FreeType 2.4.12 has been released.
CHANGES BETWEEN 2.4.11 and 2.4.12
I. IMPORTANT CHANGES
- We have another CFF parsing and hinting engine! Written by Dave
Arnold <
[email protected]>, this work has been contributed by
Adobe in collaboration with Google. It is vastly superior to
the old CFF engine, and it will replace it in the next release.
Right now, it is still off by default, and you have to
explicitly select it using the new `hinting-engine' property of
the cff driver:
...
#include FT_MODULE_H
#include FT_CFF_DRIVER_H
FT_Library library;
int engine = FT_CFF_HINTING_ADOBE;
...
FT_Property_Set( library, "cff", "hinting-engine", &engine );
The code has a (mature) beta status; we encourage all users to
test it and report any problems.
In case you want to activate the new CFF engine unconditionally,
apply this patch:
--- snip ---
diff --git a/src/cff/cffobjs.c b/src/cff/cffobjs.c
index ebcf189..3f2ce6b 100644
--- a/src/cff/cffobjs.c
+++ b/src/cff/cffobjs.c
@@ -1056,7 +1056,7 @@
/* set default property values */
- driver->hinting_engine = FT_CFF_HINTING_FREETYPE;
+ driver->hinting_engine = FT_CFF_HINTING_ADOBE;
driver->no_stem_darkening = FALSE;
return FT_Err_Ok;
--- snip ---
- The macro FT_CONFIG_OPTION_OLD_INTERNALS is no longer set by
default. In the next release, we will completely remove the
associated code. Please update your programs in case you are
still using this macro.
II. MISCELLANEOUS
- The (top-level) `configure' script now respects the MAKE
environment variable to specify a `make' binary. For backwards
compatibility, GNUMAKE still overrides MAKE, though.
- The `ftview' and `ftdiff' demo programs have been redesigned,
showing more options permanently on the screen, among other
minor improvements.
- Using the `H' key, it is now possible to select the CFF engine
in both `ftview' and `ftdiff'.
- The new command line option `-H' for `ftbench' selects the Adobe
CFF engine.
- It is now possible to directly select the LCD rendering mode
with the keys `A'-`F' in `ftview'. The key mapping for cycling
through LCD modes has been changed from `K' and `L' to `k' and
`l', and toggling custom LCD filtering is no longer mapped to
key `F' but to key `L'.
- In `ftdiff', key `x' toggles between layout modes: Either use
the advance width (this is new and now the default) or the
bounding box information to determine line breaks.
- For all demo tools, the new command line option `-v' shows the
version.
- For the demo tools with a GUI, the new command line options `-w'
and `-h' select the width and the height of the output window,
respectively.
- The `ttdebug' program was broken and has been reactivated. Note
that this program is not compiled by default.
