[ft-devel] Announcing FreeType 2.7.1

[Werner LEMBERG]

FreeType 2.7.1 has been released.

It is available from

    http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/

or

    http://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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http://www.freetype.org


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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  I. IMPORTANT CHANGES

    - Support for the new CFF2 font format as introduced with OpenType
      1.8 has been contributed by Dave Arnolds from Adobe.

    - Preliminary support for variation fonts as specified in OpenType
      1.8 (in addition to the  already existing support for Adobe's MM
      and Apple's  GX formats).  Dave Arnolds  contributed handling of
      advance  width change  variation;  more will  come  in the  next
      version.


  II. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES

    - Handling of  raw CID fonts was partially  broken (bug introduced
      in 2.6.4).


  III. MISCELLANEOUS

    - Some limits for TrueType  bytecode execution have been tightened
      to  speed   up  FreeType's  handling  of   malformed  fonts,  in
      particular to quickly abort endless loops.

      - The  number of  twilight points  can no  longer be  set to  an
        arbitrarily large value.

      - The total number of jump  opcode instructions (like JMPR) with
        negative arguments  is dynamically restricted; the  same holds
        for the total number of iterations in LOOPCALL opcodes.

      The dynamic limits are based on  the number of points in a glyph
      and the number of CVT entries.  Please report if you encounter a
      font where the selected values are not adequate.

    - PCF family names are made more `colourful'; they now include the
      foundry  and information  whether they contain  wide characters.
      For example,  you no longer get `Fixed' but  rather `Sony Fixed'
      or `Misc Fixed Wide'.

    - A new  function `FT_Get_Var_Blend_Coordinates'  (with its  alias
      name  `FT_Get_MM_Blend_Coordinates') to retrieve the  normalized
      blend  coordinates of the currently  selected variation instance
      has been added to the Multiple Masters interface.

    - A new  function `FT_Get_Var_Design_Coordinates' to  retrieve the
      design coordinates of the  currently selected variation instance
      has been added to the Multiple Masters interface.

    - A new load flag `FT_LOAD_BITMAP_METRICS_ONLY' to retrieve bitmap
      information without loading the (embedded) bitmap itself.

    - Retrieving   advance   widths   from   bitmap   strikes   (using
      `FT_Get_Advance' and `FT_Get_Advances') have been sped up.

    - The  usual round  of  fuzzer fixes  to  better reject  malformed
      fonts.

    - The `ftmulti' demo program can now switch engines with key `H'.

    - The  `ftstring'  demo  program   can  now  show  some  built-in,
      non-latin sample strings (to be selected with the TAB key).

    - The  `ftview'  demo program  can  now  switch between  a  font's
      charmaps using the TAB key.