Bug#492546: ITP: libfont-freetype-perl -- Read font files and render glyphs from Perl using FreeType2

[Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>


* Package name    : libfont-freetype-perl
  Version         : 0.03
  Upstream Author : Geoff Richards <geoff *AT* laxan *DOT* com>
* URL             : http://search.cpan.org/~geoffr/Font-FreeType-0.03/
* License         : Same as Perl (GPL, Artistic)
  Programming Lang: C, Perl
  Description     : Read font files and render glyphs from Perl using FreeType2

 This module allows Perl programs to conveniently read information from
 font files.  All the font access is done through the FreeType2 library,
 which supports many formats.  It can render images of characters with
 high-quality hinting and antialiasing, extract metrics information, and
 extract the outlines of characters in scalable formats like TrueType.

This is hopefully a first step to resolve http://bugs.debian.org/285653
Bug#285653: defoma should migrate to an alternative to libft-perl.

Cheers,

Anthony Fok

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)