General Remarks

• User allocation

  How client applications should allocate FreeType data structures.

Core API

• FreeType Version	Functions and macros related to FreeType versions.
  Basic Data Types	The basic data types defined by the library.
  Base Interface	The FreeType 2 base font interface.
  Glyph Variants	The FreeType 2 interface to Unicode Ideographic Variation Sequences (IVS), using the SFNT cmap format 14.
  Glyph Management	Generic interface to manage individual glyph data.
  Mac Specific Interface	Only available on the Macintosh.
  Size Management	Managing multiple sizes per face.
  Header File Macros	Macro definitions used to #include specific header files.

Format-Specific API

• Multiple Masters	How to manage Multiple Masters fonts.
  TrueType Tables	TrueType specific table types and functions.
  Type 1 Tables	Type 1 (PostScript) specific font tables.
  SFNT Names	Access the names embedded in TrueType and OpenType files.
  BDF and PCF Files	BDF and PCF specific API.
  CID Fonts	CID-keyed font specific API.
  PFR Fonts	PFR/TrueDoc specific API.
  Window FNT Files	Windows FNT specific API.
  Font Formats	Getting the font format.
  Gasp Table	Retrieving TrueType ‘gasp’ table entries.

Controlling FreeType Modules

• The auto-hinter	Controlling the auto-hinting module.
  The CFF driver	Controlling the CFF driver module.
  The TrueType driver	Controlling the TrueType driver module.

Cache Sub-System

• Cache Sub-System

  How to cache face, size, and glyph data with FreeType 2.

Support API

• Computations	Crunching fixed numbers and vectors.
  List Processing	Simple management of lists.
  Outline Processing	Functions to create, transform, and render vectorial glyph images.
  Quick retrieval of advance values	Retrieve horizontal and vertical advance values without processing glyph outlines, if possible.
  Bitmap Handling	Handling FT_Bitmap objects.
  Scanline Converter	How vectorial outlines are converted into bitmaps and pixmaps.
  Glyph Stroker	Generating bordered and stroked glyphs.
  System Interface	How FreeType manages memory and i/o.
  Module Management	How to add, upgrade, remove, and control modules from FreeType.
  GZIP Streams	Using gzip-compressed font files.
  LZW Streams	Using LZW-compressed font files.
  BZIP2 Streams	Using bzip2-compressed font files.
  LCD Filtering	Reduce color fringes of LCD-optimized bitmaps.

Miscellaneous

• OpenType Validation	An API to validate OpenType tables.
  Incremental Loading	Custom Glyph Loading.
  The TrueType Engine	TrueType bytecode support.
  TrueTypeGX/AAT Validation	An API to validate TrueTypeGX/AAT tables.

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