Gnugadu2 is a modular instant messenger written with GTK+ targeted
mainly at Polish users of propietary Gadu-Gadu network.
GnuGadu2 sports a plugin extensible architecture. Beside Gadu-Gadu
it also supports Jabber, Tlen.pl, sending smses to Polish mobile
phones, spell checking, works with several sound servers.
This includes some tools that are in FreeType 1's contrib directory.
ttf2pfb: Converting TrueType fonts to the Postscript Type 1 format.
ttf2pk: A simple conversion tool to bring TrueType quality to the
TeX world.
ttf2bdf: Produce bitmapped fonts from TrueType files for your X11
applications.
ttfbanner: make posters using a TrueType font
The library "libotf" provides the following facilites:
o Read Open Type Layout Tables from OTF file. Currently these
tables are supported; head, name, cmap, GDEF, GSUB, and GPOS.
o Convert a Unicode character sequence to a glyph code sequence by
using the above tables.
The combination of libotf and the FreeType library (Ver. 2) realizes
CTL (complex text layout) by OpenType fonts.
"Pcal" is a program to print PostScript calendars for any month and
year. By default, it looks for a file in the home directory named
"calendar" for entries with leading dates matching dates on the
calendar, and prints any following text under the appropriate day.
PyPdf isaA Pure-Python library built as a PDF toolkit. It is capable of:
- extracting document information (title, author, ...),
- splitting documents page by page,
- merging documents page by page,
- cropping pages,
- merging multiple pages into a single page,
- encrypting and decrypting PDF files.
PDF::Core is a pure Ruby library to render PDF documents.
It supports several PDF features, such as among others:
* low-level annotation
* istream objects and stream filters
* NameTree
* object repository
* object serialization
* indirect objects
* page geometries
It is used internally by Prawn (provided in the rubygems-prawn package),
a Ruby PDF generation library.
ptexenc is a useful library for Japanese pTeX (which stands for
publishing TeX, and is an extension of TeX by ASCII Co.) and its
surrounding tools. ptexenc provides a better way of handling
character encodings.
ptexenc is not an official product of ASCII Co., so pTeX and other
tools need some patches to make use of it. Some patches are included
within this archive.
XPP is a graphical utility for managing printers and submitting print jobs.
It interfaces with CUPS on the backend and allows the user to configure
double sided printing, active tray, color adjustment, etc. It supports the
command line flags of lpr as well.
You will first need to configure a printer via CUPS to use XPP.
KPackageKit is the KDE interface for PackageKit. It features
everything Gnome PackageKit does except:
- install catalog;
- service pack;
- a D-Bus session interface.
These items are not mandatory since they are more features of the GUI
itself than a feature in PackageKit.
Manage your own packages build on a dedicated build system.
The build system does the update of the ports tree,
moving old packages out of the way, fetch and rebuild
the packages you need. Its ports tree with packages
is served to the production systems and desktops.
On a system you can update installed ports with
the clean build packages from the build system.