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<h1><a href="index.html">FreeType</a></h1>
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<p class="large">FreeType is a freely available software
library to render fonts.</p>
<p>It is written in C, designed to be small, efficient,
highly customizable, and portable while capable of
producing high-quality output (glyph images) of most
vector and bitmap font formats.</p>
<p>Some products which use FreeType for rendering fonts on
screen or on paper, either exclusively or partially:</p>
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<li><a href="http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html">GNU/Linux</a> and
other free Unix operating system derivates like
<a href="http://www.freebsd.org/">FreeBSD</a>
or <a href="http://www.netbsd.org/">NetBSD</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.apple.com/ios/">iOS</a>, Apple's
mobile operating system for iPhones and iPads</li>
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Google's operating system for smartphones and tablet
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Google's operating system for laptop
computers</li>
<li><a href="http://www.ghostscript.com/">Ghostscript</a>,
a PostScript interpreter used in many printers</li>
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<p>Counting the above products only, you get more than a
<em>billion</em> devices which contain FreeType.</p>
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<h2>News & Updates</h2>
<h4>Pledgie Campaign Was Successful!</h4>
<div class="date">2013-06-25</div>
<p>Thanks to a very generous donation by Pierre Arnaud
from <a href="http://www.epsitec.ch">Epsitec</a>, the
pledgie campaign for FreeType has reached its goal. I want
to say thank you again to all donors! Of course, noone
stops you from further donating to the campaign :-)</p>
<p>After integration of Adobe's CFF module and Google's
color emoji support, I will use the next months to work on
the remaining issues which I've promised to implement. Stay
tuned!</p>
<h4>FreeType 2.5</h4>
<div class="date">2013-06-19</div>
<p>FreeType 2.5 has been released. A major new feature is
support for color embedded bitmaps (eg. color emoji),
contributed by Behdad Esfahbod on behalf of Google.
Additionally, Adobe's CFF engine is now the default, which
makes a good reason to change from the 2.4.x to the 2.5.x
series.</p>
<p>On the technical side, the property API to access
FreeType module parameters (<tt>FT_Property_Set</tt>
and <tt>FT_Property_Get</tt>) is now declared as stable.</p>
<p>As usual,
see <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.5.0/">this
file</a> for the complete release notes which give more
details. And we have again blog entries
from <a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2013/06/adobe-cff-font-rasterizer-accepted-by-freetype.html">Adobe</a>
and <a href="http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2013/06/youve-got-cff.html">Google</a>.</p>
<p>[Please download the 2.5.0.1 bundle of the FreeType
library which fixes a packaging error.]</p>
<h4>FreeType 2.4.12</h4>
<div class="date">2013-05-08</div>
<p>FreeType 2.4.12 has been released. A major new feature
is a new parsing and hinting engine for CFF fonts,
contributed by Adobe in collaboration with Google. It was
my job the last few months to fully adapt the code to
FreeType, and we are very pleased with the results. You
might also read the blog entries from
<a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2013/05/adobe-contributes-cff-rasterizer-to-freetype.html">Adobe</a>
and <a href="http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2013/05/got-cff.html">Google</a>.</p>
<p>In connection with the new CFF engine, the demo programs,
especially <tt>ftview</tt> and <tt>ftdiff</tt>, have been
improved a lot; as usual, more details on the changes can
be found in
the <a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.4.12/">release
notes</a>.</p>
<p>I also want to say a big thank you to all the people who
have already donated to the campaign! In particular I
want to thank Adobe which has contributed to half the
total pledgie amount.</p>
<h4>Pledgie Campaign for Development and Maintainance</h4>
<div class="date">2012-12-20</div>
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<p>I've started a pledgie campaign for FreeType development
and maintainance. While no single company employs me
(Werner Lemberg) directly to work on it, I am constantly
improving it, adding new features, relentlessly driving up
quality, and responding to other developers’ requests.</p>
<p>If you or your company is using FreeType in your product,
and you care about continuing support and further
development, please contribute to my funding effort so I
can continue to bring the best text rendering to your
devices!</p>
<p>Besides user support and fixing bugs, your money will
help me implement
the <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/REC-WOFF-20121213/">WOFF</a>
font format and extending FreeType's auto-hinter to
support more scripts, together with other issues as
outlined in
the <a href="http://pledgie.com/campaigns/18808">roadmap</a>.</p>
<h4>FreeType 2.4.11</h4>
<div class="date">2012-12-20</div>
<p>FreeType 2.4.11 has been released. This is partly a
security release (for users of fonts in BDF format), but
it also contains important improvements:</p>
<ul>
<li>experimental support for TrueType subpixel hinting
support, as documented in
Microsoft's <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartype/truetypecleartype.aspx">whitepaper</a></li>
<li>support for OpenType Collections</li>
</ul>
<p>See <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.4.11/">this
file</a> for the complete release notes which give more
details.</p>
<h4>Redesigned Homepage</h4>
<div class="date">2012-12-20</div>
<p>The website has been redesigned, giving it a more recent
look to enhance readability and to make navigation easier.
