Re: [ft] Include problems

I have compiled(win32) the freetype librabry, but when I include FT_FREETYPE_H after ft2build.h it gives me errors at fterrdef.h. The errors at the following: fterrdef.h(35): error C2143: syntax error : missing '}' before '(' fterrdef.h(35): error C2143: syntax error : missing ';' before

Re: [ft] Follow up: FreeType v2501 under DJGPP with RHIDE

I am trying to set up FreeType v2.51 with DJGPP under RHIDE on DOS in order to trace through the library source code. Particularly, I want to translate the anti-aliased rasterizer to another language. Therefore, I do not want to build the library -- I want all source code to be traceable.

Re: [ft] Cache sizes

Hello Daniel! In short, as soon as we have more faces or sizes than the cache will allow, default being 2/2 as you already know, then strange things happens. First of all we receive face object where the size pointer is NULL. This causes our GetKerning routine to fail, since there is no

Re: [ft] Python3 Language Binding

There seem to have been a number of attempts at implementing a Python binding for FreeType. Let me offer my effort: https://github.com/ldo/python_freetype. Nice! Please provide a patch for http://freetype.org/developer.html#language-bindings so that I can add it (in case you think that

Re: [ft] freetype

[Forwarding to the FreeType user mailing list.] Please help this guy. I am writing to you to ask for your help with freetype2. I intend to use freetype2 for embedded arm cortex m4 controller with ram 160 K and flash 1M. I wish to use truetype. Could you please give me some hints about

Re: [ft] Incorrect Status Return In FT_Get_SubGlyph_Info

Looks like FT_Get_SubGlyph_Info forgets to set its error return to FT_Err_Ok if the conditions are right for it to return its info. Fixed 2014-04-17, appearing in version 2.5.4. Werner ___ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org

Re: [ft] python_freetype Design: Vector Matrix Operations

* Shearing is often used to simulate italic. Yes. In this special case, hinting along the vertical axis (which happens before shearing) doesn't harm. Werner ___ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org

[ft] Announcing ttfautohint 1.3

ttfautohint 1.3 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/1.3 Instructions to build the

Re: [ft] Faster computation of text width?

And if you have really found a bug, it is a great aid to me for debugging and thus very efficient also – only a failing snippet can *exactly* demonstrate the issue. No, I don't think I found some bugs. My questions are about FreeType use. As long as the documentation describes only the

Re: [ft] Faster computation of text width?

If the ABI can only be introduced and never removed, every library early or later will become an overbloated huge monster, that no one wants to use. In this moment will come some lightType library, that will replace the old dead one. Correct. There are ideas to provide a lighter interface

[ft] simplified installation of ttfautohint with Homebrew

An updated formula for installing ttfautohint *and* ttfautohintGUI has just been committed to Homebrew. This greatly simplifies installation on OS X. The updated installation instructions can be found at http://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint/osx.html Werner

Re: [ft] Opentype support of specual characters

is it possible to use the special characters like ö, ü, ö, ß from opentype (otf) fonts in PHP? If the font contains those glyphs, and it also contains a Unicode cmap (which is standard today), it should work. I used this: ImageTTFText ($image, 30, 0, 0, 40,

Re: [ft] Faster computation of text width?

I came across “The Little Manual of API Design” recently http://www4.in.tum.de/~blanchet/api-design.pdf, from one of the Qt developers. Thanks. Werner ___ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org

Re: [ft] use of FT_New_Library function

Sure, [...] Thanks for the suggestion; I've added something similar to the git repository. Werner ___ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype

Re: [ft] python_freetype Design: Bitmap Objects

One potentially misleading thing, I think, is the routine name “FT_Bitmap_New”: it does not allocate any storage at all (contrast “FT_Outline_New” and “FT_Stroker_New”), but initializes the Bitmap structure to indicate “zero width, zero height, no pixels”. A better name might have been

Re: [ft] use of FT_New_Library function

So you see, the FT_Memory object you pass is expected to remain valid for the life of the FT_Library. Shall something be added to the documentation? If yes, can you provide a patch? Werner ___ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org

Re: [ft] Correct TrueType Checksums

The TrueType font format is full of checksums: [...] FreeType completely ignores them except for a very special purpose, namely to identify `tricky' (CJK) fonts that must not be auto-hinted (cf. function `tt_synth_sfnt_checksum' in file `ttobjs.c') – and even here we don't trust the value in

Re: [ft] Faster computation of text width?

