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This bug has been + introduced after version 2.1.4. + + - The BDF driver dropped the last glyph in the font. + + - The BDF driver now uses the DEFAULT_CHAR property (if available) + to select a glyph shape for the undefined glyph. + + + II. IMPORTANT CHANGES + + - George Williams contributed code to handle Apple's font + distortion technology found in GX fonts (`avar', `cvar', `fvar', + and `gvar' tables; the Multiple Masters API has been slightly + extended to cope with the new functionality). + + - The `FT_GlyphSlotRec' structure has been extended: The elements + `lsb_delta' and `rsb_delta' give the difference between hinted + and unhinted left and right side bearings if autohinting is + active. Using those values can improve the inter-letter spacing + considerably. See the documentation of `FT_GlyphSlotRec' and + the `ftstring' demo program how to use it. + + + III. MISCELLANEOUS + + - A new documentation file `formats.txt' describes various font + formats supported (and not supported) by FreeType. + + +====================================================================== + +LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.8 and 2.1.7 + + I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES + + - The native TrueType hinter contained some bugs which prevented + some fonts to be rendered correctly, most notably Legendum.otf. + + - The PostScript hinter now produces improved results. + + - The linear advance width and height values were incorrectly + rounded, making them virtually unusable if not loaded with + FT_LOAD_LINEAR_DESIGN. + + - Indexing CID-keyed CFF fonts is now working: The glyph index is + correctly treated as a CID, similar to FreeType's CID driver + module. Note that CID CMap support is still missing. + + - The FT_FACE_FLAGS_GLYPH_NAMES flag is now set correctly for all + font formats. + + - Some subsetted Type 1 fonts weren't parsed correctly. This bug + has been introduced in 2.1.7. In summary, the Type 1 parser has + become more robust. + + - Non-decimal numbers weren't parsed correctly in PS fonts. + + - The WinFNT driver now correctly reports FT_ENCODING_NONE for all + but one encoding. Use the new FT_WinFNT_ID_XXX values together + with FT_Get_WinFNT_Header() to get the WinFNT charset ID. + + - The descender metrics (face->size->metrics.descender) for WinFNT + bitmap fonts had the wrong sign. + + - The (emulated) `seac' support for CFF fonts was broken. + + - The `flex' operator didn't work for CFF fonts. + + - PS glyphs which use the `hintmask' operator haven't been + rendered correctly in some cases. + + - Metrics for BDF and PCF bitmap font formats have been fixed. + + - Autohinting is now disabled for glyphs which are vertically + distorted or mirrored (using a transformation matrix). This + fixes a bug which produced zero-height glyphs. + + - The `freetype-config' script now handles --prefix and + --exec-prefix correctly; it also returns the proper --rpath (or + -R) value if FreeType has been built as a shared library. + + + II. IMPORTANT CHANGES + + - Both PCF and BDF drivers now handle the SETWIDTH_NAME and + ADD_STYLE_NAME properties. Values are appended to + face->style_name; example: `Bold SemiCondensed'. + + - The PCF driver now handles bitmap fonts compressed with the LZW + algorithm (extension .pcf.Z, compressed with `compress'). + + - A new API function `FT_Get_CMap_Language_ID' (declared in + `tttables.h') is available to get the language ID of a + TrueType/SFNT cmap. + + - The hexadecimal format of data after the `StartData' command in + CID-keyed Type 1 fonts is now supported. While this can't occur + in file-based fonts, it can happen in document-embedded + resources of PostScript documents. + + - Embedded bitmaps in SFNT-based CFF fonts are now supported. + + - A simple API is now available to control FreeType's tracing + mechanism if compiled with FT_DEBUG_LEVEL_TRACE. See the file + `ftdebug.h' for more details. + + - YAMATO Masatake contributed improved handling of MacOS resource + forks on non-MacOS platforms (for example, Linux can mount MacOS + file systems). + + - Support for MacOS has been improved; there is now a new function + `FT_New_Face_From_FSSpec' similar to `FT_New_Face' except that + it accepts an FSSpec instead of a path. + + - The cache sub-system has been rewritten. + + - There is now support for deinstallation of faces. + + - A new API function `FTC_Manager_RemoveFaceID' has been added + to delete all `idle' nodes that correspond to a given + FTC_FaceID. All `locked' nodes (i.e., those with a reference + count > 0), will be modified to prevent them from appearing in + further lookups (they will be cleaned normally when their + reference count reaches 0). + + - There is now support for point scaling (i.e., providing + character sizes in points + dpis, instead of pixels). + + - Three abstract cache classes are now available: + + FTC_GCache: Used to store one glyph item per cache node, + with the ability to group common attributes into + `families'. This replaces the old + FTC_GlyphCache