[Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#300111: fonttools from fontforge

Kęstutis Biliūnas kebil at kaunas.init.lt
Fri Dec 15 11:37:35 CET 2006


Hi Ralf,

Kt, 2006 12 14 21:54 +0100, Ralf Stubner rašė:

> in the closing message to this bug you said that the various fonttools
> available from <URL:http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/fontutils.html> are
> not actively maintained and that most of their feature are already
> available in fontforge.

That is according to the George Williams words, but now I can't find the
reference to this.

>  I don't know about the other tools, but I don't
> think this is the case for showttf, which does get updates as seen from
> <URL:http://fontforge.cvs.sourceforge.net/fontforge/fontforge/fonttools/>.
> These updates are infrequent, but this is expected given the nature of
> the tool. The TTF and OTF specifications don't change that rapidly. ;-)
> In addition, features of showttf are not available in fontforge. For
> example showttf allows one to take a detailed look into the structure of
> of the fonts and outlines, the usage of references etc. Also there are
> some private fields in TTF/OTF fonts which are not exposed by the
> fontforge GUI, while with showttf one can see their value. Therefore I
> would really appreciate it if you would include showttf into the Debian
> packages.

I understand. I will include showttf on the next upload of the
fontforge package. Only can't to promise that it will happen shortly.

Thank you and best regards,
-- 
Kęstutis Biliūnas <kebil at kaunas.init.lt>
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