[HarfBuzz] HB Tester GUI

[Cibu Johny (സിബു)]

Could you describe when would somebody use this script instead of hb-view?


2013/10/6 Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa at gmail.com>

> Hello people.
>
> I just made a quick PyQt4 app to help testing latest HB's rendering of
> given text. I think it should be straightforward to use. Since it
> calls hb-view from a subshell, you have to have hb-view at a place
> where the system's path environment would detect it.
>
> Current limitations: I am not sure how to feed multi-line text to HB.
> I hence replace all newlines from the input text with spaces.
>
> I also attach a script which I use to automatically install latest HB
> to /usr/local/ from which above program can (on my system) access
> hb-view.
>
> The latest build-deps for HB for this to work seem to be: ragel
> pkg-config autoconf libtool libglib2.0-dev libfreetype6-dev
> libcairo2-dev gtk-doc-tools and of course libgraphite2-dev if you want
> to test HB-Gr2.
>
> I hope this would be useful to others. Any comments/bugreports/patches
> appreciated. Thanks.
>
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