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(they differ slightly from Microsoft/OpenType ones in the way transform |
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offsets are computed). |
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- FreeType was very slow at opening certain asian CID/CFF fonts, due |
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to fixed increment in dynamic array re-allocations. This has been |
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changed to exponential behaviour to get acceptable performance |
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II. IMPORTANT CHANGES |
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- the PCF driver now supports gzip-compressed font files natively. This |
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means that you'll be able to use all these bitmap fonts that come |
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with XFree86 with FreeType (and libXft/libXft2, by extension). |
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- The automatic and postscript hinters have both been updated. This |
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results in a relatively important increase of rendering quality since |
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many nasty defaults have been supressed. Please visit the web page: |
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http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/smooth-hinting.html |
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http://www.freetype.org/hinting/smooth-hinting.html |
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for additional details on this topic. |
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has been updated to support LCD-optimized display on non-paletted |
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displays (under Win32 and X11) |
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- The PFR driver now supports embedded bitmaps (all formats supported). |
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- The PFR driver now supports embedded bitmaps (all formats supported), |
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and returns correct kerning metrics for all glyphs |
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- The TrueType charmap loader now supports certain "broken" fonts that |
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load under Windows without problems. |
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- Added support for the DESTDIR variable during "make install". This |
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simplifies packaging of FreeType. |
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- included modified copies of the ZLib sources in 'src/gzip' in order |
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to support gzip-compressed PCF fonts. We do not use the system-provided |
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zlib for now, though this is a probable enhancement for future releases |
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- The DocMaker tool used to generate the on-line API reference has been |
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completely rewritten. It is now located in |
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"src/tools/docmaker/docmaker.py". Features: |
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provided by an external component, like a Postscript interpreter) has |
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been added by Graham Asher. This is still work in progress, however. |
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- A new, experimental, path stroker has been added. It doesn't suffer |
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- A new, EXPERIMENTAL, path stroker has been added. It doesn't suffer |
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from severe rounding errors and treat bezier arcs directly. Still |
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work in progress (i.e. not part of the official API). See the file |
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<freetype/ftstroker.h> for some of the details. |
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