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FreeType 1.3.1

FreeType 1.3.1


FreeType is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable and portable. more>>
FreeType 1 is a portable and highly efficient TrueType rendering engine, that is now successfully used to bring TrueType support to a very large variety of platforms and environments, be they font servers, graphics libraries or embedded systems.
FreeType 1 is a clean-room implementation that is not derived from the original TrueType engine developed by Apple and Microsoft. It has been created with the sole help of the published TrueType specifications, which to our great surprise (and pain) turned out to be extremely poor and misleading in critical areas. Much hard work has been undertaken to solve ambiguities. The end result is a portable and fast renderer.
Note that FreeType 1 is a library. It is not a font server for your favorite platform, even though it was designed to be used in many of them. Note also that it is not a complete text-rendering library. Its purpose is simply to open and manage font files, as well as load, hint and render individual glyphs efficiently. You can also see it as a "TrueType driver" for a higher-level library, though rendering text with it is easy, as demonstrated by the test programs.
Its quality matches these of Windows and the Macintosh, while its memory foot-print and code size (between 48 and 55 kByte of Intel code) remain modest. A thing that cannot be said for most other commercial engines available.
Main features:
- Supports TrueType files (TTF) and collections (TTC). Doesnt support GX or OpenType fonts, but these can be opened and used as normal TTF files by the library. (With the exception of OTF OpenType fonts which really embed a Type 1 font file within a TrueType storage).
- Modular design: Memory and I/O operations can be very easily tailored to your own platform/system (the standard release comes with ANSI libc support).
- Font smoothing, a.k.a. gray-scaling. Just like Win95, the renderer only smoothes the parts of a glyph which need it (i.e., diagonals and curves).
- Support for all character mappings defined in the TrueType specification. The client application can select whichever pleases it.
- 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.
- Written in portable ANSI C (and Pascal, for older FreeType 1 versions). Should compile well on all kinds of systems (tested on 16, 32 and 64 bits processors). With full source code available.
- Open Source License. FreeType can be included in all kinds of commercial systems and software.
- Provides test programs to "show-off" the library, runnable on the following platforms: Dos, Unix, OS/2, Win95, and Amiga. Any porters for other systems are welcome and should contact the developers team.
- Support for extensions. These are separately linkable units which can be used to enhance the engines functionalities without recompiling it. They can be written to access additional TrueType tables, or even GX and/or OpenType ones (the latter is already available).
- Kerning support: The TrueType kerning data is available through one of the standard extensions that comes in this release. However, it is up to the application to "interpret" the data, as many different `formats are supported.
- Support for vertical metrics. The engine is able to provide client applications with vertical glyph metrics if they are found in font files (usually in CJKV fonts). If not present, it synthetizes metrics from the horizontal values, ascender, and descender metrics. This means that it is possible to render vertical text correctly.
- Standard extensions are provided to access and load the glyph names in the Postscript table.
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FreeType2 2.3.5

FreeType2 2.3.5


FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable and portable. more>>
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.
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mftrace 1.1.17

mftrace 1.1.17


mftrace is a small Python program that lets you trace a TeX bitmap font into a PFA or PFB font. more>>
mftrace is a small Python program that lets you trace a TeX bitmap font into a PFA or PFB font (A PostScript Type1 Scalable Font) or TTF (TrueType) font.

Scalable fonts offer many advantages over bitmaps, as they allow documents to render correctly at many printer resolutions. Moreover, Ghostscript can generate much better PDF, if given scalable PostScript fonts.

mftrace project is licensed under the GNU GPL.

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MuseScore 0.6.1

MuseScore 0.6.1


MuseScore is a graphical WYSIWYG music score typesetter. more>>
MuseScore is a graphical WYSIWYG music score typesetter. It uses a TrueType music font derived from the lilypond project feta fonts. Notes are entered on an "virtual note sheet". When you enter the notes, the score is immediately reformatted.
Main features:
- WYSIWYG, notes are entered on a "virtual note sheet"
- uses TrueType fonts for screen and printing (adapted from the LilyPond project feta fonts)
- easy and fast note entry
- integrated fluid sound font player; JACK audio server driver
- MusicXml import/export
- standard midifile (SMF) import/export
- programmed in C++ using the Qt gui library
- Xml file format
- GPL licenced
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mod_ometer 1.3.0

mod_ometer 1.3.0


mod_ometer is a web counter implemented as an apache C module. more>>
mod_ometer is a web counter implemented as an apache C module. mod_ometer Apache module uses gd 2.0.28 or later to generate its images. Gd has some built-in fonts, but for real excitement you can use any TrueType font you want for the counter.
In addition to allowing font choice, mod_ometer has all sorts of options for customizing size, width and color of your counter as well as the ability to output the counter as jpeg, png, or gif.
Main features:
- ignore: ip address or domain name is forbidden to increment the counter.
- font: use a truetype font instead of the counters default.
- width: how many digits are displayed, maximum of 10.
- rand: display a different random number everytime.
- reset: reset the counter to a specific value.
- text: set font color using the "web color" scheme.
- bgcolor: set background color using the "web color" scheme.
- point: set point size of the counter font.
- image: choose jpeg, png or gif.
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Added: 2005-12-15 License: BSD License Price:
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Xfstt 1.7

