Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!shelby!msi.umn.edu!noc.MR.NET!gacvx2.gac.edu!gacvx2.gac.edu!scott From: scott@erick.gac.edu (Scott Hess) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Fonts Message-ID: Date: 20 Feb 91 09:31:32 GMT References: Organization: Gustavus Adolphus College Lines: 39 Nntp-Posting-Host: erick.gac.edu In-reply-to: ersys!drin@nro.cs.athabascau.ca's message of 20 Feb 91 06:32:52 GMTLines: 39 In article ersys!drin@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Adrian Smith) writes: If this has been answered before, I apologize... I don't think it has. Once I have FontCollection2.0 installed as per the included Makefile, how do I make the fonts accessible to my apps? Every time I try and use one of the new fonts from within WriteNow or Ed (to name two examples), I get << unaccessible font >>. What am I doing wrong? Where'd you install them? We had some similar problems, as we were playing with a weirder installation (removing some of them, moving others elsewhere, etc). The evenual solution turned out to be to run buildafmdir on the directory. Apparently, this should be done anytime you do anything to the directory, just to be safe. This builds caches for locations of various font data, I believe, so that the Font Panel doesn't have to build them itself for every application. I'm not sure what needs to be done then for stuff to work. Best solution would obviously be to log out and then back in. Try it without logging out, I suppose - you can always log out if that doesn't work :-). On the subject of fonts, is there any reason why the afm directory under /NextLibrary/Fonts in 2.0 has symbolic links to all the existing .afm files? What does this do? Best bet is that it eases access for the Font object, which does a certain amount of afm-handling, I believe. I'm sort of unsure on this, too, as there's apparently no afm directory needed for the pd fonts. Later, -- scott hess scott@gac.edu Independent NeXT Developer GAC Undergrad "Tried anarchy, once. Found it had too many constraints . . ." "Buy `Sweat 'n wit '2 Live Crew'`, a new weight loss program by Richard Simmons . . ." Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com