From OFLB

Themes

The first thing to do to set up FontForge is to install a nice theme, like the ClearLooks theme.

Run the Terminal program and run the following commands:

   mkdir ~/.FontForge;
   cd ~/.FontForge/;
   wget  http://dave.lab6.com/acid/dump/2009/theme-clearlooks.zip;
   curl -O http://dave.lab6.com/acid/dump/2009/theme-clearlooks.zip;
   unzip theme-clearlooks.zip;
   

Then run FontForge and go to the File menu, select Preferences, and then in the Generic pane. Click the File Chooser button for the "Resource File" item, and click the Home icon, and then type the following and hit return:

   .FontForge/

Then select the "theme-clearlooks.txt" file and click OK, and then click OK for the Preferences window too. Then quit FontForge and start it again.

• • • Note that if FontForge crashes when the theme is installed, you can delete it with the following command:***

   rm -rf .FontForge/theme-clearlooks*;

Other themes are available on the FontForge Wiki. Full documentation on customising themes is in the the Xres page of the FontForge manual.

Mac OS X

If you are using Mac OS X, try the following tips:

• To make the Mac keyboard shortcuts appear, go to the File Menu, select X Resource Editor, and then go to the Menu pane, and tick the MacIcons box.

Version Control

Please see the Collaborative Design Workflows page for more details.

Advanced Scripting

Please see the FontForge Scripting page for more details.