| |
| LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.5 and 2.1.4 |
| |
| |
| I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES |
| |
| - Parsing the /CIDFontName field now removes the leading slash to |
| be in sync with other font drivers. |
| |
| - gzip support was buggy. Some fonts could not be read. |
| |
| - Fonts which have nested subglyphs more than one level deep no |
| longer cause a segfault. |
| |
| - Creation of synthetic cmaps for fonts in CFF format was broken |
| partially. |
| |
| - Numeric font dictionary entries for synthetic fonts are no longer |
| overwritten. |
| |
| - The font matrix wasn't applied to the advance width for Type1, CID, |
| and CFF fonts. This caused problem when loading certain synthetic |
| Type 1 fonts like "Helvetica Narrow" |
| |
| - The test for the charset registry in BDF and PCF fonts is now |
| case-insensitive. |
| |
| - FT_Vector_Rotate rotating sometimes returned strange values due to |
| rounding errors. |
| |
| - The PCF driver now returns the correct number of glyphs (including |
| an artificial `notdef' glyph at index 0). |
| |
| - FreeType now supports buggy CMaps which are contained in many CJK |
| fonts from Dynalab. |
| |
| - Opening an invalid font on a Mac caused a segfault due to |
| double-freeing memory. |
| |
| - BDF fonts with more than 32768 glyphs weren't supported properly. |
| |
| |
| II. IMPORTANT CHANGES |
| |
| - Accessing bitmap font formats has been synchronized. To do that |
| the FT_Bitmap_Size structure has been extended to contain new |
| fields `size', `x_ppem', and `y_ppem'. |
| |
| - The FNT driver now returns multiple faces, not multiple strikes. |
| |
| - The `psnames' module has been updated to the Adobe Glyph List |
| version 2.0. |
| |
| - The `psnames' module now understands `uXXXX[X[X]]' glyph names. |
| |
| - The algorithm for guessing the font style has been improved. |
| |
| - For fonts in sfnt format, root->height is no longer increased if |
| the line gap is zero. There exist fonts (containing e.g. form |
| drawing characters) which intentionally have a zero line gap value. |
| |
| - ft_glyph_bbox_xxx flags are now deprecated in favour of |
| FT_GLYPH_BBOX_XXX. |
| |
| - ft_module_xxx flags are now deprecated in favour of FT_MODULE_XXX. |
| |
| - FT_ENCODING_MS_{SJIS,GB2312,BIG5,WANSUNG,JOHAB} are now deprecated |
| in favour of FT_ENCODING_{SJIS,GB2312,GIB5,WANSONG,JOHAB} -- those |
| encodings are not specific to Microsoft. |
| |
| |
| III. MISCELLANEOUS |
| |
| - The autohinter has been further improved; for example, `m' glyphs |
| now retain its vertical symmetry. |
| |
| - Partial support of Mac fonts on non-Mac platforms. |
| |
| - `make refdoc' (after first `make') builds the HTML documentation. |
| You need Python for this. |
| |
| - The make build system should now work more reliably on DOS-like |
| platforms. |
| |
| - Support for EMX gcc and Watson C/C++ compilers on MS-DOS has been |
| added. |
| |
| - Better VMS build support. |
| |
| - Support for the pkg-config package by providing a `freetype.pc' |
| file. |
| |
| - New configure option --with-old-mac-fonts for Darwin. |
| |
| - Some source files have been renamed (mainly to fit into the 8.3 |
| naming scheme). |
| |
| |
| ============================================================================== |
| |
| LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.4 and 2.1.3 |
| |
| I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES |
| |
| - Updated to newest libtool version, fixing build problems on various |
| platforms. |
| |
| - A fix in the Gzip stream reader: It couldn't read certain .gz files |
| properly due to a small typo. In certain cases, FreeType could also |
| loop endlessly when trying to load tiny gzipped files. |
| |
| - The configure script now tries to use the system-wide zlib when |
| it finds one (instead of the copy found in src/gzip). And |
| "freetype-config" has been updated to return relevant flags in this |
| case when invoked with "--libs" (e.g. "-lzlib"). |
| |
| - Certain fonts couldn't be loaded by 2.1.3 because they lacked a |
| Unicode charmap (e.g. SYMBOL.TTF). FreeType erroneously rejected |
| them. |
| |
| - The CFF loader was modified to accept fonts which only contain a |
| subset of their reference charset. This prevented the correct use |
| of PDF-embedded fonts. |
| |
| - The logic to detect Unicode charmaps has been modified. This is |
| required to support fonts which include both 16-bit and 32-bit |
| charmaps (like very recent asian ones) using the new 10 and 12 SFNT |
| formats. |
| |
| - The TrueType loader now limits the depth of composite glyphs. This is |
| necessary to prevent broken fonts to break the engine by blowing the |
| stack with recursive glyph definitions. |
| |
| - The CMap cache is now capable of managing UCS-4 character codes that |
| are mapped through extended charmaps in recent TrueType/OpenType |
| fonts. |
| |
| - The cache sub-system now properly manages out-of-memory conditions |
| instead of blindly reporting them to the caller. This means that it |
| will try to empty the cache before restarting its allocations to see |
| if that can help. |
| |
| - The PFR driver didn't return the list of available embedded bitmaps |
| properly. |
| |
| - There was a nasty memory leak when using embedded bitmaps in certain |
| font formats. |
| |
| |
| II. IMPORTANT CHANGES |
| |
| - David Chester contributed some enhancements to the auto-hinter that |
| significantly increase the quality of its output. The Postscript |
| hinter was also improved in several ways. |
| |
| - The FT_RENDER_MODE_LIGHT render mode was implemented. |
| |
| - A new API function called `FT_Get_BDF_Property' has been added to |
| FT_BDF_H to retrieve BDF properties from BDF _and_ PCF font files. |
| THIS IS STILL EXPERIMENTAL, since it hasn't been properly tested yet. |
| |
| - A Windows FNT specific API has been added, mostly to access font |
| headers. This is used by Wine. |
| |
| - TrueType tables without an "hmtx" table are now tolerated when an |
| incremental interface is used. This happens for certain Type42 fonts |
| passed from Ghostscript to FreeType. |
| |
| - The PFR font driver is now capable of returning the font family and |
| style names when they are available (instead of the sole "FontID"). |
| This is performed by parsing an *undocumented* portion of the font |
| file! |
| |
| |
| III. MISCELLANEOUS |
| |
| - The path stroker in FT_STROKER_H has entered beta stage. It now works |
| very well, but its interface might change a bit in the future. More |
| on this in later releases. |
| |
| - The documentation for FT_Size_Metrics didn't appear properly in the |
| API reference. |
| |
| - The file docs/VERSION.DLL has been updated to explain versioning |
| with FreeType (i.e., comparing release/libtool/so numbers, and how to |
| use them in autoconf scripts). |
| |
| - The installation documentation has been seriously revamped. |
| Everything is now in the "docs" directory. |
| |
| |
| ============================================================================== |
| |
| LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.3 and 2.1.2 |
| |
| I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES |
| |
| - FT_Vector_Transform had been incorrectly modified in 2.1.2, resulting |
| in incorrect transformations being applied (for example, rotations |
| were processed in opposite angles). |
| |
| - The format 8 and 12 TrueType charmap enumeration routines have been |
| fixed (FT_Get_Next_Char returned invalid values). |
| |
| - The PFR font driver returned incorrect advance widths if the outline |
| and metrics resolution defined in the font file were different. |
| |
| - FT_Glyph_To_Bitmap now returns successfully when called with an |
| FT_BitmapGlyph argument (it previously returned an error). |
| |
| - A bug in the Type 1 loader that prevented valid font bounding boxes to |
| be loaded from multiple master fonts. |
| |
| - The SFNT validation code has been rewritten. FreeType can now load |
| "broken" fonts that were usable on Windows, but not with previous |
| versions of the library. |
| |
| - The computation of bearings in the BDF driver has been fixed. |
| |
| - The Postscript hinter crashed when trying to hint certain glyphs (more |
| precisely, when trying to apply hints to an empty glyph outline). |
| |
| - The TrueType glyph loader now supports composites in "Apple format" |
| (they differ slightly from Microsoft/OpenType ones in the way |
| transformation offsets are computed). |
| |
| - FreeType was very slow at opening certain asian CID/CFF fonts, due |
| to fixed increment in dynamic array re-allocations. This has been |
| changed to exponential behaviour to get acceptable performance. |
| |
| |
| |
| II. IMPORTANT CHANGES |
| |
| - The PCF driver now supports gzip-compressed font files natively. This |
| means that you will be able to use all these bitmap fonts that come |
| with XFree86 with FreeType (and libXft/libXft2, by extension). |
| |
| - The automatic and postscript hinters have both been updated. This |
| results in a relatively important increase of rendering quality since |
| many nasty defaults have been supressed. Please visit the web page: |
| |
| http://www.freetype.org/hinting/smooth-hinting.html |
| |
| for additional details on this topic. |
| |
| - The "load_flags" parameter of FT_Load_Glyph is now an FT_Int32 |
| (instead of just being an FT_Int). This breaks source and binary |
| compatibility for 16bit systems only, while retaining both of them for |
| 32 and 64 bit ones. |
| |
| Some new flags have been added consequently: |
| |
| FT_LOAD_NO_AUTOHINT :: Disable the use of the auto-hinter |
| (but not native format hinters). |
| |
| FT_LOAD_TARGET_NORMAL :: Hint and render for normal anti-aliased |
| displays. |
| |
| FT_LOAD_TARGET_MONO :: Hint and render for 1-bit displays. |
| |
| FT_LOAD_TARGET_LCD :: Hint and render for horizontal RGB or BGR |
| sub-pixel displays (like LCD screens). |
| THIS IS STILL EXPERIMENTAL! |
| |
