Hi,
David Turner released new version of FreeType - 2.0.9
See announcement below
Cooker still have FT2-2.0.6, which is 3 generations ahead...
Can someone packaging FreeType udate the package, please?
I have tested FT-2.0.6 binary RPM from Cooker - and it has terrible rendering
quality for TrueType fonts.
(I was using before FT 2.0.3 compiled with TrueType Bytecode Interpreter
turned On, in Cooker I guess it's turned Off)
I have heard from David Turner that PS auto-hinter quality greatly improoved
after 2.0.6 release
So I hope upgrading FT2 in Cooker and upcoming LM 8.2 will greatly imprrove
rendering quality in all X applications (KDE, GNOME, Mozilla, etc.)
Regards,
Vadim
---------- Forwarded Message ----------
Subject: [Freetype] FreeType 2.0.9 Released
Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 12:07:55 +0100
From: David Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I'd like to announce that FreeType 2.0.9 has finally been released a few
days ago. I couldn't announce it due to minor mail server problems but
everything can now be grabbed from the main site, SourceForge or any of
the mirrors..
Enjoy,
- David Turner
=============================================================================
==
I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES
- Certain fonts, like "foxjump.ttf" contain broken name tables with
invalid entries and wild offsets. This caused FreeType to crash when
trying to load them.
The SFNT 'name' table loader has been fixed to be able to support
these strange fonts.
Moreover, the code in charge of processing this table has been changed
to always favor Windows-formatted entries over other ones. Hence, a
font that works on Windows but not on the Mac will load cleanly in
FreeType and report accurate values for Family & Postscript names.
- The CID font driver has been fixed. It unfortunately returned a
Postscript Font name with a leading slash, as in
"/MunhwaGothic-Regular".
- FreeType 2 should now compile fine on AIX 4.3.3 as a shared library.
- A bug in the Postscript hinter has been found and fixed. You shouldn't
be experimenting un-even stem widths at small pixel sizes (like 14-17).
This improves the quality of a certain number of Postscript fonts :o)
II. NEW FEATURES:
- A new function named FT_Library_Version has been added to return
the current library's major, minor and patch version numbers. This
is important since the macros FREETYPE_MAJOR, FREETYPE_MINOR and
FREETYPE_PATCH cannot be used when the library is dynamically linked
by a program..
- Two new APIs have been added: FT_Get_First_Char and FT_Get_Next_Char.
Together, these can be used to iterate efficiently over the currently
selected charmap of a given face. Read the API reference for more
details.
III. MISCELLANEOUS:
- The FreeType sources are under heavy internal re-factoring. As a
consequence, we have created a branch named "STABLE" on the CVS to
hold all future releases/fixes in the 2.0.x family.
The HEAD branch now contains the re-factored sources and shouldn't be
used for testing or packaging new releases. In the cases where you
would like to access the 2.0.9 sources from our CVS repository, you
should use the tag VER-2-0-9.
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