Re: [ft-devel] [GSoC] ftinspect

[Khaled Hosny]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 07:02:09AM +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 
> > TrueType Viewer by Rogier van Dalen already is a FreeType-based font
> > viewer and hinting debugger with a quite decently designed Qt-based
> > GUI.
> > 
> > https://github.com/rogiervd/fonttools
> > 
> > http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~slam/fonts/truetypeviewer.html
> 
> Basically, this is excellent code – *not* based on FreeType, but his
> own implementation.  The debugger works both forwards and backwards,
> something the FreeType debugger can't do.
> 
> Unfortunately, it is written in high-level C++ that no longer compiles
> with modern compilers.  I tried twice to update, and I failed twice.
> It's too C++ for me :-/

“make CXX="g++ -std=c++98"” does the trick, but TrueTypeViewer uses Qt 3
as well, so that one is hopeless.

Regards,
Khaled