| FT_LOAD_TARGET_LCD_V :: Same as FT_LOAD_TARGET_LCD, for vertical |
| sub-pixel displays (like rotated LCD |
| screens). THIS IS STILL EXPERIMENTAL! |
| |
| FT_LOAD_MONOCHROME is still supported, but only affects rendering, not |
| the hinting. |
| |
| Note that the 'ftview' demo program available in the 'ft2demos' package |
| has been updated to support LCD-optimized display on non-paletted |
| displays (under Win32 and X11). |
| |
| - The PFR driver now supports embedded bitmaps (all formats supported), |
| and returns correct kerning metrics for all glyphs. |
| |
| - The TrueType charmap loader now supports certain "broken" fonts that |
| load under Windows without problems. |
| |
| - The cache API has been slightly modified (it's still a beta!): |
| |
| - The type FTC_ImageDesc has been removed; it is now replaced by |
| FTC_ImageTypeRec. Note that one of its fields is a `load_flag' |
| parameter for FT_Load_Glyph. |
| |
| - The field "num_grays" of FT_SBitRec has been changed to "max_grays" |
| in order to fit within a single byte. Its maximum value is thus 255 |
| (instead of 256 as previously). |
| |
| |
| III. MISCELLANEOUS |
| |
| - Added support for the DESTDIR variable during "make install". This |
| simplifies packaging of FreeType. |
| |
| - Included modified copies of the ZLib sources in 'src/gzip' in order to |
| support gzip-compressed PCF fonts. We do not use the system-provided |
| zlib for now, though this is a probable enhancement for future |
| releases. |
| |
| - The DocMaker tool used to generate the on-line API reference has been |
| completely rewritten. It is now located in |
| "src/tools/docmaker/docmaker.py". Features: |
| |
| - better cross-referenced output |
| - more polished output |
| - uses Python regular expressions (though it didn't speed the |
| program) |
| - much more modular structure, which allows for different "backends" |
| in order to generate HTML, XML, or whatever format. |
| |
| One can regenerate the API reference by calling: |
| |
| python src/tools/docmaker/docmaker.py \ |
| --prefix=ft2 \ |
| --title=FreeType-2.1.3 \ |
| --output=<outputdirectory> |
| include/freetype/*.h \ |
| include/freetype/config/*.h \ |
| include/freetype/cache/*.h |
| |
| - A new, experimental, support for incremental font loading (i.e., |
| loading of fonts where the glyphs are not in the font file itself, but |
| provided by an external component, like a Postscript interpreter) has |
| been added by Graham Asher. This is still work in progress, however. |
| |
| - A new, EXPERIMENTAL, path stroker has been added. It doesn't suffer |
| from severe rounding errors and treat bezier arcs directly. Still |
| work in progress (i.e. not part of the official API). See the file |
| <freetype/ftstroker.h> for some of the details. |
| |
| - The massive re-formatting of sources and internal re-design is still |
| under-way. Many internal functions, constants, and types have been |
| renamed. |
| |
| |
| ======================================================================== |
| |
| LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.2 and 2.1.1 |
| |
| I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES |
| |
| - Many font drivers didn't select a Unicode charmap by default when |
| a new face was opened (with the FT_CONFIG_OPTION_USE_CMAPS options |
| enabled), causing many applications to not be able to display text |
| correctly with the 2.1.x releases. |
| |
| - The PFR driver had a bug in its composite loading code that produces |
| incorrectly placed accents with many fonts. |
| |
| - The Type42 driver crashed sometimes due to a nasty bug. |
| |
| - The Type 1 custom encoding charmap didn't handle the case where the |
| first glyph index wasn't 0. |
| |
| - A serious typo in the TrueType composite loader produced incorrectly |
| placed glyphs in fonts like "Wingdings" and a few others. |
| |
| |
| II. MISCELLANEOUS |
| |
| - The Win32 Visual C++ project file has been updated to include the |
| PFR driver as well. |
| |
| - "freetype.m4" is now installed by default by "make install" on Unix |
| systems. |
| |
| - The function FT_Get_PS_Font_Info now works with CID and Type42 fonts |
| as well. |
| |
| |
| ======================================================================== |
| |
| LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.1 and 2.1.0 |
| |
| I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES |
| |
| - The `version_info' returned by `freetype-config' in 2.1.0 returned an |
| invalid value. It now returns 9:1:3 (2.0.9 returned 9:0:3). |
| |
| - Version 2.1.0 couldn't be linked against applications on Win32 and |
| Amiga systems due to a new debug function that wasn't properly |
| propagated to the system-specific directory in `builds'. |
| |
| - Various MacOS and Mac OS X specific fixes. |
| |
| - Fixed a bug in the TrueType charmap validation routines that made |
| version 2.1.0 too restrictive -- many popular fonts have been |
| rejected. |
| |
| - There was still a very small difference between the monochrome glyph |
| bitmaps produced by FreeType 1.x and FreeType 2.x with the bytecode |
| interpreter enabled. This was caused by an invalid flag setting in |
| the TrueType glyph loader, making the rasterizer change its drop-out |
| control mode. Now theresults should _really_ be completely identical. |
| |
| - The TrueType name table loader has been improved to support many |
| popular though buggy Asian fonts. It now ignores empty name entries, |
| invalid pointer offsets and a few other incorrect subtleties. |
| Moreover, name strings are now loaded on demand, which reduces the |
| memory load of many faces (e.g. the ARIAL.TTF font file contains a |
| 10kByte name table with 70 names). |
| |
| - Fixed a bug in the Postscript hinter that prevented family blues |
| substitution to happen correctly. |
| |
| |
| II. NEW FEATURES |
| |
| - Three new font drivers in this release: |
| |
| * A BDF font driver, contributed by Franco Zappa Nardelli, heavily |
| modified by Werner Lemberg. It also supports anti-aliased bitmaps |
| (using a slightly extended BDF format). |
| |
| * A Type42 font driver, contributed by Roberto Alameda. It is |
| still experimental but seems to work relatively well. |
| |
| * A PFR font driver, contributed by David Turner himself. It doesn't |
| support PFR hinting -- note that BitStream has at least two patents |
| on this format! |
| |
| |
| III. MISCELLANEOUS |
| |
| - The cache sub-system has been optimized in important ways. Cache hits |
| are now significantly faster. For example, using the CMap cache is |
| about twice faster than calling FT_Get_Char_Index on most platforms. |
| Similarly, using an SBit cache is about five times faster than loading |
| the bitmaps from a bitmap file, and 300 to 500 times faster than |
| generating them from a scalable format. |
| |
| Note that you should recompile your sources if you designed a custom |
| cache class for the FT2 Cache subsystem, since the changes performed |
| are source, but not binary, compatible. |
| |
| |
| ======================================================================== |
| |
| LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.0 and 2.0.9 |
| |
| I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES |
| |
| - The TrueType bytecode interpreter has been fixed to produce |
| _exactly_ the same output as FreeType 1.x. Previous differences |
| were due to slightly distinct fixed-point computation routines |
| used to perform dot products and vector length measurements. |
| |
| It seems that native TrueType hinting is _extremely_ sensitive |
| to rounding errors. The required vector computation routines have |
| been optimized and placed within the "ttinterp.c" file. |
| |
| - Fixed the parsing of accelerator tables in the PCF font driver. |
| |
| - Fixed the Type1 glyph loader routine used to compute the font's |
| maximum advance width. |
| |
| II. NEW FEATURES |
| |
| - The `configure' script used on Unix systems has been modified to |
| check that GNU Make is being used to build the library. Otherwise, |
| it will display a message proposing to use the GNUMAKE environment |
| variable to name it. |
| |
| The Unix-specific file README.UNX has been modified accordingly. |
| |
| |
| III. MISCELLANEOUS |
| |
| - The FreeType License in `docs/FTL.txt' has been updated to include |
| a proposed preferred disclaimer. If you are using FreeType in your |
| products, you are encouraged (but not mandated) to use the following |
| text in your documentation: |
| |
| """ |
| Portions of this software are copyright © 1996-2002 The FreeType |
| Project (www.freetype.org). All rights reserved. |
| """ |
| |
| - The default size of the render pool has been reduced to 16kByte. |
| This shouldn't result in any noticeable performance penalty, unless |
| you are using the engine as-is to render very large and complex |
| glyphs. |
| |
| - The FreeType 2 redesign has begun. More information can be found |
| at this URL: |
| |
| http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/redesign.html |
| |
| The following internal changes have been performed within the sources |
| of this release: |
| |
| - Many internal types have been renamed to increase consistency. |
| The following should be true, except for public types: |
| |
| * All structure types have a name ending in "Rec" (short for |
| `record'). |
| |
| * A pointer-to-structure type has the same name as the |
| structure, _without_ the "Rec" suffix. |
| |
| Example: |
| |
| typedef struct FooRec_ |
| { |
| ... |
| |
| } FooRec, *Foo; |
| |
| - Many internal macros have been renamed to increase consistency. |
| The following should be true: |
| |
| * All macros have a name beginning with "FT_". This required |
| a few changes like |
| |
| ALLOC => FT_ALLOC |
| FREE => FT_FREE |
| REALLOC => FT_REALLOC |
| |
| * All macros are completely UPPERCASE. This required a few |
| changes like: |
| |
| READ_Short => FT_READ_SHORT |
| NEXT_Short => FT_NEXT_SHORT |
| GET_ULongLE => FT_GET_ULONG_LE |
| MEM_Set => FT_MEM_SET |
