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Author: tom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Fonts in testing/unstable are some ugly
On Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:51:07 +0200
Stephane Ascoet <stephane.ascoet@???> wrote:

> > I would dream of a tool that lets me know what font is in what
> > package.
>
> Hi, I think that <http://packages.debian.org> can do it.


You can extract fonts from programs with the GNU debugger. Simply dump
the virtual memory ranges of the program's objects (Remember X86_64
CPUs are little-endian, and then run the file utility on the dumped
objects to read their magic numbers and filter out objects that are not
fonts.