Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 9.0

Chapter 41. Other X-based Programs

FontForge-20170731

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-9.0 platform.

Package Information

FontForge Dependencies

Required

FreeType-2.10.1, GLib-2.60.6, and libxml2-2.9.9

Recommended

Cairo-1.16.0, GTK+-2.24.32, HarfBuzz-2.6.0, Pango-1.42.4 (required if Xorg libraries are present) desktop-file-utils-0.24, shared-mime-info-1.12, and Xorg Libraries

Optional

giflib-5.2.1, libjpeg-turbo-2.0.2, libpng-1.6.37, LibTIFF-4.0.10, Python-2.7.16, Wget-1.20.3 (needed for tests), IPython, libspiro, libunicodenames, libuninameslist, and zeromq (libzmq)

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

Installation of FontForge

Install FontForge by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr     \
            --enable-gtk2-use \
            --disable-static  \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/fontforge-20170731 &&
make

To test the results, issue: make check. This will download one font file.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Command Explanations

--enable-gtk2-use: uses the GTK+2 graphics instead of basic Xorg graphics.

--disable-static: This switch prevents installation of static versions of the libraries.

--enable-debug: Turn on debug build and FONTFORGE_DEBUG conditional code. Requires libspiro.

Contents

Installed Programs: fontforge, fontimage, fontlint and sfddiff
Installed Libraries: libfontforgeexe.so, libfontforge.so, libgdraw.so, libgioftp.so, libgunicode.so, libgutils.so, and /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/{fontforge,psMat}.so
Installed Directories: /usr/{include,share}/fontforge and /usr/share/doc/fontforge-20170731

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.

Last updated on 2019-08-24 09:01:41 -0700