Indeed, working more on this issue I realized, that using FT_ADVANCE_FLAG_FAST_ONLY together with FT_LOAD_TARGET_LCD causes FT_Get_Advance to fail always. Removing FT_ADVANCE_FLAG_FAST_ONLY, makes it work but very slow. On the other hand, using FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING makes it to work really

Re: [ft] Faster computation of text width?

Uh, oh, please provide a C snippet, and tell us which font you are using. I apologize for not being able to work with ASM. The cited benchmarks was made using DejaVu Sans with 16px height (19px line spacing) OK. This information already excludes a potential issue with CFF files, cf.

Re: [ft] python_freetype Design: Bitmap Objects

Renamed in git to `FT_Bitmap_Init'. Cool! Presumably you provide a #define of the old name for backward compatibility. :) This won't work. For ABI compatilibity, the `FT_Bitmap_Init' symbol must be retained in the library, so there are now two functions that do the same. what about

Re: [ft] Faster computation of text width?

According to the FreeType documentation, the fastest way to compute the width of some text string is to use FT_Get_Advance function that returns the advance values without loading and rendering the glyphs. See documentation of FT_ADVANCE_FLAG_FAST_ONLY for reasons why this can take a long

Re: [ft] My experiments with FreeType cache.

Are you aware of the FreeType demo programs? Some of them use the cache. No, not actually. The only demo I read was from the tutorial, but it does not use the cache. Where I can download these fine demo sources? At the very place where you've found FreeType itself, e.g.

Re: [ft] What is FT_PIXEL_MODE_BGRA for?

Is it supported actually or is just reserved for future use? It's supported, AFAIK. I suppose it is some particular font format that supports colourful glyphs. Is it? Yep. Where I can found a sample of such font? Look for emoji fonts, including the ones from Android and iOS. Werner

Re: [ft] References Is Not Included in the Document Tarball

I found out that this file, http://gnu.mirrors.pair.com/savannah/savannah//freetype/freetype-doc-2.5.5.tar.bz2, does not have reference (API) pages in it. However, there are hyperlinks which points to them in the tutorial. I think the reference is meant to be there. For now, one need to

Re: [ft] What is FT_PIXEL_MODE_BGRA for?

I tried to find some, but all they seems to be monochrome. Can you help me with some links? https://github.com/behdad/color-emoji/blob/master/specification/examples/FruityGirl.ttf http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2563757 P.S. Actually, I found one font named Funkster.ttf,

Re: [ft] Emboldening monospaced fonts

There are some good looking programmer fonts without bold variant available [1]. Makes those fonts little inconvenient for code editors where bold is used as highlight. I went for FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden, but it breaks the monospaceness of the font. Is there a way to embolden the font

Re: [ft] Freetype x86

Hello Aleksandra! We have come across several great Android apps that are taking advantage of Freetype. As far as I found out the Freetype does support Android x86 platforms natively, although this option is not set by default. Basically, FreeType doesn't provide special support for *any*

Re: [ft] Working around a bad ascender value?

I’d rather just ignore font bugs, if a font is broken, it is broken, and whoever made the font should just fix it. Amen. [...] the Win values should be big enough to fit the largest glyph in fonts, and even make room for combining marks since applications use it for clipping, [...] Yes!

