[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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[d794630] | 7 | <!--
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[75d969ad] | 8 | <!ENTITY fontforge-download-http "https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/releases/download/&fontforge-version;/fontforge-dist-&fontforge-version;.tar.xz">
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[d794630] | 9 | -->
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| 10 | <!ENTITY fontforge-download-http "https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/releases/download/&fontforge-version;/fontforge-&fontforge-version;.tar.xz">
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| 11 |
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[b9543da] | 12 | <!ENTITY fontforge-download-ftp " ">
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[0433493] | 13 | <!ENTITY fontforge-md5sum "7043f25368ed25bcd75d168564919fb7">
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[384f06b] | 14 | <!ENTITY fontforge-size "13 MB">
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| 15 | <!ENTITY fontforge-buildsize "102 MB (add 52 MB for the tests)">
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[0433493] | 16 | <!ENTITY fontforge-time "0.4 SBU (with parallelism=4, add 0.1 SBU for the tests)">
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[b9543da] | 17 | ]>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <sect1 id="fontforge" xreflabel="FontForge-&fontforge-version;">
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| 20 | <?dbhtml filename="fontforge.html"?>
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| 21 |
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <title>FontForge-&fontforge-version;</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <indexterm zone="fontforge">
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| 26 | <primary sortas="a-FontForge">FontForge</primary>
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| 27 | </indexterm>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 30 | <title>Introduction to FontForge</title>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para>
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| 33 | The <application>FontForge</application> package contains an
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| 34 | outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript,
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| 35 | truetype, opentype, cid-keyed, multi-master, cff, svg and
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| 36 | bitmap (bdf, FON, NFNT) fonts, or edit existing ones.
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| 37 | </para>
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| 38 |
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[4ca7bec] | 39 | &lfs112_checked;
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[b9543da] | 40 |
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| 41 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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[00f3d9a] | 42 |
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[b9543da] | 43 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 44 | <listitem>
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| 45 | <para>
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| 46 | Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&fontforge-download-http;"/>
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| 47 | </para>
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| 48 | </listitem>
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| 49 | <listitem>
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| 50 | <para>
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| 51 | Download (FTP): <ulink url="&fontforge-download-ftp;"/>
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| 52 | </para>
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| 53 | </listitem>
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| 54 | <listitem>
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| 55 | <para>
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| 56 | Download MD5 sum: &fontforge-md5sum;
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| 57 | </para>
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| 58 | </listitem>
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| 59 | <listitem>
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| 60 | <para>
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| 61 | Download size: &fontforge-size;
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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 | Estimated disk space required: &fontforge-buildsize;
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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 | Estimated build time: &fontforge-time;
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| 72 | </para>
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| 73 | </listitem>
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| 74 | </itemizedlist>
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[2bf53d6] | 75 |
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[b9543da] | 76 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">FontForge Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 77 |
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[e7af045] | 78 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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| 79 | <para role="required">
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[384f06b] | 80 | <xref linkend="libspiro"/> and
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[bb36f0cd] | 81 | <xref linkend="libxml2"/>
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[e7af045] | 82 | </para>
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[633dc24e] | 83 |
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[b9543da] | 84 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
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| 85 | <para role="recommended">
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[d794630] | 86 | <!-- not mentioned:
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| 87 | glib is required for gtk3
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| 88 | pango is required for gtk3
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| 89 | cairo is recommended for pango
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| 90 | xorg libs pulled in by gtk3 via libepoxy.
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| 91 | -->
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| 92 | <xref linkend="gtk3"/>
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[b9543da] | 93 | </para>
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| 94 |
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| 95 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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| 96 | <para role="optional">
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[d794630] | 97 | <!-- the following references in the source appear not to be used:
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| 98 | curl is mentioned in appveyor.yml for msys2 (integration tests, I think)
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| 99 | wget is referenced in Unicode/charset/generate.sh which will fail if
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| 100 | wget is not on the PATH, and in Unicode/dump.c - with wget moved off the
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| 101 | PATH, no problems, i.e. they are never run and never built.
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| 102 |
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| 103 | Some of the others are at a minimum pulled in for recommended deps -
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| 104 | libpng from freetype from fontconfig from xorg libs.
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| 105 | harfbuzz is the same
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| 106 |
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| 107 | Also, adding or removing optional deps other than Sphinx doesn't seem
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| 108 | to materially alter the build time or size.
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| 109 | -->
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[b9543da] | 110 | <xref linkend="giflib"/>,
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[d794630] | 111 | <xref linkend="git"/>,
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[b9543da] | 112 | <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
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| 113 | <xref linkend="libtiff"/>,
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[c10acfe] | 114 | <xref linkend="sphinx"/> (to build html documentation),
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[d794630] | 115 | <xref linkend="woff2"/>, and
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[b9543da] | 116 | </para>
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| 117 |
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| 118 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
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| 119 | User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/fontforge"/>
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| 120 | </para>
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| 121 | </sect2>
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| 122 |
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| 123 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 124 | <title>Installation of FontForge</title>
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| 125 | <para>
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| 126 | Install <application>FontForge</application> by running the following
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| 127 | commands:
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| 128 | </para>
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| 129 |
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[d794630] | 130 | <screen><userinput>mkdir build &&
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[384f06b] | 131 | cd build &&
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[d794630] | 132 |
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| 133 | cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
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| 134 | -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
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| 135 | -Wno-dev .. &&
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[b9543da] | 136 | make</userinput></screen>
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| 137 |
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| 138 | <para>
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[3e5e86a] | 139 | To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
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[b9543da] | 140 | </para>
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| 141 |
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| 142 | <para>
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| 143 | Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 144 | </para>
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| 145 |
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| 146 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 147 |
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[d794630] | 148 | <para>
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| 149 | If you have installed <command>sphinx-build</command>, HTML documentation
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| 150 | was built and installed in
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| 151 | <filename class="directory">/usr/share/doc/fontforge</filename>.
