retitle 428740 O: gfontview -- font viewer for Type 1 and TrueType fonts thanks gfontview depends on gnome-libs which is scheduled for removal. If you care about gfontview, and think you can remove the freetype1 dependency, please adopt it. Otherwise, if no one picks it up within the next 2 weeks, I'll request its removal from the archive. Re: To submit@bugs.debian.org 2007-06-13 <20070613194906.GA14148@df7cb.de> > I'm offering some packages up for adoption so I have more time for the > others. > > gfontview is a useful tool to view fonts. Upstream appears dead, and > it's a gtk1 package. I won't work on the code bug(s), so if someone > wants to give the package more care, I'd be pleased to hand over. (I > will eventually tackle the wont-build-twice packaging but unless > someone else beats me to it, though.) > > Maintaining a package requires time and skills. Please only adopt this > package if you are *sure* you will have enough time and attention to > work on it. > > If you want to be the new maintainer, please see > http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/index.html#howto-rfa for detailed > instructions how to adopt a package properly. > > Some information about this package: > > Package: gfontview > Binary: gfontview > Version: 0.5.0-8 > Priority: extra > Section: gnome > Maintainer: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> > Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4), libgtk1.2-dev (>> 1.2.6), libttf-dev, libt1-dev, libungif4-dev, lpr, libgnome-dev, automake1.7, libtool > Architecture: any > Standards-Version: 3.7.2 > Format: 1.0 > Directory: pool/main/g/gfontview > Files: > 758964b4bf893fa04edd457dd17a3dfa 671 gfontview_0.5.0-8.dsc > f06e0e9d67f7d8b3af251fa593e83eeb 207053 gfontview_0.5.0.orig.tar.gz > 3187087bb2f236ce787a2a7f9cd59bf1 362749 gfontview_0.5.0-8.diff.gz > > Package: gfontview > Priority: extra > Section: gnome > Installed-Size: 296 > Maintainer: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> > Architecture: amd64 > Version: 0.5.0-8 > Depends: gdk-imlib11, libart2 (>= 1.2.13-5), libaudiofile0 (>= 0.2.3-4), libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1), libdb3 (>= 3.2.9+dfsg), libesd0 (>= 0.2.35) | libesd-alsa0 (>= 0.2.35), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-12), libglib1.2 (>= 1.2.0), libgnome32 (>= 1.2.13-5), libgnomesupport0 (>= 1.2.13-5), libgnomeui32 (>= 1.4.2-3), libgtk1.2 (>= 1.2.10-4), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), libpopt0 (>= 1.10), libsm6, libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1-12), libt1-5 (>= 5.0.2), libttf2, libungif4g (>= 4.1.4), libx11-6, libxext6, libxi6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.1) > Filename: pool/main/g/gfontview/gfontview_0.5.0-8_amd64.deb > Size: 83104 > MD5sum: ac77ae69cafdc54075f7aa1a4bbed13f > SHA1: d68d18ba26bf562052873ccb26e61261035c0f35 > SHA256: d7dc91b66876f177aed49eb62e635b3c005861dcb7049542c0758fd3b72fc264 > Description: font viewer for Type 1 and TrueType fonts > gfontview is a font viewer for outline fonts, PostScript(tm) Type 1 and > TrueType(tm). > . > gfontview allows you to display a particular character or string of a > font in an own window, thus allowing a comparison between several fonts > with a particular string sample. This character or string can be > antialiased (smoothed). The string can also consider the kerning pairs if > available in the AFM or TTF file. The displayed character or string can be > saved in GIF format. > . > A table with all glyphs in the font (for PostScript Type 1 fonts also > in several encodings) can also be created. A custom encoding will be > generated on the fly to allow you to see all characters (also not > encoded ones) in a Type 1 font, the so called "Custom" encodings. > . > You can also print a sample of a font. The program generates PostScript > code with sample strings in several sizes, which you can download to any > PostScript printer or to ghostscript. > . > TrueType fonts can be saved as Type42 PostScript fonts. > . > Homepage http://gfontview.sourceforge.net/ > Tag: interface::x11, role::program, scope::utility, suite::gnome, uitoolkit::gtk, use::viewing, works-with::font, x11::application > > > Christoph > -- > cb@df7cb.de | http://www.df7cb.de/
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