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- Release 0.85, 07.03.1995 by Thomas Engel (tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org)
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- 1 The FontSearch Preferences Modul
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- ATTENTION..you need gnutar and gzip to unpack this package.
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- Ever wondered how to deal with 1000 Postscript fonts under NeXTSTEP
- ? The Font Panel is not too smart at limiting itself or organizing
- the fonts so that you can easily find the one you are looking for.
- But NeXTSTEP comes with a simple mechanism to ease your life. The
- NXFontsPaths dwrite is a simple way to tell the system which font
- folder you want to use.
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- The FontSearch Preferences modul is the easiest way to handle this
- task. It does all the nasty work for you.
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- What it does
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- FontSearch allows you to drag&drop certain font directories into
- the icon well. If the path is absent it will be added to the list of
- known FontSearchPaths. To really use a font path you have to
- activate (double-click) it inside the browser.
- Active paths will be normal, deactivated paths will be displayed
- in italic.
- Clicking the "Set" button will store all the changes into the systems
- database. Using "Recahe" will do the same but also will rebuild all
- the cached font information. This is necessary if you have added
- fonts to some path.
- Just use the FontSearch modul whenever you only have added a font
- and want to use it right away...without logging out of the system
- and in again.
- Usually NeXTSTEP does that automagically for you but if you find
- some fonts are missing…just "Recache" it.
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- A useful way of organizing your fonts is to have directories for
- certain font vendors. Besides them you might maintain other dirs
- (e.g. NiceFonts, Advertising, BookFonts, etc.) where you symbolically
- link all your frequently used fonts to. There should be no problem
- having one font at two locations. This method allows you to pick
- certain fonts according to the task you are doing.
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- Remember that only applications that get started after the settings
- have been done will be affected by the changes ! So quit and restart
- the apps if you want to use a different set of fonts.
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- The Package
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- Version 0.85 comes in a package that includes:
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- - FontSearch.preferences. A FAT bundle for NeXT and Intel
- hardware.
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- - Localization for the English and German language.
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- - Full sourcecode.
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- - The documentation and an ASCII version (README) of this
- introduction.
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- On where to find the latest releases please see the 'About this
- Project' section.
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- Features
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- This app does all the necessary work to control your systemwide
- font path settings.
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- - Add all the font directory you have on your system by
- drag&drop.
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- - Activate, deactivate or remove certain paths.
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- - See the currently active paths.
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- - Trigger a system update where all afm caches get updated.
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- About this Project
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- This bundle was mainly developed to ease the work of a publisher
- I know personally. It really was nice to see how simple it was to
- write Preference moduls (1 day of coding). I don't see any reasons
- for enhancements but if you think something is missing...let me know.
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- The latest version of this bundle will be available at the
- ftp.informatik.uni-muenchen.de, ftp.cs.orst.edu or
- ftp.nmr.embl-heidelberg.de anonymous ftp servers. There also is a
- WWW page were you can find out more about the status of this...and
- all the other projects I'm working on. It can be found under the
- projects section of:
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- http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/user/tsengel/
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- This version includes all the source code necessary to recompile
- the program from scratch. You either need a installed version of
- the MiscKit project (Version 1.4.0 or higher) or create a link
- inside the bundles main source directory that points to itself and
- is called misckit (ln -s . misckit). This ensures that all the
- headers can be found.
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- For more details on the MiscKit collection see the common NeXT ftp
- servers or get the Objective-C or NeXT FAQs. If you would like to
- submit something to this collection you should contact: Don Yacktman
- <don@darth.byu.edu>
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- In Case of Trouble
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- If you have any questions you can contact me.
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- Thomas Engel
- Netpunstr. 9
- D-90522 Oberasbach
- Germany
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- E-mail: tsengel@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de
- tomi@shinto.nbg.sub.org
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- (NeXTMail welcome)
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- Warranty and copyright
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- Copyleft
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- Source code that is not part of the MiscKit project - and therefore
- underlies the MiscKit distribution and copyright rules - is
- distributed under the GNUpublic license.
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- You are free to extend and modify this bundle. But don't
- redistribute a modified version under the same name unless I gave
- you the permission. I don't want to have different, confusingly
- incompatible versions running around the world.
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- Anyway...comments are highly appreciated.
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- No Warranty
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- This software is provided 'as is' and the programmer is not
- responsible for any harm this program may cause. You - the user -
- are responsible for everything that may happen to your business,
- hardware, software, car, CD collection or what ever may be worth
- your attention or money. Using this product is at your own risk
- and your private fun.
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- There should be no serious bugs inside but remember that a carbon-based
- unit did the coding.
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- TravelWare
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- Like all my projects this app is free and should be considered as
- travel-ware.
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- 1. Let it travel to as many people as you know.
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- 2. Send me a postcard or E-mail if you use it. I will try to
- keep you informed about new releases.
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- 3. If you have a free bed or some free space on your floor... give
- me a hint. I might come and visit you on my trip to the US
- (locations on Hawaii, near Seattle or WhistlerMnt. (Canada)
- preferred)
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- Enjoy it.
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- Tomi
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