Re: Adding fonts to the system

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From: Fredrik Nyman
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1992 15:22

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alex@fff.chem.utah.edu (Alex Dommasch) writes:

>How do you add fonts to the system so every user can acess them?  I
>got the free fonts from cc.orst.edu and uncompressed and untarred
>them.  Then I copied them into /LocalLibrary/Fonts.  I assumed this
>was all I had to do, but the fonts didn't show up in any application.
>I tried putting them in my own ~/Library/Fonts directory, and they
>showed up for me, but not for anyone else.

1. Make sure the font files are world readable.
2. cd to /LocalLibrary/Fonts and run
   buildafmdir

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From: ice@socrates.umd.edu (Fredrik Nyman)
Subject: Re: Adding fonts to the system
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