| Roozbeh Pournader | de90084 | 2014-11-24 13:13:12 -0800 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | Lohit Project Information :- |
| 2 | See https://fedorahosted.org/lohit/ for more details. |
| 3 | |
| 4 | Mailing list:- |
| 5 | http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/lohit-devel-list |
| 6 | |
| 7 | Generating ttf from source file: |
| 8 | Note: If you have downloaded ttf tarball this step is not required. |
| 9 | 1. Building ttf file with fontforge. |
| 10 | - Open .sfd file in Fontforge. |
| 11 | - Import .fea file using (File->Merge Feature Info) |
| 12 | - File-> Generate fonts. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | 2. Using Makefile (Recommended) |
| 15 | - In terminal change directory to lohit downloaded tarball and run |
| 16 | - $make ttf |
| 17 | - This will generate ttf. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | 3. Building webfonts |
| 20 | - Fedora users -> $yum install sfntly |
| 21 | - Check if your distro has sfntly, if not Download sfntly for building web fonts. |
| 22 | - Download "sfntly-read-only.zip" from http://code.google.com/p/sfntly/downloads/list |
| 23 | - Go to java folder and run $ant |
| 24 | - Copy sfnttool.jar to /usr/share/java/ |
| 25 | - $make woff eot |
| 26 | - This will generate webfonts. |
| 27 | 4. $make all will generate all binaries. |
| 28 | |
| 29 | Installing fonts: |
| 30 | Fedora or other linux distro |
| 31 | 1. Using graphics user interface |
| 32 | - open ttf using gnome-font-viewer or kfontview |
| 33 | - click on install fonts |
| 34 | |
| 35 | 2. Using terminal |
| 36 | - copy font to /~.local/share/fonts |
| 37 | - run $fc-cache |
| 38 | - open gedit, it should be listed now |
| 39 | |
| 40 | Windows |
| 41 | 1. Nicely documented on http://windows.microsoft.com/en-in/windows-vista/install-or-uninstall-fonts |