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[Devel] FreeType 2.0.1 available


From: David Turner
Subject: [Devel] FreeType 2.0.1 available
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2000 17:54:24 +0100

Hello,

  I've just finished packaging the FreeType release 2.0.1
  It is now available from our main ftp servers, and should
  normally on all usual mirrors tomorrow.

  You can also grab it from the CVS server. Please use the
  tag "VER-2-0-1", as I'm going to modify the sources rather
  soon now :-)

  Enjoy,

- David

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LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.1 and 2.0:

  2.0.1 introduces a few changes:

    - fixed many bugs related to the support of CFF / OpenType fonts.
      These formats are now much better supported though there is still
      work planned to deal with Charset tables and PDF-embedded CFF
      files that use the old "seac" command.
    
    - the library could not be compiled in debug mode with a very small
      number of C compilers whose pre-processors didn't implement the
      "##" directive correctly (i.e. per se the ANSI C specification!)
      An elegant fix was found.
  
    - added support for the free Borland command-line C++ Builder compiler
      use "make setup bcc32" to use it. Also fixed a few source lines that
      generated new warnings with BCC32.
  
    - fixed a bug in FT_Outline_Get_BBox when computing the extrema of
      a conic Bezier arc.
  
    - updated the INSTALL file to add IDE compilation.

    - other minor bug fixes, from invalid Type 1 style flags to correct
      support of synthetic (obliqued) fonts in the auto-hinter, better
      support for embedded bitmaps in a SFNT font.

    - fixed some problems with "freetype-config"


  Finally, the "standard" scheme for including FreeType headers is now
  gradually changing, but this will be explained in a later release
  (probably 2.0.2) ...

  And very special thanks to Tom Kacvinsky and YAMANO-UCHI Hidetoshi for
  their contributions!



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