[OpenFontLibrary] Fwd: [ft-devel] ttfautohint 0.5 has been released

[vernon adams]

Peter, Yes. Ubuntu 10.04 through to 11.10.
You can safely install Freetype 2.4.5+ manually into Ubuntu. Download the freetype 2.4.5 source and run './configure', 'make', 'sudo make install'.  In my experience this was very simple & in no way broke ubuntu.

-vern


On 13 Nov 2011, at 22:14, Peter Baker wrote:

> Have any Linux users on this list gotten ttfautohint to work? And if
> so, what distro are you using? ttfautohint requires Freetype 2.4.5,
> but Ubuntu is still running 2.4.4 and is apparently not planning to
> upgrade for another year or so (sheesh).
> 
> Alternatively, does anyone know if it's possible (or advisable) to
> have two versions of freetype running on the same system?
> 
> Peter
> 
> On Sun, Nov 6, 2011 at 4:52 PM, Dave Crossland <dave at lab6.com> wrote:
>> :-)
>> 
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Werner LEMBERG <wl at gnu.org>
>> Date: 6 November 2011 01:04
>> Subject: [ft-devel] ttfautohint 0.5 has been released
>> 
>> ttfautohint 0.5 has been released.  This time, rendering problems on iOS
>> should really be gone...
>> 
>> It is available from
>> 
>>    http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/
>> 
>> or
>> 
>>    http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/ttfautohint
>> 
>> Enjoy!
>> 
>> 
>>   Werner
>> 
>> 
>> PS: Downloads from savannah.nongnu.org will redirect to your nearest
>>    mirror site.  Files on mirrors may be subject to a replication
>>    delay of up to 24 hours.  In case of problems use
>>    http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/
>> 
>> 
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> 
>> This project provides a library which takes a TrueType font as the input,
>> remove its bytecode instructions (if any), and return a new font where all
>> glyphs are bytecode hinted using the information given by FreeType's
>> autohinting module.  The idea is to provide the excellent quality of the
>> autohinter on platforms which don't use FreeType.
>> 
>> The library has a single API function, `TTF_autohint'; see
>> `src/ttfautohint.h' for a detailed description.  Note that the library
>> itself won't get installed currently.
>> 
>> A simple command-line interface to the library is the demo program
>> `ttfautohint'; after compilation and installation, say
>> 
>>  ttfautohint --help
>> 
>> for usage information, or say
>> 
>>  man ttfautohint
>> 
>> to read its manual page.
>> 
>> 
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 
>> 
>> New in 0.5:
>> 
>> * Rendering on iOS is now expected to give good results.
>> 
>> * No bad rendering at very large PPEM values.
>> 
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