Re: [ft] A suspicious memory leak in src/truetype/ttgload.c: tt_loader_init

I'm porting FreeType-2.5.5 to an embedded RTOS. However, I found memory leak in looped `FT_Load_Char(fft-face, *text_ptr, FT_LOAD_RENDER)` while the memory won't leak if I set the load_flags ORed with FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING. So I dive into the source code and found in the tt_loader_init, the

Re: [ft] Installation issue

I am trying to compile and install freetype 2.4.0 on FreeBSD v10.1 system Version 2.4.0 is very old. You might try the current release, 2.5.5. Viewing the requirement for GNU make, I downloaded, compiled and installed it. (GNU make v4.1) OK. In the /usr/local/bin dir I ran make -v and

Re: [ft] Ongoing Re: Installation issue

so the first line: MAKE=/usr/local/bin/make ./configure doesn't preserve the setting. Correct. Setting environment variables in front of a command adjusts the environment seen by the command itself. Please look up an introduction into command line shells. I'm quite sure you will find better

Re: [ft] Ongoing Re: Installation issue

MAKE=/usr/local/bin/make ./configure ran fine OK. Make did not # make Well, you've explicitly selected GNU make for the `configure' script via the `MAKE' variable. I think it is not a big surprise to conclude that you need GNU make for running the makefiles also :-) Call

Re: [ft] security vulnerabilities in freetype

The below security vulnerabilities have been reported for freetype package: [...] Are these already fixed in freetype-2.5.5 release? Please kindly confirm. Please kindly read :-) All those CVE messages explicitly state `before 2.5.4'. Werner

Re: [ft] Re running make fails

Hmm, this looks like a non-FreeType problem. Can you use `libz.a' at all with other applications or programs? I don't know. I have been compiling and installing things like zlib, libjpeg, libpng, and GNU make, I haven't seen and similar complaints I haven't seen any other error messages

Re: [ft] Re running make fails

maybe I should have included the immediately preceding line: /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libz.a(inflate.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `zcalloc' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC to /usr/local/lib/libz.a: could not read symbols: Bad value cc: error:

Re: [ft] Gamma (?) huge difference between FreeType and others (OS X, or even FreeType based MacType)

Now I use the same fonts to compare them again. Thanks, however... Compare them side by side, CJK: https://i.imgur.com/eXOpUPN.png ... the font sizes are not identical, unfortunately. Doing a blink comparison of the first body text line (starting with `李') I see that the Linux version is

[ft] Announcing FreeType version 2.6

FreeType 2.6 has been released. It is available from http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/ or http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/ The latter site also holds older versions of the FreeType library. See below for the relevant snippet from the CHANGES file. Enjoy!

Re: [ft] Tahoma rendering differently on Freetype Windows

Simply observing the process by which this behavior can be debugged is elucidating in its own right. :-) This partially explains why I'm sometimes quite slow in answering e-mails: Preparing a response took me a few hours, both in writing a detailed, concise replay to your questions, and at the

[ft] Fw: [ft-devel] fitting a text

[Originally sent to the wrong list.] Please help this guy. Werner ---BeginMessage--- Hi, I'm trying to draw text to a bitmap. It should fit the height of the bitmap and the width can be extended whenever required. Getting the width right works fine but the height is a problem: a, b, c fit

Re: [ft] A suspicious memory leak in src/truetype/ttgload.c: tt_loader_init

I got some clue. The leak is caused by this piece of code in ttinterp.c: [...] Confirmed – and fixed in git repository. Please test. Werner ___ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype

Re: [ft] How can I Minimize Heap Size in Freetype 2.6?

I was using freetype 2.4 version in my embedded application for rendering ttf files only. It uses about 12 KB heap size, when I set FT_RENDER_POOL_SIZE to 4096 Bytes. But in freetype 2.6 ,it takes around 20 KB heap size minimum. Here I could observe ,freetype 2.6 doesn't use raster_pool

Re: [ft] How to use subpixel hinting in FreeType

Sorry for the late response. I am a beginner at using FreeType and new to the concept of subpixel hinting. I've read through most API references that seemed related, but I am still not sure how should I use the library to attain RGB (or RGBA?) bitmaps with glyphs hinted on the subpixel

