Announcing
F R E E T Y P E 1 . 3 . 1
The FREE TrueType Font Engine
Copyright (C) 1996-1999 The FreeType Development Team
The FreeType engine is a free and portable TrueType font rendering
engine, available in ANSI C and Pascal source code. It has been
developed to provide TrueType support to a great variety of
platforms and environments.
Notice that FreeType is a *library*. It is *not* a font server
for your preferred environment, even though it has been designed
to be the basis of many high-level libraries, tools and font
servers.
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WE HAVE RECENTLY DISCOVERED THAT APPLE OWNS SEVERAL PATENTS
RELATED TO THE RENDERING OF TRUETYPE FONTS. THIS COULD MEAN THAT
THE FREE USE OF THE FREETYPE LIBRARY MIGHT BE ILLEGAL IN THE USA,
JAPAN, AND POSSIBLY OTHER COUNTRIES. FOR MORE INFORMATION, WE
STRONGLY ADVISE YOU TO GO TO THE FREETYPE WEB SITE AT:
http://www.freetype.org/patents.htm
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It's a clean-room implementation that is not derived from the
original TrueType engine developed by Apple and Microsoft, though
it matches it regarding rendering quality. To our knowledge, it's
the only royalty-free complete TrueType engine available.
Version 1.3.1 fixes several bugs found in 1.3.
Version 1.3 fixes several bugs found in 1.2, as well as provide
the engine with enhanced capabilities, like support for embedded
bitmaps and rudimentary TrueType Open support.
For more information, please visit the freetype web site at:
http://www.freetype.org