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From: nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: FastFonts Fun
Keywords: FastFonts Problem Pearl
Message-ID: <770@cord.UUCP>
Date: 9 May 89 20:25:13 GMT
References: <4390@alvin.mcnc.org>
Reply-To: nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock)
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Organization: The Flying Squid Patrol
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In article <4390@alvin.mcnc.org> raw@mcnc.UUCP writes:
>	I have finally started experimenting with the pearl font, but I can't
>seem to install it as my system font.  I have an A1000 with the kickstart
>eliminator, so I can't put it on my kickstart disk as my default font.  I'm
>trying to use FF on it, but I can't get it to recognize.  My fonts directory
>looks like this:
>	Fonts (dir)
>		11
>		8
>	pearl.font
>
>I have tried invoking it by FF pearl.font, FF -1 pearl.font, and both times it
>gave me FF cannot open font pearl.font
[ ... ]
>other variations.  The only response I ever get is 
>
>	FF cannot open font pearl.font

Are you trying to run FF from a shell?  When I first started to play with
FF, I tried doing stuff manually from my shell (Dillon 2.11).  No go; I got
the same message you did.  What eventually worked for me was running
FF from a plain vanilla CLI.  (BTW, I use the "sharp" font that came with
the TSnip distribution some time ago).

If that isn't your problem, I'm still curious why I can't use FF from a shell.
I do recall hearing about FF being very picky about it's command line
format, but I would have guessed that the shell doesn't make it any different
from a CLI...

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