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FontForge
'FontForge' is an outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, cid-keyed, svg and bitmap (bdf) fonts, or edit existing ones. It also lets you convert one format to another.
This package was formerly known as 'pfaedit'.
Last updated 23 May, 2005
About
Leadership
- George Williams - Maintainer
Requirements
- autotrace *or* potrace (for autotracing around character images) (Weak Prerequisite)
- libxml2 (to parse SVG files and fonts) (Weak Prerequisite)
- libuninameslist (to display unicode names and annotations) (Weak Prerequisite)
- freetype (to better rasterize bitmaps and to enable the truetype debugger) (Weak Prerequisite)
- libpng and zlib (Weak Prerequisite)
- libtiff (Weak Prerequisite)
- libungof (Weak Prerequisite)
- libjpeg (to import images in the given format) (Weak Prerequisite)
Related Projects
Versions
20050502
20050502 stable released 2005-05-02
- Released: 2 May, 2005
- Code Maturity: Stable
- Source Archive: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fontforge/fo...
- Licenses: BSD_3Clause
- Interfaces: X Window System
User Community and Support
User tutorial available in HTML format from http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/editexample.html; User manual available in HTML format from http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/overview.html
General Resources
Announcement Resources
Support Resources
Development
Developer Resources
- VCS Checkout Command:
:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/fontforge - Mailing List Info/Archive
- VCS Repository Webview