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[Devel] VxWorks( WindMl)


From: Wadhwa, Somesh
Subject: [Devel] VxWorks( WindMl)
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 08:54:07 -0800

Hello All,
I am curious if there is a VxWorks( WindML) port of Freetype. Can anyone
please advise me on how to go about getting it.
Thanks,
Somesh

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Long [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 8:24 AM
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [Devel] FreeType 2.1.3 rc3 available


Thanks David.

As usual, I will try to break your release candidate ;-)

Scott

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 11:02:16 +0100
  David Turner <address@hidden> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>   I've packaged 2.1.3 rc3 this morning, you should be able to grab
>   it from the FTP site (and mirrors pretty soon I imagine).
>
>   I have also commited a few changes before that:
>
>     - a fix to the synthetic emboldener (stupid computation
>       bug gave truly bad results :-( )
>
>     - a new PFR-specific API (see FT_PFR_H or <freetype/ftpfr.h>),
>       this is required because PFR faces do not use the same
>       "unit size" for outline coordinates and metrics.
>
>       the new API allows you to retrieve advances and kerning in
>       original metrics units, this is important to implement text
>       layout according to the Digital TV MHP 1.0.2 specification,
>       for example :-)
>
>     - well, FT_Get_Kerning didn't work correctly for PFR faces
>       where "outline_resolution" and "metrics_resolution" differed,
>       so this has been fixed...
>
>   I'm also currently working on Juliusz's patch to support GZip
>   compression. Since the zlib doesn't allow you to open .gz files
>   with arbitrary streams, a small re-implementation of "gzio.c"
>   is needed, i.e. one that handles FT_Stream objects.
>
>   By the way, I don't know how to tweak Autoconf to support an
>   optional dependency on zlib. Does anyone in here knows how to
>   do that simply. I'd like a configure flags, like "--with-zlib"
>   or "--with-gzip" but don't know how to implement that.
>
>   The Jamfiles will be modified to embed the relevant portions
>   of zlib directly into the "src/base/ftgzip" components otherwise.
>
>   Apart from that, there may be a few improvements to the hinters
>   this week-end, and we'll be done for 2.1.3 :-)
>
>Regards,
>
>- David Turner
>- The FreeType Project  (www.freetype.org)
>
>
>
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