cc3z+@andrew.cmu.edu (Christopher N. Carlson) (06/10/91)
It seemed to be common knowledge that Doug Brenner has compiled two
packages of NeXT fonts, one public-domain, one shareware, which are
available at ftp site nova.cc.purdue.edu as Fonts-1.0-free.tar.Z and
Fonts-2.0-sw.tar.Z in directory pub/next/misc.
This information and much more was also available in the Spring '91
issue of NeXT on Campus, a source I didn't think to check out. No one
responded with information on fonts other than those in these two
packages. (There is, however, another package, CyrillicGothic.pkg.tar,
at the same archive site.)
Brenner's font collections did not work on my machine running system 2.0
(with *any* program) without the fix supplied in item 7 of this
compilation of advice:
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From: dbrenner@sparta.weeg.uiowa.edu (Doug Brenner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Font Collections - Problems & Solutions
Date: 9 Feb 91 01:18:42 GMT
Organization: U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
A few folks have mailed me directly and a few have posted about various
problems, etc., with Font Collection 1.0 and 2.0. I just wanted to send
out a general note with a few fixes (I hope) in case others are having
similar problems.
1. Don't install the fonts in /NextLibrary/Fonts. I believe you will find
trying to do so painful, but this is only my opinion.
2. If you install the fonts as root, make sure you change the INSTALLDIR
macro in the Makefile to /LocalLibrary/Fonts. If it is not changed,
the fonts will be installed in /Library/Fonts and only root will be
able to see the fonts. (The Makefile has $(HOME)/Library/Fonts by
default and what does $(HOME) turn into for root?) I'm sorry I didn't
check for this condition and it has caused problems.
3. If you install the fonts in /LocalLibrary/Fonts, make sure they are
accessable by everyone. This was something I should have included in
the Makefile, sorry. These commands should help:
chmod -R a+rX /LocalLibrary/Fonts
chmod a+r /LocalLibrary/Fonts/.afmcache
chmod a+r /LocalLibrary/Fonts/.fontdirectory
chmod a+r /LocalLibrary/Fonts/.fontlist
4. Several people have told me BenjaminCaps is broken. I thought I tried
all the fonts prior to sending them out, but this one seems to have
escaped me. (It still seems to work for me, but I believe those who
have reported problems with it. Delete it.)
5. A few folks have asked about using these fonts with non-NeXT PostScript
printers. My access is currently limited to a NeXT printer, hence I
cannot give you good information. You might, however, look at the
'fontloader' utility. (It has a UNIX manual page, so either man or the
Digital Librarian will find it for you.)
6. Some versions of FrameMaker (under NeXTStep 2.0) don't seem to work with
these fonts; FrameMaker core dumps. This has been verified with my demo
copy (2.0B2-V) and by David Randall who is using FrameMaker 2.0d.
I believe FrameMaker does not "play by the rules". I support this by
pointing out that:
o Edit, WriteNow and other applications seem to work with these fonts.
o FrameMaker does not use the standard Font Panel.
o The Lexi font shows up in FrameMaker as a valid font choice. (At
least in my demo version it does.)
o The "fix" below seems to make FrameMaker happpy. (This duplicates
what NeXT did in /NextLibrary/Fonts.)
(I do not want to start a flamefest over this issue. As far as I know,
FrameMaker is a very nice and usable product. It just has a problem here.)
Save this shell script into a file (say FixFrameMaker),
make it executable (chmod +x FixFrameMaker), and
run it AFTER the fonts have been installed (FixFrameMaker).
Doing this will make it difficult to run buildafmdir against the location
where you installed the fonts. I don't have a better solution if you
wish to run FrameMaker with these fonts.
I hope that clears up any problems you may have had. Good luck! -dcb
==
Doug Brenner <dbrenner@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu>
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#! /bin/sh
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# FixFrameMaker -- create afm and outline font links so FrameMaker works
#
# Copyright (c) 1991 Doug Brenner
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
# any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA, or send
# electronic mail to the the author.
#
# FrameMaker doesn't seem to "play by the rules" when it comes to using
# fonts under NeXT Software Release 2.0. The new font structure seems
# to work for everything except FrameMaker. (At least I have no reports
# of other problems yet.)
#
# This procedure seaches for font directories within INSTALLDIR (see below)
# and creates links to the enclosed outline and afm files. The links are
# placed in ${INSTALLDIR}/outline and ${INSTALLDIR}/afm.
#
# This procedure assumes you installed FontCollection-1.0 or 2.0 using the
# 'make install2.0' procedure. (If you typed 'make install' and you are
# running Software Release 2.0, install2.0 should have been done for you.)
#
# Please note this procedure only does the afm and outline files. It does
# not do screen bitmaps or screen afm files. Only one font (TechPhonetic)
# had these components anyway.
#
# Doug Brenner <dbrenner@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu>
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Where the fonts were installed. Valid choices are /LocalLibrary/Fonts and
# ~/Library/Fonts. (Again, I'd suggest against using /NextLibrary/Fonts.)
INSTALLDIR=~/Library/Fonts
# Command to collect all the font names in INSTALLDIR. DO NOT CHANGE.
FONTS=`(cd ${INSTALLDIR}; ls -d *.font | sed 's/\.font$//')`
mkdirs ${INSTALLDIR}/afm ${INSTALLDIR}/outline
echo "Creating afm and outline links so bad FrameMaker will work..."
for i in ${FONTS}; \
do echo $i; \
cd ${INSTALLDIR}/outline; ln -s ../$i.font/$i $i
cd ${INSTALLDIR}/afm; ln -s ../$i.font/$i.afm $i.afm
done
echo ""
echo "FrameMaker should now work. You may find, however, that running"
echo "buildafmdir ${INSTALLDIR} will cause errors."
echo "This is not a problem unless you install new fonts again."