Bug#652291: ITP: googlefontdirectory-tools -- various tools for generating, analysing and manipulating font files
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
User: pkg-fonts-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: wnpp
* Package name : googlefontdirectory-tools
Version : N/A (20111215)
Upstream Author : Dave Crossland <dave@understandinglimited.com>
* URL : http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/
* License : Apache-2.0
Programming Lang: python, fontforge, bash
Description : various tools for generating, analysing and manipulating font files
This package contains a collection of tools used by the Google Font Directory
to work with fonts.
.
The package includes scripts to:
* Analyse bounding boxes
* Compare Unicode points and glyph names
* Generate namelist files
* Setting GASP tables in font files
* Generate ttf and otf fonts from sfd source files
* Generate font files with a subset of characters
* Auto-set and analyse PREP hinting and hinting tables
* Generate sfd source files from ttf fonts
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