I have harfbuzz 4.2.1 so yeah maybe the old version is the problem.

शनि, 7 मई 2022, 10:14 pm को Madhu <enometh@meer.net> ने लिखा:

> *  Sameer Singh <lumarzeli30@gmail.com> <CAOR1sLyB1BEkgzh=
> HwE5qinm5h79Z0zNx6rxQUrhh3aimfwmyQ@mail.gmail.com>
> Wrote on Sat, 7 May 2022 21:31:51 +0530
>
> >> [BTW, on a subthread I mentioned I couldn't get hb-view to produce the
> >> output shown on the first post
> >
> > Can you reproduce these steps?
> > 1. hb-view /usr/share/fonts/noto/NotoSansKaithi-Regular.ttf
> > --output-file=hb-view.png (Press Enter)
>
> Unfortunately not. My system has harfbuzz 3.0.0 and the font file I
> acquired is probably from the 2017 release:
> 87260 Mar 24  2020 NotoSansKaithi-Regular.ttf
> My output is linear.
> hb-view --font-file=$HOME/.fonts/NotoSansKaithi-Regular.ttf
> --text-file=12.txt --output-file 12.png
>
> I'll try updating hb later.
>