FreeType 2.3.8 has been released. It is available from
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/ or http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3157 The latter site also holds older versions of the FreeType library. See below for the relevant snippet from the CHANGES file; users of version 2.3.7 should upgrade. Enjoy! Werner ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable, and portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images) of most vector and bitmap font formats. Note that FreeType 2 is a font service and doesn't provide APIs to perform higher-level features, like text layout or graphics processing (e.g., colored text rendering, `hollowing', etc.). However, it greatly simplifies these tasks by providing a simple, easy to use, and uniform interface to access the content of font files. FreeType 2 is released under two open-source licenses: our own BSD-like FreeType License and the GPL. It can thus be used by any kind of projects, be they proprietary or not. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.8 and 2.3.7 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - CID-keyed fonts in an SFNT wrapper were not handled correctly. - The smooth renderer produced truncated images (on the right) for outline parts with negative horizontal values. Most fonts don't contain outlines left to the y coordinate axis, but the effect was very noticeable for outlines processed with FT_Glyph_Stroke, using thick strokes. - `FT_Get_TrueType_Engine_Type' returned a wrong value if both configuration macros TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER and TT_CONFIG_OPTION_UNPATENTED_HINTING were defined. - The `face_index' field in the `FT_Face' structure wasn't initialized properly after calling FT_Open_Face and friends with a positive face index for CFFs, WinFNTs, and, most importantly, for TrueType Collections (TTCs). II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - Rudimentary support for Type 1 fonts and CID-keyed Type 1 fonts in an SFNT wrapper has been added -- such fonts are used on the Mac. The core SFNT tables `TYP1' and `CID ' are passed to the PS Type 1 and CID-keyed PS font drivers; other tables (`ALMX', `BBOX', etc.) are not supported yet. - A new interface to extract advance values of glyphs without loading their outlines has been added. The functions are called `FT_Get_Advance' and `FT_Get_Advances'; they are defined in file `ftadvanc.h' (to be accessed as FT_ADVANCES_H). - A new function `FT_Get_FSType_Flags' (in FT_FREETYPE_H) has been contributed by David Bevan to access the embedding and subsetting restriction information of fonts. III. MISCELLANEOUS - FT_MulFix is now an inlined function; by default, assembler code is provided for x86 and ARM. See FT_CONFIG_OPTION_INLINE_MULFIX and FT_CONFIG_OPTION_NO_ASSEMBLER (in ftoption.h) for more. - The handling of `tricky' fonts (this is, fonts which don't work with the autohinter, needing the font format's hinting engine) has been generalized and changed slightly: . A new face flag FT_FACE_FLAG_TRICKY indicates that the font format's hinting engine is necessary for correct rendering. The macro FT_IS_TRICKY can be used to check this flag. . FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING is now ignored for tricky fonts. To really force raw loading of such fonts (without hinting), both FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING and FT_LOAD_NO_AUTOHINT must be used -- this is something which you probably never want to do. . Tricky TrueType fonts always use the bytecode interpreter, either the patented or unpatented version. - The function `FT_GlyphSlot_Own_Bitmap' has been moved from FT_SYNTHESIS_H to FT_BITMAP_H; it is now part of the `official' API. (The functions in FT_SYNTHESIS_H are still subject to change, however.) - In the `ftdiff' demo program you can now toggle the use of FT_LOAD_IGNORE_GLOBAL_ADVANCE_WIDTH with key `a'. _______________________________________________ Freetype-announce mailing list Freetype-announce@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-announce