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From: nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: System 7.0b4: Problems installing fonts
Message-ID: <51858@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 23 Apr 91 06:10:46 GMT
References: <1991Apr22.083340.26099@ulrik.uio.no>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <1991Apr22.083340.26099@ulrik.uio.no> Bjorn.Ness@usit.uio.no writes:
>
>Trying to install extra fonts by dragging fonts into the System
>Folder gives the following error message:
>
>   The Name "Fontname" is already taken. Please use a
>   different name.
>
>Fontname is the name on one font which is already in the System
>File or about to be installed. Afterwards no other fonts (or
>anything else) can be installed in the System File. Also the
>System File can not be opened, and has to be replaced by a fresh 
>one. 
>
>This occured several times with different fonts. The fonts in
>question is Adobe fonts (Linotype Library), the system is 7.0b4
>with no other inits or DA+s then those who follows System 7.0b4.

  This is due to a bug in the new Mover (not Font/DA Mover) code which has
been fixed.

  -- Dean Yu
     Blue Meanie, Negative Ethnic Role Model, etc.
     Apple Computer, Inc.
     My opinions and so on and so forth...