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[ft-devel] FreeType 2.4.4 has been released
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Werner LEMBERG |
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[ft-devel] FreeType 2.4.4 has been released |
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Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:32:06 +0100 (CET) |
FreeType 2.4.4 has been released.
All users should upgrade.
It is available from
http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/
or
https://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.
Enjoy!
Werner
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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.
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CHANGES BETWEEN 2.4.3 and 2.4.4
I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES
- UVS support (TrueType/OpenType cmap format 14) support is fixed.
This regression has been introduced in version 2.4.0.
II. MISCELLANEOUS
- Detect tricky fonts (e.g. MingLiU) by the lengths and checksums
of Type42-persistent subtables (`cvt ', `fpgm', and `prep') when
a TrueType font without family name is given. The previous fix,
introduced in 2.4.3, was too rigorous, causing many subsetted
fonts (mainly from PDF files) displayed badly because FreeType
forced rendering with the TrueType bytecode engine instead of
the autohinter.
- Better support for 64bit platforms.
- More fixes to improve handling of broken fonts.
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