Xfstt 1.7


Xfstt means is a X11 Font Server for TrueType fonts. more>>
Xfstt means is a X11 Font Server for TrueType fonts. TrueType fonts are generally regarded to be the best scalable fonts for low resolution devices like screens.
Examples where good scalable fonts improve the visual quality considerably are Mozilla, GIMP, and Java. A fonts.properties file for use with Java is provided.
Enhancements:
- This release adds IPv6 support, makes gettext external, fixes and updates documentation, fixes a build failure on Irix, and provides general code cleanup.
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Added: 2005-12-01 License: LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) Price:
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FreeFont 20060126

FreeFont 20060126


FreeFont project aims to provide a set of free outline fonts. more>>
FreeFont project aims to provide a set of free outline (PostScript Type0, TrueType, OpenType...) fonts covering the ISO 10646/Unicode UCS (Universal Character Set).
Why do we need free outline UCS fonts?
A large number of free software users switched from free X11 bitmapped fonts to proprietary Microsoft Truetype fonts, as a) they used to be freely downloaded from Microsoft Typography page, b) they contain a more or less decent subset of the ISO 10646 UCS (Universal Character Set), c) they are high-quality, well hinted scalable Truetype fonts, and d) Freetype, a free high-quality Truetype font renderer is available and has been integrated into the latest release of XFree86, the free X11 server.
Building a dependence on non-free software, even a niche one like fonts, is dangerous. Microsoft Truetype core fonts were never free, they were just costless. Citing the TrueType core fonts for the Web FAQ: You may only redistribute the fonts in their original form (.exe or .sit.hqx) and with their original file name from your Web site or intranet site. You must not supply the fonts, or any derivative fonts based on them, in any form that adds value to commercial products, such as CD-ROM or disk based multimedia programs, application software or utilities. As of August 2002, however, the fonts are not anymore available on the Web, which makes the situation clearer.
Dont there exist any free high-quality outline fonts? Yes, they do. URW++, a German digital typefoundry, released their own version of the 35 Postscript Type 1 core fonts under GPL as their donation to the Ghostscript project. The Wadalab Kanji comittee has produced Type 1 font files with thousands of filigree Japanese glyphs. Yannis Haralambous has drawn beautiful glyphs for the Omega typesetting system. And so on. Scattered around the internet there are numerous other free resources for other national scripts, many of them aiming to be a suitable match for Latin fonts like Times or Helvetica.
Free UCS outline fonts will cover the following character sets:
- ISO 8859 parts 1-15
- CEN MES-3 European Unicode Subset
- IBM/Microsoft code pages 437, 850, 852, 1250, 1252 and more
- Microsoft/Adobe Windows Glyph List 4 (WGL4)
- KOI8-R and KOI8-U
- DEC VT100 graphics symbols
- International Phonetic Alphabet
- Arabic, Hebrew, Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopian, Thai and Lao alphabets, including Arabic presentation forms A/B
- Japanese Katakana and Hiragana
- mathematical symbols, including the whole TeX repertoire of symbols
- APL symbols etc.
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Tess 0.40

Tess 0.40


Tess is a C++ library that helps automate final assembly of tedious graphic design tasks. more>>
Tess is a C++ library that helps automate final assembly of tedious graphic design tasks (e.g. from photoshop or gimp), such as conjuring piles of web page-specific navigation features.

The project can composite an arbitrary stack of RGBA images, draw antialiased TrueType text (via FreeType), and generate a few shapes and effects. It groks PPM and PAM files, and includes a Perl binding.

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FontForge 20070501

FontForge 20070501


FontForge allows you to edit outline and bitmap fonts. more>>
FontForge is an outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, cid-keyed, multi-master, cff, svg and bitmap (bdf) fonts, or edit existing ones.
Also lets you convert one format to another. FontForge has support for many macintosh font formats.
FontForges user interface has been localized for: (English), Russian, Japanese, French, Italian, Spanish.
With the appropriate libraries, FontForge can import png, tiff, and gif images to act as character backgrounds for tracing purposes (FontForge can import bmp and xbm formats without external libraries).
With libxml2 FontForge can read SVG fonts. With the freetype library FontForge will do a better job making bitmap characters for you.
None is required for the proper compilation/execution of FontForge, if the libraries are not present they will not be used.
Enhancements:
- Support has been added for version 2 of the Spline Font DB format.
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libAfterImage 1.15

libAfterImage 1.15


libAfterImage is a small, fast, and powerful library for high-quality image manipulation. more>>
libAfterImage is a small, fast, and powerful library for high-quality image manipulation.
libAfterImage is a generic image manipulation library. It was initially implemented to address AfterStep Window Managers needs for image handling, but it evolved into extremely powerfull and flexible software, suitable for virtually any project that has needs for loading, manipulating, displaying images, as well as writing images in files.
Most of the popular image formats are supported using standard libraries, with XCF, XPM, PPM/PNM, BMP, ICO, TGA and GIF being supported internally.
PNG, JPEG and TIFF formats are supported via standard libraries.
For convinience, source for libJPEG and libPNG is supplied with libAfterImage.
Powerfull text rendering capabilities included, providing support for TrueType fonts using FreeType library, and antialiasing of standard fonts from X window system.
Primary design goals of libAfterImage are memory efficiency and superior image quality.
Extensive documentation, examples, and XML image scripting tool ascompose, are included with the library.
libAfterImage allows output of the image on any of the X11 display, MS Windows DIB, or standard output, which is suitable for web servers.
Enhancements:
- New features include image slicing, better support for 32-bit visuals, and proper Gaussian blur with radii up to 128.
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Haru Free PDF library 2.0.8

