<div dir="ltr"> :) <div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Werner LEMBERG <<a href="mailto:wl@gnu.org">wl@gnu.org</a>> Date: 11 February 2014 02:58 Subject: ttfautohint 1.00rc1 has been released To: <a href="mailto:freetype-announce@nongnu.org">freetype-announce@nongnu.org</a>, <a href="mailto:freetype@nongnu.org">freetype@nongnu.org</a>, <a href="mailto:freetype-devel@nongnu.org">freetype-devel@nongnu.org</a> A first release candidate of ttfautohint 1.00 has been released. The source tarball, statically-linked binaries for Win32 (TTY and GUI) and OS X (TTY only) are available from <a href="http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/" target="_blank">http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/</a> or <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/ttfautohint/1.00rc1" target="_blank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/ttfautohint/1.00rc1</a> Instructions to build the GUI version on OS X can be found at <a href="http://freetype.org/ttfautohint/osx.html" target="_blank">http://freetype.org/ttfautohint/osx.html</a> Enjoy! Werner PS: Downloads from <a href="http://savannah.nongnu.org" target="_blank">savannah.nongnu.org</a> 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 <a href="http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/" target="_blank">http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/</a> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- <a href="http://freetype.org/ttfautohint" target="_blank">http://freetype.org/ttfautohint</a> 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 `lib/ttfautohint.h' for a detailed description. Note that the library itself won't get installed currently. A command-line interface to the library is the `ttfautohint' program; after compilation and installation, say ttfautohint --help for usage information, or say man ttfautohint to read its manual page. A GUI to the library is `ttfautohintGUI'; it uses the Qt4 framework. The compilation of this application can be disabled with the `--without-qt' configuration option. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New in 1.00rc1: * OpenType feature support. ttfautohint now uses the HarfBuzz library to analyze data from the `GSUB' table. This allows the hinting of glyphs that don't have an entry in a font's `cmap' table, for example superscripts or small caps. Related to this, the new option `--default-script' controls the default (fallback) script used for OpenType features. * More than a single standard character is used. For example, the `latin' script uses characters `o', `O', and digit `0'. This improves the hinting of fonts (and features) that have only a partial coverage of a script's character repertoire. * Much better GDI ClearType hinting in the range 30-80ppem (approx.), avoiding overly flat tops and bottoms of round glyphs. * Better handling of non-square pixels (this is, horizontal and vertical resolutions differ) in the created TrueType bytecode. </div> -- Cheers Dave </div>