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FontForge is a UNIX application, so it doesn’t behave 100% like a normal Mac Application.OS X 10.12 or later is required.

Download and install FontForge 2020-11-07

• In order to execute GUI commands on the remote machine, and display the GUI in your local computer sceen(e.g.: scite editor), we also need to install and configure an X server called XQuartz. If XQuartz is already installed on your Mac, then you can skip the download and install step.
• Our software library provides a free download of XQuartz 2.8.1 for Mac. The file size of the latest installer available is 104.6 MB. This free Mac app is a product of org.macosforge. XQuartz for Mac belongs to System Tools. Our antivirus scan shows that this Mac download is clean.

Apr 25, 2021 The XQuartz project is an open-source effort to develop a version of the X.Org X Window System that runs on macOS. Together with supporting libraries and applications, it forms the X11.app that Apple shipped with OS X versions 10.5 through 10.7.

1. Install XQuartz

Without XQuartz, FontForge will open a Dock icon but not load any further.

Open Finder and look in your /Applications/Utilities/ folder for the XQuartz app.

If you don’t have it then download and install: direct link to XQuartz-2.8.1.dmg

Log out and log back in to ensure it works correctly

Just this first time, start XQuartz from Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app, go to the X11 menu, Preferences, Input, and turn off the Enable keyboard shortcuts under X11 or Enable key equivalents under X11 preference item. FontForge will start XQuartz automatically for you next time.

2. Install FontForge

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For users of OS X 10.10 and later, download and install FontForge 2017-07-31

For users of OS X 10.09, download and install FontForge 2015-04-30

Open it and move the FontForge.app file to /Applications - do not move it anywhere else

Right Click (or hold the Command key and click once) and choose Open from the menu, and confirm you want to open the app

You may see a dialog box saying “Choose Application. Where is X11?” with a sort of Finder window. Find XQuartz in Applications/Utilities and click OK

Be patient while it runs a first-time setup process

FontForge will create a new font and show you its glyphs in a table:

Next time, it will open fast and in any typical way: double clicking it, drag it to the dock, using Launcher, Spotlight or Quicksilver…

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Tips

When you run FontForge, its dock icon will disappear after it is launched, because it is controlled by XQuartz.

To bring fontforge’s windows to the font, click the XQuartz icon, or use Alt+Tab to switch to it.

Problems?

If you have any problems with installation or upgrading, create a Github Issue to discuss with our community.

Other sources and versions

You can also install Development Snapshots, install using Package Managers or build from source

See developer builds for instructions.

Once downloaded, to install an update:

1. Drag and drop the new FontForge.app into /Applications and replace it
2. Start FontForge again

Installing from Package Managers

These Mac package managers all have FontForge:

• Homebrew (command-line only)

Building from source

Build with source using Homebrew:

Advanced Configuration

To make FontForge more pleasant to use, you can change some aspects of the way it works on Macs. These steps are optional.

If the hotkeys are unfamiliar, you can change them!

1. quit FontForge (and X11, for versions prior to 2019-03-17)
2. with your text editor, open /Applications/FontForge.app/Contents/Resources/opt/local/share/fontforge/hotkeys/default
3. change the hotkeys and save the file
4. start FontForge again

If the UI appears very big or very small, you can change the way the UI is sized.

1. quit FontForge (and X11, for versions prior to 2019-03-17)
2. with your text editor, open /Applications/FontForge.app/Contents/Resources/opt/local/share/fontforge/pixmaps/resources
3. measure the physical width of your screen in centimeters. In this example, it is 34cm wide.
4. add a new line, Gdraw.ScreenWidthCentimeters: 34 and save the file
5. start FontForge again
6. if the scaling is still not right, play with the value until it is

FontForge is designed to make use of a three button mouse. It is also designed to make use of modifier keys on mouse clicks (eg, Control-left-click can mean something different than left-click.)

If you have a standard one button mouse, then you have the option of having the Mac simulate a three button mouse (for instance Option-left-click behaves like clicking the middle mouse button). Unfortunately this means you can no longer use the Option key to change the behavior of the left (only) button click. To enable this, click the XQuartz app in the Dock, and then go to X11 menu in the top left, Preferences, Input, and turn on Emulate three button mouse

If you have a two or three button mouse, then use it (and turn off Emulate three button mouse in the X11 preferences.)

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Making it better

XQuartz is an open-source version of the X.Org X server, a component of the X Window System (X11, or shortened to simply X, and sometimes informally X-Windows) that runs on macOS.^[1] It formally replaced Apple's internal X11 app. The name 'XQuartz' derives from Quartz, part of the macOS Core Graphics framework, to which XQuartz connects these applications. XQuartz allows cross-platform applications using X11 for the GUI to run on macOS, many of which are not specifically designed for macOS. This includes numerous scientific and academic software projects.^[2]

History[edit]

X11.app was initially available as a downloadable public beta for Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar and later included as a standard package for Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. In Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger X11.app was an optional install included on the install DVD. Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, and Mac OS X 10.7 Lion installed X11.app by default, but from OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion on Apple dropped dedicated support for X11.app, with users being directed to the open source XQuartz project (to which Apple contributes) instead.^[2]

In Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Apple's X11 implemented X11 protocol release 6.6 (X11R6.6). This implementation includes an XFree86 4.4 based X11 window server, Quartz rootless window manager, libraries, and basic utilities such as xterm.^[3] 'Rootless' means that X window applications show up on the Quartz desktop, appearing like any other windowed Quartz application (that is, not in a virtual desktop contained within another window). In Mac OS X Leopard, X11 was updated to use X.Org Server (X11R7.2) rather than XFree86.^[4] The source code for X11 is available from Apple. Some source code is available under the Apple Public Source License while the bulk is licensed under the MIT License.

Current version[edit]

The current version of XQuartz is a DDX (Device Dependent X^[5]) included in the X.Org Server and implements support for hardware-accelerated 2D graphics (in versions prior to 2.1), hardware OpenGL acceleration and integration with Aqua, the macOS graphical user interface (GUI). As of version 2.8.0, XQuartz does not provide support for high-resolution Retina displays to X11 apps, which run in pixel-doubled mode on high-resolution displays.

List of versions (since 2010)[edit]

See also[edit]

• MacX, X11 support on Classic Mac OS
• XWayland, to support X application under Wayland
• XDarwin, an implementation of X for macOS that preceded XQuartz, and supports versions of macOS before 10.3 unlike XQuartz

References[edit]

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1. ^'XQuartz'.
2. ^ ^ab'Apple Removes X11 in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Shifts Support to Open Source XQuartz'. Retrieved September 14, 2016.
3. ^'XQuartz'. September 14, 2016.
4. ^'Inside Leopard: Under-the-hood, Page 2'. Macworld. November 2, 2007. Retrieved June 30, 2020.
5. ^'Glossary'. www.x.org. Retrieved September 15, 2016.
6. ^'XQuartz - Releases Archive'. www.xquartz.org. Retrieved January 22, 2017.

External links[edit]

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