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

[Peter Baker]

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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