Unusable fonts

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From: Ray Ghanbari
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 21:25

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Hi All,

Does anyone have a good idea how unusable font come about?  NeXTanswers  
PostScript.746 is less that illuminating.

On one of our systems, the Symbol font has recently become <<Unusable>>  
when brought up in a font panel.  We do not install new fonts in  
/NextLibrary/Fonts so the bug described in NeXTansweres does not apply.   
Moreover, the fix suggested in PS.746 (removing the .afmcache, .fontlist,  
and .fontdirectory files, moving a font out of the folder then back in,  
and launching Edit) does not make the font usable again either.   
Unfortunately, afterwards none of the default fonts that ship with the  
system show up in the font panel.

If anyone has some experience dealing with this problem, I would  
appreciate hearing about it.  My users are getting a bit tired of me  
telling them to use the machine next door.

Thanks

  Ray Ghanbari                   |                                 
  (617) 253-0723                 | "Talkin' bout a revolution..."  
  ray@mtl.mit.edu (NeXTmail OK)  |

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