Re: [ft] Change in monochrome rendered font behaviour from 2.5.0.1 to 2.5.1

Specifically, the change is that monochrome rendered fonts (in small sizes for a low resolution display) appear noticeably worse unless the `FT_LOAD_FORCE_AUTOHINT` option is supplied. It's not clear to me if this is a bug or an intended change in behaviour. It's intentional. The

Re: [ft] Change in monochrome rendered font behaviour from 2.5.0.1 to 2.5.1

It's intentional. Thanks for clarifying that and for your explanation. Is this covered in the Changelog somewhere? No. The feature itself was announced for 2.4.5 as - If autohinting is not explicitly disabled, FreeType now uses the autohinter if a TrueType based font doesn't

Re: [ft] Possible Bug in FT_Get_FSType_Flags

According to FreeType document, the FT_GetFSType should return one of the FT_FSTYPE_XXX flag. This is not correct. The flags are ORed, so more than a single FT_FSTYPE_XXX flag can be returned. I've clarified it in the documentation. But I receive a 1, which is not listed as any of those

Re: [ft] Freetype x86

Hello Aleksandra, hello J, finally I've reached your responses while wading through my pile of e-mails :-) We have been looking into the use of Freetype and the compatibility with x86 devices, and as you noted in your first email, it should run on any platform, as it creates

Re: [ft] Gamma (?) huge difference between FreeType and others (OS X, or even FreeType based MacType)

I'm fully confused. I don't know how to say properly, because I'm not talking about font's darken/slightly, I'm saying, they just like got the different colors of the results. Putting them together, https://i.imgur.com/dpDEEzO.png https://i.imgur.com/EJdaCQQ.png As you can see, even the

Re: [ft] A suspicious memory leak in src/truetype/ttgload.c: tt_loader_init

I got some clue. The leak is caused by this piece of code in ttinterp.c: [...] Any progress? Not yet, but soon. Still wading through older e-mails... Werner ___ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org

[ft] New FreeType release soon

Folks, right now I'm trying to fix GX support[*], then I'm going to do a new release, which will be 2.6.0. This should happen within a week, I hope. In case you feel that something urgent should be fixed also, please raise your voice. Werner [*] Behdad, it is indeed necessary to

Re: [ft] Possible issue in FreeType

Hello Jose! Since I'm not too familiar with the package yet I have a question about one particular piece of code that could result in an invalid memory segment read or stack fault. Version: 2.5.5 File src/tools/apinames.c The good news: This file is *not* part of the FreeType library

Re: [ft] Tahoma rendering differently on Freetype Windows

Hello Lewis! Sorry for the late reply. I've noticed a rendering discrepancy between Freetype and the Windows font engine. I'm comparing output from Freetype 2.5.5 and Windows XP's native rendering. The font in question is Tahoma 12pt rendered at 96 dpi. Note the bowl of the lowercase

Re: [ft] virtual box

i have a windows 8 computer but when i download virtual box it only allows a 32 bit option. is there a fix Wrong list, sorry. We are related to the FreeType library. Werner ___ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org

Re: [ft] Freetype x86

Have you had time to look into the changes I have mentioned in my last email? Not yet, sorry. I'm extremely busy currently with non-computer issues (this is, having a lot of work in my other, musical life), increasing my pile of unread e-mails far too quick. Please give me some days to

Re: [ft] WOFF2 support?

I wonder if Google's WOFF2 will be supported by freetype in future? Most likely. I think especially Google is interested to have support for that in FreeType :-) Werner ___ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org

Re: [ft] CMakeLists.txt patch

Hello John! To ensure not built shared on Windows, which does not work due to lack of declspec's. Adds versioning of shared libraries. Thanks. This is now applied to the git repository, with slight modifications. Adds creation of freetype-config on unix. Below you can see what I

Re: [ft] CMakeLists.txt patch

Below you can see what I currently have. Note that one central variable in `freetype-config.in' is still missing: %LIBSTATIC_CONFIG%. This exposes a weakness present in most `FindXXX.cmake' modules that come with cmake itself: There is no support for getting the static libraries necessary

