Commit 0bf6e0647a76988b10e4f423246a6e55c59e2847
2001-06-22T17:17:47
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LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.4 and 2.0.3
- - fixed a rather annoying bug that was introduced in 2.0.3.
- Namely, the font transform set through FT_Set_Transform was applied
- twiced to auto-hinted glyphs, resulting in incorrect rotated text
- output
+ - Fixed a rather annoying bug that was introduced in 2.0.3. Namely, the
+ font transformation set through FT_Set_Transform was applied twice to
+ auto-hinted glyphs, resulting in incorrectly rotated text output.
- - fixed _many_ compiler warnings. FT2 should now compile cleanly with
- Visual C++'s most pedantic warning level (/W4). It already compiled
- fine with GCC and a few other compilers..
+ - Fixed _many_ compiler warnings. FT2 should now compile cleanly with
+ Visual C++'s most pedantic warning level (/W4). It already compiled
+ fine with GCC and a few other compilers.
- - fixed the Visual C++ project files located in "builds/win32/visualc"
- (previous versions used older names of the library)
+ - Fixed the Visual C++ project files located in "builds/win32/visualc"
+ (previous versions used older names of the library).
- - many 32-bit constants have an "L" appended to their value, in order
- to improve the 16-bitness of the code. Someone is actually trying to
- use FT2 on an Atari ST machine !!
-
- - updated the "builds/detect.mk" file in order to automatically build
- FT2 on AIX systems. AIX does define "/usr/sbin/init" instead of
- "/sbin/init" and wasn't previously detected as a Unix platform. by
- the FreeType build system.
+ - Many 32-bit constants have an "L" appended to their value, in order
+ to improve the 16-bitness of the code. Someone is actually trying to
+ use FT2 on an Atari ST machine!
+
+ - Updated the "builds/detect.mk" file in order to automatically build
+ FT2 on AIX systems. AIX uses "/usr/sbin/init" instead of "/sbin/init"
+ and wasn't previously detected as a Unix platform by the FreeType build
+ system.
- - updated the Unix-specific portions of the build system (new libtool
- version, etc..)
+ - Updated the Unix-specific portions of the build system (new libtool
+ version, etc.).
============================================================================
+
LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.3 and 2.0.2
- I. CHANGES TO THE MODULES / FONT DRIVERS :
+ I. CHANGES TO THE MODULES / FONT DRIVERS
- THE AUTO-HINTER HAS BEEN SLIGHTLY IMPROVED, in order to fix several
annoying artefacts, mainly:
- - blue zone alignement of horizontal stems wasn't performed
- correctly, resulting in artefacts like the "d" being placed
- one pixel below the "b" in some fonts like Time New Roman
+ - Blue zone alignement of horizontal stems wasn't performed
+ correctly, resulting in artefacts like the "d" being placed one
+ pixel below the "b" in some fonts like Time New Roman.
- - overshoot thresholding wasn't performed correctly, creating
- unpleasant artefacts at large character pixel sizes
+ - Overshoot thresholding wasn't performed correctly, creating
+ unpleasant artefacts at large character pixel sizes.
- - composite glyph loading has been simplified. This gets rid
+ - Composite glyph loading has been simplified. This gets rid
of various artefacts where the components of a composite glyphs
were not correctly spaced.
- These are the last changes to the current auto-hinting module.
- A new hinting sub-system is currently in the work in order to
- support native hints in Type 1 / CFF / OpenType fonts, as well
- as globally improve rendering
-
+ These are the last changes to the current auto-hinting module. A new
+ hinting sub-system is currently in the work in order to support native
+ hints in Type 1 / CFF / OpenType fonts, as well as globally improve
+ rendering.
- - The PCF driver has been fixed. It reported invalid glyph dimensions
+ - The PCF driver has been fixed. It reported invalid glyph dimensions
for the fonts available on Solaris.
- The Type 1, CID and CFF drivers have been modified to fix the
- computation of the EM size
+ computation of the EM size.
- The Type 1 driver has been fixed to avoid a dangerous bug that
- crashed the library with non-conforming fonts (i.e. ones that
- do not place the .notdef glyph at position 0)
+ crashed the library with non-conforming fonts (i.e. ones that do not
+ place the .notdef glyph at position 0).
- The TrueType driver had a rather subtle bug (dangling pointer when
loading composite glyphs) that could crash the library in rare
- occasions !
+ occasions!
- II. HIGH-LEVEL API CHANGES :
+ II. HIGH-LEVEL API CHANGES
- - the error code enumeration values have been changed. An error
- value is decomposed in a generic error code, and a module number.
- see <freetype/fterrors.h> for details
+ - The error code enumeration values have been changed. An error value
+ is decomposed in a generic error code, and a module number. see
+ <freetype/fterrors.h> for details.
