[Pkg-fonts-bugs] Bug#300111: fonttools from fontforge

[Ralf Stubner]

Hi Kęstutis,

in the closing message to this bug you said that the various fonttools
available from <URL:http://fontforge.sourceforge.net/fontutils.html> are
not actively maintained and that most of their feature are already
available in fontforge. I don't know about the other tools, but I don't
think this is the case for showttf, which does get updates as seen from
<URL:http://fontforge.cvs.sourceforge.net/fontforge/fontforge/fonttools/>.
These updates are infrequent, but this is expected given the nature of
the tool. The TTF and OTF specifications don't change that rapidly. ;-)
In addition, features of showttf are not available in fontforge. For
example showttf allows one to take a detailed look into the structure of
of the fonts and outlines, the usage of references etc. Also there are
some private fields in TTF/OTF fonts which are not exposed by the
fontforge GUI, while with showttf one can see their value. Therefore I
would really appreciate it if you would include showttf into the Debian
packages.

Thanks for considering and thanks for maintaining fontforge.

cheerio
ralf