ttfautohint 1.8.1 has been released. The source tarball, statically-linked binaries for Win32 (TTY and GUI) and OS X (TTY only) are available from
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/ or http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/ttfautohint/1.7 Instructions to build the GUI version on OS X can be found at http://freetype.org/ttfautohint/osx.html Enjoy! Werner PS: Downloads from savannah.nongnu.org will redirect to your nearest mirror site. Files on mirrors may be subject to a replication delay of up to 24 hours. In case of problems use http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/ PPS: Due to a bug in another package (which I can't control), Homebrew support is not yet available, cf. https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/22321 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://freetype.org/ttfautohint This project provides a library which takes a TrueType font as the input, remove its bytecode instructions (if any), and return a new font where all glyphs are bytecode hinted using the information given by FreeType's autohinting module. The idea is to provide the excellent quality of the autohinter on platforms which don't use FreeType. The library has a single API function, `TTF_autohint'; see `lib/ttfautohint.h' for a detailed description. Note that the library itself won't get installed currently. A command-line interface to the library is the `ttfautohint' program; after compilation and installation, say ttfautohint --help for usage information, or say man ttfautohint to read its manual page. A GUI to the library is `ttfautohintGUI'; it uses the Qt4 framework. The compilation of this application can be disabled with the `--without-qt' configuration option. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Version 1.8.1 (2018-Jan-01) --------------------------- * Bug fix: The `configure` script couldn't recognize Qt 5.10.x. Version 1.8 (2017-Dec-31) ------------------------- * A third, 'natural' stem width mode has been added: No adjustments to stem widths, discrete blue zone positioning. This is what FreeType uses for its 'light' (auto-)hinting mode. * A new option `-a` has been implemented to select the stem width mode for the three rendering targets (grayscale, GDI ClearType, DW ClearType). This supersedes option `-g`, which is now deprecated. * Stem widths for the hinting process can now be manually set using the new `width` keyword in a control instructions file. This is especially useful for extra-bold fonts, where the algorithmically derived values are often too large, causing the filling of 'eyes' in 'e' or 'a' glyphs at small sizes. * libttfautohint gets now installed as a DLL or static library (or both, depending on the parameters of the `configure` script), together with its header files. * Two functions have been added to the library: `TTF_autohint_version` and `TTF_autohint_version_string`, which do the obvious. * Two options to `TTF_autohint` have been added: `alloc-func` and `free-func`. These are necessary on some platforms if ttfautohint is compiled as a shared library, and the application uses a different runtime library. This can happen, for example, on the MS Windows platform if your program is written in Python and communicates via the 'ctypes' interface with the ttfautohint DLL. * `TTF_autohint` options `{gray,gdi-cleartype,dw-cleartype}-strong-stem-width` are now superseded by `{gray,gdi-cleartype,dw-cleartype}`-stem-width-mode` to handle the new natural stem width mode also. * Bug fix: Later control instructions now correctly overwrite earlier entries as documented. _______________________________________________ Freetype-announce mailing list Freetype-announce@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-announce