| MEM_Copy => FT_MEM_COPY |
| etc. |
| |
| * Whenever possible, all macro names follow the |
| FT_<OBJECT>_<METHOD> pattern. For example |
| |
| ACCESS_Frame => FT_FRAME_ENTER |
| FORGET_Frame => FT_FRAME_EXIT |
| EXTRACT_Frame => FT_FRAME_EXTRACT |
| RELEASE_Frame => FT_FRAME_RELEASE |
| |
| FILE_Pos => FT_STREAM_POS |
| FILE_Seek => FT_STREAM_SEEK |
| FILE_Read => FT_STREAM_READ |
| FILE_ReadAt => FT_STREAM_READ_AT |
| READ_Fields => FT_STREAM_READ_FIELDS |
| |
| - Many internal functions have been renamed to follow the |
| FT_<Object>_<Method> pattern. For example: |
| |
| FT_Seek_Stream => FT_Stream_Seek |
| FT_Read_Stream_At => FT_Stream_ReadAt |
| FT_Done_Stream => FT_Stream_Close |
| FT_New_Stream => FT_Stream_Open |
| FT_New_Memory_Stream => FT_Stream_OpenMemory |
| FT_Extract_Frame => FT_Stream_ExtractFrame |
| |
| Note that method names do not contain "_". |
| |
| - The FT_ALLOC_ARRAY and FT_REALLOC_ARRAY have been replaced |
| with FT_NEW_ARRAY and FT_RENEW_ARRAY which do not take a type |
| as the fourth argument. Instead, the array element type size |
| is computed automatically from the type of the target pointer |
| used. |
| |
| - A new object class, FT_CMap, has been introduced. These |
| internal objects are used to model character maps. This eases |
| the support of additional charmap types within the engine. |
| |
| - A new configuration file named "ftstdlib.h" has been added |
| to `include/freetype/config'. It is used to define aliases |
| for _every_ routine of the ISO C library that the font engine |
| uses. Each aliases has a "ft_" prefix (e.g. "ft_strlen" is an |
| alias for "strlen"). |
| |
| This is used to ease the porting of FreeType 2 to exotic runtime |
| environments where the ISO C Library isn't available (e.g. |
| XFree86 extension modules). |
| |
| More details are available in the "ChangeLog" file. |
| |
| |
| ============================================================================ |
| |
| LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.9 and 2.0.8 |
| |
| I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES |
| |
| - Certain fonts like "foxjump.ttf" contain broken name tables with |
| invalid entries and wild offsets. This caused FreeType to crash when |
| trying to load them. |
| |
| The SFNT `name' table loader has been fixed to be able to support |
| these strange fonts. |
| |
| Moreover, the code in charge of processing this table has been changed |
| to always favour Windows-formatted entries over other ones. Hence, a |
| font that works on Windows but not on the Mac will load cleanly in |
| FreeType and report accurate values for Family & PostScript names. |
| |
| - The CID font driver has been fixed. It unfortunately returned a |
| Postscript Font name with a leading slash, as in |
| "/MunhwaGothic-Regular". |
| |
| - FreeType 2 should now compile fine on AIX 4.3.3 as a shared library. |
| |
| - A bug in the Postscript hinter has been found and fixed, removing |
| un-even stem widths at small pixel sizes (like 14-17). |
| |
| This improves the quality of a certain number of Postscript fonts. |
| |
| |
| II. NEW FEATURES |
| |
| - A new function named `FT_Library_Version' has been added to return |
| the current library's major, minor, and patch version numbers. This |
| is important since the macros FREETYPE_MAJOR, FREETYPE_MINOR, and |
| FREETYPE_PATCH cannot be used when the library is dynamically linked |
| by a program. |
| |
| - Two new APIs have been added: `FT_Get_First_Char' and |
| `FT_Get_Next_Char'. |
| |
| Together, these can be used to iterate efficiently over the currently |
| selected charmap of a given face. Read the API reference for more |
| details. |
| |
| |
| III. MISCELLANEOUS |
| |
| - The FreeType sources are under heavy internal re-factoring. As a |
| consequence, we have created a branch named "STABLE" on the CVS to |
| hold all future releases/fixes in the 2.0.x family. |
| |
| The HEAD branch now contains the re-factored sources and shouldn't be |
| used for testing or packaging new releases. In case you would like |
| to access the 2.0.9 sources from our CVS repository, use the tag |
| `VER-2-0-9'. |
| |
| |
| ============================================================================ |
| |
| LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.8 and 2.0.7 |
| |
| I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES |
| |
| - There was a small but nasty bug in "freetype-config.in" which |
| caused the "freetype-config" script to fail on Unix. |
| |
| This didn't prevent the installation of the library or even |
| its execution, but caused problems when trying to compile many |
| Unix packages that depend on it. |
| |
| - Some TrueType or OpenType fonts embedded in PDF documents do |
| not have a 'cmap', 'post' and 'name' as is required by the |
| specification. FreeType no longer refuses to load such fonts. |
| |
| - various fixes to the PCF font driver |
| |
| |
| ============================================================================ |
| |
| LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.7 and 2.0.6 |
| |
| I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES |
| |
| - Fixed two bugs in the Type 1 font driver. The first one resulted in a |
| memory leak in subtle cases. The other one caused FreeType to crash |
| when trying to load ".gsf" files (Ghostscript so-called Postscript |
| fonts). |
| |
| (This made _many_ KDE applications crash on certain systems. FreeType |
| _is_ becoming a critical system component on Linux :-) |
| |
| - Fixed a memory leak in the CFF font driver. |
| |
| - Fixed a memory leak in the PCF font driver. |
| |
| - Fixed the Visual C++ project file "builds/win32/visualc/freetype.dsp" |
| since it didn't include the Postscript hinter component, causing |
| errors at build time. |
| |
| - Fixed a small rendering bug in the anti-aliased renderer that only |
| occurred when trying to draw thin (less than 1 pixel) strokes. |
| |
| - Fixed "builds/unix/freetype2.a4" which is used to generate a valid |
| "freetype2.m4" for use with autoconf. |
| |
| - Fixed the OpenVMS Makefiles. |
| |
| |
| II. MISCELLANEOUS |
| |
| - Added "configure" and "install" scripts to the top-level directory. |
| A GNU-style installation is thus now easily possible with |
| |
| ./configure <options> |
| make |
| make install |
| |
| |
| ============================================================================ |
| |
| LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.6 and 2.0.5 |
| |
| I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES |
| |
| - It wasn't possible to load embedded bitmaps when the auto-hinter was |
| used. This is now fixed. |
| |
| - The TrueType font driver didn't load some composites properly (the |
| sub-glyphs were slightly shifted, and this was only noticeable when |
| using monochrome rendering). |
| |
| - Various fixes to the auto-hinter. They merely improve the output of |
| sans-serif fonts. Note that there are still problems with serifed |
| fonts and composites (accented characters). |
| |
| - All scalable font drivers erroneously returned un-fitted glyph |
| advances when hinting was requested. This created problems for a |
| number of layout applications. This is a very old bug that got |
| undetected mainly because most test/demo program perform rounding |
| explicitly or implicitly (through the cache). |
| |
| - FT_Glyph_To_Bitmap() did erroneously modify the source glyph in |
| certain cases. |
| |
| - "glnames.py" still contained a bug that made FreeType return invalid |
| names for certain glyphs. |
| |
| - The library crashed when loading certain Type 1 fonts like "sadn.pfb" |
| ("Stalingrad Normal"), which appear to contain pathetic font info |
| dictionaries. |
| |
| - The TrueType glyph loader is now much more paranoid and checks everything |
| when loading a given glyph image. This was necessary to avoid |
| problems (crashes and/or memory overwrites) with broken fonts that |
| came from a really buggy automatic font converter. |
| |
| |
| II. IMPORTANT UPDATES AND NEW FEATURES |
| |
| - Important updates to the Mac-specific parts of the library. |
| |
| - The caching sub-system has been completely re-designed, and its API |
| has evolved (the old one is still supported for backwards |
| compatibility). |
| |
| The documentation for it is not yet completed, sorry. For now, you |
| are encouraged to continue using the old API. However, the ftview |
| demo program in the ft2demos package has already been updated to use |
| the new caching functions. |
| |
| - A new charmap cache is provided too. See FTC_CMapCache(). This is |
| useful to perform character code -> glyph index translations quickly, |
| without the need for an opened FT_Face. |
| |
| - A NEW POSTSCRIPT HINTER module has been added to support native hints |
| in the following formats: PostScript Type 1, PostScript CID, and |
| CFF/CEF. |
| |
| Please test! Note that the auto-hinter produces better results for a |
| number of badly-hinted fonts (mostly auto-generated ones) though. |
| |
| - A memory debugger is now part of the standard FreeType sources. To |
| enable it, define FT_DEBUG_MEMORY in <freetype/config/ftoption.h>, and |
| recompile the library. |
| |
| Additionally, define the _environment_ variable FT_DEBUG_MEMORY and |
| run any program using FreeType. When the library is exited, a summary |
| of memory footprints and possible leaks will be displayed. |
| |
| This works transparently with _any_ program that uses FreeType. |
| However, you will need a lot of memory to use this (allocated blocks |
| are never released to the heap to detect double deletes easily). |
| |
| |
| III. MISCELLANEOUS |
| |
| - We are aware of subtle differences between the output of FreeType |
| versions 1 and 2 when it comes to monochrome TrueType-hinted glyphs. |
| These are most probably due to small differences in the monochrome |
| rasterizers and will be worked out in an upcoming release. |
| |
| - We have decided to fork the sources in a "stable" branch, and an |
