diff -r a501f5ec7b34 -r 0f5961910e27 misc/libfreetype/docs/CHANGES --- a/misc/libfreetype/docs/CHANGES Tue Jul 16 11:14:27 2013 +0200 +++ /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 @@ -1,3539 +0,0 @@ -CHANGES BETWEEN 2.4.4 and 2.4.5 - - I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - - - A rendering regression for second-order Bézier curves has been - fixed, introduced in 2.4.3. - - - II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - - - If autohinting is not explicitly disabled, FreeType now uses - the autohinter if a TrueType based font doesn't contain native - hints. - - - The load flag FT_LOAD_IGNORE_GLOBAL_ADVANCE_WIDTH has been made - redundant and is simply ignored; this means that FreeType now - ignores the global advance width value in TrueType fonts. - - - III. MISCELLANEOUS - - - `FT_Sfnt_Table_Info' can now return the number of SFNT tables of - a font. - - - Support for PCF files compressed with bzip2 has been contributed - by Joel Klinghed. To make this work, the OS must provide a - bzip2 library. - - - Bradley Grainger contributed project and solution files in - Visual Studio 2010 format. - - - Again some fixes to better handle broken fonts. - - - Some improvements to the B/W rasterizer. - - - Fixes to the cache module to improve robustness. - - -====================================================================== - -CHANGES BETWEEN 2.4.3 and 2.4.4 - - I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - - - UVS support (TrueType/OpenType cmap format 14) support is fixed. - This regression has been introduced in version 2.4.0. - - - II. MISCELLANEOUS - - - Detect tricky fonts (e.g. MingLiU) by the lengths and checksums - of Type42-persistent subtables (`cvt ', `fpgm', and `prep') when - a TrueType font without family name is given. The previous fix, - introduced in 2.4.3, was too rigorous, causing many subsetted - fonts (mainly from PDF files) displayed badly because FreeType - forced rendering with the TrueType bytecode engine instead of - the autohinter. - - - Better support for 64bit platforms. - - - More fixes to improve handling of broken fonts. - - -====================================================================== - -CHANGES BETWEEN 2.4.2 and 2.4.3 - - I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - - - Fix rendering of certain cubic, S-shaped arcs. This regression - has been introduced in version 2.4.0. - - - II. MISCELLANEOUS - - - To fix the above mentioned rendering issue, a new spline - flattening algorithm has been introduced which speeds up both - conic and cubic arcs. - - - Handling of broken fonts has been further improved. - - -====================================================================== - -CHANGES BETWEEN 2.4.1 and 2.4.2 - - I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - - - A stack overflow in CFF Type2 CharStrings interpreter is fixed. - - - Handling Type 42 font deallocation was broken; additionally, the - library is now more robust against malformed Type 42 fonts. - - - II. MISCELLANEOUS - - - Two new functions, `FT_Reference_Library' (in FT_MODULE_H) and - `FT_Reference_Face' (in FT_FREETYPE_H), have been added to - simplify life-cycle management. A counter gets initialized to 1 - at the time an FT_Library (or FT_Face) structure is created. - The two new functions increment the respective counter. - `FT_Done_Library' and `FT_Done_Face' then only destroy a library - or face if the counter is 1, otherwise they simply decrement the - counter. - - -====================================================================== - -CHANGES BETWEEN 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 - - I. IMPORTANT CHANGES - - - A serious bug in the CFF font module prevented display of many - glyphs in CFF fonts like `MinionPro-Regular.otf'. - - -====================================================================== - -CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.12 and 2.4.0 - - I. IMPORTANT CHANGES - - - Since May 2010, all patents regarding the TrueType bytecode - interpreter have expired worldwide. Consequently, we now define - TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER by default (and undefine - TT_CONFIG_OPTION_UNPATENTED_HINTING). - - - A new function `FT_Library_SetLcdFilterWeights' is available to - adjust the filter weights set by `FT_Library_SetLcdFilter'. - - - II. MISCELLANEOUS - - - Thanks to many reports from Robert Święcki, FreeType's stability - in handling broken or damaged fonts is much improved. - - - Support for LCD filter control has been added to the demo - programs `ftdiff' and `ftview'. - - -====================================================================== - -CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.11 and 2.3.12 - - I. IMPORTANT CHANGES - - - For `FT_Open_Face', new parameters are available to ignore - preferred family names: FT_PARAM_TAG_IGNORE_PREFERRED_FAMILY and - FT_PARAM_TAG_IGNORE_PREFERRED_SUBFAMILY. - - - II. MISCELLANEOUS - - - Support for incremental font loading (controlled with the - FT_CONFIG_OPTION_INCREMENTAL macro) is now active by default. - - - Better support for vertical metrics. - - - Various minor bug fixes. - - -====================================================================== - -CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.10 and 2.3.11 - - I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - - - Version 2.3.10 broke PCF