[HarfBuzz] hb-view output other than png possible?

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Thu Jun 14 16:29:28 PDT 2012


On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:03:16PM +0200, Rolf Langenhuijzen wrote:
> Does hb-view already support output other than png? I read some on the
> list about a possible --format setting (for svg, pdf, eps, png, …),
> but I don't see it in hb-view.cc yet.  Just using --output and
> scanning a possible .ext is ofcourse not really solid, but I tried
> that :) it didn't generate a proper file other than png. Correct?

There is --output-format, as well as format being guessed from file
extension passed to --output-file. The actual formats supported depends
on your version of cairo, but hb-view conditionally recognises png, svg,
pdf, ps and eps (besides the Unicode art hack).

Regards,
 Khaled



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