| "unstable" one, since FreeType is becoming a critical component of |
| many Unix systems. |
| |
| The next bug-fix releases of the library will be named 2.0.7, 2.0.8, |
| etc., while the "2.1" branch will contain a version of the sources |
| where we will start major reworking of the library's internals, in |
| order to produce FreeType 2.2.0 (or even 3.0) in a more distant |
| future. |
| |
| We also hope that this scheme will allow much more frequent releases |
| than in the past. |
| |
| |
| ============================================================================ |
| |
| LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.5 and 2.0.4 |
| |
| NOTE THAT 2.0.5 DOES NOT CONTAIN THE POSTSCRIPT HINTER. THIS MODULE WILL |
| BE PART OF THE NEXT RELEASE (EITHER 2.0.6 or 2.1) |
| |
| - Fixed a bug that made certain glyphs, like "Cacute", "cacute" and |
| "lslash" unavailable from Unicode charmaps of Postscript fonts. This |
| prevented the correct display of Polish text, for example. |
| |
| - The kerning table of Type 1 fonts was loaded by FreeType, when its AFM |
| file was attached to its face, but the FT_FACE_FLAG_HAS_KERNING bit |
| flags was not set correctly, preventing FT_Get_Kerning to return |
| meaningful values. |
| |
| - Improved SFNT (TrueType & OpenType) charmap support. Slightly better |
| performance, as well as support for the new formats defined by the |
| OpenType 1.3 specification (8, 10, and 12) |
| |
| - Fixed a serious typo in "src/base/ftcalc.c" which caused invalid |
| computations in certain rare cases, producing ugly artefacts. |
| |
| - The size of the EM square is computed with a more accurate algorithm |
| for Postscript fonts. The old one caused slight errors with embedded |
| fonts found in PDF documents. |
| |
| - Fixed a bug in the cache manager that prevented normal LRU behaviour |
| within the cache manager, causing unnecessary reloads (for FT_Face and |
| FT_Size objects only). |
| |
| - Added a new function named "FT_Get_Name_Index" to retrieve the glyph |
| index of a given glyph name, when found in a face. |
| |
| - Added a new function named "FT_Get_Postscript_Name" to retrieve the |
| "unique" Postscript font name of a given face. |
| |
| - Added a new public header size named FT_SIZES_H (or |
| <freetype/ftsizes.h>) providing new FT_Size-management functions: |
| FT_New_Size, FT_Activate_Size, FT_Done_Size. |
| |
| - Fixed a reallocation bug that generated a dangling pointer (and possibly |
| memory leaks) with Postscript fonts (in src/psaux/psobjs.c). |
| |
| - Many fixes for 16-bit correctness. |
| |
| - Removed many pedantic compiler warnings from the sources. |
| |
| - Added an Amiga build directory in "builds/amiga". |
| |
| ============================================================================ |
| |
| LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.4 and 2.0.3 |
| |
| - Fixed a rather annoying bug that was introduced in 2.0.3. Namely, the |
| font transformation set through FT_Set_Transform was applied twice to |
| auto-hinted glyphs, resulting in incorrectly rotated text output. |
| |
| - Fixed _many_ compiler warnings. FT2 should now compile cleanly with |
| Visual C++'s most pedantic warning level (/W4). It already compiled |
| fine with GCC and a few other compilers. |
| |
| - Fixed a bug that prevented the linear advance width of composite |
| TrueType glyphs to be correctly returned. |
| |
| - Fixed the Visual C++ project files located in "builds/win32/visualc" |
| (previous versions used older names of the library). |
| |
| - Many 32-bit constants have an "L" appended to their value, in order |
| to improve the 16-bitness of the code. Someone is actually trying to |
| use FT2 on an Atari ST machine! |
| |
| - Updated the "builds/detect.mk" file in order to automatically build |
| FT2 on AIX systems. AIX uses "/usr/sbin/init" instead of "/sbin/init" |
| and wasn't previously detected as a Unix platform by the FreeType build |
| system. |
| |
| - Updated the Unix-specific portions of the build system (new libtool |
| version, etc.). |
| |
| - The SFNT kerning lodaer now ensures that the table is sorted (since some |
| problem fonts do not meet this requirement). |
| |
| ============================================================================ |
| |
| LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.3 and 2.0.2 |
| |
| I. CHANGES TO THE MODULES / FONT DRIVERS |
| |
| - THE AUTO-HINTER HAS BEEN SLIGHTLY IMPROVED, in order to fix several |
| annoying artefacts, mainly: |
| |
| - Blue zone alignement of horizontal stems wasn't performed |
| correctly, resulting in artefacts like the "d" being placed one |
| pixel below the "b" in some fonts like Time New Roman. |
| |
| - Overshoot thresholding wasn't performed correctly, creating |
| unpleasant artefacts at large character pixel sizes. |
| |
| - Composite glyph loading has been simplified. This gets rid |
| of various artefacts where the components of a composite glyphs |
| were not correctly spaced. |
| |
| These are the last changes to the current auto-hinting module. A new |
| hinting sub-system is currently in the work in order to support native |
| hints in Type 1 / CFF / OpenType fonts, as well as globally improve |
| rendering. |
| |
| - The PCF driver has been fixed. It reported invalid glyph dimensions |
| for the fonts available on Solaris. |
| |
| - The Type 1, CID and CFF drivers have been modified to fix the |
| computation of the EM size. |
| |
| - The Type 1 driver has been fixed to avoid a dangerous bug that |
| crashed the library with non-conforming fonts (i.e. ones that do not |
| place the .notdef glyph at position 0). |
| |
| - The TrueType driver had a rather subtle bug (dangling pointer when |
| loading composite glyphs) that could crash the library in rare |
| occasions! |
| |
| |
| II. HIGH-LEVEL API CHANGES |
| |
| - The error code enumeration values have been changed. An error value |
| is decomposed in a generic error code, and a module number. see |
| <freetype/fterrors.h> for details. |
| |
| - A new public header file has been introduced, named FT_TRIGONOMETRY_H |
| (include/freetype/fttrig.h), providing trigonometric functions to |
| compute sines, cosines, arctangents, etc. with 16.16 fixed precision. |
| The implementation is based on the CORDIC algorithm and is very fast |
| while being sufficiently accurate. |
| |
| |
| III. INTERNALS |
| |
| - Added BeOS-specific files in the old build sub-system. Note that |
| no changes were required to compile the library with Jam. |
| |
| - The configuration is now capable of automatically detecting 64-bit |
| integers on a set of predefined compilers (GCC, Visual C++, Borland |
| C++) and will use them by default. This provides a small performance |
| boost. |
| |
| - A small memory leak that happened when opening 0-sized files (duh!) |
| have been fixed. |
| |
| - Fixed bezier stack depth bug in the routines provided by the |
| FT_BBOX_H header file. Also fixed similar bugs in the rasterizers. |
| |
| - The outline bounding box code has been rewritten to use direct |
| computations, instead of bezier sub-division, to compute the exact |
| bounding box of glyphs. This is slightly slower but more accurate. |
| |
| - The build system has been improved and fixed, mainly to support "make" |
| on Windows 2000 correctly, avoid problems with "make distclean" on non |
| Unix systems, etc. |
| |
| - Hexadecimal constants have been suffixed with "U" to avoid problems |
| with certain compilers on 64-bit platforms. |
| |
| - A new directory named "src/tools" has been created. It contains |
| Python scripts and simple unit test programs used to develop the |
| library. |
| |
| - The DocMaker tool has been moved from "docs" to "src/tools" and |
| has been updated with the following: |
| |
| - Now accepts the "--title=XXXX" or "-t XXXX" option from the |
| command line to set the project's name in the generated API |
| reference. |
| |
| - Now accepts the "--output=DIR" or "-o DIR" option from the |
| command line to set the output directory for all generated HTML |
| files. |
| |
| - Now accepts the "--prefix=XXXX" or "-p XXX" option from the |
| command line to set the file prefix to use for all generated HTML |
| files. |
| |
| - Now generates the current time/data on each generated page |
| in order to distinguish between versions. |
| |
| DocMaker can be used with other projects now, not only FT2 (e.g. MLib, |
| FTLayout, etc.). |
| |
| =========================================================================== |
| |
| LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.2 and 2.0.1 |
| |
| |
| I. CHANGES TO THE MODULES / FONT DRIVERS |
| |
| - THE TRUETYPE BYTECODE INTERPRETER IS NOW TURNED OFF, in order to |
| avoid legal problems with the Apple patents. It seems that we |
| mistakenly turned this option on in previous releases of the |
| build. |
| |
| Note that if you want to use the bytecode interpreter in order |
| to get high-quality TrueType rendering, you will need to toggle |
| by hand the definition of the |
| TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER macro in the file |
| "include/freetype/config/ftoption.h". |
| |
| - The CFF driver has been improved by Tom Kacvinsky and Sander van |
| der Wal: |
| |
| * Support for "seac" emulation. |
| * Support for "dotsection". |
| * Support for retrieving glyph names through |
| "FT_Get_Glyph_Name". |
| |
| The first two items are necessary to correctly a large number of |
| Type 1 fonts converted to the CFF formats by Adobe Acrobat. |
| |
| - The Type 1 driver was also improved by Tom & others: |
| |
| * Better EM size computation. |
| * Better support for synthetic (transformed) fonts. |
| * The Type 1 driver returns the charstrings corresponding to |
| each glyph in the "glyph->control_data" field after a call to |
| "FT_Load_Glyph" (thanks Ha Shao). |
| |
| - Various other bugfixes, including the following: |
| |
| * Fixed a nasty memory leak in the Type 1 driver. |
| * The autohinter and the pcf driver used static writable data |
