Re: [ft-announce] ttfautohint 1.00 has been released!

[Dave Crossland]

Congratulations Werner! This is a huge milestone! :)

On 23 March 2014 06:42, Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

http://freetype.org/ttfautohint

ttfautohint 1.00 has been released.  It took me three years of hard
work to finally present a version that I consider as usable for daily
work.

If you like my efforts, or can actually use ttfautohint in your
business, please donate to the pledgie campaign at

  https://pledgie.com/campaigns/15816

There you can also find my roadmap for future work.


  Thanks in advance :-)

    Werner


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The source tarball, statically-linked binaries for Win32 (TTY and GUI)
and OS X (TTY only) are available from

    http://savannah.nongnu.org/download/freetype/

or

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/freetype/files/ttfautohint/1.00

Instructions to build the GUI version on OS X can be found at

    http://freetype.org/ttfautohint/osx.html


Enjoy!


   Werner


PS: Downloads from savannah.nongnu.org will redirect to your nearest
    mirror site.  Files on mirrors may be subject to a replication
    delay of up to 24 hours.  In case of problems use
    http://download-mirror.savannah.gnu.org/releases/


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This project provides a library which takes a TrueType font as the
input, remove its bytecode instructions (if any), and return a new
font where all glyphs are bytecode hinted using the information given
by FreeType's auto-hinting module.  The idea is to provide the
excellent quality of the auto-hinter on platforms which don't use
FreeType.

The library has a single API function, `TTF_autohint'; see source code
file `lib/ttfautohint.h' for a detailed description.  Note that the
library itself won't get installed currently.

A command-line interface to the library is the `ttfautohint' program;
after compilation and installation, say

  ttfautohint --help

for usage information, or say

  man ttfautohint

to read its manual page.

A GUI to the library is `ttfautohintGUI'; it uses the Qt4 framework.
The compilation of this application can be disabled with the
`--without-qt' configuration option.


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New in 1.00:

* Much less memory consumption while handling fonts with complicated
  glyphs.

* Option `-s' was partially broken.

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Cheers
Dave