Re: [ft] CMakeLists.txt patch

[...] by static dependencies, you mean everthing else one needs on the link line to use the main package (freetype) built static (since the dependency libs are not embedded in archives like they are for .so's). Exactly. What variable is Boost returning the dependency libs in? (Not seeing

[ft] new `freetype-commit' mailing list

A new mailing list `freetype-commit' is available. It track commits to the FreeType git repositories. Subscription can be done using the standard ways, i.e., either via e-mail or using the web interface. See http://freetype.org/contact.html for more details how to subscribe. Werner

Re: [ft] Freetype2 and TimesNewRoman?

> Does Freetype2 support TimesNewRoman Font? Certainly. > I believe this is 'Serif'? TimesNewRoman is indeed a serif font. However, it depends on your system's font setup whether, say, the HTML fallback font `serif' maps to TimesNewRoman. > Unfortunately when searching for Glyph information

Re: [ft] Misaki Mincho metrics issues

> Looking at EBLC data, there's only one strike available, metrics are: > > --- > Horizontal Line Metrics >Ascender:8 > Descender:8 This is a bug in the font, making the strike's glyph height effectively zero (or not, see below). > What freetype does in

Re: [ft] SourceForge repo

>> Does anyone knows what is wrong with the sourceforge repo? It's completely out of date. Today, I'm using this site only for distributing FreeType tarballs. Admittedly, the entry page `freetype.sf.net' (or `freetype.sourceforge.net') is misleading; I have now replaced it with a redirection

Re: [ft] Licensing

> In terms of what act can I duplicate the Apache of this software I don't really understand this sentence :-) Please read the two available, mutually exclusive licenses and ask specific questions if there are still questions. http://freetype.org/license.html Werner

[ft] RasterInfo.ttf 1.01 released

[RasterInfo.ttf lets you inspect the properties of the used TrueType hinting engine.] Due to serious bugs found in version 1.00 (the font failed to work with the MS rasterizer if subpixel hinting was active, showing only `E' glyphs), I've just released version 1.01.

[ft] Fw: Quick Question RE FreeType 2.6.1

--- Begin Message --- Hello Michael! > I obtained the software “FreeType 2.6.1” just a couple of days ago > by downloading “freetype-2.6.1.tar.bz2” from > “http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/” onto my Mac (I’m > using OS X “El Capitan,” along with the absolute very latest version >

Re: [ft] Vertical Center Justification

> Vertical Center Justification > We can’t figure this out! We don’t understand how the FreeType > engine calculates vertical centering. Can you please give me exact > instructions on where to place the glyph Relative to the WinAscent > and WinDescent and Baseline to achieve perfect vertical

[ft] Announcing ttfautohint version 1.4.1

ttfautohint 1.4.1 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/1.4.1 Instructions to build

[ft] RasterInfo.ttf

I guess you might enjoy this :-) http://freetype.org/freetype2/docs/rasterinfo/rasterinfo.html Werner ___ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype

[ft] FreeType patents page updated

In another mailing list there was a reference to http://david.freetype.org/cleartype-patents.html I wasn't aware that this page exists... Consequently, I've just updated the patents page at http://freetype.org/patents.html Werner ___

Re: [ft] Vertical line spacing problems with different fonts.

> I am drawing multi line text using FreeType2. Now,I compare my text > position with Adobe AfterEffects built-in text. I found that using > standard fonts like Verdana the auto spacing looks good. But with > some less standard fonts like Segoe UI the second line text has a > shift of several

Re: [ft] Debian Stable Still Has Old FreeType

> I’ve just been getting to the bottom of a mysterious discrepancy in > the metrics of a .otf font between machines running Ubuntu 14.04 and > those running Debian (Stable 8.1 and also Unstable). Well, I hope that the `new' behaviour is the right one :-) Werner

[ft] Announcing FreeType version 2.6.1

FreeType 2.6.1 has been released. It is available from http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/ or http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/ The latter site also holds older versions of the FreeType library. See below for the relevant snippet from the CHANGES file.

