Re: Font not availible

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From: Dimitri Tischenko
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 1992 16:28

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In article <1992Aug2.165952.2876@knipp.en.open.de> elmar@knipp.en.open.de (Elmar Knipp) writes:
>I copied some Fonts from my MAC to the NeXT and installed
>them in /LocalLibrary/Fonts. But when I want to use the fonts, the
>font panel always says: "Unusable Font".
>
>The files are ok (converted with mfrc to ascii-readable), 
>the permisssions and owner are ok, buildafmdir works ok.

Converting fonts with mfrc is not enough. For each Type 1 font file,
NeXT needs a .afm file also. mfrc doesn't create this file for you.
You'll have to use another (probably commercial) utility or make an
.afm file yourself. If you have access to a Sun workstation, you
surely can violate some more copyrights and copy a couple of .afm
files from /usr/openwin/lib/fonts/adm :-)

Dimitri                                      
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 Dimitri Tischenko 
 e-mail: dimitri@is.twi.tudelft.nl or dimitri@dutiws.tudelft.nl
 Delft University of Technology, Fac Applied Math & Computer Science  
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From: dimitri@dutiws.tudelft.nl (Dimitri Tischenko)
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Subject: Re: Font not availible
Summary: don't forget the afm file!
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Date: 9 Aug 92 16:28:56 GMT
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