FAQ change wrt FontForge
James McKenzie
jjmckenzie51 at earthlink.net
Sun Nov 23 16:11:36 CST 2008
Francois Gouget wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Wine Wiki wrote:
> [...]
>
>> - Unless you plan to work on the TrueType fonts you don't need
>> FontForge. If you do, then be aware that the FontForge packages from
>> Breezy and Dapper are a bit out of date. The fonts generated by most
>> versions of FontForge will not pass the gdi32/tests/fonts.c tests.
>> + Be aware that the FontForge packages from Breezy and Dapper are a
>> bit out of date. The fonts generated by most versions of FontForge
>> will not pass the gdi32/tests/fonts.c tests.
>>
> [...]
>
>> - Note that, unless you are tracking Git and know what you are doing,
>> you SHOULDN'T have valgrind. Also, unless you plan to work on the
>> TrueType fonts you don't need FontForge.
>> + Note that, unless you are tracking Git and know what you are doing,
>> you SHOULDN'T have valgrind.
>>
> [...]
>
>> - Unless you plan to work on the TrueType fonts you don't need FontForge.
>>
> [...]
>
>> - * The following, but ''only'' if you plan to work on the TrueType
>> fonts, and can install them from ''testing'' - '''do not''' install
>> these from ''Sarge'':
>> + * '''Do not''' install these from ''Sarge'':
>> * fontforge/testing
>>
>
> I think these changes are wrong. As far as I know the TrueType fonts are
> checked into Git so one does not need to have FontForge to build Wine.
> Or has this changed? Or is FontForge needed to build another type of
> fonts?
>
>
Fracois:
FontForge is required to build Darwine. MacOSX does not come with the
necessary parts to support TrueType fonts.
James McKenzie
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