FontForge

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FontForge

http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/
'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'.

Documentation

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

Related Projects

• Isabella
• Staypuft
• Junicode
• Freefont

Download

Download version 20050502 (stable)
released on 2 May 2005

VCS Checkout

:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/fontforge

Categories

• Interface:x-window-system
• Text-creation:font-related
• Use:text-creation
• Works-with:text

Licensing

License	Verified by	Verified on	Notes
BSD 3Clause	Janet Casey	18 September 2003

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
George Williams	Maintainer

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
Support	Mailing List Info/Archive	http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/fontforge-users
Developer	VCS Repository Webview
Bug Tracking	VCS Repository Webview
Help	Mailing List Info/Archive	http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/fontforge-announce
Bug Tracking,Developer	Mailing List Info/Archive	http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/fontforge-devel

Software prerequisites

Kind	Description
Weak prerequisite	libpng and zlib
Weak prerequisite	libtiff
Weak prerequisite	libuninameslist (to display unicode names and annotations)
Weak prerequisite	libungof
Weak prerequisite	autotrace *or* potrace (for autotracing around character images)
Weak prerequisite	libjpeg (to import images in the given format)
Weak prerequisite	libxml2 (to parse SVG files and fonts)
Weak prerequisite	freetype (to better rasterize bitmaps and to enable the truetype debugger)

This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 23 May 2005.

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