support. - - -====================================================================== - -CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.10 and 2.3.9 - - I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - - - If all ASCII digits in a font have the same (unscaled) width, - the autohinter respects this and won't change it. - - - TrueType fonts are now rasterized correctly if the horizontal - and vertical resolution differ. - - - Type 1 fonts are now handled with increased precision internally - to avoid serious rounding issues if non-integral coordinates are - encountered. - - - Horizontally condensed CFF fonts (using the font matrix) were - rendered incorrectly. This bug has been introduced after - release 2.3.5. - - - II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - - - Support for the SFNT cmap 13 table format (as defined by the new - OpenType 1.6 specification) has been added. - - - B/W rasterization of well-hinted TrueType fonts at small sizes - has been greatly improved. - - - Calculation of vertical metrics in OpenType fonts has been - improved. - - - III. MISCELLANEOUS - - - It is now possible to change the emboldening factor in the - `ftview' demo program with keys `e' and `E'. - - - It is now possible to change the slant value in the `ftview' - demo program with keys `s' and `S'. - - - The 5-levels grayscale mode of the `ftraster' module (which - FreeType doesn't use by default) was broken since version 2.3.0. - - - Compilation of the `ftgrays' and `ftraster' modules was broken - in stand-alone mode. - - - Various fixes for compilation on 64bit and 16bit architectures. - - -====================================================================== - -CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.9 and 2.3.8 - - I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - - - Very unfortunately, FreeType 2.3.8 contained a change that broke - its official ABI. The end result is that programs compiled - against previous versions of the library, but dynamically linked - to 2.3.8 can experience memory corruption if they call the - `FT_Get_PS_Font_Info' function. - - We recommend all users to upgrade to 2.3.9 as soon as possible, - or to downgrade to a previous release of the library if this is - not an option. - - The origin of the bug is that a new field was added to the - publicly defined `PS_FontInfoRec' structure. Unfortunately, - objects of this type can be stack or heap allocated by callers - of `FT_Get_PS_Font_Info', resulting in a memory buffer - overwrite with its implementation in 2.3.8. - - If you want to know whether your code is vulnerable to this - issue, simply search for the substrings `PS_FontInfo' and - `PS_Font_Info' in your source code. If none is found, your code - is safe and is not affected. - - The FreeType team apologizes for the problem. - - - The POSIX support of MacOS resource-fork fonts (Suitcase fonts - and LaserWriter Type1 PostScript fonts) was broken in 2.3.8. If - FreeType2 is built without Carbon framework, these fonts are not - handled correctly. Version 2.3.7 didn't have this bug. - - - `FT_Get_Advance' (and `FT_Get_Advances') returned bad values for - almost all font formats except TrueType fonts. - - - Fix a bug in the SFNT kerning table loader/parser which could - crash the engine if certain malformed tables were encountered. - - - Composite SFNT bitmaps are now handled correctly. - - - II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - - - The new functions `FT_Get_CID_Is_Internally_CID_keyed' and - `FT_Get_CID_From_Glyph_Index' can be used to access CID-keyed - CFF fonts via CID values. This code has been contributed by - Michael Toftdal. - - - III. MISCELLANEOUS - - - `FT_Outline_Get_InsideBorder' returns FT_STROKER_BORDER_RIGHT - for empty outlines. This was incorrectly documented. - - - The `ftview' demo program now supports UTF-8 encoded strings. - - -====================================================================== - -CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.8 and 2.3.7 - - I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - - - CID-keyed fonts in an SFNT wrapper were not handled correctly. - - - The smooth renderer produced truncated images (on the right) for - outline parts with negative horizontal values. Most fonts don't - contain outlines left to the y coordinate axis, but the effect - was very noticeable for outlines processed with FT_Glyph_Stroke, - using thick strokes. - - - `FT_Get_TrueType_Engine_Type' returned a wrong value if both - configuration macros TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER and - TT_CONFIG_OPTION_UNPATENTED_HINTING were defined. - - - The `face_index' field in the `FT_Face' structure wasn't - initialized properly after calling FT_Open_Face and friends with - a positive face index for CFFs, WinFNTs, and, most importantly, - for TrueType Collections (TTCs). - - - II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - - - Rudimentary support for Type 1 fonts and CID-keyed Type 1 fonts - in an SFNT wrapper has been added -- such fonts are used on the - Mac. The core SFNT tables `TYP1' and `CID ' are passed to the - PS Type 1 and CID-keyed PS font drivers; other tables (`ALMX', - `BBOX', etc.) are not supported yet. - - - A new interface to extract advance values of glyphs without - loading their outlines has been added. The functions are called - `FT_Get_Advance' and `FT_Get_Advances'; they are defined in file - `ftadvanc.h' (to be accessed as FT_ADVANCES_H). - - - A new