class. + + FTC_ICache: Used to store one FT_Glyph per cache node. This + extends FTC_GCache. Family definition, family + comparison, and glyph loading are however left + to sub-classes. + + FTC_SCache: Used to store up to 16 small bitmaps per cache + node. This extends FTC_GCache. Family + definition, family comparison and glyph loading + are however left to sub-classes. + + - The file `src/cache/ftcbasic.c' implements: + + FTC_ImageCache: Extends FTC_ICache; implements family + definitions and glyph loading similar to the + old API. + + FTC_SBitCache: Extends FTC_SCache, implements family + definitions and glyph loading similar to the + old API + + Client applications should be able to extend FTC_GCache, + FTC_ICache, or FTC_SCache much more easily (i.e., less code to + write, and less callbacks). For example, one could envision + caches that are capable of storing transformed (obliqued), + stroked, emboldened, or colored glyph images. Use + `ftcbasic.c' as an example. + + - All public APIs are now in `include/freetype/ftcache.h', (to + be accessed as `FT_CACHE_H'). The contents of + `include/freetype/cache/' is only needed by applications that + wish to implement their own caches. + + - There were some major performance improvements through the use + of various programming tricks. Cache hits are up to 70% + faster than in the old code. + + - The FTC_CMapCache has been simplied. Charmaps can only be + accessed by index right now. There is also a new API named + `FT_Charmap_GetIndex' for this purpose. + + - The demo programs have been updated to the new code. The + previous versions will not work with the current one. + + - Using an invalid face index in FT_Open_Face and friends now + causes an error even if the font contains a single face only. + + + III. MISCELLANEOUS + + - Wolfgang Domröse contributed support files for building FreeType + on the Atari using the PureC compiler. Note that the Atari is a + 16bit platform. + + - Vitaliy Pasternak contributed project files for VS.NET 2003. + + +====================================================================== + +LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.7 and 2.1.6 + + I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES + + - Updated to newest libtool version, fixing build problems on + various platforms. + + - On Unix platforms, `make install' didn't copy the correct + `ftconfig.h' file. + + Note that version 2.1.7 contains the same library C source code as + version 2.1.6. + + +====================================================================== + +LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.6 and 2.1.5 + + I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES + + - The PFR font driver didn't load kerning tables correctly, and + the functions in FT_PFR_H didn't work at all. + + - Type 1 font files in binary format (PFB) with an end-of-file + indicator weren't accepted by the FreeType engine. + + - Fonts which contain /PaintType and /StrokeWidth no longer cause + a segfault. This bug has been introduced in version 2.1.5. + + - Fonts loaded with FT_LOAD_RENDER no longer cause strange + results. This bug has been introduced in version 2.1.5. + + - Some Windows (bitmap) FNT/FON files couldn't be handled + correctly. + + + II. IMPORTANT CHANGES + + - The internal module API has been heavily changed in favor of + massive simplifications within the font engine. This also means + that authors of third-party modules must adapt their code to the + new scheme. + + NOTE: THE NEW SCHEME IS NOT COMPLETED YET. PLEASE WAIT UNTIL A + FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT! + + - The PostScript parser has been enhanced to handle comments and + strings correctly. Additionally, more syntax forms are + recognized. + + - Added the optional unpatented hinting system for TrueType. It + allows typefaces which need hinting to produce correct glyph + forms (e.g., Chinese typefaces from Dynalab) to work acceptably + without infringing Apple patents. This system is compiled only + if TT_CONFIG_OPTION_COMPILE_UNPATENTED_HINTING is defined in + ftoption.h (activated by default). + + + III. MISCELLANEOUS + + - There is now a guard in the public header files to protect + against inclusion of freetype.h from FreeType 1. + + - Direct inclusion of freetype.h and other public header files no + longer works. You have to use the documented scheme + + #include <ft2build.h> + #include FT_FREETYPE_H + + to load freetype.h with a symbolic name. This protects against + renaming of public header files (which shouldn't happen but + actually has, avoiding two public header files with the same + name). + + +====================================================================== + +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 problems 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 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. + + - 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. + + +====================================================================== + +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 --- |