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From: ali@polya.Stanford.EDU (Ali T. Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: adding fonts to the font manager
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Date: 15 Jun 89 14:44:37 GMT
References: <1153@arisia.Xerox.COM>
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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