Link to local FDK?

bas · 2 Jan 2018, 10:58

Preferences / Misc allows to uncheck "Use embedded FDK for font".

But how do I point Robofont to another (local) FDK?

frederik · 28 Nov 2011, 21:33

:P

if its enabled it will use the embedded FDK, if not RoboFonts tries to use the the local installed FDK, if you dont have a FDK installed you are not able to generate binaries.

If you want to check if FDK is installed type "which makeotf" in your Terminal. This should return some similar like "/Users/<userName>/bin/FDK/Tools/osx/makeotf"

bas · 28 Nov 2011, 21:14

“The reason is not clear”

btw.
What does the checkbox than actually do? Or is it a future feature?

frederik · 28 Nov 2011, 21:11

mmm no, RoboFont only talks to the FDK which is set as default. The FDK that responds to "makeotf" in Terminal.

Is there a reason why you want to use an older version of the FDK?

bas · 28 Nov 2011, 15:18

Yes, different versions installed. So, is it possible to link to another version of FDK?

frederik · 28 Nov 2011, 14:24

you have multiple FDK on your local machine?
RoboFont will use the FDK that is responding when you type "makeotf" in terminal