Haru Free PDF library 2.0.8


Haru Free PDF library is a free, cross platform, open-sourced software library for generating PDF. more>>
Haru Free PDF library is a free, cross platform, open-sourced software library for generating PDF.
Main features:
- Generating PDF files with lines, text, images.
- Outline, text annotation, link annotation.
- Compressing document with deflate-decode.
- Embedding PNG, Jpeg images.
- Embedding Type1 font and TrueType font.
- Creating encrypted PDF files.
- Using various character set (ISO8859-1~16, MSCP1250~8, KOI-8R).
- Supporting CJK fonts and encodings.
Enhancements:
- fixed a problem of HPDF_Circle() which causes buffer overflow.
- added HPDF_Ellipse().
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MEPISLite 3.3.2 RC1

MEPISLite 3.3.2 RC1


MEPISLite is a Linux distribution for home users new to Linux. more>>
MEPISLite is for home users new to Linux; it is similar to SimplyMEPIS except that some packages have been changed to improve performance.

MEPIS Linux is a desktop Linux system that is also easy to configure as a dedicated server. MEPISLite is designed for both personal and business purposes.

It includes cutting-edge features such as a live/installation/recovery CD, automatic hardware configuration, NTFS partition resizing, ACPI power management, WiFi support, anti-aliased TrueType fonts, a personal firewall, KDE, and much more.
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Veejay 1.0

Veejay 1.0


Veejay is a visual instrument and realtime video sampler. more>>
Veejay is a visual instrument and realtime video sampler. Veejay allows you to "play" the video like you would play a piano. While playing, you can record the resulting video directly to disk (video sampling). Veejay can be operated live by using the keyboard (which is 100% user definable) and / or remotely over ethernet.
Veejay can be used to manipulate video in a realtime environment i.e. VeeJay for visual performances or for (automated) interactive video installations.
Main features:
- Client/Server architecture
- Soft Realtime
- Native YUV processing
- Frame accurate
- Loop based editing (always playing)
- Non destructive editing
- Trickplay (scratch, marker, speed, direction)
- Mix your videos in the FX chain
- 126 built-in effects incl. luma , chroma key,
- Effect parameter animation
- Support for FreeFrame and Frei0r
- Support for truetype fonts
- Audio playback through Jack
- Audio rendering
- Load Quicktime, AVI and rawdv movie files
- Video output to SDL, OpenGL
- Full support for DV and MJPEG
- Live clip loading
- Live harddisk recording
- Live sample sequencing
- Live text
- Live camera(s) support
- Can stream over the network
- Deck save/restore
- Crash Recovery
- Dynamic output framerate
- Support for Open Sound Control
- Support for pure-data through sendVIMS external
- Free Software (GNU GPL)
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SDL_ttf 2.0.8

SDL_ttf 2.0.8


SDL_ttf is a sample library which allows you to use TrueType fonts in your SDL applications. more>>
SDL_ttf is a sample library which allows you to use TrueType fonts in your SDL applications. SDL_ttf library comes with an example program "showfont" which displays an example string for a given TrueType font file.

Unpack and build. Run "showfont fontfile" to display a font using the library.

Simple DirectMedia Layer is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide low level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, 3D hardware via OpenGL, and 2D video framebuffer. It is used by MPEG playback software, emulators, and many popular games, including the award winning Linux port of "Civilization: Call To Power."

Simple DirectMedia Layer supports Linux, Windows, BeOS, MacOS Classic, MacOS X, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, BSD/OS, Solaris, IRIX, and QNX. There is also code, but no official support, for Windows CE, AmigaOS, Dreamcast, Atari, NetBSD, AIX, OSF/Tru64, RISC OS, and SymbianOS.

SDL is written in C, but works with C++ natively, and has bindings to several other languages, including Ada, Eiffel, Java, Lua, ML, Perl, PHP, Pike, Python, and Ruby.

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SDL.NET 6.0.0

SDL.NET 6.0.0


SDL.NET is a set of object-oriented CLS-compliant .NET bindings for the SDL gaming library. more>>
SDL.NET is a set of object-oriented CLS-compliant .NET bindings for the SDL gaming library. And provides high-level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, TrueType fonts, various image formats, sound mixing, MPEG-1 movies and 3D hardware via OpenGL, 2D video framebuffer.

Given the open nature of Wiki, the SDL.NET team does not take any responsibility for the content or accuracy of content provided on these pages. All content is the responsibility and property of its author.
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