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

[Khaled Hosny]

I use the script posted here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2011-06/msg00011.html

It'll get git versions of ttfautohint and freetype and build statically
linked binary, so no messing with system-wide libraries.

HTH

On Sun, Nov 13, 2011 at 05:14:06PM -0500, 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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