FreeType - A TrueType engine

[Guido Flohr <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>]

Hi!

Ever heard of FreeType?  FreeType is a truetype font engine,
the current version is 1.1.

FreeType performs high-quality rendering of true type fonts and
is platform-independent.  After some adaptions in the configuration
the entire library compiles out of the box under MiNT.

Along with FreeType come a couple of test programs that are
of course platform-specific.  I've written a driver for the
AES/VDI but I'm not sure if everything works with every thinkable
graphics system (i.e. resolution and color depth).

So, if you're interested in testing and won't blame me if the
programs freeze or crash your system please let me know.  One
restriction:  I cannot provide you any truetype fonts as the
ones I have are all copyrighted.  But maybe you have a Windows
box...

I think FreeType could be particularly interesting for those
guys that are working on that free VDI.  FreeType
should be perfect for their needs because it offers a low-level
API, the rendering quality is excellent, it is safe (broken
truetype fonts are potentially dangerous because they contain
executables) and it is free.  It's copying policy is very
similar to BSD, more liberal than the GNU LGPL.

Ciao

Guido
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