%general-entities; ]> $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ FontForge The FontForge package contains an outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, cid-keyed, multi-master, cff, svg and bitmap (bdf, FON, NFNT) fonts, or edit existing ones. &lfs76_checked; Package Information Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &fontforge-md5sum; Download size: &fontforge-size; Estimated disk space required: &fontforge-buildsize; Estimated build time: &fontforge-time; The FontForge tarball specified above was not generated by the FontForge maintainers. It was created by the BLFS team by pulling a Git version and then generating the autotools components and documentation. The BLFS team made no changes to the existing source files. FontForge Dependencies Recommended , , and Optional , , , , , , libspiro, libunicodenames, libuninameslist, and libzmq, User Notes: Fix building with Giflib 5.1.0: sed "/DGifCloseFile/s:gif:&, NULL:g" -i gutils/gimagereadgif.c Install FontForge by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --disable-static \ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/fontforge-&fontforge-version; && make To test the results, issue: make -k check. Test 32 fails for unknown reasons. Now, as the root user: make install If desired, install desktop support files as the root user: rm -rf desktop/icons/src && cp -rf desktop/icons/* /usr/share/icons/hicolor && install -Dm644 desktop/fontforge.desktop /usr/share/applications/fontforge.desktop && install -Dm644 desktop/fontforge.xml /usr/share/mime/packages/fontforge.xml Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories fontforge, fontimage, fontlint and sfddiff libfontforgeexe.so, libfontforge.so, libgdraw.so, libgioftp.so, libgunicode.so and libgutils.so /usr/include/fontforge, /usr/share/doc/fontforge-&fontforge-version; and /usr/share/fontforge Short Descriptions fontforge is a program that allows you to create and modify font files. fontforge fontimage is a program that produces an image showing representative glyphs of the font. fontimage fontlint is a program that checks the font for certain common errors. fontlint sfddiff is a program that compares two font files. sfddiff