for an upcoming 2.2.2 release
* include/freetype/ftlcdfil.h, src/freetype/ftlcdfil.c:
added a new API to support color filtering of subpixel glyph
bitmaps. In default build, the function FT_Library_SetLcdFilter
returns FT_Err_Unimplemented_Feature; you need to #define
FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING in ftoption.h to compile
the real implementation
* src/smooth/ftsmooth.c: adding support for sub-pixel color
filtering; simplifying a few function calls
* include/freetype/config/ftheader.h: adding FT_LCD_FILTER_H
macro that points to <freetype/ftlcdfil.h>
I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES
- Various integer overflows have been fixed.
- PFB fonts with MacOS resource fork weren't handled correctly on
non-MacOS platforms.
- The PCF font loarder has been seriously hardened against malformed
font files.
II. IMPORTANT CHANGES
- the unpatented hinter is now part of the default build of the
library, and we added code to automatically support "tricky"
fonts that need it.
what this means is that FreeType should "just work" with certain
Asian fonts, like MingLiu, which cannot properly load without a
bytecode interpreter, but fortunately do not use any of the
patented bytecode opcodes.
Note that the API didn't change, so you can still force
unpatented hinting with a special parameter to FT_Open_Face
as well.
if you're an embedded systems developer, you might want to
*disable* the feature to save code space by undefining
TT_CONFIG_OPTION_UNPATENTED_HINTING in ftoption.h.
- LCD-optimized rendering is now disabled in all default builds
of the library, mainly due to patent reasons. For more information
see:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2006-09/msg00064.html
a new configuration macro FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING has
been introduced in ftoption.h; manually define it in this file
if you want to re-enable the feature.
the change only affects the implementation, not the FreeType API.
This means that clients don't need to be modified, because the
library still generates LCD decimated bitmaps, but with the added
constraint that R=G=B on each triplet.
- Some computation bugs in the TrueType bytecode interpreter were found,
which allow us to get rid of very subtle and rare differences we had
with the Windows renderer.
III. MISCELLANEOUS
- TrueType glyph loading is now about 25% faster.
- the anti-aliased rasterizer has been optimized and is now 15% to 25%
percent faster than the previous one, depending on content
- the Type 1 loader has been improved; as an example, it now skips
over top-level dictionaries properly
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which report their English names through an Apple Roman
(platform,encoding) pair, with language_id != English
if the font uses another name entry with language_id == English,
it will be selected correctly though.
* src/truetype/ttobjs.c: add unpatent-hinting selection for
"mingli.ttf"
Fix miscellaneous compiler warnings.
* freetype2/include/freetype/internal/ftobjs.h: close
comment with `*/' to avoid `/* in comment' compiler warning.
* freetype2/src/base/ftdbgmem.c (ft_mem_table_get_source): Turn
cast `(FT_UInt32)(void*)' into `(FT_UInt32)(FT_PtrDist)(void*)'
since on 64-bit platforms void* is larger than FT_UInt32.
* freetype2/src/base/ftobjs.c (t_validator_error): cast
away volatileness of argument to ft_longjmp. Spotted by
Werner `Putzfrau' Lemberg.
* freetype2/src/bdf/bdflib.c (bdf_load_font): initialize
local variable `lineno'.
* freetype2/src/gxvalid/gxvmod.c (classic_kern_validate):
mark local variable `error' volatile.
include/freetype/internal/tttypes.h, src/base/ftgloadr.c,
src/base/ftobjs.c, src/truetype/ttgload.c, src/truetype/ttinterp.c,
src/truetype/ttobjs.c: improvements to native TrueType hinting,
this is a first try, controlled by the FIX_BYTECODE macro in
src/truetype/ttinterp.c
add T1_TOKEN_TYPE_KEY. (struct T1_FieldRec_) add `dict'. Add macros
T1_FIELD_DICT_FONTDICT and T1_FIELD_DICT_PRIVATE. Change T1_NEW_XXX and
T1_FIELD_XXX macros to take the dictionary where the PS keywords is
expected as an additional argument.
* freetype2/src/cid/cidload.c: (T1_FieldRec): Adjust invocations
of T1_FIELD_XXX.
* freetype2/src/cid/cidtoken.h: Adjust invocations of T1_FIELD_XXX.
* freetype2/src/psaux/psobjs.c: Add macro FT_COMPONENT for tracing.
(ps_parser_to_token): Report a PostScript key as T1_TOKEN_TYPE_KEY
instead as T1_TOKEN_TYPE_ANY. (ps_parser_load_field): Make sure a token
that should be a string or name is a string or name indeed. Avoid
memory leak if a keyword has been already encountered and its value
is overwritten.
* freetype2/src/type1/t1load.c: (T1_FieldRec): Adjust invocations of
T1_FIELD_XXX. (parse_dict): Ignore keywords that occur in the wrong
dictionary (e.g., in Private instead of FontDict).
* freetype2/src/type1/t1tokens.h: Adjust invocations of T1_FIELD_XXX.
David Turner
Werner Lemberg
Jens Claudius
Suzuki, Toshiya (鈴木俊哉)