| when they shouldn't. |
| * Many casts were added to make the code more 64-bits safe. It |
| also now compiles on Windows XP 64-bits without warnings. |
| * Some incorrect writable statics were removed in the "autohint" |
| and "pcf" drivers. FreeType 2 now compiles on Epoc again. |
| |
| |
| II. CHANGES TO THE HIGH-LEVEL API |
| |
| - The library header files inclusion scheme has been changed. The |
| old scheme looked like: |
| |
| #include <freetype/freetype.h> |
| #include <freetype/ftglyph.h> |
| #include <freetype/ftcache.h> |
| #include <freetype/cache/ftimage.h> |
| |
| Now you should use: |
| |
| #include <ft2build.h> |
| #include FT_FREETYPE_H |
| #include FT_GLYPH_H |
| #include FT_CACHE_H |
| #include FT_CACHE_IMAGE_H |
| |
| NOTE THAT THE OLD INCLUSION SCHEME WILL STILL WORK WITH THIS |
| RELEASE. HOWEVER, WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT THIS WILL STILL BE |
| TRUE IN THE NEXT ONE (A.K.A. FREETYPE 2.1). |
| |
| The file <ft2build.h> is used to define the header filename |
| macros. The complete and commented list of macros is available |
| in the API reference under the section name "Header File Macros" |
| in Chapter I. |
| |
| For more information, see section I of the following document: |
| |
| http://www.freetype.org/ |
| freetype2/docs/tutorial/step1.html |
| |
| or |
| |
| http://freetype.sourceforge.net/ |
| freetype2/docs/tutorial/step1.html |
| |
| - Many, many comments have been added to the public source file in |
| order to automatically generate the API Reference through the |
| "docmaker.py" Python script. |
| |
| The latter has been updated to support the grouping of sections |
| in chapters and better index sort. See: |
| |
| http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-toc.html |
| |
| |
| III. CHANGES TO THE BUILD PROCESS |
| |
| - If you are not building FreeType 2 with its own build system |
| (but with your own Makefiles or project files), you will need to |
| be aware that the build process has changed a little bit. |
| |
| You don't need to put the "src" directory in the include path |
| when compiling any FT2 component. Instead, simply put the |
| component's directory in the current include path. |
| |
| So, if you were doing something like: |
| |
| cc -c -Iinclude -Isrc src/base/ftbase.c |
| |
| change the line to: |
| |
| cc -c -Iinclude -Isrc/base src/base/ftbase.c |
| |
| If you were doing something like: |
| |
| cd src/base |
| cc -c -I../../include -I.. ftbase.c |
| |
| change it to: |
| |
| cd src/base |
| cc -c -I../../include ftbase.c |
| |
| |
| ====================================================================== |
| |
| 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". 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! |
| |
| |
| ====================================================================== |
| |
| CHANGES BETWEEN beta8 and 2.0 |
| |
| - Changed the default installation path for public headers from |
| "include/freetype" to "include/freetype2". |
| |
| Also added a new "freetype-config" that is automatically generated |
| and installed on Unix and Cygwin systems. The script itself is |
| used to retrieve the current install path, C compilation flags as |
| well as linker flags. |
| |
| - Fixed several small bugs: |
| |
| * Incorrect max advance width for fixed-pitch Type 1 fonts. |
| * Incorrect glyph names for certain TrueType fonts. |
| * The glyph advance was not copied when FT_Glyph_To_Bitmap was |
| called. |
| * The linearHoriAdvance and linerVertAdvance fields were not |
| correctly returned for glyphs processed by the auto-hinter. |
| * "type1z" renamed back to "type1"; the old "type1" module has |
| been removed. |
| |
| - Revamped the build system to make it a lot more generic. This |
| will allow us to re-use nearly un-modified in lots of other |
| projects (including FreeType Layout). |
| |
| - Changed "cid" to use "psaux" too. |
| |
| - Added the cache sub-system. See <freetype/ftcache.h> as well as |
| the sources in "src/cache". Note that it compiles but is still |
| untested for now. |
| |
| - Updated "docs/docmaker.py", a draft API reference is available at |
| http://www.freetype.org/ft2api.html. |
| |
| - Changed "type1" to use "psaux". |
| |
| - Created a new module named "psaux" to hold the Type 1 & Type 2 |
| parsing routines. It should be used by "type1", "cid", and "cff" |
| in the future. |
| |
| - Fixed an important bug in "FT_Glyph_Get_CBox". |
| |
| - Fixed some compiler warnings that happened since the TrueType |
| bytecode decoder was deactivated by default. |
| |
| - Fixed two memory leaks: |
| |
| * The memory manager (16 bytes) isn't released in |
| FT_Done_FreeType! |
| * Using custom input streams, the copy of the original stream was |
| never released. |
| |
| - Fixed the auto-hinter by performing automatic computation of the |
| "filling direction" of each glyph. This is done through a simple |
| and fast approximation, and seems to work (problems spotted by |
| Werner though). The Arphic fonts are a lot nicer though there are |
| still a lot of things to do to handle Asian fonts correctly. |
| |
| |
| ====================================================================== |
| |
| BETA-8 (RELEASE CANDIDATE) CHANGES |
| |
| - Deactivated the TrueType bytecode interpreter by default. |
| |
| - Deactivated the "src/type1" font driver. Now "src/type1z" is used |
| by default. |
| |
| - Updates to the build system. We now compile the library correctly |
| under Unix system through "configure" which is automatically |
| called on the first "make" invocation. |
| |
| - Added the auto-hinting module! Fixing some bugs here and there. |
| |
| - Found some bugs in the composite loader (seac) of the Type1-based |
| font drivers. |
| |
| - Renamed the directory "freetype2/config" to "freetype2/builds" and |
| updated all relevant files. |
| |
| - Found a memory leak in the "type1" driver. |
| |
| - Incorporated Tom's patches to support flex operators correctly in |
| OpenType/CFF fonts. Now all I need is to support pure CFF and CEF |
| fonts to be done with this driver :-) |
| |
| - Added the Windows FNT/FON driver in "src/winfonts". For now, it |
| always "simulates" a Unicode charmap, so it shouldn't be |
| considered completed right now. |
| |
| It is there to be more a proof of concept than anything else |
| anyway. The driver is a single C source file, that compiles to 3 |
| Kb of code. |
| |
| I'm still working on the PCF/BDF drivers, but I'm too lazy to |
| finish them now. |
| |
| - CHANGES TO THE HIGH-LEVEL API |
| |
| * FT_Get_Kerning has a new parameter that allows you to select the |
| coordinates of the kerning vector (font units, scaled, scaled + |
| grid-fitted). |
| * The outline functions are now in <freetype/ftoutln.h> and not |
| part of <freetype/freetype.h> anymore. |
| * <freetype/ftmodule.h> now contains declarations for |
| FT_New_Library, FT_Done_Library, FT_Add_Default_Modules. |
| * The so-called convenience functions have moved from "ftoutln.c" |
| to "ftglyph.c", and are thus available with this optional |
| component of the library. They are declared in |
| <freetype/ftglyph.h> now. |
| * Anti-aliased rendering is now the default for FT_Render_Glyph |
| (i.e. corresponds to render_mode == 0 == ft_render_mode_normal). |
| To generate a monochrome bitmap, use ft_render_mode_mono, or the |
| FT_LOAD_MONOCHROME flag in FT_Load_Glyph/FT_Load_Char. |
| FT_LOAD_ANTI_ALIAS is still defined, but values to 0. |
| * <freetype/freetype.h> now include <freetype/config/ftconfig.h>, |
| solving a few headaches :-) |
| * The type FT_GlyphSlotRec has now a "library" field. |
| |
| - CHANGES TO THE "ftglyph.h" API |
| |
| This API has been severely modified in order to make it simpler, |
| clearer, and more efficient. It certainly now looks like a real |
| "glyph factory" object, and allows client applications to manage |
| (i.e. transform, bbox and render) glyph images without ever |
| knowing their original format. |
| |
| - Added support for CID-keyed fonts to the CFF driver. Maybe |
| support for pure CFF + CEF fonts should come in? |
| |
| - Cleaned up source code in order to avoid two functions with the |
| same name. Also changed the names of the files in "type1z" from |
| "t1XXXX" to "z1XXXX" in order to avoid any conflicts. |
| |
| "make multi" now works well :-) |
| |
| Also removed the use of "cidafm" for now, even if the source files |
| are still there. This functionality will certainly go into a |
| specific module. |
| |
| - ADDED SUPPORT FOR THE AUTO-HINTER |
| |
| It works :-) I have a demo program which simply is a copy of |
| "ftview" that does a `FT_Add_Module(library, |
| &autohinter_module_class)' after library initialization, and Type |
| 1 & OpenType/CFF fonts are now hinted. |
| |
| CID fonts are not hinted, as they include no charmap and the |
| auto-hinter doesn't include "generic" global metrics computations |
| yet. |
| |
| Now, I need to release this thing to the FreeType 2 source. |
| |
| - CHANGES TO THE RENDERER MODULES |
| |
| The monochrome and smooth renderers are now in two distinct |
| directories, namely "src/raster1" and "src/smooth". Note that the |
| old "src/renderer" is now gone. |
| |
| I ditched the 5-gray-levels renderers. Basically, it involved a |
| simple #define toggle in 'src/raster1/ftraster.c'. |
| |
| FT_Render_Glyph, FT_Outline_Render & FT_Outline_Get_Bitmap now |
| select the best renderer available, depending on render mode. If |
| the current renderer for a given glyph image format isn't capable |
| of supporting the render mode, another one will be found in the |
| library's list. This means that client applications do not need |
| to switch or set the renderers themselves (as in the latest |
| change), they'll get what they want automatically. At last. |
| |
| Changed the demo programs accordingly. |
| |
| - MAJOR INTERNAL REDESIGN: |
| |
| A lot of internal modifications have been performed lately on the |
| source in order to provide the following enhancements: |
| |
| * More generic module support: |
