Installing AFDKO
I have tried to install the AFDKO —Adobe Font Development Kit Opentype—following the directions in the Typowiki. I am trying to do this in OSX 10.5.2. I dropped the “finish install OSX” file into the terminal window and it seemed to install. But when I try the test—typing “autohint -h”—I don’t get information about autohint, but rather an error message, “-bash: autohint: command not found”
Can someone give me more detailed instructions or tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks!
12.May.2008 11.30am
William,
Try these additional steps http://typophile.com/node/43848#comment-270759
The next version of the AFDKO should have this fixed.
12.May.2008 1.05pm
Those instructions should work. This is a unix-y error in the shell indicating that bash doesn’t know about the “autohint” program. The shell keeps track of directories of programs it will run without specifying the full location. In unix parlance people refer to this as the “path”. So one might say that the “autohint” program is not “in your path”.
12.May.2008 2.27pm
Thanks Miguel, I’ll try that.
I just found out there is something wrong with the graphics card on my 3 week old machine, so it is being replaced :( So I won’t get to try this till I get the machine back on Friday. I’ll let you know how it works.