[ft-devel] FreeType 2.4.10 has been released

[Werner LEMBERG]

FreeType 2.4.10 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; all users
should upgrade.

Enjoy!


   Werner


PS: Downloads from savannah.nongnu.org will redirect to your nearest
    mirror site.  Files on mirrors may be subject to a replication
    delay of up to 24 hours.  In case of problems use
    http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/


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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 2.4.9 and 2.4.10

  I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES

    - Incremental glyph loading as needed by ghostscript was broken.


  II. MISCELLANEOUS

    - A new  function `FT_Outline_EmboldenXY',  contributed by  Alexei
      Podtelezhnikov.

    - In the `ftview' demo program, key `e' has been replaced with `x'
      and `y' to  embolden in  the horizontal and  vertical direction,
      respectively.

    - The glyph  spacing computation  in `FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden'  (and
      similar code in `ftview') has been improved.

    - Minor  improvements to  the TrueType  bytecode  interpreter  and
      glyph loader, the auto-hinter, and the B/W rasterizer.