (Ne)X(T)-mas and so on
-Borris-
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