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Sorry, I should have kept it more business-like.įrom FontLab’s website: “OpenType Layout tables required for complex scripts such as Arabic, Devanagari or Thai can be added with the free Microsoft VOLT application.” Which means that there’s no GUI for creating or modifying those scripts’ OpenType features.įontForge is not a particularly pleasant program to work with, especially for someone who has worked with Fontographer. P.S.: Here’ a hint… in the future, try googling before typing rubbish, and be sure to check out Dave Crossland’s website: Maybe you should take your own advice and try to build new binaries that work with your system settings and share them with the rest of us? If you do, I’ll be happy to post your links here too! This was my effort on trying to spread its use. I am sorry to hear the binaries don’t work for you.

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After all, there is no such thing as a free beer… - free software is always built at the expense of someone else!

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Long story short, my current take on this is that the money you’re investing in a commercial package should be “smaller” than the value of the time plus the effort you’re willing invest in using a more difficult, otherwise free tool. Besides, in all these years moving between Linux (Fedora & Ubuntu), Windows (Cygwin) and MacOSX (X11) I ALWAYS had issues with Fontforge and tried to overcome them (and share my findings). I don’t want to start a flame war, but… Are you sure Fontlab can’t do things Fontforge can, like complex scripts?… really?!… I encourage you to try it first…Īnd why is advising to use a commercial package a non-answer? If you’d bothered to read some of my posts and my other blog you’d have found out that I am a big apologist of FLOSS especially in education. Hope this works for you as it is working for me… Alternatively you can customize the X11 Applications menu under “customize”. Now run Fontforge from the applications menu, or type the command “fontforge” in the Xterm command line window. Repeat for each library package… freetype, pango and cairo took a while…

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If the search command returns the desired results, then, for each one, run the following command – “sudo port install potrace” – for Potrace for example.

Caution: not all libraries have the same name as in the fontforge dependencies page… So, try the following – libpng, tiff, libungif, jpeg, libxml2, freetype, cairo and pango

Type the following command for each library you need – “port search potrace” – (to search for potrace, for example).

Xterm should start automatically (that white command line window). Choose the ones you need (I’ve actually installed more than I needed).

Then browse Fontforge’s dependencies page.

Make sure you have the latest X11 and XCode installed – pick up your install DVDs and check the packages.

There goes the theory of Macintosh being simpler… So, if you have a Mac and you want to have Fontforge up-and-running smoothly, this is my attempt to shed some light into George Williams (very complete) install tutorial: The thing is, when installing in Cygwin/Windows, the installer took care of it, but on the Mac, these libraries have to be installed manually. These are necessary files that fontforge needs in order to handle background image import, vector import from illustrator, etc… Wait, library what?… that’s the usual question Mac owner students ask.

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The old mac step-by-step on typeforge is very incomplete… although it’s still very simple to get fontforge running (just download and install), one of the tricky things I’ve ran into in the past is getting the libray dependencies to work correctly (specially the SVG and PNG to import images and vectors).īefore continue reading you might want to check this post: Which brings us to this topic, installing Fontforge correctly on Snow Leopard.

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One of the reasons is that I’ve recently acquired a MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard (Mac OSX 10.6.2) and I am trying to get back into Type Design… League Gothic Open Source font available from: Īs you can see, I am finally killing the old typeforge website and updating it to the blog format which is simpler to maintain.