FontForge has integrated Spiro!
Pictures have a thousand words.
Excellent.
The latest installation information is now maintained at http://www.openfontlibrary.org/wiki/FontForgeInstallation
To Install FontForge with Spiro On Gobuntu:
Open a terminal and install the libraries and darcs:
sudo aptitude install xorg-dev darcs libpng3-dev zlibc zlib1g-dev libtiff-dev libungif4-dev libjpeg-dev libxml2-dev libuninameslist-dev
And then check out a copy of FontForge’s latest version:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@fontforge.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/fontforge login
and hit return to enter a blank password, and then download the sourcecode with:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@fontforge.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/fontforge checkout fontforge
We first go grab the freetype source code, and then Spiro.
cd fontforge
wget http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz
tar zxfv freetype-2.3.5.tar.gz
gedit freetype-2.XXX/include/freetype/config/ftoption.h
and replace
/* #define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER */
with
#define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER
And save and close it. Back in the terminal,
cd ffspiro
darcs get http://levien.com/garden/ppedit/
./configure --with-spiro-srcdir=`pwd`
make
sudo make install
cd ..
Finally, build and install fontforge
./configure --with-freetype-bytecode --with-freetype-src=freetype-2.3.5 --without-python
make
sudo make install
sudo make install_docs
And run it with
/usr/local/bin/fontforge
:-)
Problems
I can’t find libraries for libiconv and libintl in Gobuntu repositories, and --with-python can’t find setup.py when I make install.
Spiro has those lovely crazy curves when the splines don’t converge.
Whimsically, the label for .plate files in the Import dialog’s dropdown list is fun… Perhaps “Plate” would be more regular (and boring)?
The FontForge has integrated Spiro! by David Crossland, except the quotations and unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
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