function `FT_Get_FSType_Flags' (in FT_FREETYPE_H) has been - contributed by David Bevan to access the embedding and - subsetting restriction information of fonts. - - - III. MISCELLANEOUS - - - FT_MulFix is now an inlined function; by default, assembler code - is provided for x86 and ARM. See FT_CONFIG_OPTION_INLINE_MULFIX - and FT_CONFIG_OPTION_NO_ASSEMBLER (in ftoption.h) for more. - - - The handling of `tricky' fonts (this is, fonts which don't work - with the autohinter, needing the font format's hinting engine) - has been generalized and changed slightly: - - . A new face flag FT_FACE_FLAG_TRICKY indicates that the font - format's hinting engine is necessary for correct rendering. - The macro FT_IS_TRICKY can be used to check this flag. - - . FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING is now ignored for tricky fonts. To really - force raw loading of such fonts (without hinting), both - FT_LOAD_NO_HINTING and FT_LOAD_NO_AUTOHINT must be used -- - this is something which you probably never want to do. - - . Tricky TrueType fonts always use the bytecode interpreter, - either the patented or unpatented version. - - - The function `FT_GlyphSlot_Own_Bitmap' has been moved from - FT_SYNTHESIS_H to FT_BITMAP_H; it is now part of the `official' - API. (The functions in FT_SYNTHESIS_H are still subject to - change, however.) - - - In the `ftdiff' demo program you can now toggle the use of - FT_LOAD_IGNORE_GLOBAL_ADVANCE_WIDTH with key `a'. - - -====================================================================== - -CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.7 and 2.3.6 - - I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - - - If the library was compiled on an i386 platform using gcc, and - compiler option -O3 was given, `FT_MulFix' sometimes returned - incorrect results which could have caused problems with - `FT_Request_Metrics' and `FT_Select_Metrics', returning an - incorrect descender size. - - - Pure CFFs without subfonts were scaled incorrectly if the font - matrix was non-standard. This bug has been introduced in - version 2.3.6. - - - The `style_name' field in the `FT_FaceRec' structure often - contained a wrong value for Type 1 fonts. This misbehaviour - has been introduced in version 2.3.6 while trying to fix - another problem. [Note, however, that this value is - informative only since the used algorithm to extract it is - very simplistic.] - - - II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - - - Two new macros, FT_OUTLINE_SMART_DROPOUTS and - FT_OUTLINE_EXCLUDE_STUBS, have been introduced. Together with - FT_OUTLINE_IGNORE_DROPOUTS (which was ignored previously) it is - now possible to control the dropout mode of the `raster' module - (for B&W rasterization), using the `flags' field in the - `FT_Outline' structure. - - - The TrueType bytecode interpreter now passes the dropout mode to - the B&W rasterizer. This greatly increases the output for small - ppem values of many fonts like `pala.ttf'. - - -====================================================================== - -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. - - -====================================================================== - -CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.5 and 2.3.4 - - I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - - - Some subglyphs in TrueType fonts were handled incorrectly due to - a missing graphics state reinitialization. - - - Large .Z files (as distributed with some X11 packages) weren't - handled correctly, making FreeType increase the heap stack in an - endless loop. - - - A large number of bugs have been fixed to avoid crashes and - endless loops with invalid fonts. - - - II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - - - The two new cache functions `FTC_ImageCache_LookupScaler' and - `FTC_SBit_Cache_LookupScaler' have been added to allow lookup of - glyphs using an `FTC_Scaler' object; this makes it possible to - use fractional pixel sizes in the cache. The demo programs have - been updated accordingly to use this feature. - - - A new API `FT_Get_CMap_Format' has been added to get the cmap - format of a TrueType font. This is useful in handling PDF - files. The code has been contributed by Derek Clegg. - - - The auto-hinter now produces better output by default for - non-Latin scripts like Indic. This was done by using the CJK - hinting module as the default instead of the Latin one. Thanks - to Rahul Bhalerao for this suggestion. - - - A new API `FT_Face_CheckTrueTypePatents' has been added to find - out whether a given TrueType font uses patented bytecode - instructions. The `ft2demos' bundle contains a new program - called `ftpatchk' which demonstrates its usage. - - - A new API `FT_Face_SetUnpatentedHinting' has been added to - enable or disable the unpatented hinter. - - - Support for Windows FON files in PE format has been contributed - by Dmitry Timoshkov. - - - III. MISCELLANEOUS - - - Vincent Richomme contributed Visual C++ project files for Pocket - PCs. - - -====================================================================== - -CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.4 and 2.3.3 - - I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - - - A serious bug in the handling of bitmap fonts (and bitmap - strikes of outline fonts) has been introduced in 2.3.3. - - -====================================================================== - -CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.3 