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Now that you have successfully installed Cygwin and the libraries necessary to run FontForge, it is now to time to install FontForge itself.

Finally, install rxvt in the Shells category (just rxvt, not any of the rxvt-unicode-* packages).

Under the Graphics catagory, install the giflib, libpng, jpeg and libtiff packages (the latest non-beta version of libtiff at the time of this writing is libtiff5).

Under the Gnome catagory, install the libxml2 and libpango1.0_0 packages.

The Start Menu to run it), startxdmcp.bat ) Server: xinit, startx, startwin (and a shortcut on (optional but recommended, adds icons for X Clients to the The packages you will need is given below (This list has been updated as for thanks to Shanna's troubleshooting questions in the comments below): On the next screen you will select the packages List of available packages as it moves to the next

#Fontforge fix warnings download#

Proceed to the next screen setup will download a Not save setup.exe to c:\cygwin, as that is the Would like to store the downloaded packages in The primary Cygwin server save setup.exe to the directory that you Installs the necessary Cygwin packages for you.

But in order to use it, you must install Cygwin first:Ĭygwin has a nice setup program that downloads and FontForge has already been compiled under Cygwin and has been packaged up so that end users don’t have to. Do not worry … we are not going to compile any source code. Cygwin is a way to allow programs that run under the Linux Operating System to compile under Windows. Step 1: Install Cygwinįirst thing you must do in order to run FontForge under Windows is to install Cygwin. If you find any errors, please let me know in the comments section below - I do want to make this as easy and as painless as I possibly can. Since a lot of web designers out there may not be familiar with UNIX command shells and Cygwin, I have written this blog post to help. Web developers edit images and photographs with tools like The Gimp and Photoshop, so why can’t we edit fonts? The problem is FontForge was originally a UNIX X-Windows application, and the average user may have difficulty getting it to work under Windows. FontForge, as far as I can tell, is the best free font editing and conversion tool available for all operating systems. FontForge is a great font editor, but it can be a pain to install for Windows users.