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Free and open source software font engine for your Mac FreeType is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable, and portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images). FreeType can be used in display servers, font conversion tools, graphics libraries, text image generation tools, and many other products as well.Note that FreeType is a font service and doesn't provide APIs to perform higher-level features like text layout or graphics processing (e.g., colored text rendering, ‘hollowing’, etc.). However, it greatly simplifies these tasks by providing a simple, easy to use, and uniform interface to access the content of font files.By default, FreeType supports the following font formats.· TrueType fonts (and collections)· Type 1 fonts· CID-keyed Type 1 fonts· CFF fonts· OpenType fonts (both TrueType and CFF variants)· SFNT-based bitmap fonts· X11 PCF fonts· Windows FNT fonts· BDF fonts (including anti-aliased ones)· PFR fonts· Type 42 fonts (limited support)NOTE: Freetype is licensed under the terms of the BSD License and GPL License. Here are some key features of "FreeType": · FreeType provides a simple and easy-to-use API to access font content in a uniform way, independently of the file format. Additionally, some format-specific APIs can be used to access special data in the font file. · Unlike most comparable libraries, FreeType supports scalable font formats like TrueType or Type 1 natively and can return the outline data (and control instructions/hints) to client applications. · The design of FreeType is based on modules that can be either linked statically to the library at compile time, or loaded on demand at runtime. Modules are used to support specific font formats, or even new glyph image formats! · FreeType was written with embedded systems in mind. This means that it doesn't use static writable data (i.e., it can be run from ROM directly), and that client applications can provide their own memory manager and I/O stream implementation. · The FreeType core API provides simple functions to access advanced information like glyph names or kerning data. · A full-featured and efficient TrueType bytecode interpreter. The engine is able to produce excellent output at small point sizes. This component has been extremely difficult to get right, due to the ambiguous and misleading TrueType specification. However, we now match Windows and Mac qualities. · For those who don't need or want to use the bytecode interpreter for TrueType fonts, we developed our own automatic hinter module. It is also used by other scalable formats. · FreeType provides information that is often not available from other similar font engines, like kerning distances, glyph names, vertical metrics, etc. Requirements: · C Compiler What's New in This Release: · Version 2.3.10 broke PCF support.

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