and 2.3.2 - - I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - - - Remove a serious regression in the TrueType bytecode interpreter - that was introduced in version 2.3.2. Note that this does not - disable the improvements introduced to the interpreter in - version 2.3.2, only some ill cases that occurred with certain - fonts (though a few popular ones). - - - The auto-hinter now ignores single-point contours for computing - blue zones. This bug created `wavy' baselines when rendering - text with various fonts that use these contours to model - mark-attach points (these are points that are never rasterized - and are placed outside of the glyph's real outline). - - - The `rsb_delta' and `lsb_delta' glyph slot fields are now set to - zero for mono-spaced fonts. Otherwise code that uses them would - essentially ruin the fixed-advance property. - - - Fix CVE-2007-1351 which can cause an integer overflow while - parsing BDF fonts, leading to a potentially exploitable heap - overflow condition. - - - II. MISCELLANEOUS - - - Fixed compilation issues on some 64-bit platforms (see ChangeLog - for details). - - - A new demo program `ftdiff' has been added to compare TrueType - hinting, FreeType's auto hinting, and rendering without hinting - in three columns. - - -====================================================================== - -CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.2 and 2.3.1 - - I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - - - FreeType returned incorrect kerning information from TrueType - fonts when the bytecode interpreter was enabled. This happened - due to a typo introduced in version 2.3.0. - - - Negative kerning values from PFM files are now reported - correctly (they were read as 16-bit unsigned values from the - file). - - - Fixed a small memory leak when `FT_Init_FreeType' failed for - some reason. - - - The Postscript hinter placed and sized very thin and ghost stems - incorrectly. - - - The TrueType bytecode interpreter has been fixed to get rid of - most of the rare differences seen in comparison to the Windows - font loader. - - - II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - - - The auto-hinter now better deals with serifs and corner cases - (e.g., glyph '9' in Arial at 9pt, 96dpi). It also improves - spacing adjustments and doesn't change widths for non-spacing - glyphs. - - - Many Mac-specific functions are deprecated (but still - available); modern replacements have been provided for them. - See the documentation in file `ftmac.h'. - - -====================================================================== - -CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.1 and 2.3.0 - - I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - - - The TrueType interpreter sometimes returned incorrect horizontal - metrics due to a bug in the handling of the SHZ instruction. - - - A typo in a security check introduced after version 2.2.1 - prevented FreeType to render some glyphs in CFF fonts. - - -====================================================================== - -CHANGES BETWEEN 2.3.0 and 2.2.1 - - I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - - - The PCF font loader is now much more robust while loading - malformed font files. - - - Various memory leaks have been found and fixed. - - - The TrueType name loader now deals properly with some fonts that - encode their names in UTF-16 (the specification was vague, and - the code incorrectly assumed UCS-4). - - - Fixed the TrueType bytecode loader to deal properly with subtle - monochrome/gray issues when scaling the CVT. Some fonts - exhibited bad rendering artifacts otherwise. - - - `FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden' now supports vertical layouts correctly - (it mangled the vertical advance height). - - - Fixed byte endian issues of `ftmac.c' to support Mac OS X on - i386. - - - The PFR font loader no longer erroneously tags font files - without any outlines as FT_FACE_FLAG_SCALABLE. - - - II. NEW API FUNCTIONS - - - `FT_Library_SetLcdFilter' allows you to select a special filter - to be applied to the bitmaps generated by `FT_Render_Glyph' if - one of the FT_RENDER_MODE_LCD and FT_RENDER_MODE_LCD_V modes has - been selected. This filter is used to reduce color fringes; - several settings are available through the FT_LCD_FILTER_XXX - enumeration. - - Its declaration and documentation can be found in file - `include/freetype/ftlcdfil.h' (to be accessed with macro - FT_LCD_FILTER_H). - - *IMPORTANT*: This function returns an error - (FT_Err_Unimplemented_Feature) in default builds of the library - for patent reasons. See below. - - - `FT_Get_Gasp' allows you to query the flags of the TrueType - `gasp' table for a given character pixel size. This is useful - to duplicate the text rendering of MS Windows when the native - bytecode interpreter is enabled (which isn't the default for - other patent reasons). - - Its declaration and documentation can be found in file - `include/freetype/ftgasp.h' (to be accessed with macro - FT_GASP_H). - - - III. IMPORTANT CHANGES - - - The auto-hinter has been tuned a lot to improve its results with - serif fonts, resulting in much better font rendering of many web - pages. - - - The unpatented hinter is now part of the default build of the - library; we have added code to automatically support `tricky' - fonts that need it. - - This means that FreeType should `just