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.
Development versions of BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books.
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 libxml2-2.13.4
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.