Freetype
FreeType 2 is a high-quality and portable font engine that is capable of supporting several font formats (be they bitmapped or scalable) through a simple and uniform interface. Its design is modular and allows independent "font driver" modules to be added, even at runtime, to support additional formats. It also provides a high-quality anti-aliasing renderer, an innovative auto-hinting engine, and support for the following font formats: TrueType Type1, CID-Type 1, Multiple Masters Type 1 OpenType/CFF, pure CFF, and CEF Windows FNT/FON.
| Tags | Desktop Environment fonts |
|---|---|
| Licenses | GPL |
Recent releases
- 27 Sep 2007 14:26
Changes: This is a bugfix release for the 2.3 series which, among other small improvements, makes FreeType much more robust in handling invalid and corrupted font files. All users should upgrade.
- 06 Apr 2005 19:18
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- 24 Feb 2004 14:20
Changes: This release contains many important bugfixes and changes, including API changes. The optional unpatented hinting system for TrueType is added. It is updated to the latest libtool version and includes fixes for the build and install system.
- 24 Feb 2004 14:14
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- 15 Apr 2003 17:37
Changes: This release contains several bugfixes and feature enhancements.
- All comments
Recent commentsfreetype building
I did not see this in the docs... make fails if
there are spaces in the path. e.g. "some folder"
needs to be "some_folder"
Not really UNIX friendly
Unfortunatly the instructions give a very
misleading route to compiling and installing
this library.
It's better off using its own compiler
control called jam which also has its problems
and dosen't really compile (catch 22) on
UNIX and dosen't support installing.
It also has issues with the devel headers
that don't work out right when depending on
their internal prototypes. None of the
author's e-mail addresses were valid for
contact either.
I would recomend this untill it gets ported
for UNIX formally.