work' with certain Asian - fonts, like MingLiU, which cannot properly be loaded without a - bytecode interpreter, but which fortunately do not use any of - the patented bytecode opcodes. We detect these fonts by name, - so please report any font file that doesn't seem to work with - FreeType, and we shall do what we can to support it in a next - release. - - Note that the API hasn't changed, so you can still force - unpatented hinting with a special parameter to `FT_Open_Face' as - well. This might be useful in same cases; for example, a PDF - reader might present a user option to activate it to deal with - certain `tricky' embedded fonts which cannot be clearly - identified. - - If you are a developer for embedded systems, you might want to - *disable* the feature to save code space by undefining - TT_CONFIG_OPTION_UNPATENTED_HINTING in file `ftoption.h'. - - - LCD-optimized rendering is now *disabled* in all default builds - of the library, mainly due to patent issues. For more - information see: - - http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype/2006-09/msg00064.html - - A new configuration macro FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING - has been introduced in `ftoption.h'; manually define it in this - file if you want to re-enable the feature. - - The change only affects the implementation, not the FreeType - API. This means that clients don't need to be modified, because - the library still generates LCD decimated bitmaps, but with the - added constraint that R=G=B on each triplet. - - The displayed result should be equal to normal anti-aliased - rendering. - - Additionally, if FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING is not - defined, the new `FT_Library_SetLcdFilter' function returns the - FT_Err_Unimplemented_Feature error code. - - - Some computation bugs in the TrueType bytecode interpreter were - found, which allow us to get rid of very subtle and rare - differences we had experienced with the Windows renderer. - - - It is now possible to cross-compile the library easily. See the - file `docs/INSTALL.CROSS' for details. - - - The file `src/base/ftmac.c' now contains code for Mac OS X only; - its deprecated function `FT_GetFile_From_Mac_Font_Name' always - returns an error even if the QuickDraw framework is available. - The previous version has been moved to `builds/mac/ftmac.c'. - - Selecting configure option `--with-quickdraw-carbon' makes the - build process use the original `ftmac.c' file instead of the Mac - OS X-only version. - - - IV. MISCELLANEOUS - - - Various performance and memory footprint optimizations have been - performed on the TrueType and CFF font loaders, sometimes with - very drastic benefits (e.g., the TrueType loader is now about - 25% faster; FreeType should use less heap memory under nearly - all conditions). - - - The anti-aliased rasterizer has been optimized and is now 15% to - 25% percent faster than in previous versions, depending on - content. - - - The Type 1 loader has been improved; as an example, it now skips - top-level dictionaries properly. - - - Better support for Mac fonts on POSIX systems, plus compilation - fixes for Mac OS X on ppc64 where `ftmac.c' cannot be built. - - - Configuration without `--with-old-mac-fonts' does not include - `ftmac.c' (this was the behaviour in FreeType version 2.1.10). - - - The TrueTypeGX validator (gxvalid) checks the order of glyph IDs - in the kern table. - - -====================================================================== - -CHANGES BETWEEN 2.2.1 and 2.2 - - I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - - - Various integer overflows have been fixed. - - - PFB fonts with MacOS resource fork weren't handled correctly on - non-MacOS platforms. - - -====================================================================== - -CHANGES BETWEEN 2.2 and 2.1.10 - -(not released officially) - - I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - - - Vertical metrics for SFNT fonts were incorrect sometimes. - - - The FT_HAS_KERNING macro always returned 0. - - - CFF OpenType fonts didn't return correct vertical metrics for - glyphs with outlines. - - - If FreeType was compiled without hinters, all font formats based - on PS outlines weren't scaled correctly. - - - II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - - - Version 2.2 no longer exposes its internals, this is, the header - files located in the `include/freetype/internal' directory of - the source package are not copied anymore by the `make install' - command. Consequently, a number of rogue clients which directly - access FreeType's internal functions and structures won't - compile without modification. - - We provide patches for most of those rogue clients. See the - following page for more information: - - http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/patches/rogue-patches.html - - Note that, as a convenience to our Unix desktop users, version - 2.2 is *binary* compatible with FreeType 2.1.7, which means that - installing this release on an existing distribution shall not - break any working desktop. - - - FreeType's build mechanism has been redesigned. With GNU make - it is now sufficient in most cases to edit two files: - `modules.cfg', to select the library components, and the - configuration file `include/freetype/config/ftoption.h' (which - can be copied to the objects directory). Removing unused module - directories to prevent its compilation