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From: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: couple of questions...
Message-ID: <409@heaven.woodside.ca.us>
Date: 6 Feb 91 17:01:04 GMT
References: <8006@plains.NoDak.edu>
Reply-To: glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid)
Organization: RightBrain Software, Woodside, CA
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In article <8006@plains.NoDak.edu> cooper@plains.NoDak.edu (Jeff Cooper) writes:
>I've got a couple of questions about my new NeXTstation...
>
>1) I went and got some of the fonts from nova.cc.purdue.edu and installed
>   them in /LocalLibrary/Fonts and when I log onto my account, I can use
>   the fonts without any trouble but whenever someone else is on, they get
>   the list of fonts but WriteNow says that they are unuseable...any ideas
>   why??

The fonts are probably not readable by the other users.  Make sure that
the directory (like Helvetica.font) is readable and executable, and
make sure that the contents (Helvetica.afm, etc) are readable by the
other users (either world readable or by a group that they're in).

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