| |
| The FT_Module type is now defined to represent a handle to a |
| given module. The file <freetype/ftmodule.h> contains the |
| FT_Module_Class definition, as well as the module-loading public |
| API. |
| |
| The FT_Driver type is still defined, and still represents a |
| pointer to a font driver. Note that FT_Add_Driver is replaced |
| by FT_Add_Module, FT_Get_Driver by FT_Get_Module, etc. |
| |
| * Support for generic glyph image types: |
| |
| The FT_Renderer type is a pointer to a module used to perform |
| various operations on glyph image. |
| |
| Each renderer is capable of handling images in a single format |
| (e.g. ft_glyph_format_outline). Its functions are used to: |
| |
| - transform an glyph image |
| - render a glyph image into a bitmap |
| - return the control box (dimensions) of a given glyph image |
| |
| The scan converters "ftraster.c" and "ftgrays.c" have been moved |
| to the new directory "src/renderer", and are used to provide two |
| default renderer modules. |
| |
| One corresponds to the "standard" scan-converter, the other to |
| the "smooth" one. |
| |
| he current renderer can be set through the new function |
| FT_Set_Renderer. |
| |
| The old raster-related function FT_Set_Raster, FT_Get_Raster and |
| FT_Set_Raster_Mode have now disappeared, in favor of the new: |
| |
| FT_Get_Renderer |
| FT_Set_Renderer |
| |
| See the file <freetype/ftrender.h> for more details. |
| |
| These changes were necessary to properly support different |
| scalable formats in the future, like bi-color glyphs, etc. |
| |
| * Glyph loader object: |
| |
| A new internal object, called a 'glyph loader' has been |
| introduced in the base layer. It is used by all scalable format |
| font drivers to load glyphs and composites. |
| |
| This object has been created to reduce the code size of each |
| driver, as each one of them basically re-implemented its |
| functionality. |
| |
| See <freetype/internal/ftobjs.h> and the FT_GlyphLoader type for |
| more information. |
| |
| * FT_GlyphSlot has new fields: |
| |
| In order to support extended features (see below), the |
| FT_GlyphSlot structure has a few new fields: |
| |
| linearHoriAdvance: |
| |
| This field gives the linearly scaled (i.e. scaled but |
| unhinted) advance width for the glyph, expressed as a 16.16 |
| fixed pixel value. This is useful to perform WYSIWYG text. |
| |
| linearVertAdvance: |
| This field gives the linearly scaled advance height for the |
| glyph (relevant in vertical glyph layouts only). This is |
| useful to perform WYSIWYG text. |
| |
| Note that the two above field replace the removed "metrics2" |
| field in the glyph slot. |
| |
| advance: |
| This field is a vector that gives the transformed advance for |
| the glyph. By default, it corresponds to the advance width, |
| unless FT_LOAD_VERTICAL_LAYOUT was specified when calling |
| FT_Load_Glyph or FT_Load_Char. |
| |
| bitmap_left: |
| This field gives the distance in integer pixels from the |
| current pen position to the left-most pixel of a glyph image |
| IF IT IS A BITMAP. It is only valid when the "format" field |
| is set to "ft_glyph_format_bitmap", for example, after calling |
| the new function FT_Render_Glyph. |
| |
| bitmap_top: |
| This field gives the distance in integer pixels from the |
| current pen position (located on the baseline) to the top-most |
| pixel of the glyph image IF IT IS A BITMAP. Positive values |
| correspond to upwards Y. |
| |
| loader: |
| This is a new private field for the glyph slot. Client |
| applications should not touch it. |
| |
| |
| * Support for transforms and direct rendering in FT_Load_Glyph: |
| |
| Most of the functionality found in <freetype/ftglyph.h> has been |
| moved to the core library. Hence, the following: |
| |
| - A transform can be specified for a face through |
| FT_Set_Transform. this transform is applied by FT_Load_Glyph |
| to scalable glyph images (i.e. NOT TO BITMAPS) before the |
| function returns, unless the bit flag FT_LOAD_IGNORE_TRANSFORM |
| was set in the load flags. |
| |
| - Once a glyph image has been loaded, it can be directly |
| converted to a bitmap by using the new FT_Render_Glyph |
| function. Note that this function takes the glyph image from |
| the glyph slot, and converts it to a bitmap whose properties |
| are returned in "face.glyph.bitmap", "face.glyph.bitmap_left" |
| and "face.glyph.bitmap_top". The original native image might |
| be lost after the conversion. |
| |
| - When using the new bit flag FT_LOAD_RENDER, the FT_Load_Glyph |
| and FT_Load_Char functions will call FT_Render_Glyph |
| automatically when needed. |
| |
| - Reformatted all modules source code in order to get rid of the |
| basic data types redifinitions (i.e. "TT_Int" instead of "FT_Int", |
| "T1_Fixed" instead of "FT_Fixed"). Hence the format-specific |
| prefixes like "TT_", "T1_", "T2_" and "CID_" are only used for |
| relevant structures. |
| |
| |
| ====================================================================== |
| |
| OLD CHANGES FOR BETA 7 |
| |
| - bug-fixed the OpenType/CFF parser. It now loads and displays my |
| two fonts nicely, but I'm pretty certain that more testing is |
| needed :-) |
| |
| - fixed the crummy Type 1 hinter, it now handles accented characters |
| correctly (well, the accent is not always well placed, but that's |
| another problem..) |
| |
| - added the CID-keyed Type 1 driver in "src/cid". Works pretty well |
| for only 13 Kb of code ;-) Doesn't read AFM files though, nor the |
| really useful CMAP files.. |
| |
| - fixed two bugs in the smooth renderer (src/base/ftgrays.c). Thanks |
| to Boris Letocha for spotting them and providing a fix.. |
| |
| - fixed potential "divide by zero" bugs in ftcalc.c.. my god.. |
| |
| - added source code for the OpenType/CFF driver (still incomplete |
| though..) |
| |
| - modified the SFNT driver slightly to perform more robust header |
| checks in TT_Load_SFNT_Header. This prevents certain font files |
| (e.g. some Type 1 Multiple Masters) from being incorrectly |
| "recognized" as TrueType font files.. |
| |
| - moved a lot of stuff from the TrueType driver to the SFNT module, |
| this allows greater code re-use between font drivers |
| (e.g. TrueType, OpenType, Compact-TrueType, etc..) |
| |
| - added a tiny segment cache to the SFNT Charmap 4 decoder, in order |
| to minimally speed it up.. |
| |
| - added support for Multiple Master fonts in "type1z". There is also |
| a new file named <freetype/ftmm.h> which defines functions to |
| manage them from client applications. |
| |
| The new file "src/base/ftmm.c" is also optional to the engine.. |
| |
| - various formatting changes (e.g. EXPORT_DEF -> FT_EXPORT_DEF) + |
| small bug fixes in FT_Load_Glyph, the "type1" driver, etc.. |
| |
| - a minor fix to the Type 1 driver to let them apply the font matrix |
| correctly (used for many oblique fonts..) |
| |
| - some fixes for 64-bit systems (mainly changing some FT_TRACE calls |
| to use %p instead of %lx).. Thanks to Karl Robillard |
| |
| - fixed some bugs in the sbit loader (src/base/sfnt/ttsbit.c) + |
| added a new flag, FT_LOAD_CROP_BITMAP to query that bitmaps be |
| cropped when loaded from a file (maybe I should move the bitmap |
| cropper to the base layer ??). |
| |
| - changed the default number of gray levels of the smooth renderer |
| to 256 (instead of the previous 128). Of course, the human eye |
| can't see any difference ;-) |
| |
| - removed TT_MAX_SUBGLYPHS, there is no static limit on the number |
| of subglyphs in a TrueType font now.. |
| |
| |
| ====================================================================== |
| |
| OLD CHANGES 16 May 2000 |
| |
| - tagged "BETA-6" in the CVS tree. This one is a serious release |
| candidate even though it doesn't incorporate the auto-hinter yet.. |
| |
| - various obsolete files were removed, and copyright header updated |
| |
| - finally updated the standard raster to fix the monochrome |
| rendering bug + re-enable support for 5-gray levels anti-aliasing |
| (suck, suck..) |
| |
| - created new header files, and modified sources accordingly: |
| |
| <freetype/fttypes.h> |
| - simple FreeType types, without the API |
| <freetype/internal/ftmemory.h> |
| - definition of memory-management macros |
| |
| - added the "DSIG" (OpenType Digital Signature) tag to |
| <freetype/tttags.h> |
| |
| - light update/cleaning of the build system + changes to the sources |
| in order to get rid of _all_ compiler warnings with three |
| compilers, i.e: |
| |
| gcc with "-ansi -pedantic -Wall -W", Visual C++ with "/W3 /WX" and |
| LCC |
| |
| IMPORTANT NOTE FOR WIN32-LCC USERS: |
| | |
| | It seems the C pre-processor that comes with LCC is broken, it |
| | doesn't recognize the ANSI standard directives # and ## |
| | correctly when one of the argument is a macro. Also, something |
| | like: |
| | |
| | #define F(x) print##x |
| | |
| | F(("hello")) |
| | |
| | will get incorrectly translated to: |
| | |
| | print "hello") |
| | |
| | by its pre-processor. For this reason, you simply cannot build |
| | FreeType 2 in debug mode with this compiler.. |
| |
| - yet another massive grunt work. I've changed the definition of the |
| EXPORT_DEF, EXPORT_FUNC, BASE_DEF & BASE_FUNC macros. These now |
| take an argument, which is the function's return value type. |
| |
| This is necessary to compile FreeType as a DLL on Windows and |
| OS/2. Depending on the compiler used, a compiler-specific keyword |
| like __export or __system must be placed before (VisualC++) or |
| after (BorlandC++) the type.. |
| |
| Of course, this needed a lot of changes throughout the source code |
| to make it compile again... All cleaned up now, apparently.. |
| |
| Note also that there is a new EXPORT_VAR macro defined to allow |
| the _declaration_ of an exportable public (constant) |
| variable. This is the case of the raster interfaces (see |
| ftraster.h and ftgrays.h), as well as each module's interface (see |
| sfdriver.h, psdriver.h, etc..) |
| |
