Thread: By the power of Font Snobs!
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Old 06-06-2011, 02:11 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by anamardoll View Post
Gonna try Font Forge now. *sigh*

EDIT: Yeah, Font Forge isn't gonna work for me. A big ol collection of files and folders and no explanation on how to use / install / interact with them that I can find.

DOUBLE EDIT: Thank you.

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If you are really interested in installing FontForge, just let me know.

"All" you have to do is to install Cygwin. Cygwin is basically a Linux environment (compiler, libraries, userland utilities (such as vi text editor, sed, awk, less, ...) for Windows. Part of the Cygwin is X-window environment for Windows that will let you use Windows version of FontForge. Took me some time to figure out how to use FointForge on Windows at work - and I already had Cygwin installed and I already knew how to work with FontForge on Linux.


Another option is to install a Linux distribution (such as Mint Linux or Ubuntu) alongside your Windows. Installing FontForge under Linux is usually just a few clicks in package manager.
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