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Subject: RE: Running fontforge.exe does nothing
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:06:02 +0100
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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 typical symptom of a program that is missing a DLL it needs
under Cygwin.  If you run "cygcheck fontforge.exe", it'll tell you what
fontforge needs and if any are missing.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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