Bjorn.Ness@usit.uio.no (04/22/91)
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.
nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu) (04/23/91)
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...
ech@cbnewsk.att.com (ned.horvath) (04/23/91)
From article <51858@apple.Apple.COM>, by nerm@Apple.COM (Dean Yu): > 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 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... Well, there's still something weird in 7.0f2. I installed 7.0f2 over a 6.0.5 system, after first caching my 7.0b4 System file. When I tried to open the OLD System from the Finder (to pull out the goodies I'd installed there), I got the same diagnostic, complaining about a font in the OLD but not in the NEW System. Chalk this up to incompatibilities between b4 and f2. Or, it's a bug. Or, future system installers (7.0.1?) will know how to install over 7.0 and I won't have to do this. BTW, nothing was damaged. I was able to use ResEdit 2.1 to move the fonts (including the TT fonts) from the old system into a FFIL/FMOV I created on the spot from ResEdit. I was then able to use the Finder by-the-book to install those fonts into the new System. =Ned Horvath= ehorvath@attmail.com ehorvath@applelink.apple.com