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!
Werner
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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.
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CHANGES BETWEEN 2.6.5 and 2.7
I. IMPORTANT CHANGES
- As announced earlier, the 2.7.x series now uses the new subpixel
hinting mode as the default, emulating a modern version of
ClearType.
This change inevitably leads to different rendering results, and
you might change the `TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING'
configuration option to adapt it to your taste (or use the new
`FREETYPE_PROPERTIES' environment variable).
- A new option `FT_CONFIG_OPTION_ENVIRONMENT_PROPERTIES' has been
introduced. If set (which is the default), an environment
variable `FREETYPE_PROPERTIES' can be used to control driver
properties. Example:
FREETYPE_PROPERTIES=truetype:interpreter-version=35 \
cff:no-stem-darkening=1 \
autofitter:warping=1
This allows to select, say, the subpixel hinting mode at runtime
for a given application. See file `ftoption.h' for more.
II. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES
- After loading a named instance of a GX variation font, the
`face_index' value in the returned `FT_Face' structure now
correctly holds the named instance index in the upper 16bits as
documented.
III. MISCELLANEOUS
- A new macro `FT_IS_NAMED_INSTANCE' to test whether a given face
is a named instance.
- More fixes to GX font handling.
- Apple's `GETVARIATION' bytecode operator (needed for GX
variation font support) has been implemented.
- Another round of fuzzer fixes, mainly to reject invalid fonts
faster.
- Handling of raw CID fonts was broken (bug introduced in version
2.6.4).
- The smooth rasterizer has been streamlined to make it faster by
approx. 20%.
- The `ftgrid' demo program now understands command line option
`-d' to give start-up design coordinates.
- The `ftdump' demo program has a new command line option `-p' to
dump TrueType bytecode instructions.
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