Project 16D: Creating Your Own Fonts with PfaEdit (Optional)

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After all this font talk, it seems only appropriate that we end this chapter by giving you the means to create your own fonts (or at least modify someone else’s). PfaEdit allows you to create or modify TrueType, PostScript, and bitmap fonts (see Figure 16-4). The interface itself seems a bit dated, but don’t let that fool you; PfaEdit is quite capable and easy to use.

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Figure 16-4: Using PfaEdit to create fonts

16D-1: Downloading, Installing, and Running PfaEdit

You can download PfaEdit from http://dag.wieers.com/packages/pfaedit. On that page, download the package appropriate for your system. If you added DAG to Synaptic’s list of repositories, you can also download the PfaEdit via Synaptic. To do so just type pfaedit in Synaptic’s Find box and then follow the procedures you learned in Chapter 10. As the package is an RPM file with no unmet dependencies, installation will go quite smoothly.

PfaEdit does not place a launcher in your Main menu once installed, so to run it you will have to either open a Terminal window, type pfaedit and press ENTER, or go to the Main menu, select Run Application, and then type the command pfaedit and click Run. Rather than do this every time, you will no doubt want to create a launcher on your own, so check out Appendix A for the launcher specs.

If you would like an overview of PfaEdit and font creation in general, go to the PfaEdit Help menu and select Help. Be sure to also check out the really great tutorial on font creation with PfaEdit by clicking the Example link on that overview page, or you can go to the tutorial directly, at http://pfaedit. sourceforge.net/editexample.html.



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Linux for Non-Geeks. A Hands-On, Project-Based, Take-It-Slow Guidebook
Linux for Non-Geeks: A Hands-On, Project-Based, Take-It-Slow Guidebook
ISBN: 1593270348
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Year: 2003
Pages: 188

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