Re: [ft] FreeType 2.3.6 has been released

[mpsuzuki]

Dear Sir,

Oops, yet I've not finished the improvement of configure
to build universal binary on PowerPC Mac OS X 10.4
(requested by Ryan Schmidt). I have to apologize. Werner,
could you tell me expected schedule (or feature to be
finished) to relase 2.3.7?

Regards,
mpsuzuki

On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:48:51 +0200 (CEST)
Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

>
>FreeType 2.3.6 has been released.
>
>It is available from
>
>    http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/
>
>or
>
>    http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3157
>
>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
>
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>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.
>
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.6 and 2.3.5
>
>  I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES
>
>    - A  bunch of  potential security  problems have  been found.  All
>      users should update.
>
>    - Microsoft  Unicode  cmaps  in  TrueType  fonts  are  now  always
>      preferred over Apple cmaps.  This is not a bug per se, but there
>      exist some buggy  fonts created for MS which  have broken  Apple
>      cmaps.  This affects  only the automatic  selection of FreeType;
>      it's always possible to manually select an Apple Unicode cmap if
>      desired.
>
>    - Many bug fixes to the TrueType bytecode interpreter.
>
>    - Improved Mac support.
>
>    - Subsetted CID-keyed CFFs are now supported correctly.
>
>    - CID-keyed CFFs with subfonts which are scaled in a  non-standard
>      way are now handled correctly.
>
>    - A call to FT_Open_Face with `face_index' < 0 crashed FreeType if
>      the font was a Windows (bitmap) FNT/FON.
>
>
>  II. IMPORTANT CHANGES
>
>    - The new function `FT_Get_CID_Registry_Ordering_Supplement' gives
>      access to  those fields in a CID-keyed font.  The code  has been
>      contributed by Derek Clegg.
>
>    - George Williams  contributed  code  to validate  the new  `MATH'
>      OpenType  table (within  the `otvalid'  module).  The  `ftvalid'
>      demo program has been extended accordingly.
>
>    - An API for cmap 14 support  (for Unicode Variant Selectors, UVS)
>      has been contributed by George Williams.
>
>    - A new face flag FT_FACE_FLAG_CID_KEYED has been added,  together
>      with a macro FT_IS_CID_KEYED which evaluates to 1 if the font is
>      CID-keyed.
>
>
>  III. MISCELLANEOUS
>
>    - Build support for symbian has been contributed.
>
>    - Better WGL4 glyph name support, contributed by Sergey Tolstov.
>
>    - Debugging output of the  various FT_TRACEX macros is now sent to
>      stderr.
>
>    - The `ftview' demo program now provides artificial slanting too.
>
>    - The `ftvalid' demo  program has a new  option `-f' to select the
>      font index.
>
>
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