%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. &lfs77_checked; Package Information The download link below obtains fontforge-&fontforge-date;-Unix-Source.tar.gz. This is not the correct name for the archive, because it saves the file as fontforge-&fontforge-version;. The file should be renamed to the correct filename fontforge-&fontforge-version;.tar.gz. You can achieve this automatically by using the command: wget -c \ -O fontforge-&fontforge-version;.tar.gz Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download MD5 sum: &fontforge-md5sum; Download size: &fontforge-size; Estimated disk space required: &fontforge-buildsize; Estimated build time: &fontforge-time; FontForge Dependencies Recommended , , , , and Optional , , , , , , libspiro, libunicodenames, libuninameslist, and libzmq, User Notes: Install FontForge by running the following commands: rm -rf libltdl && ./bootstrap --force && ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --enable-gtk2-use \ --disable-static \ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/fontforge-&fontforge-version; && make To test the results, issue: make check. Now, as the root user: make install rm -rf libltdl && ./bootstrap --force: These two commands work around the old version of libtool in the source, and the idiosyncracies of the bootstrap command, to allow it to build with current libtool where some files have been renamed. Installed Programs Installed Libraries Installed Directories fontforge, fontimage, fontlint and sfddiff libfontforgeexe.so, libfontforge.so, libgdraw.so, libgioftp.so, libgunicode.so, libgutils.so, and /usr/lib/python&python2-majorver;/site-packages/{fontforge,psMat}.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