- - a new public header file has been introduced, named FT_TRIGONOMETRY_H
+ - A new public header file has been introduced, named FT_TRIGONOMETRY_H
(include/freetype/fttrig.h), providing trigonometric functions to
- compute sines, cosines, arctangents, etc.. with 16.16 fixed
- precision. The implementation is based on the CORDIC algorithm
- and is very fast while being sufficiently accurate.
+ compute sines, cosines, arctangents, etc. with 16.16 fixed precision.
+ The implementation is based on the CORDIC algorithm and is very fast
+ while being sufficiently accurate.
- III. INTERNALS :
+ III. INTERNALS
- - added BeOS-specific files in the old build sub-system. Note that
+ - Added BeOS-specific files in the old build sub-system. Note that
no changes were required to compile the library with Jam.
- - the configuration is now capable of automatically detecting 64-bit
- integers on a set of predefined compilers (GCC,Visual C++,Borland C++)
- and will use them by default. This provides a small performance
- boost
+ - The configuration is now capable of automatically detecting 64-bit
+ integers on a set of predefined compilers (GCC, Visual C++, Borland
+ C++) and will use them by default. This provides a small performance
+ boost.
- - a small memory leak that happened when opening 0-sized files (duh !!)
- have been fixed..
+ - A small memory leak that happened when opening 0-sized files (duh!)
+ have been fixed.
- - fixed bezier stack depth bug in the routines provided by the
- FT_BBOX_H header file. Also fixed similar bugs in the rasterizers.
+ - Fixed bezier stack depth bug in the routines provided by the
+ FT_BBOX_H header file. Also fixed similar bugs in the rasterizers.
- - the outling bounding box code has been rewritten to use direct
- computations, instead of bezier sub-division, to compute the
- exact bounding box of glyphs. This is slightly slower but more
- accurate.
+ - The outline bounding box code has been rewritten to use direct
+ computations, instead of bezier sub-division, to compute the exact
+ bounding box of glyphs. This is slightly slower but more accurate.
- The build system has been improved and fixed, mainly to support "make"
- on Windows 2000 correctly, avoid problems with "make distclean" on
- non Unix systems, etc..
+ on Windows 2000 correctly, avoid problems with "make distclean" on non
+ Unix systems, etc.
- - hexadecimal constants have been suffixed with "U" to avoid problems
+ - Hexadecimal constants have been suffixed with "U" to avoid problems
with certain compilers on 64-bit platforms.
- - a new directory named "src/tools" has been created. It contains
+ - A new directory named "src/tools" has been created. It contains
Python scripts and simple unit test programs used to develop the
library.
- - the DocMaker tool has been moved from "docs" to "src/tools" and
+ - The DocMaker tool has been moved from "docs" to "src/tools" and
has been updated with the following:
- - now accepts the "--title=XXXX" or "-t XXXX" option from the
- command line to set the project's name in the generated
- API reference
+ - Now accepts the "--title=XXXX" or "-t XXXX" option from the
+ command line to set the project's name in the generated API
+ reference.
- - now accepts the "--output=DIR" or "-o DIR" option from the
- command line to set the output directory for all generated
- HTML files
+ - Now accepts the "--output=DIR" or "-o DIR" option from the
+ command line to set the output directory for all generated HTML
+ files.
- - now accepts the "--prefix=XXXX" or "-p XXX" option from the
- command line to set the file prefix to use for all generated
- HTML files.
+ - Now accepts the "--prefix=XXXX" or "-p XXX" option from the
+ command line to set the file prefix to use for all generated HTML
+ files.
- - now generates the current time/data on each generated page
+ - Now generates the current time/data on each generated page
in order to distinguish between versions.
- DocMaker can be used with other projects now, not only FT2
- (e.g. MLib, FTLayout, etc..)
+ DocMaker can be used with other projects now, not only FT2 (e.g. MLib,
+ FTLayout, etc.).
===========================================================================
+
LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.2 and 2.0.1
- I. CHANGES TO THE MODULES / FONT DRIVERS:
+ I. CHANGES TO THE MODULES / FONT DRIVERS
- THE TRUETYPE BYTECODE INTERPRETER IS NOW TURNED OFF, in order to
avoid legal problems with the Apple patents. It seems that we
@@ -226,7 +225,6 @@ LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.2 and 2.0.1
III. CHANGES TO THE BUILD PROCESS
-
- If you are not building FreeType 2 with its own build system
(but with your own Makefiles or project files), you will need to
be aware that the build process has changed a little bit.
@@ -256,8 +254,7 @@ LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.2 and 2.0.1
======================================================================
-LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.1 and 2.0:
-
+LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.0.1 and 2.0
2.0.1 introduces a few changes: