Bug#402983: texlive-bin: ttf2afm, and all of ttfutils, is missing
Frank Küster wrote:
> Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@web.de> wrote:
>
>> ttfdump (no idea where that comes from, no idea what it is)
>
> It seems to be available only in TeXlive now, not even separately on
> CTAN. And the project it was once supposed to be part of of doesn't
> seem to exist, and the developer is MIA: All changes since 1998 have
> been done by Werner Lemberg.
>
> And the purpose of ttfdump is "to dump the various table in a TrueType
> font file in ASCII form".
Interesting. Yet another program that does something like this. Up to
now I only knew TTX (package fonttools) and showttf (could be build with
fontforge, but maintainer does not want to #300111). I guess it does not
hurt to have ttfdump in texlive.
cheerio
ralf
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