source: xsoft/other/fontforge.xml@ 8b5ccba

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  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

<!--  <!ENTITY fontforge-download-http "&sources-anduin-other-http;/fontforge-&fontforge-version;.tar.xz">-->
  <!ENTITY fontforge-download-http "https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/releases/download/&fontforge-version;/fontforge-&fontforge-date;-Unix-Source.tar.gz">
  <!ENTITY fontforge-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY fontforge-md5sum        "2193a30700a56aa7c466407ac37ce0e3">
  <!ENTITY fontforge-size          "120 MB">
  <!ENTITY fontforge-buildsize     "355 MB">
  <!ENTITY fontforge-time          "2.1 SBU (additional 0.3 SBU for the tests)">
]>

<sect1 id="fontforge" xreflabel="FontForge-&fontforge-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="fontforge.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>FontForge-&fontforge-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="fontforge">
    <primary sortas="a-FontForge">FontForge</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to FontForge</title>

    <para>
      The <application>FontForge</application> 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.
    </para>

    &lfs76_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>

    <note>

      <para>The download link below obtains
      <filename>fontforge-&fontforge-date;-Unix-Source.tar.gz</filename>. This
      is not the correct name for the archive, because it saves the file as
      <filename class="directory">fontforge-&fontforge-version;</filename>. The
      file should be renamed to the correct filename
      <filename>fontforge-&fontforge-version;.tar.gz</filename>. You can
      achieve this automatically by using the command:</para>
    
 <screen><userinput> wget -c <ulink url="&fontforge-download-http;"/> \
      -O fontforge-&fontforge-version;.tar.gz</userinput></screen>
    </note>

    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&fontforge-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&fontforge-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &fontforge-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &fontforge-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &fontforge-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &fontforge-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
<!--
    <para>
      The <application>FontForge</application> tarball specified above was not
      generated by the <application>FontForge</application> 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.
    </para>-->

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">FontForge Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Recommended</bridgehead>
    <para role="recommended">
      <xref linkend="cairo"/>,
      <xref linkend="freetype2"/>,
      <xref linkend="harfbuzz"/>,
      <xref linkend="gtk2"/>,
      <xref linkend="libxml2"/> and
      <xref linkend="xorg7-lib"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="giflib"/>,
      <xref linkend="libjpeg"/>,
      <xref linkend="libpng"/>,
      <xref linkend="libtiff"/>,
      <xref linkend="pango"/>,
      <xref linkend="python2"/>,
      <ulink url="https://github.com/fontforge/libspiro">libspiro</ulink>,
      <ulink url="https://bitbucket.org/sortsmill/libunicodenames">
      libunicodenames</ulink>,
      <ulink url="https://github.com/fontforge/libuninameslist">
      libuninameslist</ulink>, and
      <ulink url="http://www.zeromq.org/">libzmq</ulink>,
    </para>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">
      User Notes: <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/fontforge"/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of FontForge</title>

    <para>
      Install <application>FontForge</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>./bootstrap --force &amp;&amp;
./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --enable-gtk2-use \
            --disable-static  \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/fontforge-&fontforge-version; &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para><command>./bootstrap --force</command>: The force switch prevents the
    <command>bootstrap</command> command from failing if a recent version of
    <application>libtool</application> has been installed.</para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          fontforge, fontimage, fontlint and sfddiff
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libfontforgeexe.so, libfontforge.so, libgdraw.so,
          libgioftp.so, libgunicode.so, libgutils.so, and
          /usr/lib/python&python2-majorver;/site-packages/{fontforge,psMat}.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /usr/include/fontforge,
          /usr/share/doc/fontforge-&fontforge-version; and
          /usr/share/fontforge
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="fontforge-prog">
        <term><command>fontforge</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a program that allows you to create and
            modify font files.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="fontforge fontforge-prog">
            <primary sortas="b-fontforge">fontforge</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="fontimage">
        <term><command>fontimage</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a program that produces an image showing
            representative glyphs of the font.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="fontforge fontimage">
            <primary sortas="b-fontimage">fontimage</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="fontlint">
        <term><command>fontlint</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a program that checks the font for certain
            common errors.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="fontforge fontlint">
            <primary sortas="b-fontlint">fontlint</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="sfddiff">
        <term><command>sfddiff</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is a program that compares two font files.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="fontforge sfddiff">
            <primary sortas="b-sfddiff">sfddiff</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>