Free freetype2 software for linux

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). FreeType 2 project can be used in graphics libraries, display servers, font conversion tools, text image generation tools, and many other products as well.
Note that FreeType 2 is a font service and doesnt 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.
FreeType 2 is released under two open-source licenses: our own BSD-like FreeType License and the GPL. It can thus be used by any kind of projects, be they proprietary or not.
Main features:
- FreeType 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 was written with embedded systems in mind. This means that it doesnt use static writable data (i.e. it can be run from ROM directly), that client applications can provide their own memory manager and i/o stream implementation.
- The latter allows you to easily read from ROM-based, compressed or remote font files with the same API. Several stream implementations can be used concurrently with a single FreeType 2 instance.
- You can also reduce the size of the FreeType 2 code by only compiling the modules you need for your embedded project/environment.
- By default, FreeType 2 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
- Type42 fonts (limited support)
- From a given glyph outline, FreeType 2 is capable of producing a high-quality monochrome bitmap, or anti-aliased pixmap, using 256 levels of "gray". This is much better than the 5 levels used by Windows 9x/98/NT/2000 or FreeType 1.
- FreeType 2 supports all the character mappings defined by the TrueType and OpenType specification. It is also capable of automatically synthetizing a Unicode charmap from Type 1 fonts, which puts an end to the painful "encoding translation" headache common with this format (of course, original encodings are also available in the case where you need them..).
- The FreeType 2 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 misleadings TrueType specifications. However, we now match Windows and Mac qualities. Please read our Patents page to learn more about some issues when using the interpreter.
- For those who dont 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 2 provides information that is often not available from other similar font engines, like kerning distances, glyph names, vertical metrics, etc..
- Due to its modular design, its easy to enhance the library to provide additional format-specific information through optional APIs (as an example, an optional API is provided to retrieve SFNT tables from TrueType and OpenType fonts).
- FreeType 2 provides its own caching subsystem since release 2.0.1. It can be used to cache either face instances or glyph images efficiently.

Apache Toolbox provides a means to easily compile Apache with SSL, PHP (v4 or v3), MySQL, APC (Alternative PHP Cache), mod_auth_nds, mod_dynvhost, WebDAV, mod_fastcgi, mod_gzip, mod_layout, mod_throttle, mod_accessref, mod_auth_sys, mod_bandwidth, mod_auth_ldap, mod_roaming, mod_perl, Jakarta, OpenLDAP, mod_dtcl, mod_python, mod_frontpage, mod_relocate, mod_backhand, mod_trigger, mod_watch, mod_filter, libcurl for PHP, MING for PHP, mod_auth_mysql, mod_auth_samba, mod_index_rss, mod_random [by Brian Aker], mod_allowdev, mod_auth_cookie, mod_auth_cookie_file, mod_auth_external, mod_auth_inst, mod_auth_system, mod_eaccess, mod_bandwidth, mod_cgisock, mod_urlcount, mod_disallow_id, mod_peephole, mod_put, mod_qs2ssi, mod_session, mod_cvs, mod_macro, mod_random, mod_ip_forwarding, mod_ticket, mod_monitor, jakarta-tomcat, jakarta-ant, jakarta-servletapi, Java Development Kit, Java API for XML Parsing, Java Secure Sockets Extension, mod_pcgi2, apache IPv6 patch, and the latest gd libraries with PNG/JPEG/Freetype2/Zlib support.

You can also hack apaches internal settings so it will report a differnet version of httpd all together, improve your security.

Includes support for mod_access, mod_asis, mod_auth_db, mod_autoindex, mod_digest, mod_example, mod_imap, mod_log_agent, mod_mime, mod_negotiation, mod_setenvif, mod_status, mod_usertrack, mod_actions, mod_auth, mod_auth_dbm, mod_cern_meta, mod_dir, mod_expires, mod_include, mod_log_config, mod_mime_magic, mod_proxy, mod_unique_id, mod_vhost_alias, mod_alias, mod_auth_anon, mod_auth_digest, mod_cgi, mod_env, mod_headers, mod_info, mod_log_referer, mod_mmap_static, mod_rewrite, and mod_speling, which come default with apache.

It is fully customizable and menu driven. Everything is compiled from source. It checks for RPMs that might cause problems and uses wget to automatically download the source if its missing.

FooBillard is a free OpenGL-billard game for Linux with realistic physics, AI-player and many gametypes like pool carambol or snooker. Why foo? Well, actually I had this logo (F.B.-Florian Berger) and then foo sounds a bit like pool (Somehow I wasnt quite attracted by the name FoolBillard) The main physics is quite mature but not yet perfect. If you are a billard-pro and youre missing some physics, please tell me. Cause Ive implemented it like I think it should work, which might differ from reality.
There are two supported implementations concerning the interface. A GLUT and an SDL implementation. So you need to have either GLUT or SDL installed on your system Furthermore libpng has to be installed for loading the textures and freetype2 is required for font rendering.
Main features:
- wood paneled table with gold covers and gold diamonds
- reflections on balls
- shadow pixmaps
- detail switching of balls according to distance
- zoom in/out - hold right mousebutton
- FOV +/- - hold right mousebutton + CTRL
- rotate - hold left mousebutton
- animated queue
- 8ball, 9ball, snooker, carambol
- simple AI-Player
- strength adjustment
- eccentic hit adjustment (button2-Shift)
- red/green 3D stereo view !!!
- sound
- network play
- free view mode

Xpdf-intl is a patched version of Xpdf with support for localization using gettext. Xpdf is a viewer for Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
That means: you could use xpdf in your language.
Currently there are several translations in progress: Dutch, French, Spanish, Turkish, etc.
Feel free to support and help this by translating xpdf into your language!
Installation:
XPDF-intl must be compiled with an ANSI C++ compiler like gcc.
Those following librairies are required:
- motif or lesstif
- freetype 2
On most systems the commands below will do the job:
./configure
--prefix=/usr
--with-freetype2-includes=/usr/include/freetype2/
make
make install
Take a look on INSTALL file to get more details. Main program is "xpdf".
Enhancements:
- A patch was applied to fix a security hole, and some translations have been added.

svgl is a library that displays SVG documents using OpenGL, taking advantage of the GPU.

Rendering:

A lot of svg 1.0 features are implemented: simples shapes, path, gradient, clipping, viewBox, opacity, < use >, animations etc.

Fonts are handled by the glft companion library, which allows for autoscaling according to the current scale, and automatic choice between vectorized glyphs or textures based on freetype2 rendering.

Texturized fonts are antialiased by freetype, while every other drawings are FSAA by OpenGL.

Next step is optimization by using various techniques like display list, culling, and cache rendering into textures.

Interacting:

Picking is provided under 2 forms:

- returns the deepest SVG element (leaf) corresponding to the shape designated by the user
- returns the stack of SVG elements under the cursor, so that UI techniques like toolglasses (see screenshot) is easily implemented

PanAndZoom done right (according to me...) : since its fast and usable, we can really use it in an interface

Tansform so-called "consolidation" (concatenation of transform matrices) allows easy implementation of scale-independant DnD.

Programming:

We try to make the api as simple as possible, for creating, manipulating, changing style, loading etc.

See demos/tutorial to see how to code with svgl.

A (pre-alpha) python extension allows for rapid application development and easy integration in wxPython.