

                             Announcing


                      F R E E T Y P E    1 . 4


                   The FREE TrueType Font Engine


       Copyright (C) 1996-2000 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.


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  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 THE USA,
  JAPAN,  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

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  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 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

