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libfont-freetype-perl

Read Font Files and Render Glyphs From Perl Using Freetype2

About libfont-freetype-perl

Read Font Files and Render Glyphs From Perl Using Freetype2

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Debian 12 (Bookworm): 1 package records; Debian 13 (Trixie): 1 package records; openSUSE Leap 15.6: 1 package records. Catalog coverage diagram, not an application screenshot.libfont-freetype-perl: recorded package coverageDebian 12 (Bookworm)1 recordsDebian 13 (Trixie)1 recordsopenSUSE Leap 15.61 records
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Project identity

Project
libfont-freetype-perl
Publisher
Not authoritatively mapped
Native package records
3
Operating systems
debian-12, debian-13, opensuse-leap-15-6
License expression
Artistic-1.0 OR GPL-1.0-or-later
Metadata completeness
100/100 (not a software quality rating)
Homepage
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Source repository
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Source-reported description

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This module allows Perl programs to conveniently read information from font files. All the font access is done through the FreeType2 library, which supports many formats. It can render images of characters with high-quality hinting and antialiasing, extract metrics information, and extract the outlines of characters in scalable formats like TrueType. Warning: this module is currently in 'beta' stage. It'll be another release or two before it stabilizes. The API may change in ways that break programs based on it, but I don't think it will change much. Some of the values returned may be wrong, or not scaled correctly. See the _TODO_ file to get a handle on how far along this work is. Contributions welcome, particularly if you know more than I do (which isn't much) about fonts and the FreeType2 library.

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Packages by operating system

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Debian 12 (Bookworm)

  1. libfont-freetype-perl

    Debian 12 (Bookworm) / perl

    0.16-2

    module to read font files and render glyphs from Perl using FreeType2

    amd64arm64bookworm

Debian 13 (Trixie)

  1. libfont-freetype-perl

    Debian 13 (Trixie) / perl / source libfont-freetype-perl

    0.16-3+b3

    module to read font files and render glyphs from Perl using FreeType2

    amd64arm64trixie

openSUSE Leap 15.6

  1. perl-Font-FreeType

    openSUSE Leap 15.6 / Development/Libraries/Perl / source perl-Font-FreeType

    0.16-bp156.3.4

    Read Font Files and Render Glyphs From Perl Using Freetype2

    aarch64ppc64les390xx86_64leap-15.6

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