FONT_UPDATE_2.0
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 14, 1990
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NAME
font_update_2.0 - updates PostScript fonts for 2.0 WindowServer
SYNOPSIS
/usr/bin/font_update_2.0
[
librarydir
...
]
DESCRIPTION
font_update_2.0
is a C shell script used to reorganize NEXTSTEP
font directories from NEXTSTEP Release 1.0 style
to NEXTSTEP Release 2.0 (and later) style.
Fonts in NEXTSTEP
exist in three subdirectories:
/NextLibrary/Fonts,
/LocalLibrary/Fonts,
and
~/Library/Fonts.
Previously, each PostScript font had its component files split into
three subdirectories (outline, bitmap, and afm).
Now, all of the
information for a given font is stored in a single subdirectory
called
<fontname>.font.
For example, in the new scheme, an ls of
/NextLibrary/Fonts will give:
Courier-Bold.font
Courier-BoldOblique.font
Courier-Oblique.font
Courier.font
Helvetica-Bold.font
<etc>
This new structure allows fonts to be simply maintained using the
Workspace.
This shell script builds this new structure for whatever fonts
exist in the
<dir>/Fonts/outline
directory. If no argument is
passed,
~/Library
is used.
font_update_2.0
also leaves behind symbolic links
for the old style, allowing older appkits and applications that rely
on the old font organization to work. The WindowServer itself supports
both organizations.
EXAMPLES
Root should do the following during a 2.0 update:
>font_update_2.0 /NextLibrary /LocalLibrary
Users with fonts in ~/Library should do the following to update their
personal fonts (most people don't have any):
>font_update_2.0
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- EXAMPLES
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