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5 total messages Started by Elmar Knipp Sun, 02 Aug 1992 16:59

#364

Author: Elmar Knipp
Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1992 16:59

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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.

The only applications which will use the new fonts is
Frame-Maker.

Elmar

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Re: Font not availible

#389

Author: Glenn Reid
Date: Wed, 05 Aug 1992 01:03

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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.
> 
> The only applications which will use the new fonts is
> Frame-Maker.

This is one of the reasons why you should buy the fonts in
NeXT format. They work, they're tested, and they're the same
price as Mac fonts.

Send mail to "fonts@rightbrain.com".  We have over 1100 fonts in NeXT
format directly from Adobe, and you can call us today and be printing
documents with them tomorrow morning.

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

Re: Font not availible

#421

Author: 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                                      
--
 Dimitri Tischenko 
 e-mail: dimitri@is.twi.tudelft.nl or dimitri@dutiws.tudelft.nl
 Delft University of Technology, Fac Applied Math & Computer Science  
 The Netherlands

Re: Font not availible

#423

Author: 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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Re: Font not availible

#685

Author: Elmar Knipp
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1992 20:26

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glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid) writes:

>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.
>> 
>> The only applications which will use the new fonts is
>> Frame-Maker.

>This is one of the reasons why you should buy the fonts in
>NeXT format. They work, they're tested, and they're the same
>price as Mac fonts.

>Send mail to "fonts@rightbrain.com".  We have over 1100 fonts in NeXT
>format directly from Adobe, and you can call us today and be printing
>documents with them tomorrow morning.

This is no solution. The error also occurs, if you copy fonts
from an other NeXT-Computer.

The solution is to delete /LocalLibrary/Fonts/.fontlist and
.fontdirectory and maybe .afmcache. Then run buildafmdir.

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

Elmar

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