Gglyph 0.1.1 - README
This is an ALPHA release - as such, it may not be stable, and many planned features are not yet implemented.
Compiling and installing it should be as simple as:
./configure
make
make install
If you're using Debian GNU/Linux, you can find links to unofficial Debian packages (which have the advantage of installing themselves in your menu system automagically...) on the website at http://aix2.uottawa.ca/~s1204672/linux/gglyph/. As soon as it's relatively bug-free, I will upload it to master and it will become part of the upcoming Debian 2.1 release ("slink").
It compiles and runs on Debian GNU/Linux 2.0-beta, with XFree86 3.3.2.1. I don't have access to other distributions, operating systems, or X servers with which to test it. Please let me know if and how it breaks on other systems, so I can make the necessary adjustments.
You will need the GTK+ toolkit to compile this. See http://www.gtk.org for more info. GTK+ 1.0.4 is recommended. If you have both GTK+ 1.0.4 and 1.1 installed on your system, use the --with-gtk-prefix and --with-gtk-exec-prefix options to "configure" to choose which one to build against.
You will also need the t1lib library. It can be obtained at
ftp://ftp.neuroinformatik.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/pub/software/t1lib/.
Debian users can find it in
ftp://ftp.debian.org/dists/slink/main/binary-i386/libs, or any
up-to-date mirror.
Finally, Gglyph uses the program "type1inst" when installing fonts. You do
not need this to compile or to view fonts, but installing fonts won't work
without it. It can be obtained from
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/X11/xutils/
The file "patch-type1inst.diff" is a patch against type1inst 0.6.1 which adds a few foundry names and fixes a few minor bugs. This makes it generate valid XLFDs for all of the fonts on the GIMP 1.0 CD, so it's good enough for me!
See the file TODO for a list of things that are forthcoming.
Thanks!
David Huggins-Daines
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