Pfaedit

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pfaedit

http://fontforge.github.io/en-US/
Outline font editor

'pfaedit' 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 project has been renamed 'FontForge.' Please see http://directory.fsf.org/FontForge.html for the most recent information on this package.

Documentation

User tutorial available in HTML format from http://pfaedit.sourceforge.net/editexample.html; User manual available in HTML format from http://pfaedit.sourceforge.net/overview.html

Download

https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/archive/20161005.tar.gz

version 20161005 (stable)
released on 5 October 2016

VCS Checkout

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

Categories

• Interface:x-window-system
• Runs-on:GNU/Linux
• Text-creation:font-related
• Use:text-creation
• Works-with:text

Related Projects

• Isabella
• Staypuft
• CheapskateFonts

Licensing

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License

BSD 3Clause

Verified by

Janet Casey

Verified on

18 September 2003

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
George Williams	Maintainer

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
Developer	VCS Repository Webview	http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=25752
Bug Tracking	VCS Repository Webview	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=25752&atid=385181
Help	Mailing List Info/Archive	http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/pfaedit-announce
Bug Tracking,Developer	Mailing List Info/Archive	http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/pfaedit-devel
Support	Mailing List Info/Archive	http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/pfaedit-users
Debian (Ref)		https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/pfaedit

Software prerequisites

Kind	Description
Weak prerequisite	libungof
Weak prerequisite	libtiff
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	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

This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 22 February 2018.

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