Re: [ft-devel] FreeType 2.4.6 has been released
All the 2.4.6 files on the savannah site give 404 errors :-( On 29/07/2011 05:52, Werner LEMBERG wrote: FreeType 2.4.6 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; users of version 2.4.5 should upgrade immediately. 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 2.4.5 and 2.4.6 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - For TrueType based fonts, the ascender and descender values were incorrect sometimes (off by a pixel if the ppem value was not a multiple of 5). Depending on the use you might now experience a different layout; the change should result in better, more consistent line spacing. - Fix CVE-2011-0226 which causes a vulnerability while handling Type 1 fonts. - BDF fonts containing glyphs with negative values for ENCODING were incorrectly rejected. This bug has been introduced in FreeType version 2.2.0. - David Bevan contributed a major revision of the FreeType stroker code: . The behaviour of FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_BEVEL has been corrected. . A new line join style, FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_MITER_FIXED, has been introduced to support PostScript and PDF miter joins. . FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_MITER_VARIABLE has been introduced as an alias for FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_MITER. . Various stroking glitches has been fixed. II. MISCELLANEOUS - SFNT bitmap fonts which contain an outline glyph for `.notdef' only no longer set the FT_FACE_FLAG_SCALABLE flag. ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] FreeType 2.4.6 has been released
Use sourceforge. It works. On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Graham Asher graham.as...@cartotype.comwrote: All the 2.4.6 files on the savannah site give 404 errors :-( On 29/07/2011 05:52, Werner LEMBERG wrote: FreeType 2.4.6 has been released. It is available from http://savannah.nongnu.org/**download/freetype/http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/ or http://sourceforge.net/**projects/freetype/files/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; users of version 2.4.5 should upgrade immediately. 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 2.4.5 and 2.4.6 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - For TrueType based fonts, the ascender and descender values were incorrect sometimes (off by a pixel if the ppem value was not a multiple of 5). Depending on the use you might now experience a different layout; the change should result in better, more consistent line spacing. - Fix CVE-2011-0226 which causes a vulnerability while handling Type 1 fonts. - BDF fonts containing glyphs with negative values for ENCODING were incorrectly rejected. This bug has been introduced in FreeType version 2.2.0. - David Bevan contributed a major revision of the FreeType stroker code: . The behaviour of FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_BEVEL has been corrected. . A new line join style, FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_MITER_**FIXED, has been introduced to support PostScript and PDF miter joins. . FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_MITER_**VARIABLE has been introduced as an alias for FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_MITER. . Various stroking glitches has been fixed. II. MISCELLANEOUS - SFNT bitmap fonts which contain an outline glyph for `.notdef' only no longer set the FT_FACE_FLAG_SCALABLE flag. __**_ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/**mailman/listinfo/freetype-**develhttps://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel __**_ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/**mailman/listinfo/freetype-**develhttps://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] FreeType 2.4.6 has been released
Thank you. I know. I was reporting an error on the savannah site, which ought to work as advertised. On 29/07/2011 09:40, İsmail Dönmez wrote: Use sourceforge. It works. On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Graham Asher graham.as...@cartotype.com mailto:graham.as...@cartotype.com wrote: All the 2.4.6 files on the savannah site give 404 errors :-( On 29/07/2011 05:52, Werner LEMBERG wrote: FreeType 2.4.6 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; users of version 2.4.5 should upgrade immediately. 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 2.4.5 and 2.4.6 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - For TrueType based fonts, the ascender and descender values were incorrect sometimes (off by a pixel if the ppem value was not a multiple of 5). Depending on the use you might now experience a different layout; the change should result in better, more consistent line spacing. - Fix CVE-2011-0226 which causes a vulnerability while handling Type 1 fonts. - BDF fonts containing glyphs with negative values for ENCODING were incorrectly rejected. This bug has been introduced in FreeType version 2.2.0. - David Bevan contributed a major revision of the FreeType stroker code: . The behaviour of FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_BEVEL has been corrected. . A new line join style, FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_MITER_FIXED, has been introduced to support PostScript and PDF miter joins. . FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_MITER_VARIABLE has been introduced as an alias for FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_MITER. . Various stroking glitches has been fixed. II. MISCELLANEOUS - SFNT bitmap fonts which contain an outline glyph for `.notdef' only no longer set the FT_FACE_FLAG_SCALABLE flag. ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org mailto:Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org mailto:Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
Re: [ft-devel] FreeType 2.4.6 has been released
I think mirrors are still syncing which is known to be slow. On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:44 AM, Graham Asher graham.as...@cartotype.comwrote: Thank you. I know. I was reporting an error on the savannah site, which ought to work as advertised. On 29/07/2011 09:40, İsmail Dönmez wrote: Use sourceforge. It works. On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Graham Asher graham.as...@cartotype.com wrote: All the 2.4.6 files on the savannah site give 404 errors :-( On 29/07/2011 05:52, Werner LEMBERG wrote: FreeType 2.4.6 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; users of version 2.4.5 should upgrade immediately. 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 2.4.5 and 2.4.6 I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - For TrueType based fonts, the ascender and descender values were incorrect sometimes (off by a pixel if the ppem value was not a multiple of 5). Depending on the use you might now experience a different layout; the change should result in better, more consistent line spacing. - Fix CVE-2011-0226 which causes a vulnerability while handling Type 1 fonts. - BDF fonts containing glyphs with negative values for ENCODING were incorrectly rejected. This bug has been introduced in FreeType version 2.2.0. - David Bevan contributed a major revision of the FreeType stroker code: . The behaviour of FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_BEVEL has been corrected. . A new line join style, FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_MITER_FIXED, has been introduced to support PostScript and PDF miter joins. . FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_MITER_VARIABLE has been introduced as an alias for FT_STROKER_LINEJOIN_MITER. . Various stroking glitches has been fixed. II. MISCELLANEOUS - SFNT bitmap fonts which contain an outline glyph for `.notdef' only no longer set the FT_FACE_FLAG_SCALABLE flag. ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel ___ Freetype-devel mailing list Freetype-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel
