From 228d83d46825eb0782815b9df41b21a7f329d557 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marek Roszko Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 01:46:12 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md Struggled to get font custom working on Linux Mint 18.2...turned out the package repos have fontforge compiled without python it seems. So added a note about manual install of fontforge --- README.md | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b177b507..110371ee 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -29,8 +29,11 @@ brew install eot-utils gem install fontcustom # On Linux +# Ensure you have a newer version of FontForge (>=2017), some distros may still ship with older versions! +# They could also not having fontforge compiled with python +# see http://fontforge.github.io/en-US/downloads/gnulinux-dl/ for an alternate install methods of fontforge if needed sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev fontforge -git clone https://github.com/bramstein/sfnt2woff-zopfli.git sfnt2woff-zopfli && cd sfnt2woff-zopfli && make && mv sfnt2woff-zopfli /usr/local/bin/sfnt2woff +git clone https://github.com/bramstein/sfnt2woff-zopfli.git sfnt2woff-zopfli && cd sfnt2woff-zopfli && make && sudo mv sfnt2woff-zopfli /usr/local/bin/sfnt2woff git clone --recursive https://github.com/google/woff2.git && cd woff2 && make clean all && sudo mv woff2_compress /usr/local/bin/ && sudo mv woff2_decompress /usr/local/bin/ gem install fontcustom ```