From OFLB

Clearlooks theme

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.

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

Professional designers and programmers use version control systems; these applications take care of keeping different versions of the same file as it develops over time, so you don't have to. The ff-hg python plugin for FontForge is a simple interface to the Mercurial version control system.

To install it, make sure you have Mercurial installed using your operating system's usual way. Then open the Terminal and run the following command:

   mkdir ~/.FontForge/python; cd ~/.FontForge/python; 
   curl -O http://freehg.org/u/taejo/ffhg/raw-file/tip/ffhg.py

The ff-hg walkthrough has more details.

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