Bug#614917: RFP: libfont-ttf-scripts-perl -- Smart font script supporting modules and scripts for TTF/OTF

[Theppitak Karoonboonyanan <thep@linux.thai.net>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist


* Package name    : libfont-ttf-scripts-perl
  Version         : 0.16.1
  Upstream Author : Martin Hosken <martin_hosken@sil.org>
* URL             : http://search.cpan.org/dist/Font-TTF-Scripts/
* License         : Artistic
  Programming Lang: Perl
  Description     : Smart font script supporting modules and scripts for TTF/OTF


This module contains a number of useful programs for hacking with TTF files:

check_attach, eurofix, fret, hackos2, make_gdl, make_volt, psfix, thai2gdl,
thai2ot, thai2volt, ttfbuilder, ttfenc, ttfname, ttfremap, ttfsetver,
volt2xml, voltExportAnchors, voltFixup, voltImportAnchors

Highlights include:

  fret       - produces PDF report of an uninstalled font including all glyphs
  hackos2    - manipulates the OS/2 table of a font
  ttfbuilder - builds a font from another font, attaching glyphs, subsetting,
               etc.
  ttfname    - renames a font