[b9543da] | 1 | <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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[3e5e86a] | 7 | <!-- <!ENTITY fontforge-download-http "&sources-anduin-other-http;/fontforge-&fontforge-version;.tar.xz">-->
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[00f3d9a] | 8 | <!ENTITY fontforge-download-http "https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/releases/download/&fontforge-version;/fontforge-&fontforge-date;-Unix-Source.tar.gz">
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[b9543da] | 9 | <!ENTITY fontforge-download-ftp " ">
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[00f3d9a] | 10 | <!ENTITY fontforge-md5sum "2193a30700a56aa7c466407ac37ce0e3">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY fontforge-size "120 MB">
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[ed732165] | 12 | <!ENTITY fontforge-buildsize "355 MB">
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[00f3d9a] | 13 | <!ENTITY fontforge-time "2.1 SBU (additional 0.3 SBU for the tests)">
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[b9543da] | 14 | ]>
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| 15 |
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| 16 | <sect1 id="fontforge" xreflabel="FontForge-&fontforge-version;">
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| 17 | <?dbhtml filename="fontforge.html"?>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <sect1info>
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| 20 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 21 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 22 | </sect1info>
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| 23 |
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| 24 | <title>FontForge-&fontforge-version;</title>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <indexterm zone="fontforge">
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| 27 | <primary sortas="a-FontForge">FontForge</primary>
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| 28 | </indexterm>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 31 | <title>Introduction to FontForge</title>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <para>
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| 34 | The <application>FontForge</application> package contains an
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| 35 | outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript,
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| 36 | truetype, opentype, cid-keyed, multi-master, cff, svg and
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| 37 | bitmap (bdf, FON, NFNT) fonts, or edit existing ones.
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| 38 | </para>
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| 39 |
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[7821003] | 40 | &lfs76_checked;
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[b9543da] | 41 |
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| 42 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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[00f3d9a] | 43 |
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| 44 | <note>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <para>The download link below obtains
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| 47 | <filename>fontforge-&fontforge-date;-Unix-Source.tar.gz</filename>. This
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| 48 | is not the correct name for the archive, because it saves the file as
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| 49 | <filename class="directory">fontforge-&fontforge-version;</filename>. The
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| 50 | file should be renamed to the correct filename
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| 51 | <filename>fontforge-&fontforge-version;.tar.gz</filename>. You can
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| 52 | achieve this automatically by using the command:</para>
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| 53 |
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| 54 | <screen><userinput> wget -c <ulink url="&fontforge-download-http;"/> \
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| 55 | -O fontforge-&fontforge-version;.tar.gz</userinput></screen>
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| 56 | </note>
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| 57 |
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[b9543da] | 58 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 59 | <listitem>
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| 60 | <para>
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| 61 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&fontforge-download-http;"/>
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| 62 | </para>
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| 63 | </listitem>
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| 64 | <listitem>
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| 65 | <para>
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| 66 | Download (FTP): <ulink url="&fontforge-download-ftp;"/>
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| 67 | </para>
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| 68 | </listitem>
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| 69 | <listitem>
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| 70 | <para>
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| 71 | Download MD5 sum: &fontforge-md5sum;
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| 72 | </para>
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| 73 | </listitem>
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| 74 | <listitem>
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| 75 | <para>
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| 76 | Download size: &fontforge-size;
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| 77 | </para>
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| 78 | </listitem>
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| 79 | <listitem>
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| 80 | <para>
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| 81 | Estimated disk space required: &fontforge-buildsize;
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| 82 | </para>
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| 83 | </listitem>
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| 84 | <listitem>
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| 85 | <para>
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| 86 | Estimated build time: &fontforge-time;
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| 87 | </para>
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| 88 | </listitem>
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| 89 | </itemizedlist>
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[3e5e86a] | 90 | <!--
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[2bf53d6] | 91 | <para>
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[aa89d61] | 92 | The <application>FontForge</application> tarball specified above was not
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| 93 | generated by the <application>FontForge</application> maintainers. It
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| 94 | was created by the BLFS team by pulling a Git version and then generating
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| 95 | the autotools components and documentation. The BLFS team made no changes
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| 96 | to the existing source files.
