[HarfBuzz] output font OT features (cli tool?)

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Mon May 28 14:44:52 PDT 2012


On 05/28/2012 05:41 PM, Rolf Langenhuijzen wrote:
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> JK > An alternative would be to use otfinfo from Eddie Kohler's LCDF TypeTools package, which can report a variety of info about a font, including OT features that are present.
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> 
> I missed this reply earlier and saw it just now on the list archive online.
> 
> Brilliant! It's a bit easier to parse the output of otfinfo is than the complete info from "main" because of the options otfinfo has.
> Just tried it (for once building from source was easy as 1-2-3) and it showed me the correct info from the fonts, love it!

Well, if you want to parse it into a C / C++ program, you may as well call
hb-ot-layout.h API directly.

behdad


> Rolf
> 
> 
> On May 27, 2012, at 2:51 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> 
>> On 05/27/2012 08:49 AM, Rolf Langenhuijzen wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Is there a command line tool available (from http://cgit.freedesktop.org/harfbuzz/) or anything similar to output supported/implemented opentype features of a font?
>>
>> Right now there is one in the src directory, called main.  It uses HB
>> internals and not the public API.  Eventually I'll add a hb-inspect or
>> something under util/ to do that using the public API.
>>
>> behdad
>>
>>> Rolf
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