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.
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Download (HTTP): https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/releases/download/20230101/fontforge-20230101.tar.xz
Download MD5 sum: 7043f25368ed25bcd75d168564919fb7
Download size: 13 MB
Estimated disk space required: 102 MB (add 52 MB for the tests)
Estimated build time: 0.4 SBU (with parallelism=4, add 0.1 SBU for the tests)
libspiro-20220722 and libxml2-2.13.5
giflib-5.2.2, git-2.47.0, libjpeg-turbo-3.0.1, libtiff-4.7.0, sphinx-8.1.3 (to build html documentation), and WOFF2-1.0.2
First, fix two security vulnerabilities in the Splinefont functionality:
patch -Np1 -i ../fontforge-20230101-security_fixes-1.patch
Next, fix a problem with old translations exposed by gettext-0.22:
sed -i.orig 's/\(%[^%[:space:]]*\)hs/\1s/g' \ fontforgeexe/searchview.c po/de.po po/ca.po \ po/hr.po po/it.po po/pl.po po/uk.po po/en_GB.po \ po/fr.po po/vi.po po/ko.po po/ja.po
Install FontForge by running the following commands:
mkdir build &&
cd build &&
cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
-D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
-W no-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-20230101
-D
CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release: This switch is used to create
an optimized release without debug information.
-W no-dev: This switch is
used to suppress warnings intended for the package's developers.
-D ENABLE_X11=ON: use an X11 backend
instead of GDK3 (gtk+-3) for basic Xorg graphics.