#7689: fontforge-20160404
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Reporter: bdubbs@… | Owner: ken@…
Type: enhancement | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.10
Component: BOOK | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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Comment (by ken@…):
Replying to [comment:3 bdubbs@…]:
> The dist version builds fine for me. Even though the directory name is
wrong, the files are all dated April 4 (2016). It builds fine with
current instructions.
>
> I do get the start problem without the -new parameter.
>
> Teh make check gives:
>
> {{{
> 32 tests were successful.
> 19 tests were skipped.
> }}}
>
> Make check also downloads a few files:
> {{{
> fonts/MunhwaGothic-Bo 100%[=========================>] 562.32K
> fetched-fonts/MunhwaG 100%[=========================>] 562.32K
> }}}
>
> Thats fonts/MunhwaGothic-Bold and fetched-fonts/MunhwaGothic-Bold above.
I agree with most of that, and I'm using a sed to get the corrected date
in the pkgconfig files and in the test log. What I disagree with is the
start problem. I have suppressed that fontforge.desktop sed in my current
build to see if it was still needed. I then started fontforge from a term
(urxvt) and navigated to /usr/share/fonts, then opened a ttf without any
problems. I then did the same thing from xfce's menu Applications |
Graphics | Fontforge. Just tried again, using an old bdf I found in ~/
(man, I ought to clear out some of this stuff :) and I got the splash
screen, a box from which to navigate, and then once I selected the bdf it
opened it - unlike the ttcs where I normally need it, there was no error
window.
Just to confirm my fontforge.desktop has not been altered, it contains the
following around Exec:
{{{
Comment[pt]=Um editor de fontes
Exec=fontforge %U
TryExec=fontforge
Icon=fontforge
StartupWMClass=fontforge
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Graphics;
MimeType=application/vnd.font-fontforge-sfd;application/x-font-
ttf;application/x-font-otf;application/x-font-type1;application/x-font-
bdf;application/x-font-pcf;application/x-font-tex;
}}}
I have suspected in the past that that problem had gone, but I did not
always have everything installed to try to prove it.
Meanwhile, and just for the record, it seems to work - I downloaded a
zipped msgothic ttc from one of the "get your free fonts here" sites (like
most such sites it does not concern itself with licenses - would it be
cynical of me to believe that windows users do not care about licenses ?)
- very likely ripped off from microsoft. Anyway, fontforge could not
understand it (three fonts but no names, so I tried the first but
fontforge could not understand the headers). So I went back to one of the
two CJK ttcs that I have (Arphic Public License) and regenerated one font.
The ttf differs - I assume there are details along the lines of "generated
by fontforge-$VERSION", but looking at the list of glyphs that I can find
in it (the perl stuff) the output is identical.
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