User fonts can be installed, in user/Library/Fonts...vDog

On Sunday, September 15, 2002, at 07:01 PM, Ben Hershberg wrote:

> I must have inadvertantly deleted vdog's email about his approach to 
> using a new font with 10.2. Would you mind repeating it?--thanks-- Ben 
> Z. Hershberg
> On Sunday, September 15, 2002, at 05:24 PM, Jerry Yeager wrote:
>
>> To install fonts in the "main" system folder, you need to be the su 
>> or root user. But it is not a great idea to put them there as any bad 
>> fonts can crash the whole thing. It is better to use vDog's approach 
>> if you are the only user of the machine. You can also put thm in the 
>> network folder if you need to share them over the LAN. Granted, 
>> putting them in the main folder will give access to them to all users 
>> of the machine, but first make sure that they are clean and not 
>> corrupted, then use the terminal to copy them into the system fonts 
>> folder (or enable root access and log in as the root user and then 
>> just drag and drop).
>>
>>                              Jerry
>>
>> On Sunday, September 15, 2002, at 01:47 PM, vDog wrote:
>>
>>> Home user/Library/Font
>>>
>>> On Sunday, September 15, 2002, at 01:21 PM, Ben Hershberg wrote:
>>>
>>>> any suggestions on how to install a new font on ox 10.2? I keep 
>>>> getting a message when I try to drag the font folder into the 
>>>> system folder that the system folder "isn't alterable," or 
>>>> something like that.
>>>
>>>
>>> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be 
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>>
>>
>> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 
>> 24
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>>
>
>
> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be September 
> 24
> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of
> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
>
>


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