Hello,
I've packaged 2.1.3 rc3 this morning, you should be able to grab
it from the FTP site (and mirrors pretty soon I imagine).
I have also commited a few changes before that:
- a fix to the synthetic emboldener (stupid computation
bug gave truly bad results :-( )
- a new PFR-specific API (see FT_PFR_H or <freetype/ftpfr.h>),
this is required because PFR faces do not use the same
"unit size" for outline coordinates and metrics.
the new API allows you to retrieve advances and kerning in
original metrics units, this is important to implement text
layout according to the Digital TV MHP 1.0.2 specification,
for example :-)
- well, FT_Get_Kerning didn't work correctly for PFR faces
where "outline_resolution" and "metrics_resolution" differed,
so this has been fixed...
I'm also currently working on Juliusz's patch to support GZip
compression. Since the zlib doesn't allow you to open .gz files
with arbitrary streams, a small re-implementation of "gzio.c"
is needed, i.e. one that handles FT_Stream objects.
By the way, I don't know how to tweak Autoconf to support an
optional dependency on zlib. Does anyone in here knows how to
do that simply. I'd like a configure flags, like "--with-zlib"
or "--with-gzip" but don't know how to implement that.
The Jamfiles will be modified to embed the relevant portions
of zlib directly into the "src/base/ftgzip" components otherwise.
Apart from that, there may be a few improvements to the hinters
this week-end, and we'll be done for 2.1.3 :-)
Regards,
- David Turner
- The FreeType Project (www.freetype.org)
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