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+CAVEAT
+ FontForge used to be called PfaEdit. Early releases may be found at
+     http://pfaedit.sf.net/
+
+INSTALLATION NOTES:
+ This distribution may be in two formats, either it contains dynamic libraries
+ or it does not.
+
+INSTALLATION WITH DYNAMIC LIBRARIES
+ contains two executables:
+ 	fontforge -- a font editor
+	sfddiff -- a program for comparing fonts
+ man pages for the above
+	fontforge.1
+	sfddiff.1
+ two libraries
+	libgdraw.so
+	libgunicode.so
+ and some user interface files
+	fontforge.{en,fr,de,ru,ja}.ui
+ and a shell script
+	doinstall
+ which should put everything into a reasonable place (you probably need to be
+ root to run it).
+
+ If you want to edit CID-keyed fonts (for CJK fonts) you may want to pull down
+ the cidmap package from http://fontforge.sf.net/cidmaps.tgz and move the
+ contents to /usr/share/fontforge also.
+
+INSTALLATION WITHOUT DYNAMIC LIBRARIES
+ Otherwise the package will contain:
+	A README file or two
+	fontforge    -- the executable
+	fontforge.1  --	the man page.
+	pfaedit-*.ui --	various user interface string files for different
+			languages
+    You should:
+    	$ su
+	# mkdir -p /usr/local/bin /usr/local/man/man1 /usr/local/share/fontforge
+	# mv fontforge /usr/local/bin
+	# mv *.1 /usr/local/man/man1
+	# mv *.ui /usr/local/share/fontforge
+
+    You may need to add /usr/local/bin to your PATH environment variable (and
+    /usr/local/man to your MANPATH environment variable). If you use bash edit
+    ~/.bashrc and add
+    	PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/bin
+	MANPATH=${MANPATH:-}:/usr/local/man ; export MANPATH
+    Or if you use csh, tcsh, etc. edit your ~/.cshrc and add:
+    	setenv PATH ${PATH}:/usr/local/bin
+	if ( $?MANPATH == "0" ) then
+	    setenv MANPATH /usr/local/man
+	else
+	    setenv MANPATH ${MANPATH}:/usr/local/man
+	endif
+
+BUILDING
+    Just download the file fontforge_full-*.tgz which you will find on
+	http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/index.html#source
+    Move it somewhere appropriate (/usr/local/src perhaps?) and type:
+	$ gunzip fontforge_full-*.tgz ; tar xf fontforge_full-*.tar
+	$ cd fontforge
+	$ configure
+	$ make
+	$ su
+	# make install
+    On those machines where I can't figure out how to build dynamic
+    libraries you should substitute "configure.static" for configure.
+
+If you want access to FontForge's type3 editing capabilities then
+	$ configure --with-multilayer
+
+More complex installations
+    "make install" will also install a few other things which are not part of
+    the standard package, but which are useful for some people.
+    CIDMAPS:
+	If you are going to be editing CID keyed fonts you should also down-
+	load my cidmap files from
+		http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/cidmaps.tgz
+	put that file in the same place as you put fontforge_full*.tgz, then
+	    $ mkdir -p fontforge/cidmaps
+	    $ mv cidmaps.tgz fontforge/cidmaps
+	    $ cd fontforge/cidmaps
+	    $ gunzip *.tgz ; tar xf *.tar
+	    $ cd ../..
+	And then proceed to do the normal install.
+    DOCUMENTATION:
+	You can choose to install FontForge's documentation on your system, then
+	pressing the [Help] or [F1] key within FontForge will go to the local
+	docs rather than those on the web.
+	Download the doc bundle from
+	    http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/index.html#docs
+	Then (assuming you have not changed the install prefix)
+	    # mkdir -p /usr/local/share/doc/fontforge
+	    # mv fontforge_htdocs-*.tgz /usr/local/share/doc/fontforge
+	    # cd /usr/local/share/doc/fontforge
+	    # gunzip *.tgz; tar xf *.tar
+
+BUILDING for OpenVMS
+    Jouk Jansen has provided me with OpenVMS makefile scripts. There should
+    be mms files in all the appropriate directories.
+
+BUILDING without X11
+    FontForge can be built without X11. You will probably only want to do this
+    if your system lacks X (in which case configure should figure that out and
+    do it automagically). But if, for some strange reason you wish to build a
+    non-X version on a machine with X type:
+	$ configure --without-x
+
+BITMAP FONTS
+ The program sort of assumes you've got some unicode fonts lying around.
+ The program will choose fonts as best it can depending on what you have
+ installed on your machine.
+   Sources of unicode fonts:
+	http://czyborra.com/unifont/
+	http://clr.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/cu.html
+	http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/freefont
+        http://bibliofile.mc.duke.edu/gww/fonts/{Monospace,Caliban}
+
+DEPENDENCIES
+ FontForge has more functionality if libpng and libungif are installed on your
+ system. If they are not then you can find them at:
+     http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
+	 http://www.gzip.org/zlib/
+     ttp://prtr-13.ucsc.edu/~badger/software/libungif/index.shtml
+
+ FontForge also makes use of libuninameslist to be found at:
+     http://libuninameslist.sf.net/
+
+ FontForge's truetype debugger is completely dependent on:
+     http://freetype.sf.net/
+ The default configuration is useful to FontForge, but more functionality
+ is obtained if you enable the bytecode interpreter (but note: you must
+ have a license from Apple to do this). Instructions for doing so are
+ in the file README.UNX in the freetype distribution.
+ *** FontForge also needs to have the freetype sources available to it    ***
+ *** when it builds (it needs some internal include files). The configure ***
+ *** script can usually figure this out, but it is very time-consuming    ***
+ *** you might want to say $ ./configure --with-freetype-src=<dir>	  ***
+ *** where <dir> is the top-level freetype source directory		  ***
+
+ Finally, if you want to do autotracing you should install
+     http://sourceforge.net/projects/autotrace/
+
+RUNNING
+$ fontforge -new
+ Creates a new font
+$ fontforge -nosplash
+ (No splash screen in case you have a very slow X connection)
+$ fontforge font.pfa font2.pfb font3.ttf font4.otf font4.sfd font5.svg
+ Opens those fonts (sfd files are fontforge's own spline font database files)
+$ fontforge
+ Brings up a file picker dlg.
+
+DOCUMENTATION
+	http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/overview.html
+
+Please report any bugs to
+	fontforge-devel@lists.sourceforge.net