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Subject: Ugly fonts...solution
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Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 12:33:12 -0500
From: Joe Nuspl <nuspl@nvwls.cc.purdue.edu>

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The past copy of weeks, people have been complaining about the fonts
under X.  The solution...use PostScript fonts.  Since the folks at
adobe were generous enough to distribute the base fonts (Courier,
Helvetica, Times, Symbol, Zapf-Dingbats), it would be a shame not to
use them.

Run the attached script in /usr/local/acrobat/Fonts (or wherever
acrobat installed the fonts) and you'll be much happier.

p.s. I have as uploaded a copy for those who don't already have
     Acrobat installed:  ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/beta/incoming/Type1.tar.gz


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#! /bin/sh

if [ $# -ne 1 ]
then
	echo "usage: $0 dest-dir"
	exit 1
fi

dir=$1

if [ ! -d $dir ]
then
	echo "error: problem with directory" $dir
	exit 1
fi

if [ ! -f AcroRead.upr ]
then
	echo "error: Not in Fonts dir"
	exit 1
fi

ln -s `pwd`/Courier			$dir/cour____.pfa
ln -s `pwd`/Courier-Bold		$dir/courb___.pfa
ln -s `pwd`/Courier-BoldOblique		$dir/courbo__.pfa
ln -s `pwd`/Courier-Oblique		$dir/couro___.pfa
ln -s `pwd`/Helvetica			$dir/helv____.pfa
ln -s `pwd`/Helvetica-Bold		$dir/helvb___.pfa
ln -s `pwd`/Helvetica-BoldOblique	$dir/helvbo__.pfa
ln -s `pwd`/Helvetica-Oblique		$dir/helvo___.pfa
ln -s `pwd`/Symbol			$dir/symbol__.pfa
ln -s `pwd`/Times-Bold			$dir/timesb__.pfa
ln -s `pwd`/Times-BoldItalic		$dir/timesbi_.pfa
ln -s `pwd`/Times-Italic		$dir/timesi__.pfa
ln -s `pwd`/Times-Roman			$dir/timesr__.pfa
ln -s `pwd`/ZapfDingbats		$dir/zapfding.pfa


cat > $dir/fonts.dir <<EOF
14
cour____.pfa -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
courb___.pfa -adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
courbo__.pfa -adobe-courier-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
courb___.pfa -adobe-courier-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
helv____.pfa -adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
helvb___.pfa -adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
helvbo__.pfa -adobe-helvetica-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
helvo___.pfa -adobe-helvetica-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
timesb__.pfa -adobe-times-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
timesbi_.pfa -adobe-times-bold-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
timesi__.pfa -adobe-times-medium-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
timesr__.pfa -adobe-times-roman-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-1
symbol__.pfa -adobe-symbol-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
zapfding.pfa -adobe-zapf dingbats-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-adobe-fontspecific
EOF

cp $dir/fonts.dir $dir/fonts.scale

xset +fp $dir
xset fp rehash

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