| - new feature: it is now possible to pass extra parameters to font |
| drivers when creating a new face object. For now, |
| this capability is unused. It could however prove to |
| be useful in a near future.. |
| |
| the FT_Open_Args structure was changes, as well as the internal |
| driver interface (the specific "init_face" module function has |
| now a different signature). |
| |
| - updated the tutorial (not finished though). |
| |
| - updated the top-level BUILD document |
| |
| - fixed a potential memory leak that could occur when loading |
| embedded bitmaps. |
| |
| - added the declaration of FT_New_Memory_Face in |
| <freetype/freetype.h>, as it was missing from the public header |
| (the implementation was already in "ftobjs.c"). |
| |
| - the file <freetype/fterrors.h> has been seriously updated in order |
| to allow the automatic generation of error message tables. See the |
| comments within it for more information. |
| |
| - major directory hierarchy re-organisation. This was done for two |
| things: |
| |
| * first, to ease the "manual" compilation of the library by |
| requiring at lot less include paths :-) |
| |
| * second, to allow external programs to effectively access |
| internal data fields. For example, this can be extremely |
| useful if someone wants to write a font producer or a font |
| manager on top of FreeType. |
| |
| Basically, you should now use the 'freetype/' prefix for header |
| inclusion, as in: |
| |
| #include <freetype/freetype.h> |
| #include <freetype/ftglyph.h> |
| |
| Some new include sub-directories are available: |
| |
| a. the "freetype/config" directory, contains two files used to |
| configure the build of the library. Client applications should |
| not need to look at these normally, but they can if they want. |
| |
| #include <freetype/config/ftoption.h> |
| #include <freetype/config/ftconfig.h> |
| |
| b. the "freetype/internal" directory, contains header files that |
| describes library internals. These are the header files that |
| were previously found in the "src/base" and "src/shared" |
| directories. |
| |
| |
| As usual, the build system and the demos have been updated to |
| reflect the change.. |
| |
| Here's a layout of the new directory hierarchy: |
| |
| TOP_DIR |
| include/ |
| freetype/ |
| freetype.h |
| ... |
| config/ |
| ftoption.h |
| ftconfig.h |
| ftmodule.h |
| |
| internal/ |
| ftobjs.h |
| ftstream.h |
| ftcalc.h |
| ... |
| |
| src/ |
| base/ |
| ... |
| |
| sfnt/ |
| psnames/ |
| truetype/ |
| type1/ |
| type1z/ |
| |
| |
| Compiling a module is now much easier, for example, the following |
| should work when in the TOP_DIR directory on an ANSI build: |
| |
| gcc -c -I./include -I./src/base src/base/ftbase.c |
| gcc -c -I./include -I./src/sfnt src/sfnt/sfnt.c |
| etc.. |
| |
| (of course, using -Iconfig/<system> if you provide system-specific |
| configuration files). |
| |
| - updated the structure of FT_Outline_Funcs in order to allow direct |
| coordinate scaling within the outline decomposition routine (this |
| is important for virtual "on" points with TrueType outlines) + |
| updates to the rasters to support this.. |
| |
| - updated the OS/2 table loading code in "src/sfnt/ttload.c" in |
| order to support version 2 of the table (see OpenType 1.2 spec) |
| |
| - created "include/tttables.h" and "include/t1tables.h" to allow |
| client applications to access some of the SFNT and T1 tables of a |
| face with a procedural interface (see FT_Get_Sfnt_Table()) + |
| updates to internal source files to reflect the change.. |
| |
| - some cleanups in the source code to get rid of warnings when |
| compiling with the "-Wall -W -ansi -pedantic" options in gcc. |
| |
| - debugged and moved the smooth renderer to "src/base/ftgrays.c" and |
| its header to "include/ftgrays.h" |
| |
| - updated TT_MAX_SUBGLYPHS to 96 as some CJK fonts have composites |
| with up to 80 sub-glyphs !! Thanks to Werner |
| |
| |
| ====================================================================== |
| |
| OLD CHANGES - 14-apr-2000 |
| |
| - fixed a bug in the TrueType glyph loader that prevented the |
| correct loading of some CJK glyphs in mingli.ttf |
| |
| - improved the standard Type 1 hinter in "src/type1" |
| |
| - fixed two bugs in the experimental Type 1 driver in "src/type1z" |
| to handle the new XFree86 4.0 fonts (and a few other ones..) |
| |
| - the smooth renderer is now complete and supports sub-banding to |
| render large glyphs at high speed. However, it is still located in |
| "demos/src/ftgrays.c" and should move to the library itself in the |
| next beta.. NOTE: The smooth renderer doesn't compile in |
| stand-alone mode anymore, but this should be fixed RSN.. |
| |
| - introduced convenience functions to more easily deal with glyph |
| images, see "include/ftglyph.h" for more details, as well as the |
| new demo program named "demos/src/ftstring.c" that demonstrates |
| its use |
| |
| - implemented FT_LOAD_NO_RECURSE in both the TrueType and Type 1 |
| drivers (this is required by the auto-hinter to improve its |
| results). |
| |
| - changed the raster interface, in order to allow client |
| applications to provide their own span-drawing callbacks. However, |
| only the smooth renderer supports this. See "FT_Raster_Params" in |
| the file "include/ftimage.h" |
| |
| - fixed a small bug in FT_MulFix that caused incorrect transform |
| computation! |
| |
| - Note: The tutorial is out-of-date, grumpf.. :-( |
| |
| |
| ====================================================================== |
| |
| OLD CHANGES - 12-mar-2000 |
| |
| - changed the layout of configuration files : now, all ANSI |
| configuration files are located in |
| "freetype2/config". System-specific over-rides can be placed in |
| "freetype2/config/<system>". |
| |
| - moved all configuration macros to "config/ftoption.h" |
| |
| - improvements in the Type 1 driver with AFM support |
| |
| - changed the fields in the FT_Outline structure : the old "flags" |
| array is re-named "tags", while all ancient flags are encoded into |
| a single unsigned int named "flags". |
| |
| - introduced new flags in FT_Outline.flags (see |
| ft_outline_.... enums in "ftimage.h"). |
| |
| - changed outline functions to "FT_Outline_<action>" syntax |
| |
| - added a smooth anti-alias renderer to the demonstration programs |
| |
| - added Mac graphics driver (thanks Just) |
| |
| - FT_Open_Face changed in order to received a pointer to a |
| FT_Open_Args descriptor.. |
| |
| - various cleanups, a few more API functions implemented (see |
| FT_Attach_File) |
| |
| - updated some docs |
| |
| |
| ====================================================================== |
| |
| OLD CHANGES - 22-feb-2000 |
| |
| - introduced the "psnames" module. It is used to: |
| |
| o convert a Postscript glyph name into the equivalent Unicode |
| character code (used by the Type 1 driver(s) to synthetize on |
| the fly a Unicode charmap). |
| |
| o provide an interface to retrieve the Postscript names of the |
| Macintosh, Adobe Standard & Adobe Expert character codes. |
| (the Macintosh names are used by the SFNT-module postscript |
| names support routines, while the other two tables are used by |
| the Type 1 driver(s)). |
| |
| - introduced the "type1z" alternate Type 1 driver. This is a (still |
| experimental) driver for the Type 1 format that will ultimately |
| replace the one in "src/type1". It uses pattern matching to load |
| data from the font, instead of a finite state analyzer. It works |
| much better than the "old" driver with "broken" fonts. It is also |
| much smaller (under 15 Kb). |
| |
| - the Type 1 drivers (both in "src/type1" and "src/type1z") are |
| nearly complete. They both provide automatic Unicode charmap |
| synthesis through the "psnames" module. No re-encoding vector is |
| needed. (note that they still leak memory due to some code |
| missing, and I'm getting lazy). |
| |
| Trivial AFM support has been added to read kerning information but |
| wasn't exactly tested as it should ;-) |
| |
| - The TrueType glyph loader has been seriously rewritten (see the |
| file "src/truetype/ttgload.c". It is now much, much simpler as |
| well as easier to read, maintain and understand :-) Preliminary |
| versions introduced a memory leak that has been reported by Jack |
| Davis, and is now fixed.. |
| |
| - introduced the new "ft_glyph_format_plotter", used to represent |
| stroked outlines like Windows "Vector" fonts, and certain Type 1 |
| fonts like "Hershey". The corresponding raster will be written |
| soon. |
| |
| - FT_New_Memory_Face is gone. Likewise, FT_Open_Face has a new |
| interface that uses a structure to describe the input stream, the |
| driver (if required), etc.. |
| |
| |
| TODO |
| |
| - Write FT_Get_Glyph_Bitmap and FT_Load_Glyph_Bitmap |
| |
| - Add a function like FT_Load_Character( face, char_code, load_flags |
| ) that would really embbed a call to FT_Get_Char_Index then |
| FT_Load_Glyph to ease developer's work. |
| |
| - Update the tutorial! |
| |
| - consider adding support for Multiple Master fonts in the Type 1 |
| drivers. |
| |
| - Test the AFM routines of the Type 1 drivers to check that kerning |
| information is returned correctly. |
| |
| - write a decent auto-gridding component !! We need this to release |
| FreeType 2.0 gold ! |
| |
| |
| less urgent needs: |
| |
| - add a CFF/Type2 driver |
| - add a BDF driver |
| - add a FNT/PCF/HBF driver |
| - add a Speedo driver from the X11 sources |
| |
| |
| ====================================================================== |
| |
| OLDER CHANGES - 27-jan-2000 |
| |
| - updated the "sfnt" module interface to allow several SFNT-based |
| drivers to co-exist peacefully |
| |
| - updated the "T1_Face" type to better separate Postscript font |
| content from the rest of the FT_Face structure. Might be used |
| later by the CFF/Type2 driver.. |
| |
| - added an experimental replacement Type 1 driver featuring advanced |
| (and speedy) pattern matching to retrieve the data from postscript |
| fonts. |
| |
