Dear Sir, Oops, yet I've not finished the improvement of configure to build universal binary on PowerPC Mac OS X 10.4 (requested by Ryan Schmidt). I have to apologize. Werner, could you tell me expected schedule (or feature to be finished) to relase 2.3.7?
Regards, mpsuzuki On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:48:51 +0200 (CEST) Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >FreeType 2.3.6 has been released. > >It is available from > > http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/ > >or > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3157 > >The latter site also holds older versions of the FreeType library. > >See below for the relevant snippet from the CHANGES file; all users >should upgrade. > > >Enjoy! > > > Werner > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >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. > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.6 and 2.3.5 > > I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES > > - A bunch of potential security problems have been found. All > users should update. > > - Microsoft Unicode cmaps in TrueType fonts are now always > preferred over Apple cmaps. This is not a bug per se, but there > exist some buggy fonts created for MS which have broken Apple > cmaps. This affects only the automatic selection of FreeType; > it's always possible to manually select an Apple Unicode cmap if > desired. > > - Many bug fixes to the TrueType bytecode interpreter. > > - Improved Mac support. > > - Subsetted CID-keyed CFFs are now supported correctly. > > - CID-keyed CFFs with subfonts which are scaled in a non-standard > way are now handled correctly. > > - A call to FT_Open_Face with `face_index' < 0 crashed FreeType if > the font was a Windows (bitmap) FNT/FON. > > > II. IMPORTANT CHANGES > > - The new function `FT_Get_CID_Registry_Ordering_Supplement' gives > access to those fields in a CID-keyed font. The code has been > contributed by Derek Clegg. > > - George Williams contributed code to validate the new `MATH' > OpenType table (within the `otvalid' module). The `ftvalid' > demo program has been extended accordingly. > > - An API for cmap 14 support (for Unicode Variant Selectors, UVS) > has been contributed by George Williams. > > - A new face flag FT_FACE_FLAG_CID_KEYED has been added, together > with a macro FT_IS_CID_KEYED which evaluates to 1 if the font is > CID-keyed. > > > III. MISCELLANEOUS > > - Build support for symbian has been contributed. > > - Better WGL4 glyph name support, contributed by Sergey Tolstov. > > - Debugging output of the various FT_TRACEX macros is now sent to > stderr. > > - The `ftview' demo program now provides artificial slanting too. > > - The `ftvalid' demo program has a new option `-f' to select the > font index. > > >_______________________________________________ >Freetype mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype -- 鈴木 _______________________________________________ Freetype mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype
