On 31-05-2015 12:13, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 06:45:30AM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
> I put it in the ticket, but it looks as if I never managed to commit > it. So, I apologise for what I said earlier. No problem, I knew there was a misunderstanding somewhere. > Sometimes, trac can be a bitch. Let me try again: I've been bitten there, too. > The guidelines on how to use hb-view are (only) in 'hb-view --help'. > If you specify an output file, you can get a graphic and the format > will be derived from the file extension (or, you can specify it). > > Sending the output to stdout is not particularly pleasant (blocky > output), and a short string is better than a long one (the output is > visually large). The following just about works: > > hb-view --output-file=hello.png \ > /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf "Hello World." > > This also works, but some pdf viewers (such as mupdf-1.6) will not > let you scroll across: > hb-view --output-file=hello.bis --output-format=pdf > /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf "Hello World." Great examples, thanks. Will use png, more common, I believe, between users, but will probably add a sentence that pdf is also acceptable. > The real use-case is probably to check the kerning, or else to review > interactions in other writing systems. > > Again, my apologies. I'm afraid I'm generally grumpy, particularly > when I'm doing things in latex. Thanks, again, for the example and for taking care of latex. -- []s, Fernando -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