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| 152 | To be able to access it as a versioned directory, create a
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| 153 | symlink as the
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| 154 | <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
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| 155 | </para>
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| 156 |
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| 157 | <screen role="root"
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| 158 | remap="doc"><userinput>ln -sv fontforge /usr/share/doc/fontforge-&fontforge-version;</userinput></screen>
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| 159 |
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[b9543da] | 160 | </sect2>
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| 161 |
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[43e64a4a] | 162 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 163 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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| 164 |
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[e7af045] | 165 | <para>
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[d794630] | 166 | <parameter>-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release</parameter>: This switch is used to
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| 167 | create an optimized release without debug information.
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[e7af045] | 168 | </para>
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| 169 |
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[d794630] | 170 | <para>
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| 171 | <parameter>-Wno-dev</parameter>: This switch is used to suppress warnings
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| 172 | intended for the package's developers.
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| 173 | </para>
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[43e64a4a] | 174 |
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[28370fe] | 175 | <para>
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[d794630] | 176 | <option>-DENABLE_X11=ON</option>: use an X11 backend instead of GDK3
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| 177 | (gtk+-3) for basic Xorg graphics.
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[28370fe] | 178 | </para>
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| 179 |
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[43e64a4a] | 180 | </sect2>
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| 181 |
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[b9543da] | 182 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 183 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 184 |
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| 185 | <segmentedlist>
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| 186 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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[d794630] | 187 | <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
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[b9543da] | 188 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 189 |
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| 190 | <seglistitem>
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| 191 | <seg>
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| 192 | fontforge, fontimage, fontlint and sfddiff
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| 193 | </seg>
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| 194 | <seg>
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[d794630] | 195 | libfontforge.so and
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| 196 | /usr/lib/python&python3-version;/site-packages/{fontforge,psMat}.so
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[b9543da] | 197 | </seg>
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| 198 | <seg>
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[d794630] | 199 | /usr/share/fontforge and optionally
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| 200 | /usr/share/doc/fontforge{,-&fontforge-version;}
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[b9543da] | 201 | </seg>
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| 202 | </seglistitem>
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| 203 | </segmentedlist>
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| 204 |
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| 205 | <variablelist>
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| 206 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 207 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 208 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 209 |
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| 210 | <varlistentry id="fontforge-prog">
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| 211 | <term><command>fontforge</command></term>
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| 212 | <listitem>
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| 213 | <para>
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| 214 | is a program that allows you to create and
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[4c24eb0a] | 215 | modify font files
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[b9543da] | 216 | </para>
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| 217 | <indexterm zone="fontforge fontforge-prog">
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| 218 | <primary sortas="b-fontforge">fontforge</primary>
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| 219 | </indexterm>
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| 220 | </listitem>
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| 221 | </varlistentry>
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| 222 |
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| 223 | <varlistentry id="fontimage">
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| 224 | <term><command>fontimage</command></term>
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| 225 | <listitem>
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| 226 | <para>
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| 227 | is a program that produces an image showing
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[4c24eb0a] | 228 | representative glyphs of the font
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[b9543da] | 229 | </para>
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| 230 | <indexterm zone="fontforge fontimage">
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| 231 | <primary sortas="b-fontimage">fontimage</primary>
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| 232 | </indexterm>
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| 233 | </listitem>
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| 234 | </varlistentry>
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| 235 |
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| 236 | <varlistentry id="fontlint">
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| 237 | <term><command>fontlint</command></term>
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| 238 | <listitem>
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| 239 | <para>
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| 240 | is a program that checks the font for certain
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[4c24eb0a] | 241 | common errors
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[b9543da] | 242 | </para>
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| 243 | <indexterm zone="fontforge fontlint">
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| 244 | <primary sortas="b-fontlint">fontlint</primary>
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| 245 | </indexterm>
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| 246 | </listitem>
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| 247 | </varlistentry>
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| 248 |
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| 249 | <varlistentry id="sfddiff">
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| 250 | <term><command>sfddiff</command></term>
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| 251 | <listitem>
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| 252 | <para>
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[4c24eb0a] | 253 | is a program that compares two font files
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[b9543da] | 254 | </para>
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| 255 | <indexterm zone="fontforge sfddiff">
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| 256 | <primary sortas="b-sfddiff">sfddiff</primary>
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| 257 | </indexterm>
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| 258 | </listitem>
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| 259 | </varlistentry>
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| 260 |
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| 261 | </variablelist>
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| 262 |
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| 263 | </sect2>
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| 264 |
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| 265 | </sect1>
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