Bug#402983: texlive-bin: ttf2afm, and all of ttfutils, is missing
On Don, 14 Dez 2006, Ralf Stubner wrote:
> > 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.
Please note that ttfdump is NOT build in TeX Live 2005, and it is only
present in the windows part of the tpm file. So I am not convinced that
it builds at all, works at all,...
This is true also for texlive-svn, also there is no ttfdump on linux
binary.
Best wishes
Norbert
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Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> Università di Siena
Debian Developer <preining@debian.org> Debian TeX Group
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