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