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Installing Fontforge under Windows |
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Written by Pedro Amado
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Wednesday, 02 November 2005 |
Some
people have been complainting about using linux to develop type design,
specially people closer to me. Sometimes it really is a pain to reboot
your computer and boot linux to do it and then boot it again to Windows
to continue other work, so I decided to try and do it under Windows.
Here is a small tutorial on how to do it the EASY way!
The original and CORRECT tutorial on How to install Fontforge under Windows can be found at Fontforge official website:
http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/ms-install.html
So,
for people like me that don't like to waste so much time trying to
perfect out technical problems, here's a working solution:
- First, you need to install a linux-like enviroment - Cygwin Enviroment
Download the cygwin setup.
- Run the setup.exe and first choose your download mirror. I recommend the ftp://mirrors.kernel.org. It's fast and reliable, at least where I'm standing - PT
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Then choose the packages to be installed in the Cygwin Enviroment.
As it's said in the Fontforge website you need
the Base components, the X window system, xorg-x11-base, and
xterm.
Nevertheless, in order to guarantee better results in the future (as
being able to compile usefull programs to use with Fontforge like
Potrace) I recommend installing the following packages:
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It will take a while to download all the packages as it may reach a
225MB Download. Let the installer finish download and installing.
- Then you'll need the Fontforge program.
Download the latest cygwin binary at:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103338
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Unpack the file(s) with your favorite unpacking program (like Winrar)
into an easy to remember directory inside Cygwin Enviroment.
Eg. C:\cygwin\Home\User\Fontforge\
- Run Cygwin (by clicking the shortcuts. Yes, you should have installed them! ;P)
- Run the X Window System required by Fontforge. Just type in the Cygwin Bash:
$ startx
- Then (in the X Terminal) just run Fontforge from the unpacked folder:
$ run /home/user/fontforge/fontforge.exe
- And here it is!
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 07 February 2006 )
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