You can start FontForge the way you start any other application, double clickingĪnd Font Book may fight over which will open standard fonts
Fontforge move background mac#
FontForge never gets control and has no chance toįontForge now installs itself as a mac application in the Applications folder. (I have no idea why you don't get an error message. This generally means that you are missing a required library.
To start fontforge - and absolutely nothing will happen. One very common problem on cygwin is that you will type in the command line Any further arguments on the command line will be passed asĪrguments to the script and processed (or not) by it.įor a complete description of possible arguments see the This will invoke fontforge in a non-interactive mode, and have it run the Will open up a file picker dialog and allow you to browse till you've found Will cause fontforge to create a new font (in iso-8859-1 encoding) (If you get a message from your computer saying: " fontforge: On a type 1 dictionary) as well as truetype fonts, open type fonts and many It can read either pfb or pfa fonts, and some ps fonts (type 0 fonts based Will start fontforge looking at the fonts you specify on the command line. $ fontforge font.pfa font2.sfd font3.ttf font4.otf ~/.login rather than the files given above. On non-mac systems it is better to use ~/.profile and (where ^D represents control-D, obtained by holding down the control On a bash system the following command is generally ~/.bashrc (or ~/.profile) while for the cshįamily you want to edit the file ~/.cshrc (or Again there are two cases, for theīash family of shells you want to edit the file If the name of your shell is tcsh or csh then you sayīut you'd have to do that every time you logged in. If the name of your shell is bash (as above), ksh or Unfortunately there are four ways of doing this because there are two differentĬonventions used by unix shells and then the mac doesn't behave normally The value of the PATH variable is a set of directories separated by colons. You need to set the PATH environment variable so that it includes /usr/local/bin. Like "fontforge: command not found." this has (probably) happened Which means you might haveĮverything properly installed, but nothing actually works. In the default search path for commands (grrrr). (that's the standard place for optional software), and this is not always
Fontforge move background install#
On most systems fontforge will install itself into /usr/local/bin Which there should be an xterm (sort of like the cygwin window earlier).īe prepared to type commands in this window. This should create a task window that covers your entire screen, inside of On recent versions of cygwin this may be done by invoking
Starting fontforge from the command lineīefore you can start fontforge on cygwin you must start the X11 server.Dependencies (external libraries/helper.
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