Re: Announcing ttfautohint 1.8.4

[Freetype Supporter]

On Saturday, August 21st, 2021 at 12:39 PM, Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> wrote:

> ttfautohint 1.8.4 has been released.
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> The source tarball, statically-linked binaries for Win32 (TTY and GUI) and
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> OS X (TTY only) are available from
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> http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/
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> or
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> http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/ttfautohint/1.8.4
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> Instructions to build the GUI version on OS X can be found at
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> http://freetype.org/ttfautohint/osx.html
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> Enjoy!
>
> Werner
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> PS: Downloads from savannah.nongnu.org will redirect to your nearest
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> mirror site. Files on mirrors may be subject to a replication
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> delay of up to 24 hours. In case of problems use
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> http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/
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> http://freetype.org/ttfautohint
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> This project provides a library which takes a TrueType font as the input,
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> remove its bytecode instructions (if any), and return a new font where all
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> glyphs are bytecode hinted using the information given by FreeType's
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> autohinting module. The idea is to provide the excellent quality of the
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> autohinter on platforms which don't use FreeType.
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> The library has a single API function, `TTF_autohint'; see` 
> lib/ttfautohint.h' for a detailed description. Note that the library
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> itself won't get installed currently.
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> A command-line interface to the library is the `ttfautohint' program; after 
> compilation and installation, say ttfautohint --help for usage information, 
> or say man ttfautohint to read its manual page. A GUI to the library is` 
> ttfautohintGUI'; it uses the Qt framework. The
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> compilation of this application can be disabled with the `--without-qt'
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> configuration option.
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> Version 1.8.4 (2021-Aug-14)
> -----------------------------
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> -   Support for Hanifi Rohingya, Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong, Medefaidrin, and
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>     Yezidi.
> -   Bug fix: Option combination `-f none -S` to suppress hinting of
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>     unassigned glyphs was broken.
> -   Parallel builds of the package are now fully supported.
> -   The `configure` option `--with-freetype-config` has been removed;
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>     similarly to HarfBuzz, the `pkg-config` interface is now used
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>     exclusively for finding FreeType.
Thank you