Announcing F R E E T Y P E 1 . 4 . 9 The FREE TrueType Font Engine Copyright (C) 1996-2001 The FreeType Development Team The FreeType engine is a free and portable TrueType font rendering engine, available in ANSI C and Pascal source code. It has been developed to provide TrueType support to a great variety of platforms and environments. Notice that FreeType is a *library*. It is *not* a font server for your preferred environment, even though it has been designed to be the basis of many high-level libraries, tools and font servers. DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER WE HAVE RECENTLY DISCOVERED THAT APPLE OWNS SEVERAL PATENTS RELATED TO THE RENDERING OF TRUETYPE FONTS. THIS COULD MEAN THAT THE FREE USE OF THE FREETYPE LIBRARY MIGHT BE ILLEGAL IN FRANCE, UK, USA, AND POSSIBLY OTHER COUNTRIES. FOR MORE INFORMATION, WE STRONGLY ADVISE YOU TO GO TO THE FREETYPE WEB SITE AT: http://www.freetype.org/patents.html DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER It's a clean-room implementation that is not derived from the original TrueType engine developed by Apple and Microsoft, though it matches it regarding rendering quality. To our knowledge, it's the only royalty-free complete TrueType engine available. Some news: . version 1.4.9 fixes minor bugs found in 1.3.1. . full support for GSUB and GPOS tables in OpenType fonts. . enhanced ftdump/ftstrtto test programs using GPOS support. . ftstrpnm supports coloured text. . TT_Char_Index() now uses a TT_ULong for char codes. . support files for BeOS. . the Pascal version is no longer part of the package but is available separately. . uses a new version of libtool, solving some compilation problems with the test programs on some platforms like Solaris. For more information, please visit the freetype web site at: http://www.freetype.org