and editing - `include/freetype/config/ftmodule.h' is no longer necessary. - - - The LIGHT hinting algorithm produces more pleasant results. - Also, using the FT_LOAD_TARGET_LIGHT flags within FT_Load_Glyph - always forces auto-hinting, as a special exception. This allows - you to experiment with it even if you have enabled the TrueType - bytecode interpreter in your build. - - - The auto hinter now employs a new algorithm for CJK fonts, based - on Akito Hirai's patch. Note that this only works for fonts - with a Unicode charmap at the moment. - - - The following callback function types have changed slightly (by - adding the `const' keyword where appropriate): - - FT_Outline_MoveToFunc - FT_Outline_LineToFunc - FT_Outline_ConicToFunc - FT_Outline_CubicToFunc - FT_SpanFunc - FT_Raster_RenderFunc - - FT_Glyph_TransformFunc - FT_Renderer_RenderFunc - FT_Renderer_TransformFunc - - Note that this doesn't affect binary backward compatibility. - - - On MacOS, new APIs have been added as replacements for legacy - APIs: `FT_New_Face_From_FSRef' for `FT_New_Face_From_FSSpec', - and `FT_GetFile_From_Mac_ATS_Name' for - `FT_GetFile_From_Mac_Name'. Legacy APIs are still available, if - FreeType is built without disabling them. - - - A new API `FT_Select_Size' has been added to select a bitmap - strike by its index. Code using other functions to select - bitmap strikes should be updated to use this function. - - - A new API `FT_Get_SubGlyph_Info' has been added to retrieve - subglyph data. This can be used by rogue clients which used to - access the internal headers to get the corresponding data. - - - In 2.1.10, the behaviour of `FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes' was changed for - BDF/PCF fonts, and only for them. This causes inconsistency. - In this release, we undo the change. The intent of the change - in 2.1.10 is to allow size selection through real dimensions, - which can now be done through `FT_Request_Size'. - - - Some security issues were discovered and fixed in the CFF and - Type 1 loader, causing crashes of FreeType by malformed font - files. - - - III. MISCELLANEOUS - - - The documentation for FT_LOAD_TARGET_XXX and FT_RENDER_MODE_XXX - values now better reflects its usage and differences: One set is - used to specify the hinting algorithm, the other to specify the - pixel rendering mode. - - - `FT_New_Face' and `FT_New_Face_From_FSSpec' in ftmac.c have been - changed to count supported scalable faces (sfnt, LWFN) only, and - to return the number of available faces via face->num_faces. - Unsupported bitmap faces (fbit, NFNT) are ignored. - - - builds/unix/configure has been improved for MacOS X. It now - automatically checks available functions in Carbon library, and - prepare to use newest functions by default. Options to specify - the dependencies of each Carbon APIs (FSSpec, FSRef, old/new - QuickDraw, ATS) are available too. By manual disabling of all - QuickDraw functionality, FreeType can be built without - `deprecated function' warnings on MacOS 10.4.x, but - FT_GetFile_Mac_Name in ftmac.c then is changed to a dummy - function, and returns an `unimplemented' error. For details see - builds/mac/README. - - - SFNT cmap handling has been improved, mainly to run much faster - with CJK fonts. - - - A new function `FT_Get_TrueType_Engine_Type (declared in - `FT_MODULE_H') is provided to determine the status of the - TrueType bytecode interpreter compiled into the library - (patented, unpatented, unimplemented). - - - Vertical metrics of glyphs are synthesized if the font does not - provide such information. You can tell whether the metrics are - synthesized or not by checking the FT_FACE_FLAG_VERTICAL flag of - the face. - - - The demo programs `ftview' and `ftstring' have been rewritten - for better readability. `ftview' has a new switch `-p' to test - FT_New_Memory_Face (instead of FT_New_Face). - - - FreeType now honours bit 1 in the `head' table of TrueType fonts - (meaning `left sidebearing point at x=0'). This helps with some - buggy fonts. - - - Rudimentary support for Adobe's new `SING Glyphlet' format. See - - http://www.adobe.com/products/indesign/sing_gaiji.html - - for more information. - - - The `ftdump' program from the `ft2demos' bundle now shows some - information about charmaps. It also supports a new switch `-v' - to increase verbosity. - - - Better AFM support. This includes track kerning support. - - -====================================================================== - -CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.10 and 2.1.9 - - I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - - - The size comparison for BDF and PCF files could fail sometimes. - - - Some CFF files were still not loaded correctly. Patch from - Derek Noonburg. - - - The stroker still had some serious bugs. - - - Boris Letocha fixed a bug in the TrueType interpreter: The - NPUSHW instruction wasn't skipped correctly in IF clauses. Some - fonts like `Helvetica 75 Bold' failed. - - - Another serious bug in handling TrueType hints caused many - distortions. It has been introduced in version 2.1.8, and it is - highly recommended to upgrade. - - - FreeType didn't properly parse empty Type 1 glyphs. - - - An unbound dynamic buffer growth was fixed in the PFR loader. - - - Several bugs have been fixed in the cache sub-system. - - - FreeType behaved incorrectly when resizing two distinct but very - close character pixel sizes through `FT_Set_Char_Size' (Savannah - bug #12263). - - - The auto-hinter didn't work properly for fonts without a Unicode - charmap -- it even refused to load the glyphs. - - - II. IMPORTANT CHANGES - - - Many fixes have been applied to drastically reduce the amount of - heap memory used by FreeType, especially when using - memory-mapped font files (which is the default on Unix systems - which support them). - - - The auto-hinter has been replaced with a new module, called the - `auto-fitter'. It consumes less memory than its predecessor, - and it is prepared to support non-latin scripts better in next - releases. - - - George Williams contributed code to read kerning data from PFM - files. - - - FreeType now uses the TT_NAME_ID_PREFERRED_FAMILY and - TT_NAME_ID_PREFERRED_SUBFAMILY strings (if available) for - setting family and style in SFNT fonts (patch from Kornfeld - Eliyahu Peter). - - - A new API `FT_Sfnt_Table_Info' (in FT_TRUETYPE_TABLES_H) has - been added to retrieve name and size information of SFNT tables. - - - A new API `FT_OpenType_Validate' (in FT_OPENTYPE_VALIDATE_H) has - been added to validate OpenType tables (BASE, GDEF, GPOS, GSUB, - JSTF). After validation it is no longer necessary to check - for errors in those tables while accessing them. - - Note that this module might be moved to another library in the - future to avoid a tight dependency between FreeType and the - OpenType specification. - - - A new API in FT_BITMAP_H (`FT_Bitmap_New', `FT_Bitmap_Convert', - `FT_Bitmap_Copy', `FT_Bitmap_Embolden', `FT_Bitmap_Done') has - been added. Its use is to convert an FT_Bitmap structure in - 1bpp, 2bpp, 4bpp, or 8bpp format into another 8bpp FT_Bitmap, - probably using a different pitch, and to further manipulate it. - - - A new API `FT_Outline_Embolden' (in FT_OUTLINE_H) gives finer - control how outlines are embolded. - - - `FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden' (in FT_SYNTHESIS_H) now handles bitmaps - also (code contributed by Chia I Wu). Note that this function - is still experimental and may be replaced with a better API. - - - The method how BDF and PCF bitmap fonts are accessed has been - refined. Formerly, FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes and FT_Set_Char_Size - were synonyms in FreeType's BDF and PCF interface. This has - changed now. FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes should be used to select the - actual font dimensions (the `strike', which is the sum of the - `FONT_ASCENT' and `FONT_DESCENT' properties), while - FT_Set_Char_Size selects the `nominal' size (the `PIXELSIZE' - property). In both functions, the width parameter is ignored. - - - III. MISCELLANEOUS - - - The BDF driver no longer converts all returned bitmaps with a - depth of 2bpp or 4bpp to a depth of 8bpp. The documentation has - not mentioned this explicitly, but implementors might have - relied on this after looking into the source files. - - - A new option `--ftversion' has been added to freetype-config to - return the FreeType version. - - - The memory debugger has been updated to dump allocation - statistics on all allocation sources in the library. This is - useful to spot greedy allocations when loading and processing - fonts. - - - We removed a huge array of constant pointers to constant strings - in the `psnames' module. The problem was that compilations in - PIC mode (i.e., when generating a Unix shared object/dll) put - the array into the non-shared writable section of the library - since absolute pointers are not relocatable by nature. - - This reduces the memory consumption by approximately 16KByte per - process linked to FreeType. We now also store the array in a - compressed form (as a trie) which saves about 20KByte of code as - well. - - - Kirill Smelkov provided patches to make src/raster/ftraster.c - compile stand-alone again. - - -====================================================================== - -CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.9 and 2.1.8 - - I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES - - - The function `FT_Get_CharMap_Index' was only declared, without - any real code. For consistency, it has been renamed to - `FT_Get_Charmap_Index'. (This function is needed to implement - cmap caches.) - - - `FT_Outline_Get_BBox' sometimes returned incorrect values for - conic outlines (e.g., for TrueType fonts). - - - Handling of `bhed' table has been fixed. - - - The TrueType driver with enabled byte code interpreter sometimes - returned artifacts due to incorrect rounding. 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. - - - The stroker failed for closed outlines and single points. - - - 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. - - - Loading TrueType and Type 1 fonts has been made much faster. - - - The stroker is no longer experimental (but the cache subsystem - still is). - - - III. MISCELLANEOUS - - - A new documentation file `formats.txt' describes various font - formats supported (and not supported) by FreeType. - - -====================================================================== - -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 simplified. 