Hi I would like to contribute and maintain the t1lib package:
* http://site.n.ml.org/info/t1lib/ (Homepage) * http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/libs/graphics/ (Download location) This packacke is a prerequisite for xpdf, a PDF Viewer for X, which I will announce shortly. Here is the setup.hint file: sdesc: "Library for generating character- and string-glyphs from Adobe Type 1 fonts" ldesc: "t1lib is a library distributed under the GNU General Public Library License for generating character- and string-glyphs from Adobe Type 1 fonts under UNIX. t1lib uses most of the code of the X11 rasterizer donated by IBM to the X11-project. But some disadvantages of the rasterizer being included in X11 have been eliminated. Here are some of the features: - t1lib is completely independent of X11 (although the program provided for testing the library needs X11) - fonts are made known to library by means of a font database file at runtime - searchpaths for all types of input files are configured by means of a configuration file at runtime - characters are rastered as they are needed - characters and complete strings may be rastered by a simple function call - when rastering strings, pairwise kerning information from .afm-files may optionally be taken into account - an interface to ligature-information of afm-files is provided - a program to generate afm-files from Type 1 font files is included - rotation and arbitrary transformations are supported - there's support for extending and slanting fonts - underlining, overlining and overstriking is supported - new encoding vectors may be loaded at runtime and fonts may be reencoded using these encoding vectors - antialiasing is implemented - Right-To-Left typesetting is supported - Font subsetting is easily possible - support of composite character information - stroking of character outlines with variable strokewidths - An interactive test program called 'xglyph' is included in the distribution. This program allows to test all of the features of the library. It requires X11." category: Libs requires: cygwin xorg-x11-bin-dlls -------------------------------- cut here ------------------------------------ #!/bin/bash mkdir t1lib cd t1lib wget http://cygwin.dev.wapme.net/packages/vzell/cygwin/release/t1lib/setup.hint wget http://cygwin.dev.wapme.net/packages/vzell/cygwin/release/t1lib/t1lib-5.0.2-1-src.tar.bz2 wget http://cygwin.dev.wapme.net/packages/vzell/cygwin/release/t1lib/t1lib-5.0.2-1.tar.bz2 -------------------------------- cut here ------------------------------------ Ciao Volker