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Announcing
F R E E T Y P E 1 . 4 . 9
The FREE TrueType Font Engine
Copyright (C) 1996-2001 The FreeType Development Team
The FreeType engine is a free and portable TrueType font rendering
engine, available in ANSI C and Pascal source code. It has been
developed to provide TrueType support to a great variety of
platforms and environments.
Notice that FreeType is a *library*. It is *not* a font server
for your preferred environment, even though it has been designed
to be the basis of many high-level libraries, tools and font
servers.
DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER
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WE HAVE RECENTLY DISCOVERED THAT APPLE OWNS SEVERAL PATENTS
RELATED TO THE RENDERING OF TRUETYPE FONTS. THIS COULD MEAN THAT
THE FREE USE OF THE FREETYPE LIBRARY MIGHT BE ILLEGAL IN FRANCE,
UK, USA, AND POSSIBLY OTHER COUNTRIES. FOR MORE INFORMATION, WE
STRONGLY ADVISE YOU TO GO TO THE FREETYPE WEB SITE AT:
http://www.freetype.org/patents.html
DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER
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It's a clean-room implementation that is not derived from the
original TrueType engine developed by Apple and Microsoft, though
it matches it regarding rendering quality. To our knowledge, it's
the only royalty-free complete TrueType engine available.
Some news:
. version 1.5 fixes minor bugs found in 1.3.1.
. version 1.4 were never released officially (by us).
. full support for GSUB and GPOS tables in OpenType fonts.
. enhanced ftdump/ftstrtto test programs using GPOS support.
. ftstrpnm supports coloured text.
. TT_Char_Index() now uses a TT_ULong for char codes.
. support files for BeOS.
. the Pascal version is no longer part of the package but is
available separately.
. uses a new version of libtool, solving some compilation problems
with the test programs on some platforms like Solaris.
For more information, please visit the freetype web site at:
http://www.freetype.org
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