Re: Font not availible

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From: Andrew Loewenstern
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 00:49

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In article <1970@dutiws.tudelft.nl> dimitri@dutiws.tudelft.nl (Dimitri Tischenko) writes:
>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 :-)


Adobe's AFM files are freely distributable.  In fact, you can have the
AFM files for the complete Adobe library mailed to you via Adobe's
mail server.


andrew
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Subject: Re: Font not availible
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