Note that only the two topmost levels have been changed
yet; the remaining pages will follow.</p>
<h4>FreeType 2.4.10</h4>
<div class="date">2012-06-15</div>
<p>FreeType 2.4.10 has been released. This is minor
release, fixing mainly a problem for GhostScript.
See <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.4.10/">this
file</a> for the release notes which give more
details.</p>
<h4>FreeType 2.4.9</h4>
<div class="date">2012-03-08</div>
<p>FreeType 2.4.9 has been released. This is mainly a
security release, fixing many potential vulnerabilities.
All users should upgrade.
See <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.4.9/">this
file</a> for the release notes which give more
details.</p>
<h4>FreeType 2.4.8</h4>
<div class="date">2011-11-15</div>
<p>FreeType 2.4.8 has been released. This is a security
release, also providing a new API for accessing dictionary
data in Type 1 fonts. All users should upgrade.
See <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.4.8/">this
file</a> for the release notes which give more
details.</p>
<h4>FreeType 2.4.7</h4>
<div class="date">2011-10-18</div>
<p>FreeType 2.4.7 has been released. This is a security
release. All users should upgrade.
See <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.4.7/">this
file</a> for the release notes which give more
details.</p>
<h4>FreeType 2.4.6</h4>
<div class="date">2011-07-29</div>
<p>FreeType 2.4.6 has been released. This is a security
release. All users should upgrade.
See <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.4.6/">this
file</a> for the release notes which give more
details.</p>
<h4>FreeType 2.4.5</h4>
<div class="date">2011-06-24</div>
<p>FreeType 2.4.5 has been released. This is a maintainance
release. All users should upgrade, especially if you
still experience rendering degradations with version
2.4.4.
See <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/freetype2/2.4.5/">this
file</a> for the release notes which give more
details.</p>
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<h2>Links</h2>
<p>The links collected in this section are useful if you
want to put FreeType into a larger frame of
understanding.</p>
<h3>Reference Sites</h3>
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<p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/typography/">Microsoft
Typography</a> – Microsoft's OpenType
specification and developing tools<br>
<a href="http://developer.apple.com/fonts/">Apple
Fonts</a> – Apple's TrueType specification and
other things<br>
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/type.html">Adobe
Typography</a> – PostScript fonts specifications
and developing tools</p>
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<p>Detailed information on the font formats supported by
FreeType can be found in the
file <a href="http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype/freetype2.git/tree/docs/formats.txt"
type="text/plain"><tt>formats.txt</tt></a> which is part
of the FreeType source code bundle.</p>
<h3>Font Tools</h3>
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<p><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/fonttools/">TTX</a>
– an OpenType assembler and disassembler<br>
<a href="http://fontforge.org">FontForge</a> –
a free, powerful graphical font editor, including a
TrueType instructions debugger (using FreeType)<br>
<a href="http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~slam/fonts/truetypeviewer.html">TrueTypeViewer</a>
– a free, powerful OpenType viewing tool with a
TrueType instructions debugger (<em>not</em> using
FreeType)<br>
<a href="ttfautohint/index.html">ttfautohint</a> –
a tool to auto-hint TrueType fonts, based on FreeType's
auto-hinting engine (still under development)</p>
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<h3>Font Shaping and Layout Engines</h3>
<p>These libraries work on top of font rendering libraries
like FreeType to provide sophisticated text (string)
layout, being able to handle OpenType features in
particular. All of them
use <a href="http://www.unicode.org">Unicode</a> for font
and text encoding.</p>
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<p><a href="http://www.pango.org">Pango</a> – the
layout library used
by <a href="http://www.gnome.org">Gnome</a>'s <a href="http://www.gtk.org">GTK+</a>
framework<br>
<a href="http://www.icu-project.org">ICU</a> – a
layout library originally developed by IBM, used for
example in <a href="http://tug.org/xetex/">XeTeX</a>, an
internationalized successor
of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX">TeX</a><br>
<a href="http://harfbuzz.org">HarfBuzz</a> – a
text shaping library (still under heavy development),
originally based on FreeType 1's OpenType layout
support</p>
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<h3>Other Font-related Libraries</h3>
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<p><a href="http://www.t1lib.org/">T1Lib</a> – a
Type 1 fonts library (no longer under
development)<br>
<a href="http://www-masu.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/~kakugawa/VFlib/">VFLib</a>
– a library especially for accessing TeX fonts (no
longer under development)</p>
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