| - very minor changes in the implementation of FT_Set_Char_Size and |
| FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes (they now implement default to ligthen the font |
| driver's code). |
| |
| |
| ====================================================================== |
| |
| OLD MESSAGE |
| |
| This file summarizes the changes that occured since the last "beta" of |
| FreeType 2. Because the list is important, it has been divided into |
| separate sections: |
| |
| Table Of Contents: |
| |
| I High-Level Interface (easier !) |
| II Directory Structure |
| III Glyph Image Formats |
| IV Build System |
| V Portability |
| VI Font Drivers |
| |
| |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| |
| High-Level Interface: |
| |
| The high-level API has been considerably simplified. Here is how: |
| |
| - resource objects have disappeared. this means that face objects |
| can now be created with a single function call (see FT_New_Face |
| and FT_Open_Face) |
| |
| - when calling either FT_New_Face & FT_Open_Face, a size object |
| and a glyph slot object are automatically created for the face, |
| and can be accessed through "face->glyph" and "face->size" if |
| one really needs to. In most cases, there's no need to call |
| FT_New_Size or FT_New_Glyph. |
| |
| - similarly, FT_Load_Glyph now only takes a "face" argument |
| (instead of a glyph slot and a size). Also, it's "result" |
| parameter is gone, as the glyph image type is returned in the |
| field "face->glyph.format" |
| |
| - the list of available charmaps is directly accessible through |
| "face->charmaps", counting "face->num_charmaps" elements. Each |
| charmap has an 'encoding' field which specifies which known |
| encoding it deals with. Valid values are, for example : |
| |
| ft_encoding_unicode (for ASCII, Latin-1 and Unicode) |
| ft_encoding_apple_roman |
| ft_encoding_sjis |
| ft_encoding_adobe_standard |
| ft_encoding_adobe_expert |
| |
| other values may be added in the future. Each charmap still |
| holds its "platform_id" and "encoding_id" values in case the |
| encoding is too exotic for the current library |
| |
| |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| |
| Directory Structure: |
| |
| Should seem obvious to most of you: |
| |
| freetype/ |
| config/ -- configuration sub-makefiles |
| ansi/ |
| unix/ -- platform-specific configuration files |
| win32/ |
| os2/ |
| msdos/ |
| |
| include/ -- public header files, those to be included |
| directly by client apps |
| |
| src/ -- sources of the library |
| base/ -- the base layer |
| sfnt/ -- the sfnt "driver" (see the drivers section |
| below) |
| truetype/ -- the truetype driver |
| type1/ -- the type1 driver |
| shared/ -- some header files shared between drivers |
| |
| demos/ -- demos/tools |
| |
| docs/ -- documentation (a bit empty for now) |
| |
| |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| |
| Glyph Image Formats: |
| |
| Drivers are now able to register new glyph image formats within the |
| library. For now, the base layer supports of course bitmaps and |
| vector outlines, but one could imagine something different like |
| colored bitmaps, bi-color vectors or wathever else (Metafonts anyone |
| ??). |
| |
| See the file `include/ftimage.h'. Note also that the type |
| FT_Raster_Map is gone, and is now replaced by FT_Bitmap, which |
| should encompass all known bitmap types. |
| |
| Each new image format must provide at least one "raster", i.e. a |
| module capable of transforming the glyph image into a bitmap. It's |
| also possible to change the default raster used for a given glyph |
| image format. |
| |
| The default outline scan-converter now uses 128 levels of grays by |
| default, which tends to smooth many things. Note that the demo |
| programs have been updated significantly in order to display these.. |
| |
| |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| |
| Build system: |
| |
| You still need GNU Make to build the library. The build system has |
| been very seriously re-vamped in order to provide things like : |
| |
| - automatic host platform detection (reverting to 'config/ansi' if |
| it is not detected, with pseudo-standard compilation flags) |
| |
| - the ability to compile from the Makefiles with very different and |
| exotic compilers. Note that linking the library can be difficult |
| for some platforms. |
| |
| For example, the file `config/win32/lcclib.bat' is invoked by the |
| build system to create the ".lib" file with LCC-Win32 because its |
| librarian has too many flaws to be invoked directly from the |
| Makefile. |
| |
| Here's how it works: |
| |
| - the first time you type `make', the build system runs a series of |
| sub-makefiles in order to detect your host platform. It then dumps |
| what it found, and creates a file called `config.mk' in the |
| current directory. This is a sub-Makefile used to define many |
| important Make variables used to build the library. |
| |
| - the second time, the build system detects the `config.mk' then use |
| it to build the library. All object files go into 'obj' by |
| default, as well as the library file, but this can easily be |
| changed. |
| |
| Note that you can run "make setup" to force another host platform |
| detection even if a `config.mk' is present in the current |
| directory. Another solution is simply to delete the file, then |
| re-run make. |
| |
| Finally, the default compiler for all platforms is gcc (for now, |
| this will hopefully changed in the future). You can however specify |
| a different compiler by specifying it after the 'setup' target as |
| in: |
| |
| gnumake setup lcc on Win32 to use the LCC compiler |
| gnumake setup visualc on Win32 to use Visual C++ |
| |
| See the file `config/<system>/detect.mk' for a list of supported |
| compilers for your platforms. |
| |
| It should be relatively easy to write new detection rules files and |
| config.mk.. |
| |
| Finally, to build the demo programs, go to `demos' and launch GNU |
| Make, it will use the `config.mk' in the top directory to build the |
| test programs.. |
| |
| |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| |
| Portability: |
| |
| In the previous beta, a single FT_System object was used to |
| encompass all low-level operations like thread synchronisation, |
| memory management and i/o access. This has been greatly simplified: |
| |
| - thread synchronisation has been dropped, for the simple reason |
| that the library is already re-entrant, and that if you really |
| need two threads accessing the same FT_Library, you should |
| really synchronize access to it yourself with a simple mutex. |
| |
| - memory management is performed through a very simple object |
| called "FT_Memory", which really is a table containing a table |
| of pointers to functions like malloc, realloc and free as well |
| as some user data (closure). |
| |
| - resources have disappeared (they created more problems than they |
| solved), and i/o management have been simplified greatly as a |
| result. Streams are defined through FT_Stream objects, which can |
| be either memory-based or disk-based. |
| |
| Note that each face has its own stream, which is closed only |
| when the face object is destroyed. Hence, a function like |
| TT_Flush_Face in 1.x cannot be directly supported. However, if |
| you really need something like this, you can easily tailor your |
| own streams to achieve the same feature at a lower level (and |
| use FT_Open_Face instead of FT_New_Face to create the face). |
| |
| See the file "include/ftsystem.h" for more details, as well as the |
| implementations found in "config/unix" and "config/ansi". |
| |
| |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| |
| Font Drivers: |
| |
| The Font Driver interface has been modified in order to support |
| extensions & versioning. |
| |
| |
| The list of the font drivers that are statically linked to the |
| library at compile time is managed through a new configuration file |
| called `config/<platform>/ftmodule.h'. |
| |
| This file is autogenerated when invoking `make modules'. This target |
| will parse all sub-directories of 'src', looking for a "module.mk" |
| rules file, used to describe the driver to the build system. |
| |
| Hence, one should call `make modules' each time a font driver is |
| added or removed from the `src' directory. |
| |
| Finally, this version provides a "pseudo-driver" in `src/sfnt'. This |
| driver doesn't support font files directly, but provides services |
| used by all TrueType-like font drivers. Hence, its code is shared |
| between the TrueType & OpenType font formats, and possibly more |
| formats to come if we're lucky.. |
| |
| |
| ---------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| |
| Extensions support: |
| |
| The extensions support is inspired by the one found in 1.x. |
| |
| Now, each font driver has its own "extension registry", which lists |
| which extensions are available for the font faces managed by the |
| driver. |
| |
| Extension ids are now strings, rather than 4-byte tags, as this is |
| usually more readable.. |
| |
| Each extension has: |
| - some data, associated to each face object |
| - an interface (table of function pointers) |
| |
| An extension that is format-specific should simply register itself |
| to the correct font driver. Here is some example code: |
| |
| // Registering an extensions |
| // |
| FT_Error FT_Init_XXXX_Extension( FT_Library library ) |
| { |
| FT_DriverInterface* tt_driver; |
| |
| driver = FT_Get_Driver( library, "truetype" ); |
| if (!driver) return FT_Err_Unimplemented_Feature; |
| |
| return FT_Register_Extension( driver, &extension_class ); |
| } |
| |
| |
| // Implementing the extensions |
| // |
| FT_Error FT_Proceed_Extension_XXX( FT_Face face ) |
| { |
| FT_XXX_Extension ext; |
| FT_XXX_Extension_Interface ext_interface; |
| |
| ext = FT_Get_Extension( face, "extensionid", &ext_interface ); |
| if (!ext) return error; |
| |
| return ext_interface->do_it(ext); |
| } |
| |
| --- end of CHANGES --- |