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/<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-de...@nongnu.org >> https://lists.nongnu.org/**mailman/listinfo/freetype-**devel<https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel> >> >> > > ______________________________**_________________ > Freetype-devel mailing list > freetype-de...@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/**mailman/listinfo/freetype-**devel<https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/freetype-devel> >
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