Unusable fonts

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2 total messages Started by Ray Ghanbari Fri, 31 Jul 1992 21:25

#340

Author: 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)  |

Re: Unusable fonts

#354

Author: Glenn Reid
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1992 00:55

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Ray Ghanbari writes

> 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.

The most common cause of this is that the AFM file cannot be parsed for
whatever reason.  Since the file is one of the system fonts (Symbol),
either the permissions changed somehow or the file got corrupted.

I'd recommend copying Symbol.font from another machine and making sure
all the preferences are set identically to the other fonts, then proceeding
with the rest of the NeXTanswers steps of removing .afmcache, .font*, and
running "buildafmdir" (or whatever it is that they suggest).

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 Glenn Reid        		NeXTmail: glenn@rightbrain.com
 RightBrain Software		415-326-2974 (NeXTfax 326-2977)
 Palo Alto, California

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