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From: jness@ub.d.umn.edu (Joel Ness)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Fonts on a file server?
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Date: 22 Mar 91 15:00:03 GMT
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Organization: University of Minnesota, Duluth. Information Services.
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In article <01010027.aahg2a@rumah.UUCP> oberst%rumah@Princeton.EDU writes:
>
>In article <1991Mar13.160059.4041@hoss.unl.edu>, mosemann@sardion.unl.edu (Russell Mosemann) writes:
>>    A friend of mine is interested in placing Adobe fonts for his
>> LaserWriter printers on a file server so that everyone would have access
>> to them.  (They only have 2 LaserWriters on a self-contained LocalTalk
>
>Suitcase (a commercial product) lets you do this quite nicely.  You
>can set it up to automatically access the fonts each time.  I do this
>and only have a bare-bones set of fonts in my System Folder.  I use
>ATM and the outline and 12/12 pt bitmaps of about 40 -50 fonts are
>on a server I access.  
>
One problem with doing this is that, should the network server not be
available at startup Suitcase will no longer remember to mount the fonts
on the server. You'd have to manually mount them again. 

We used to do this in one of our labs. I remember solving the problem by
locking some of the resources in the SuitCase program.

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