[ft] Announcing ttfautohint version 1.4

ttfautohint 1.4 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/1.4 Instructions to build the

Re: [ft] Building freetype under cygwin

> Running into some problem building freetype for Windows under > cygwin, using mingw compiler. The problem seems to be with build > process launching an Win32 executable, and passing Cygwin paths to > it, resulting in: > > > /home/alex/freetype-2.6/objs/apinames.exe \ >

Re: [ft] Building freetype under cygwin

> alex@ALEXANDERAG6A39 ~/freetype-2.6 > $ ./objs/apinames.exe \ > -o `cygpath -w /home/alex/freetype-2.6/objs/ftexport.sym` \ > `cygpath -w /home/alex/freetype-2.6/include/freetype/ttnameid.h` \ > `cygpath -w /home/alex/freetype-2.6/include/freetype/freetype.h` Aah, OK. I've never used

Re: [ft] Building freetype under cygwin

> Unfortunately this was the last straw, and I’m trying to get things > going on msys2 now. I’ll try and look at this sometime next week, > once I’m done with my current task, if I have a moment, though. Thanks! > I’m attaching the output from complete ft build. It seems that while > the flag

Re: [ft] [ft-devel] [ft-announce] Announcing FreeType version 2.6.1

> When do you expect to release 2.6.2? This weekend. Werner ___ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype

Re: [ft] FreeType Rasterizer/Renderer and Dropouts

Sorry for the late reply. > The code I used to generate the image is part of a much larger > project, but here's the general procedure I'm following. In case you haven't yet solved the issue, please create a stand-alone, command-line program (in C) that outputs its ASCII data to stdout, and

Re: [ft] Rendering of GD symbols

> Can FreeType font engine be used to render Geometric dimensioning > and tolerancing symbols(wiki link: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric_dimensioning_and_tolerancing). FreeType renders glyphs from a font, nothing else. You have to do the layout by yourself (or let a suitable library

[ft] Announcing ttfautohint version 1.5

ttfautohint 1.5 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/1.5 Instructions to build the

Re: [ft] Accessing localized chars in a font for slash char.

>> FreeType doesn't take care of localization in any way. You need a >> higher-level library like Pango or ICU to activate locale handling >> (i.e., selecting script and language for OpenType features). > > Thanks for that info. Though I see in the docs glyph-to-script-map (a) This is for the

Re: [ft] Failure in loading U+033F in DejaVu fonts

> Oh, I slipped to mention a change from my patch in previous post and > committed one. In previous post in this list, I added a public > function FT_List_GetNodeAt(). But, now I moved it into ttgload.c, > as a private function. It is just because once we publish some > function, we cannot

Re: [ft] Failure in loading U+033F in DejaVu fonts

> I updated the simplest fix in my hand. I was going to commit it to > head of git repository, but savannah is in some network trouble. > Attached is the patch, but if anybody wants, I will make a "make > dist" tarball which is ready to "./configure && make". please let > me know. Savannah

Re: [ft] Glyph 0xBB does not load from TTF-FreeFont FreeSerif.ttf since 6.12.2

> As of version 6.12.2, a single glyph from FreeSerif.ttf (from > http://www.nongnu.org/freefont/) cannot be loaded any more, namely > code point 0xBB (">>", guillemotright). [...] > > The error code is 0x15, "invalid composite glyph". Thanks for the report. Accidentally, Suzuki-san is working

Re: [ft] Failure in loading U+033F in DejaVu fonts

> It seems that the changeset 758d55e522eb426dad2f15adc1d945f7896d7b29 > (between 2.6.1 and 2.6.2) is the point that FT2 starts the complain > against DejaVu. The changset was introduced to detected looped > reference. [...] Thanks for your analysis. It seems that the test to protect against

Re: [ft] Help needed

> I need to do anti aliasing in a smartwatch prototype but iam not > able to install freetype in my computer. > > Could you please tell me a way to install and use your product in > the most simplest way since I am not a programmer. > > I use windows 7. Please advice asap. Well, FreeType *is*

[ft] Announcing FreeType version 2.6.5

FreeType 2.6.5 has been released. It is available from http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/ or http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/ The latter site also holds older versions of the FreeType library. See below for the relevant snippet from the CHANGES file.

