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reading any further. NEWS, SPEED, and Type 1 fonts are
worth the upgrade.
Ready? This is going to be simple... especially if you have
ever tried installing F3 fonts in Solaris 1!
1. First, you’ll need to create a directory to install the
fonts in. Let’s say “/Fonts”. So the first step is to
create the directory “/Fonts,” and a place to keep
the “.afm” (Adobe Font Metrics) files that go with
them.
# cd /
# mkdir Fonts
# cd Fonts
# mkdir afm
2. Copy the font file to the directory you just created
(/Fonts)
# cp SpiffyFont.ps /Fonts
Make sure that the file ends in a “.ps”, or you will not be
able to download the font to the printer when you print.
3. Next you need to copy the “.afm” file to where the
system can access it.
# cp SpiffyFont.afm /Fonts/afm
The font files are now in all the right places.
4. Now for the really hard part. Run the Console
(command tool) and you’ll run a system utility that
will set up some things that OpenWindows needs in
order to use the fonts correctly. This utility
is “bldfamily,” and is part of the OpenWindows
distribution. For more information on this program,
refer to your system documentation.
# cd /Fonts
# bldfamily -d.
What “bldfamily” does is create a list of all of the fonts in
this directory and places it in the file “Families.List.”
OpenWindows needs this file to correctly use the fonts
that you’ve installed, so don't delete it. The “-d.” that we
Fontographer User's Manual
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