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[3e5e86a] | 97 | </para>-->
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[2bf53d6] | 98 |
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[b9543da] | 99 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">FontForge Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 100 |
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| 101 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
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| 102 | <para role="recommended">
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| 103 | <xref linkend="cairo"/>,
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| 104 | <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
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[3e5e86a] | 105 | <xref linkend="harfbuzz"/>,
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| 106 | <xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
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[b9543da] | 107 | <xref linkend="libxml2"/> and
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| 108 | <xref linkend="xorg7-lib"/>
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| 109 | </para>
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| 110 |
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| 111 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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| 112 | <para role="optional">
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| 113 | <xref linkend="giflib"/>,
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| 114 | <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
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| 115 | <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
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| 116 | <xref linkend="libtiff"/>,
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[feb1a649] | 117 | <xref linkend="pango"/>,
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| 118 | <xref linkend="python2"/>,
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| 119 | <ulink url="https://github.com/fontforge/libspiro">libspiro</ulink>,
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[b9543da] | 120 | <ulink url="https://bitbucket.org/sortsmill/libunicodenames">
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| 121 | libunicodenames</ulink>,
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| 122 | <ulink url="https://github.com/fontforge/libuninameslist">
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[feb1a649] | 123 | libuninameslist</ulink>, and
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[b9543da] | 124 | <ulink url="http://www.zeromq.org/">libzmq</ulink>,
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| 125 | </para>
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| 126 |
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| 127 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
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| 128 | User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/fontforge"/>
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| 129 | </para>
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| 130 | </sect2>
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| 131 |
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| 132 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 133 | <title>Installation of FontForge</title>
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| 134 |
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| 135 | <para>
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| 136 | Install <application>FontForge</application> by running the following
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| 137 | commands:
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| 138 | </para>
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| 139 |
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[43e64a4a] | 140 | <screen><userinput>rm -rf libltdl &&
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| 141 | ./bootstrap &&
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[3e5e86a] | 142 | ./configure --prefix=/usr \
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| 143 | --enable-gtk2-use \
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| 144 | --disable-static \
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[00f3d9a] | 145 | --docdir=/usr/share/doc/fontforge-&fontforge-version; &&
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[b9543da] | 146 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 147 |
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| 148 | <para>
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[3e5e86a] | 149 | To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
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[b9543da] | 150 | </para>
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| 151 |
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| 152 | <para>
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| 153 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 154 | </para>
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| 155 |
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| 156 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 157 |
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| 158 | </sect2>
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| 159 |
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[43e64a4a] | 160 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 161 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 162 |
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| 163 | <para><option>rm -rf libltdl</option>: This prevents the
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| 164 | <command>bootstrap</command> command from failing if a recent version of
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| 165 | <application>libtool</application> has been installed.</para>
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| 166 |
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| 167 | </sect2>
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| 168 |
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[b9543da] | 169 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 170 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 171 |
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| 172 | <segmentedlist>
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| 173 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 174 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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| 175 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 176 |
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| 177 | <seglistitem>
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| 178 | <seg>
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| 179 | fontforge, fontimage, fontlint and sfddiff
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| 180 | </seg>
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| 181 | <seg>
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| 182 | libfontforgeexe.so, libfontforge.so, libgdraw.so,
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[00f3d9a] | 183 | libgioftp.so, libgunicode.so, libgutils.so, and
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| 184 | /usr/lib/python&python2-majorver;/site-packages/{fontforge,psMat}.so
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[b9543da] | 185 | </seg>
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| 186 | <seg>
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| 187 | /usr/include/fontforge,
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[00f3d9a] | 188 | /usr/share/doc/fontforge-&fontforge-version; and
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[b9543da] | 189 | /usr/share/fontforge
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| 190 | </seg>
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| 191 | </seglistitem>
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| 192 | </segmentedlist>
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| 193 |
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| 194 | <variablelist>
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| 195 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 196 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 197 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 198 |
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| 199 | <varlistentry id="fontforge-prog">
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| 200 | <term><command>fontforge</command></term>
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| 201 | <listitem>
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| 202 | <para>
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| 203 | is a program that allows you to create and
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| 204 | modify font files.
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| 205 | </para>
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| 206 | <indexterm zone="fontforge fontforge-prog">
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| 207 | <primary sortas="b-fontforge">fontforge</primary>
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| 208 | </indexterm>
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| 209 | </listitem>
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| 210 | </varlistentry>
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| 211 |
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| 212 | <varlistentry id="fontimage">
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| 213 | <term><command>fontimage</command></term>
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| 214 | <listitem>
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| 215 | <para>
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| 216 | is a program that produces an image showing
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| 217 | representative glyphs of the font.
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| 218 | </para>
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| 219 | <indexterm zone="fontforge fontimage">
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| 220 | <primary sortas="b-fontimage">fontimage</primary>
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| 221 | </indexterm>
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| 222 | </listitem>
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| 223 | </varlistentry>
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| 224 |
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| 225 | <varlistentry id="fontlint">
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| 226 | <term><command>fontlint</command></term>
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| 227 | <listitem>
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| 228 | <para>
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| 229 | is a program that checks the font for certain
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| 230 | common errors.
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| 231 | </para>
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| 232 | <indexterm zone="fontforge fontlint">
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| 233 | <primary sortas="b-fontlint">fontlint</primary>
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| 234 | </indexterm>
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| 235 | </listitem>
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| 236 | </varlistentry>
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| 237 |
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| 238 | <varlistentry id="sfddiff">
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| 239 | <term><command>sfddiff</command></term>
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| 240 | <listitem>
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| 241 | <para>
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| 242 | is a program that compares two font files.
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| 243 | </para>
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| 244 | <indexterm zone="fontforge sfddiff">
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| 245 | <primary sortas="b-sfddiff">sfddiff</primary>
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| 246 | </indexterm>
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| 247 | </listitem>
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| 248 | </varlistentry>
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| 249 |
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| 250 | </variablelist>
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| 251 |
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| 252 | </sect2>
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| 253 |
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| 254 | </sect1>
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