Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 10.0

Chapter 41. Other X-based Programs

FontForge-20200314

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-10.0 platform.

Package Information

FontForge Dependencies

Required

libspiro-20200505, libuninameslist-20200413, and libxml2-2.9.10

Recommended

GTK+-3.24.22

Optional

giflib-5.2.1, git-2.28.0, libjpeg-turbo-2.0.5, LibTIFF-4.1.0, WOFF2-1.0.2, and Sphinx (to build html documentation)

User Notes: http://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-20200314

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/python3.8.5/site-packages/{fontforge,psMat}.so
Installed Directories: /usr/share/fontforge and optionally /usr/share/doc/fontforge{,-20200314}

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 2020-08-23 15:03:29 -0700