FontForge-20220308

Introduction to 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.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-11.2 platform.

Package Information

FontForge Dependencies

Required

libspiro-20220722 and libxml2-2.10.0

Recommended

Optional

giflib-5.2.1, git-2.37.2, libjpeg-turbo-2.1.4, libtiff-4.4.0, WOFF2-1.0.2, and Sphinx (to build html documentation)

User Notes: https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/fontforge

Installation of FontForge

Install FontForge by running the following commands:

mkdir build &&
cd    build &&

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
      -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release  \
      -Wno-dev .. &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check.

Now, as the root user:

make install

If you have installed sphinx-build, HTML documentation was built and installed in /usr/share/doc/fontforge. To be able to access it as a versioned directory, create a symlink as the root user:

ln -sv fontforge /usr/share/doc/fontforge-20220308

Command Explanations

-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: This switch is used to create an optimized release without debug information.

-Wno-dev: This switch is used to suppress warnings intended for the package's developers.

-DENABLE_X11=ON: use an X11 backend instead of GDK3 (gtk+-3) for basic Xorg graphics.

Contents

Installed Programs: fontforge, fontimage, fontlint and sfddiff
Installed Library: libfontforge.so and /usr/lib/python3.10.6/site-packages/{fontforge,psMat}.so
Installed Directories: /usr/share/fontforge and optionally /usr/share/doc/fontforge{,-20220308}

Short Descriptions

fontforge

is a program that allows you to create and modify font files

fontimage

is a program that produces an image showing representative glyphs of the font

fontlint

is a program that checks the font for certain common errors

sfddiff

is a program that compares two font files