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. - - -====================================================================== - -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. - - -====================================================================== - -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 - #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). - - -====================================================================== - -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). - - -====================================================================== - -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. - - -====================================================================== - -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 suppressed. 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= - 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 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. - - -====================================================================== - -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. - - -====================================================================== - -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 the results 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. - - -====================================================================== - -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__ 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__ 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. - - -====================================================================== - -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'. - - -====================================================================== - -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. - - -====================================================================== - -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 - make - make install - - -====================================================================== - -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 backward - 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 - , 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. - - -====================================================================== - -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 - ) 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'. - - -====================================================================== - -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 loader now ensures that the table is sorted - (since some problem fonts do not meet this requirement). - - -======================================================================= - -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 alignment 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 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.). - - -====================================================================== - -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 - #include - #include - #include - - Now you should use: - - #include - #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 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 - - -====================================================================== - -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 linearVertAdvance 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 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 and not - part of anymore. - * 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 - 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. - * now include , - 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 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 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 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 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 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: - - - - simple FreeType types, without the API - - - definition of memory-management macros - - - added the `DSIG' (OpenType Digital Signature) tag to - - - - 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 - , as it was missing from the public header - (the implementation was already in `ftobjs.c'). - - - the file 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 - #include - - 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 - #include - - 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/ 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/'. - - - 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_' 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 synthesize 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 embed 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 lighten the font - driver's code). - - -====================================================================== - -OLD MESSAGE - -This file summarizes the changes that occurred 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, its `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 whatever 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//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//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); - } - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- - -Copyright 2000-2011 by -David Turner, Robert Wilhelm, and Werner Lemberg. - -This file is part of the FreeType project, and may only be used, -modified, and distributed under the terms of the FreeType project -license, LICENSE.TXT. By continuing to use, modify, or distribute this -file you indicate that you have read the license and understand and -accept it fully. - - -Local Variables: -version-control: never -coding: utf-8 -End: - ---- end of CHANGES ---