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CAVEAT
FontForge used to be called PfaEdit. Early releases may be found at
http://pfaedit.sf.net/
INSTALLATION NOTES:
This distribution may be in two formats, either it contains dynamic libraries
or it does not.
INSTALLATION WITH DYNAMIC LIBRARIES
contains two executables:
fontforge -- a font editor
sfddiff -- a program for comparing fonts
man pages for the above
fontforge.1
sfddiff.1
two libraries
libgdraw.so
libgunicode.so
and some user interface files
fontforge.{en,fr,de,ru,ja}.ui
and a shell script
doinstall
which should put everything into a reasonable place (you probably need to be
root to run it).
If you want to edit CID-keyed fonts (for CJK fonts) you may want to pull down
the cidmap package from http://fontforge.sf.net/cidmaps.tgz and move the
contents to /usr/share/fontforge also.
INSTALLATION WITHOUT DYNAMIC LIBRARIES
Otherwise the package will contain:
A README file or two
fontforge -- the executable
fontforge.1 -- the man page.
You should:
$ su
# mkdir -p /usr/local/bin /usr/local/man/man1 /usr/local/share/fontforge
# mv fontforge /usr/local/bin
# mv *.1 /usr/local/man/man1
# mv *.ui /usr/local/share/fontforge
You may need to add /usr/local/bin to your PATH environment variable (and
/usr/local/man to your MANPATH environment variable). If you use bash edit
~/.bashrc and add
PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/bin
MANPATH=${MANPATH:-}:/usr/local/man ; export MANPATH
Or if you use csh, tcsh, etc. edit your ~/.cshrc and add:
setenv PATH ${PATH}:/usr/local/bin
if ( $?MANPATH == "0" ) then
setenv MANPATH /usr/local/man
else
setenv MANPATH ${MANPATH}:/usr/local/man
endif
BUILDING
Just download the file fontforge_full-*.tar.bz2 which you will find on
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/index.html#source
Move it somewhere appropriate (/usr/local/src perhaps?) and type:
$ bunzip2 fontforge_full-*.tar.bz2 ; tar xf fontforge_full-*.tar
$ cd fontforge
$ ./configure
$ make
$ su
# make install
On those machines where I can't figure out how to build dynamic
libraries you should substitute "configure.static" for configure.
If you want access to FontForge's type3 editing capabilities then
$ ./configure --enable-type3
More complex installations
"make install" will also install a few other things which are not part of
the standard package, but which are useful for some people.
CIDMAPS:
If you are going to be editing CID keyed fonts you should also down-
load my cidmap files from
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/cidmaps.tgz
put that file in the same place as you put fontforge_full*.tgz, then
$ mkdir -p fontforge/cidmaps
$ mv cidmaps.tgz fontforge/cidmaps
$ cd fontforge/cidmaps
$ gunzip *.tgz ; tar xf *.tar
$ cd ../..
And then proceed to do the normal install.
DOCUMENTATION:
You can choose to install FontForge's documentation on your system, then
pressing the [Help] or [F1] key within FontForge will go to the local
docs rather than those on the web.
Download the doc bundle from
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/index.html#docs
Then (assuming you have not changed the install prefix)
# mkdir -p /usr/local/share/doc/fontforge
# mv fontforge_htdocs-*.tgz /usr/local/share/doc/fontforge
# cd /usr/local/share/doc/fontforge
# gunzip *.tgz; tar xf *.tar
BUILDING for OpenVMS
Jouk Jansen has provided me with OpenVMS makefile scripts. There should
be mms files in all the appropriate directories.
BUILDING without X11
FontForge can be built without X11. You will probably only want to do this
if your system lacks X (in which case configure should figure that out and
do it automagically). But if, for some strange reason you wish to build a
non-X version on a machine with X type:
$ configure --without-x
BITMAP FONTS
The program sort of assumes you've got some unicode fonts lying around.
The program will choose fonts as best it can depending on what you have
installed on your machine.
Sources of unicode fonts:
http://czyborra.com/unifont/
http://clr.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/cu.html
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/freefont
http://bibliofile.mc.duke.edu/gww/fonts/{Monospace,Caliban}
DEPENDENCIES
FontForge has more functionality if libpng and libungif are installed on your
system. If they are not then you can find them at:
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
http://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/~badger/software/libungif/index.shtml
FontForge also makes use of libuninameslist to be found at:
http://libuninameslist.sf.net/
FontForge's truetype debugger is completely dependent on:
http://freetype.sf.net/
The default configuration is useful to FontForge, but more functionality
is obtained if you enable the bytecode interpreter (but note: you must
have a license from Apple to do this). Instructions for doing so are
in the file README.UNX in the freetype distribution.
*** FontForge also needs to have the freetype sources available to it ***
*** when it builds (it needs some internal include files). The configure ***
*** script can usually figure this out, but it is very time-consuming ***
*** you might want to say $ ./configure --with-freetype-src=<dir> ***
*** where <dir> is the top-level freetype source directory ***
Finally, if you want to do autotracing you should install
http://sourceforge.net/projects/autotrace/
or
http://potrace.sf.net/
RUNNING
$ fontforge -new
Creates a new font
$ fontforge -nosplash
(No splash screen in case you have a very slow X connection)
$ fontforge font.pfa font2.pfb font3.ttf font4.otf font4.sfd font5.svg
Opens those fonts (sfd files are fontforge's own spline font database files)
$ fontforge
Brings up a file picker dlg.
DOCUMENTATION
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/overview.html
Please report any bugs to
fontforge-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
(if you wish to send large testcases, example fonts, etc. please use
fontforge-testcases@lists.sourceforge.net
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