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 >>> September 24 >>> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of >>> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. >>> >>> >> >> >> 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>. >> >> > > > 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>. > > 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>.