Re: [ft] Permission to use FreeType logo

> May I have permission to use the libfreetype logo in the credits of > my project as part of a larger open source acknowledments section? Certainly! Werner ___ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org

[ft] Announcing FreeType version 2.6.4

FreeType 2.6.4 has been released. It is available from http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/ or http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/ The latter site also holds older versions of the FreeType library. See below for the relevant snippet from the CHANGES file.

Re: [ft] Freetype Usage

>> Can you send me an HTML patch for >> >> https://www.freetype.org/developer.html >> >> so that your bindings are listed also (and probably updating the >> references to the other Python stuff)? > > Sure. How’s this? Applied, thanks! Werner

Re: [ft] Freetype Usage

> I would like to know how to I use freetype in my application code, The documentation is available online. https://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/documentation.html > I want to render chinese characters on display. Please can you > guide me how do I use this freetype library. Please read

Re: [ft] Freetype Usage

> [...] have a look at my set of Python bindings for the main parts of > the Linux typography stack: Can you send me an HTML patch for https://www.freetype.org/developer.html so that your bindings are listed also (and probably updating the references to the other Python stuff)? Werner

[ft] FreeType & GSoC

This year, FreeType wants to participate GSoC (Google Summer of Code). Here is our idea list. https://www.freetype.org/gsoc.html Please comment! And please spread the news :-) Werner ___ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org

Re: [ft] BWIP-JS and Ionic 2

> Is there any sort of support for Ionic 2 and Angular 2 with this > library? Not here on this list, sorry. I hear those terms the first time. Are you sure that you are using the FreeType library in its original form? Maybe you are using the output of emscripten... Werner

Re: [ft] Troubleshoot while running configure script on freetype-2.4.12.tar.bz2 and freetype-2.7.tar.gz

> When I run the configure script after extracting the files of the > .tar.gz file, I have the next messages: > > awk: symbol lookup error: awk: undefined symbol: mpfr_z_sub > awk: symbol lookup error: awk: undefined symbol: mpfr_z_sub This message doesn't come from FreeType! It's probably

Re: [ft] Emboldening and then hinting a glyph with FreeType

> I'm a one of the developers of free open source CoolReader3 branch > for E-Ink reader devices and I have a question. CR3 is based on > FreeType2 lib. I have added emboldening font functionality to CR3, > since E-Ink devices seem to need some font emboldening due to the > low contrast of E-Ink

Re: [ft] Emboldening and then hinting a glyph with FreeType

> Is there any other possibility to "hint" transformed glyphs? For > example, by calling hinting function directly or something like > that? Well, the TrueType hinting mechanism is tightly bound to the outline and its rasterization to the grid depending on the selected PPEM. Basically, it is

[ft] FreeType is part of GSoC 2017

FreeType is part of Google Summer of Code 2017! https://www.freetype.org/gsoc.html Werner ___ Freetype mailing list Freetype@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype

Re: [ft] mactype and vac bann

> can this softtware cause VAC bann? I don't think so. FreeType is a library to render fonts... > ..im reading in some article that this software is using "hook to > the program" method, and usually VAC detects this method as a > attempt for cheating @.@...so can you guys confirm this? This

Re: [ft] not work

> Good afternoon, colleagues! Do not display correctly insert > elements in TextMaker rev.757; In Microsoft offices displayed > correctly. Maksim, there is a long way from a PDF to its rasterization on screen. If I open your MS Office document with LibreOffice on my GNU/Linux box, the

[ft] Announcing FreeType version 2.7

FreeType 2.7 has been released. It is available from http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/ or http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/ The latter site also holds older versions of the FreeType library. See below for the relevant snippet from the CHANGES file. Enjoy!

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