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Date: Sun 14-Jun-1989 20:13:00 From: Unknown Subject: adding fonts to the font manager has anyone managed to add fonts and have them appear in the font panel? i put afm and outline fonts in ~Library/Fonts/, and can use them from postscript code, but they don't appear in the font panel and rtf files that refer to them aren't understood by Edit or WriteNow. the "adding fonts" section of usernotes/fonts.wn says "<<information to come>>"... .mike. >From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Date: Sun 15-Jun-1989 14:44:37 From: Unknown Subject: Re: adding fonts to the font manager In article <1153@arisia.Xerox.COM> mdixon@kanga.UUCP (Mike Dixon) writes: >has anyone managed to add fonts and have them appear in the font panel? >i put afm and outline fonts in ~Library/Fonts/, and can use them from >postscript code, but they don't appear in the font panel and rtf files >that refer to them aren't understood by Edit or WriteNow. You will need to run the "buildafmdir" program after adding fonts to a directory in the fonts path. buildafmdir rebuilds the ".fontdirectory" file in the directory, and this is where the FontPanel gets it font information from. So, if you add fonts to ~/Library/Fonts, do buildafmdir ~/Library/Fonts Note that the 0.9 WriteNow doesn't properly deal with fonts other than those provided with the system (although the new fonts are listed in the Font Panel); and FrameMaker (in the Demos directory) doesn't look at the fonts directories at all, building its font list from a static list. Ali Ozer, NeXT Developer Support aozer@NeXT.com >From: langz@asylum.SF.CA.US (Lang Zerner)
Date: Sun 15-Jun-1989 14:51:16 From: Unknown Subject: Re: adding fonts to the font manager First, I suggest you contact NeXT Technical Services and request a copy of the document, "Fonts in NextStep(R)." This presents a good discussion of adding fonts to the NextStep environment. Second, the 0.9 version of WriteNow does not work with additional fonts. This bug is unfortunate. There is one step that you're missing though. After you install your new fonts in /LocalLibrary/Fonts or ~/Library/Fonts you will need to run a program from any shell prompt to update the Font Panel. /usr/bin/buildafmdir ~/Library/Fonts , or /usr/bin/buildafmdir /LocalLibrary/Fonts as the case may be. Once you've installed all of the necessary font files and run the above program, try running Edit. It uses the Font Panel properly. Hope this helps. ROB BABCOCK * Product Marketing Manager * Adobe Systems Incorporated babcock@adobe.com Mountain View, CA 94039 ===========+==============+==============+===============+=============== >From: jmunkki@kampi.hut.fi (Juri Munkki)
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