How To Install ttfautohint on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ttfautohint on Fedora 36.
What is ttfautohint
This 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.
We can use yum or dnf to install ttfautohint on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ttfautohint.
Install ttfautohint 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 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ttfautohint
Install ttfautohint 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 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ttfautohint
How To Uninstall ttfautohint on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the ttfautohint package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ttfautohint
ttfautohint Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/ttfautohint
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/92
/usr/lib/.build-id/92/d3a7abeb08fd0efd69bdbef7bbe0fc8d35718a
/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/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/ttfautohint.html
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/ttfautohint.pdf
/usr/share/doc/ttfautohint/ttfautohint.txt
/usr/share/licenses/ttfautohint
/usr/share/licenses/ttfautohint/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/ttfautohint.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ttfautohint on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
