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This is Gerben Wierda's binary distribution of FontForge for Mac OS X. FontForge is a font manipulation program, which includes conversion between different font formats. If you have X11 installed, the GUI application (that needs the X11 windowing system) will be installed otherwise only the command line tool will be available. 

The distribution has been created by downloading FontForge from sourceforge and compiling and installing it with make. I had to change a few settings and files. I reported my changes to the author.

This distribution could contain more, like CID maps and fonts. I can add these if they are needed.

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pfaedit i-Package release notes

2008/10/07:
• Requires Mac OS X 10.5
2008/07/24:
• All i-Packages updated to require at least i-Installer 2.91
2008/07/09:
• Removed the gettext dependency. It seems current FontForge does not link dynamically against gettext (libintl) anymore.
2008/07/08:
• All i-Packages updated to require at least i-Installer 2.90
• Using improved i-Installer uninstall mechanism so old junk from previous versions is removed as well. This mechanism requires configuration of the i-Package as it changes (e.g. using new FontForge versions) so reports on stuff not removed on uninstall is welcome.
2008/07/05:
• Rebuilt because of a bug in Mac OS X 10.5.4's (and probably earlier versions) tar
2008/06/07:
• Rebuilt in an attempt to fix a problem with deployment on Mac OS X 10.4. Might still not work because of a python dependency,
2008/05/30:
• All i-Packages updated to require at least i-Installer 2.89
• FontForge version 20080429
2007/03/13:
• FontForge version 20070312
2007/02/26:
• FontForge version 20061220
2006/10/29:
• i-Packages running the remove phase as part of the prepare phase need the remove script as dependency for the prepare script in the TOC
2006/10/11:
• Requires i-Installer 2.83 as we want to force people to update to that version as earlier versions contain a potentially harmful bug.
2006/09/23:
• Requires i-Installer 2.79 as we want to force people to update to that version as earlier versions contain a potentially harmful bug.
• Fontforge version 20060822
2006/08/11:
• FontForge version 20060715
2006/02/28:
• FontForge version 20060125
• Includes libuninameslist version 20050712
• New dependency: the gettext libraries (available in i-Package)
2006/01/25:
• First fat release (i386 and ppc).
2005/09/02:
• Upgraded to FontForge 20050831
2005/03/20:
• It turned out the previous release was created without iconv support. This has been repaired.
2005/02/25:
• Upgraded to FontForge 20050209
2004/05/19:
• Upgraded to FontForge 20040519
• A symbolic link pfaedit -> fontforge is provided
2004/02/07:
• Recompiled on Mac OS X 10.2.8 with XFree86 4.3.2 installed.
2004/01/29:
• Rebuilt and released to all repositories
2004/01/23:
• Version 040118 (self made from 040115 + patch)
2004/01/19:
• This package needs i-Installer 2.41.0 or later to install.
2004/01/18:
• Upgraded to 040118 (not an official release by George William, this is the 040115 release with two patches needed for the Latin  Modern font conversion of the TeX i-Package).
• This version is minimally required for the TeX i-Package Latin Modern font install.
2004/01/15:
• Upgraded to 040115.
2004/01/14:
• This package needs i-Installer 2.38.0 or later to install.
2004/01/10:
• Upgraded to 040102 + nosub patch provided by George Williams
2004/01/04:
• Upgraded to 040102
• This package needs i-Installer 2.36.0 or later to install.
2003/12/11:
• Upgraded to 031210
• Added uninameslist libary (necessary for correct unicode ligature behaviour)
2003/11/26:
• Upgraded to 031123, needed a patch to compile/link
2003/03/13:
• This package needs i-Installer 2.12.0 or later to install.
2003/02/10:
• Fixed package timestamp problem.
2003/01/06:
• Upgraded to 021223.
2002/05/18:
• First i-Installer release.  Executable based on sources from 22:37 16-5-2002.
2002/09/24:
• First i-Installer v2 release
2002/11/05:
• Updated to pfaedit source distribution from 4 Nov 2002