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- From: borris@boba.rhein-main.de (Borris Balzer)
- Subject: My old Font-Problem with NS3.0
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.103011.14674@boba.rhein-main.de>
- Sender: borris@boba.rhein-main.de
- Reply-To: borris@boba.rhein-main.de (Borris Balzer)
- Organization: Borris Balzer - DeskTopPublishing
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 10:30:11 GMT
- Lines: 42
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- Hi there,
-
- posting to other groups didn't bring any hints to solve my font-problem in an
- acteptable way (BTW: Thanks to all who answered).
-
- The problem I've got:
-
- NS2.1 installed, I used without problems fonts with the following names:
- - Garamond (the ITC Garamond)
- - AdobeGaramond
- - StempelGaramond
- - Garamond Three
- After installing NS3.0 the AdobeGaramond and StempelGaramond disappeared from
- the font panel. A second run of 'font_update_2.0' (which works in 3.0 as fine
- as in 2.1!), 'buildafmdir' and at least 'cacheAFMData' didn't fix the problem.
- The fonts were shown as existing in the shell - but that doesn't fit to
- reality!
- Using the old versions of 'font_update_2.0' and 'buildafmdir' (from NS 2.1 -
- the new 'buildafmdir' allows only to install about 256 fonts) didn't fix the
- problem, too.
- Renaming the fonts AdobeGaramond to AdobeGaramont - using the T instead of D
- and StempelGaramond to Stempel - without 'Garamond (which was indeed a hard job
- - you have to do this into the outline and afm-files, too!) the fonts were
- represented with their new names in the font panel.
- This might be only a interim fix - you get a lot of troubles in comunication
- with others (like Linotype-Services) because their fonts have the original
- names. Using the self-created new names results prints in Courier.
-
- So my question to all reading this group: Is this a known bug in NS 3.0? Does
- anybody work on it? When NS 3.1 is available? Will it be free for 3.0-users?
-
- Any suggestions to my font-problem?
- Thanks for answering.
- Merry (Ne)X(T)-mas
-
- -Borris-
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