How To Install ttfautohint-gui on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ttfautohint-gui
on Fedora 36.
What is ttfautohint-gui
ttfautohint is a utility which takes a TrueType font as the input, removes its bytecode instructions (if any), and returns a new font where all glyphs are bytecode hinted using the information given by FreeType’s autohinting module. The idea is to provide the excellent quality of the autohinter on platforms which don’t use FreeType. This is a GUI of ttfautohint based on Qt.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install ttfautohint-gui
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ttfautohint-gui.
Install ttfautohint-gui on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install ttfautohint-gui
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ttfautohint-gui
Install ttfautohint-gui on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install ttfautohint-gui
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ttfautohint-gui
How To Uninstall ttfautohint-gui on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the ttfautohint-gui
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ttfautohint-gui
ttfautohint-gui Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/ttfautohintGUI
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/813e4d91f8ccfaf2e54d627e752258900f726d
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/FTL.TXT
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/GPLv2.TXT
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/README
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/TODO
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/VERSION.TXT
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/footnote-popup.js
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/Halant-Regular-O-Q-unhinted-12px.png
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/Halant-Regular-O-Q.png
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/Halant-Regular-O-good-Q-badly-hinted-12px.png
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/Halant-Regular-O-good-Q-better-hinted-12px.png
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/Halant-Regular-O-good-Q-well-hinted-12px.png
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/Merriweather-Black-g-21px-comparison.png
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/a-after-autohinting.png
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/a-after-hinting.png
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/a-before-hinting.png
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/afii10108-11px-after-hinting.png
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/afii10108-11px-before-hinting.png
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/afii10108-12px-after-hinting.png
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/afii10108-12px-before-hinting.png
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/blue-zones.pdf
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/blue-zones.svg
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/composite-no-round-xy-to-grid-option-c.png
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/composite-no-round-xy-to-grid.png
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/composite-round-xy-to-grid.png
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/e-17px-x14.png
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/e-17px-x17.png
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/fira-16px-ie11-win81.png
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/glyph-terms.pdf
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/glyph-terms.svg
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/o-and-i.pdf
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/o-and-i.svg
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/segment-edge.pdf
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/segment-edge.svg
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/img/ttfautohintGUI.png
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/jquery-3.6.0.min.js
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/toc-unfold.js
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/ttfautohint.html
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/ttfautohint.pdf
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/ttfautohint.txt
/usr/share/licenses/ttfautohint-gui
/usr/share/licenses/ttfautohint-gui/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/ttfautohintGUI.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ttfautohint-gui
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).