be moved to "freetype2/src/base" soon and become part
of the library.
changes include:
- fixed a bug which prevented large spans being drawn correctly.
- now renders large glyphs that overflow the render pool.
- various performance enhancements. the renderer now
renders large glyphs with much greater speed :-)
- also faster with small glyphs ..
future plans:
- fix a vertical-dropout bug in the standard raster (b&w)
- write a demonstration program to demonstrate direct
composition..
- there is now a "convenience" API to manage glyphs in
"include/ftglyph.h". See the demo program "ftstring" for
an example..
- the raster interface has been changed in order to allow
direct composition through user-provided callbacks. This
has been tested but isn't demonstrated for now in "demos"
- the FT_LOAD_NO_RECURSE flag is supported, as this is
required by some new code in the auto-hinting engine
- some bug fixed in FT_MulFix which made FT_xxx_Transform
return incorrect results..
API (see include/ftglyph.h).
Supports kerning, rotation, sub-pixel rendering..
Could be easily modified to reach the level of strtto when
we have the relevant OpenType module handy..
of segments used to decompose a bezier curve, we get rid
of the "fuzz-fuzz" factor.
it's also faster than the standard renderer after tweaking.
Note that it isn't completed yet..
- use the Mac path separator to get the base file name
- don't append .ttf if no dot in the file name
(plus small typo fix and error message enhancement)
- the graphics drivers were moved from "demos/config/*" to
"demos/graph/*"
- a Win32 graphics driver was added. (note that keyboard
management is a bit buggy, but it's really usable).
- the "demos/Makefile" and "demos/graph/rules.mk" were
seriously modified
- the demo programs now compile AND run with gcc,
Visual C++ and LCC-Win32 !! The other ones should be
really easy to add now, as LCC was the really smart ass
in this list...
- compile the demonstration programs in any directory, by
using the "TOP" and "CONFIG_MK" environment variables
- the graphics drivers have moved from "demos/config/*" to
"demos/graph/*"
- brain-dead compilers like LCC-Win32 required some
changes in the way executables are linked
David Turner
Werner Lemberg
Just van Rossum