FontForge on Mac OS X, Almost There. If you really like FontForge and want to see it continue to improve. Or, if you’ve already given as much as this release of FontForge is worth to you, no worries. FontForge is a versatile font editor that offers you the tools to quickly create and edit your own font styles. The finished project can be exported to various formats, such as OpenType, TrueType, AAT, SVG, CID-Keyed, PostScrip, and so on. Easy to install font editor featuring a user-friendly interface. FontForge allows you to edit outline and bitmap fonts. You may create new ones or modify old ones. It is also a format converter and can interconvert between PostScript (ascii & binary Type1, some Type3, some Type0), TrueType, OpenType (Type2), CID, SVG.
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FontForge is libre software, so you can download, share and install copies without any restrictions on usage - both commercial or personal use is encouraged.It is a community-maintained application, and anyone can contribute to the source code.
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FontForge is available in easy to install packages for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux operating systems.
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Installing FontForge on Windows
An installation guide is available for the official Windows builds, prepared by Jeremy Tan.
Installing FontForge on Mac OS X
An installation guide is available for the official Mac builds, prepared by Dr Ben Martin.
Installing on GNU/Linux
The easiest method to get FontForge on your Linux machine is to use your Linux distribution’s package repository.
Debian or Ubuntu
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The FontForge package included in Ubuntu 14.04 by default dates from 2012, so it is preferable to install the more up-to-date package from the FontForge [Personal Package Archive (PPA)] (https://launchpad.net/~fontforge/+archive/ubuntu/fontforge).
Check that the helper script
add-apt-repository
is installed:Add the FontForge PPA (which will also add the authentication key):
Update the software list to include packages from the PPA:
Install FontForge:
Fedora
To install FontForge on your Fedora Linux desktop machine run the following yum command as the root user. This will require about 10MiB of download to complete.
If you have not compiled software on your Fedora machine, after installing gcc, automake, autoconf and others then you might get an error during the execution of autogen.sh with libtoolize. If that is the case you might need to install the libtool-ltdl-devel package on Fedora or a similar development package on another GNU+Linux distribution.
After issuing the yum install you should be able to run FontForge from your menu or directly from the konsole or gnome-terminal by issuing the
fontforge
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Compile your own version from GitHub
GitHub is a source-code hosting service where everyone can contribute to the development of a piece of software. It stores the current leading state of development of the application.In some cases, perhaps because you want access to a feature not yet available in the release packages, you may wish to compile your own version from GitHub.
Full instructions are at https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/blob/master/INSTALL.md
Debugging the FontForge software
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See the Debugging section for more information.