Bug#652291: ITP: googlefontdirectory-tools -- various tools for generating, analysing and manipulating font files

[Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Martin Erik Werner <martinerikwerner@gmail.com>
User: pkg-fonts-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: wnpp

* Package name    : googlefontdirectory-tools
  Version         : N/A (20111215)
  Upstream Author : Dave Crossland <dave@understandinglimited.com>
* URL             : http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/
* License         : Apache-2.0
  Programming Lang: python, fontforge, bash
  Description     : various tools for generating, analysing and manipulating font files

 This package contains a collection of tools used by the Google Font Directory
 to work with fonts.
 .
 The package includes scripts to:
  * Analyse bounding boxes
  * Compare Unicode points and glyph names
  * Generate namelist files
  * Setting GASP tables in font files
  * Generate ttf and otf fonts from sfd source files
  * Generate font files with a subset of characters
  * Auto-set and analyse PREP hinting and hinting tables
  * Generate sfd source files from ttf fonts