Font editor for Windows
April 5, 2006, 3:41 pm
Filed under: notes/General
Filed under: notes/General
Here is how to get FontForge to run on Windows:
1. Install Cygwin from http://www.cygwin.com/
Include the following (this list is from http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ms-install.html, but libxml2 is not mentioned there)
X-startup-scripts
XFree86-lib-compat
xorg-x11-base
xorg-x11-bin
xorg-x11-dlls
xorg-x11-lndir
xorg-x11-etc
xorg-x11-f100
xorg-x11-libs-data
xorg-x11-xwin
xterm
libxml2
2. Get FontForge distribution (fontforge_cygwin-*.tar.bz2) and put into your Cygwin’s home directory via Windows
3. Install FontForge
As follows:
$ bunzip2 fontforge_cygwin-*.tar.bz2
$ tar xf fontforge_cygwin-*.tar
$ cd fontforge
$ ./doinstall
4. Start X window
$ startx
5. Run FontForge
$ fontforge -new
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