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Bug#337315: ITP: pfb2t1c2pfb -- a piece of software to make pfb files more compressible



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>

* Package name    : pfb2t1c2pfb
  Version         : 0.2
  Upstream Author : Szabo Peter <pts@fazekas.hu>
* URL             : http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-pfb2t1c2pfb/
* License         : public domain (still to be clarified)
  Description     : a piece of software to make pfb files more compressible

Some Debian packages deliver pfb files (PostScript Type1 -- binary
format). These files are not very compressible, when using normal
compressors like gzip or bzip2. The package contains two programs,
which converts the pfb files into an t1c file, which can be shrinked
to half of its original size. The other program does the reconvert.
  This might be very useful, when packaging the software and will be
used by cm-super.
I'll contact the author about clarifying the license issue.

H.
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sigmentation fault



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