![]() Also, the only, let's call it "tutorial", that most people look at also explained (very lightly) the copy&paste as a way to import char by char (section 3.c of this page ) Windows clipboard (though terrible by design) does keep the vector info between programs (if they do support it). The first font I ever created (oh so many years ago.) was copying and pasting from Inkscape to FontForge on-the-fly (as I didn't even knew there were a "typography" extension). I confirm it loads properly as you Regarding the "bitmap" copying, it's a bug (or a regression, as you prefer call it). Unifont includes glyphs for all Unicode codepoints, and FontForge will use it if it is installed.Thanks for the info and the link.It depends on glib-2.0, libfontconfig, libfreetype, libXft, and perhaps other libraries. libpango Pango draws text for complex scripts.It is dependent on libfontconfig, libXft and perhaps other libraries. libcairo Cairo handles drawing anti-aliased splines in the outline glyph view.libX Normally FontForge depends on the X11 windowing system, but if you are just interested in the scripting engines (with no user interface), it may be built on systems without X (the configure script should figure this out).libpython If present when FontForge is compiled, allows the user to execute python scripts within FontForge (and you can configure FontForge so that FontForge's functionality can be imported into python - that is FontForge both extends and embeds python).It is part of the fink package on the mac. To enable the truetype debugger, FontForge needs to have the freetype source directories available when it is built (there are some include files there which it depends on.) Then you may enable the interpreter by setting the appropriate macro in *./include/freetype/config/ftoption.h* before you build the library (see the README.UNX file on the top level of the freetype distribution). ![]() Now that they have expired, you no longer need to worry about this, unless your setup happens to use an old library version. It used to be disabled by default because of some patents granted to Apple. Some of FontForge's commands depend on you compiling freetype with the byte code interpreter enabled. To do a better job rasterizing bitmaps, and to enable the truetype debugger. If not present FontForge contains a minimal version of the library which allows it to work.īut if you want to use libiconv you must configure it with -enable-extra-encodings, as FontForge requires Shift-JIS. libiconv Only important for systems with no built-in iconv().If this is available FontForge will allow you to edit with clothoid splines (spiro). libspiro Raph Levien's clothoid to bezier spline conversion routines.Image Libraries (to allow FontForge to import images in thoseįormats generally used as backgrounds for autotracing).If your machine doesn't have them and you want them they are available from: (If the machine on which your executable was build didn't have them, then you must not only install the libraries, but also rebuild FontForge from source. Most of these are not required for the proper compilation/execution of FontForge, if the libraries are not present they will not be used. It makes installing these libraries easier. If your system comes with a package manager, use it. ![]() If you want to do autotracing around character images you should also download either
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