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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: FIXFONTS does weird!!??
Message-ID: <973@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 19 Mar 91 10:44:36 GMT
References: <120.27E458D8@weyr.FIDONET.ORG>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <120.27E458D8@weyr.FIDONET.ORG> David.Plummer@f70.n140.z1.FIDONET.ORG (David Plummer) writes:
>This sounds like (and is) a very silly question, but:  just what does
>FixFonts accopmplish, and who needs to run it?

For every font, you have a "name.font" file in the fonts: dir plus a
"name" dir in fonts: and in that dir you find the different font sizes
as numbered files. Now the "name.font" file is sort of a contents file
for that very font. If you add a new size by copying an additional file
into the "name" dir, then the file "name.font" should know about that
change, and this is what FixFonts does for you. It scans through the
available font sizes and updates the contents files accordingly.
It is a good idea to run FixFonts whenever you copied some fonts files
into your fonts: directory.

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