Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!emory!att!iuvax!valnet!joseph From: joseph@valnet.UUCP (Joseph P. Hillenburg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: .font files Keywords: font .font files Message-ID: Date: 14 Oct 90 23:20:20 GMT References: <1990Oct14.050607.3689@isis.cs.du.edu> Organization: Valley BBS Network Lines: 38 bscott@isis.cs.du.edu (Ben Scott) writes: > I'm formatting and installing software on a client's new HD, and have > run into a problem with the large number of fonts he wants on there. > I'm putting everything in SYS:Fonts (FONTS:) for convenience (this > drive is 320 megs so for now at least he has space to spare), but in > a few cases this is proving difficult. For example, he has many > disks full of Kara fonts (as do I, but mine have to stay on floppy...) > and some of the disks have the same fonts as other disks but in > different sizes... well, I want them in the same directory, but the > .font files are not the same and if I just choose one to put in, programs > can't find the other fonts. For example, one disk has Brick 89 and 105, > and another has 55 and 72 (or whatever). I put them all in FONTS:Brick > and put brick.font from the first disk in FONTS:, and DPaint III or > other programs only see 89 and 105, and can't access 55 and 72. > > So... after reading all this, someone please tell me how to fix the > .font files? And please don't tell me there's a utility on the Extras > disk or something which does this because I shall be horribly embarrassed > if there is. > > . <<<>>> > > -- > |Ben Scott, professional goof-off and consultant at The Raster Image, Denver| > |FIDO point address 1:104/421.2, bscott@nyx.cs.du.edu, or BBS (303)424-9831 | > |"Quantum Mechanics: The dreams that || The Raster Image IS responsible for| > | stuff is made of..." - Michael Sinz || everything I say! ** Amiga Power**| On the Workbench disk, in the System drawer, there is a program (I firget the name - never used it) that fixes this and automatically updated your FONTS: dir. -Joseph Hillenburg UUCP: ...iuvax!valnet!joseph ARPA: valnet!joseph@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu INET: joseph@valnet.UUCP