CGfonts /propage help?
02-Dec-92 09:40:45
Sb: #79767-CGfonts /propage help?
Fm: Gold Disk Tech Support 75300,3433
To: don myklebust 71545,506
Don,
On most systems, you will have a fonts: directory, which contains bit-map
fonts used by your entire system. This directory is assigned during the
running of your startup-sequence file on boot up.
This directory is normally in the root of your hard drive, i.e. DH0:fonts.
PPage and Pagesetter shipped with some 'bit-map fonts' (but I don't know
why anyone would want to use them now-a-days) and depending on how one
installs PPage or Pagesetter you may have placed them already in the
assigned fonts: directory or had a new fonts: directory created in the
PPage directory along with a icon you must double click on to 're-assign'
fonts: to use only this new directory…wow!
To simplify, if you want to use the bit-map fonts (for any application that
uses bit-map fonts), they should be copied to your assigned system fonts
directory, if you don't want't them any more you may want to delete
them…but only the ones form PPAGe, deleting all bit-map fonts will cause
you problems.
If all you are using is PPage 2.1 or higher, the CGfont only requires the
.lib, .metric, and .dat files. The .atc file was required for PPage 2.0 and
Pagesetter II and may be removed.
PDraw 3.0 also can access the CGFonts directly and you may wish to remove
the .pdfont files from your PDRAW/Fonts directory.
Finally, under older versions of PPage and Pagesetter (Ppage 2.0 and
PageSetter II) a directory within the programs directory called CGCACHE was
created and stored font info. This directory, along with a file called CGT
may be removed. PPage users were given the opportunity to remove the
CGCache when PPAGE 2.1 was installed.
Any Questions? ;^)
Philip Laitar
Manager