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Re: [ft-devel] ftview / ftstring proposal


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: [ft-devel] ftview / ftstring proposal
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 12:33:29 +0200 (CEST)

>> [...] Alexei wants to improve the results of key `5' in ftview,
>> which currently only shows the `brown fox' pangram,
> 
> Ftview is not fit to show text because it adds extra pixel and
> ignores kerning.  Mode 5 is mostly useless now, it doesn't add
> anything beyond the list of all glyphs an the waterfall.

Right.

> Indeed I want to replace it with charmap in Unicode order to reflect
> coverage, which is missing in ftview.

You are aware of the `-e unic' command line option to select a Unicode
cmap?

> Ftstring is dedicated to text.  It is a demo with kerning and some
> layout capabilities.  This is where text samples belong to.

OK.


    Werner



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