Re: Running fontforge.exe does nothing

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 09:32:51AM -0400, David Spector wrote: >Perhaps the best solution would be for any information channel (like >this mailing list) to offer a choice of either user interface. This >could be done in some standard Open Source way, so no organization >hosting a channel would hav

Re: Running fontforge.exe does nothing

On 06/25/2008, David Spector wrote: Larry, Thanks for the info. I think the maintainer of fontforge should have added it to the cygwin setup as a standard package, with the appropriate dependencies. That would have avoided the problem that I had (and more people in the future will probably ha

Re: Running fontforge.exe does nothing

Thanks for your replies. Larry, Thanks for the info. I think the maintainer of fontforge should have added it to the cygwin setup as a standard package, with the appropriate dependencies. That would have avoided the problem that I had (and more people in the future will probably have with i

Re: Running fontforge.exe does nothing

David Spector wrote: Dave and Ralph, Thanks for your quick responses and help. That did it. I can now run fontforge. Thanks again! (Surely cygwin packaging could have been done similar to the Make model so a single "install the latest fontforge" command would automatically install cygwin, x

Re: Running fontforge.exe does nothing

David Spector wrote: > I'm having trouble using setup.exe. It seems to want > to download all sorts of software I'm not interested > in by default. Example: ghostscript, which I already > have installed under Windows. Packages have dependencies. When you select one package, setup adds all the ot

Re: Running fontforge.exe does nothing

Dave and Ralph, Thanks for your quick responses and help. That did it. I can now run fontforge. Thanks again! (Surely cygwin packaging could have been done similar to the Make model so a single "install the latest fontforge" command would automatically install cygwin, x windows, and all nece

Re: Running fontforge.exe does nothing

David Spector wrote: (I won't waste space including your message of June 24, 2008 1:40 PM, since it's in the archive. Why does cygwin use the mailing list approach, instead of an online forum? Seems awkward, since we have to receive all messages instead of subscribing to or browsing the categ

RE: Running fontforge.exe does nothing

David Spector wrote on 25 June 2008 00:37: > I'm having trouble using setup.exe. It seems to want > to download all sorts of software I'm not interested > in by default. Example: ghostscript, which I already > have installed under Windows. > > I can't find any way to install only the libpng12 and

Re: Running fontforge.exe does nothing

Dave, Thanks for your quick and helpful response. As you requested, I'll keep this discussion on the list. I'm having trouble using setup.exe. It seems to want to download all sorts of software I'm not interested in by default. Example: ghostscript, which I already have installed under Wind

RE: Running fontforge.exe does nothing

David Spector wrote on 24 June 2008 13:42: > Dave, > > Thank you for your prompt and excellent response, > which got lost somehow before I could see it in my > incoming mail. NP, but can we keep this on the list please? (See http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPIOSPE for a few good reasons why to ke

RE: Running fontforge.exe does nothing

David Spector wrote on 24 June 2008 12:49: > Does anyone have an idea of what I could have done > wrong? Failing to notice when I answered this question yesterday? ;-) http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-06/msg00443.html cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today -

Running fontforge.exe does nothing

Hi. I've installed the latest cygwin on my Windows XP Home system named "SYS3", and it appears to run perfectly. I have plenty of disk and memory space. www.springtimesoftware.com/ff-screen02.JPG shows the result of typing xinit. (Typing startx is similar for me, except that the created X window

RE: Running fontforge.exe does nothing

David Spector wrote on 22 June 2008 12:30: > I installed the latest fontforge, following the > official instructions. > > When I run fontforge in the X window, nothing happens. > www.springtimesoftware.com/ff-screen01.JPG shows this. > As you can see, there is no error message. This is the ty

Running fontforge.exe does nothing

Hi. I've installed the latest cygwin on my Windows XP Home system named "SYS3", and it appears to run perfectly. I have plenty of disk and memory space. www.springtimesoftware.com/ff-screen02.JPG shows the result of typing xinit. (Typing startx is similar for me, except that the created X w