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FreeType - Font engine

FreeType 2 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). It can be used in graphics libraries, display servers, font conversion tools, and text image generation tools.

FreeType 2 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 simplifies these tasks by providing a simple, easy to use and uniform interface to access the content of font files.

Obtaining

Web page http://freetype.sourceforge.net/
Source tarball http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/freetype/freetype-2.1.7.tar.gz
Version 2.1.7 (stable) released on 2004-02-24

Licensed under GPL or FreeType License.

This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

Developer reference available from http://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetype2/documentation.html; user tutorial available from http://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetype2/docs/tutorial/step1.html and http://freetype.sourceforge.net/freetype2/docs/tutorial/step2.html

Support contacts

Help List	<[email protected]>
Developer List	<[email protected]>
Bug Database	http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=3157&atid=103157

Project contacts

Maintainers	Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]>
Developers	David Turner <[email protected]> Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> Robert Wilhelm <[email protected]>

Related information

Source repository	http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=3157
Interfaces	X Window System
Source languages	C

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <[email protected]> on 2001-08-08
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <[email protected]>

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