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LATEST_CHANGES
- a minor fix to the Type 1 driver to let them apply the font matrix
correctly (used for many oblique fonts..)
- some fixes for 64-bit systems (mainly changing some FT_TRACE calls
to use %p instead of %lx).. Thanks to Karl Robillard
- fixed some bugs in the sbit loader (src/base/sfnt/ttsbit.c) + added
a new flag, FT_LOAD_CROP_BITMAP to query that bitmaps be cropped when
loaded from a file (maybe I should move the bitmap cropper to the
base layer ??).
- changed the default number of gray levels of the smooth renderer to
256 (instead of the previous 128). Of course, the human eye can't
see any difference ;-)
- removed TT_MAX_SUBGLYPHS, there is no static limit on the number of
subglyphs in a TrueType font now..
=============================================================================
OLD CHANGES 16 May 2000
- tagged "BETA-6" in the CVS tree. This one is a serious release candidate
even though it doesn't incorporate the auto-hinter yet..
- various obsolete files were removed, and copyright header updated
- finally updated the standard raster to fix the monochrome rendering bug
+ re-enable support for 5-gray levels anti-aliasing (suck, suck..)
- created new header files, and modified sources accordingly:
<freetype/fttypes.h> - simple FreeType types, without the API
<freetype/internal/ftmemory.h> - definition of memory-management macros
- added the "DSIG" (OpenType Digital Signature) tag to <freetype/tttags.h>
- light update/cleaning of the build system + changes to the sources in
order to get rid of _all_ compiler warnings with three compilers, i.e:
gcc with "-ansi -pedantic -Wall -W", Visual C++ with "/W3 /WX"
and LCC
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR WIN32-LCC USERS:
|
| It seems the C pre-processor that comes with LCC is broken, it
| doesn't recognize the ANSI standard directives # and ## correctly
| when one of the argument is a macro. Also, something like:
|
| #define F(x) print##x
|
| F(("hello"))
|
| will get incorrectly translated to:
|
| print "hello")
|
| by its pre-processor. For this reason, you simply cannot build
| FreeType 2 in debug mode with this compiler..
- yet another massive grunt work. I've changed the definition of the
EXPORT_DEF, EXPORT_FUNC, BASE_DEF & BASE_FUNC macros. These now take
an argument, which is the function's return value type.
This is necessary to compile FreeType as a DLL on Windows and OS/2.
Depending on the compiler used, a compiler-specific keyword like __export
or __system must be placed before (VisualC++) or after (BorlandC++)
the type..
Of course, this needed a lot of changes throughout the source code
to make it compile again... All cleaned up now, apparently..
Note also that there is a new EXPORT_VAR macro defined to allow the
_declaration_ of an exportable public (constant) variable. This is the
case of the raster interfaces (see ftraster.h and ftgrays.h), as well
as each module's interface (see sfdriver.h, psdriver.h, etc..)
- new feature: it is now possible to pass extra parameters to font
drivers when creating a new face object. For now, this
capability is unused. It could however prove to be useful
in a near future..
the FT_Open_Args structure was changes, as well as the internal
driver interface (the specific "init_face" module function has now
a different signature).
- updated the tutorial (not finished though).
- updated the top-level BUILD document
- fixed a potential memory leak that could occur when loading embedded
bitmaps.
- added the declaration of FT_New_Memory_Face in <freetype/freetype.h>, as
it was missing from the public header (the implementation was already
in "ftobjs.c").
- the file <freetype/fterrors.h> has been seriously updated in order to
allow the automatic generation of error message tables. See the comments
within it for more information.
- major directory hierarchy re-organisation. This was done for two things:
* first, to ease the "manual" compilation of the library by requiring
at lot less include paths :-)
* second, to allow external programs to effectively access internal
data fields. For example, this can be extremely useful if someone
wants to write a font producer or a font manager on top of FreeType.
Basically, you should now use the 'freetype/' prefix for header inclusion,
as in:
#include <freetype/freetype.h>
#include <freetype/ftglyph.h>
Some new include sub-directories are available:
a. the "freetype/config" directory, contains two files used to
configure the build of the library. Client applications should
not need to look at these normally, but they can if they want.
#include <freetype/config/ftoption.h>
#include <freetype/config/ftconfig.h>
b. the "freetype/internal" directory, contains header files that
describes library internals. These are the header files that were
previously found in the "src/base" and "src/shared" directories.
As usual, the build system and the demos have been updated to reflect
the change..
Here's a layout of the new directory hierarchy:
TOP
include/
freetype/
freetype.h
...
config/
ftoption.h
ftconfig.h
ftmodule.h
internal/
ftobjs.h
ftstream.h
ftcalc.h
...
src/
base/
...
sfnt/
psnames/
truetype/
type1/
type1z/
Compiling a module is now much easier, for example, the following should
work when in the TOP directory on an ANSI build:
gcc -c -I./include -I./src/base src/base/ftbase.c
gcc -c -I./include -I./src/sfnt src/sfnt/sfnt.c
etc..
(of course, using -Iconfig/<system> if you provide system-specific
configuration files).
- updated the structure of FT_Outline_Funcs in order to allow
direct coordinate scaling within the outline decomposition routine
(this is important for virtual "on" points with TrueType outlines)
+ updates to the rasters to support this..
- updated the OS/2 table loading code in "src/sfnt/ttload.c" in order
to support version 2 of the table (see OpenType 1.2 spec)
- created "include/tttables.h" and "include/t1tables.h" to allow
client applications to access some of the SFNT and T1 tables of a
face with a procedural interface (see FT_Get_Sfnt_Table())
+ updates to internal source files to reflect the change..
- some cleanups in the source code to get rid of warnings when compiling
with the "-Wall -W -ansi -pedantic" options in gcc.
- debugged and moved the smooth renderer to "src/base/ftgrays.c" and
its header to "include/ftgrays.h"
- updated TT_MAX_SUBGLYPHS to 96 as some CJK fonts have composites with
up to 80 sub-glyphs !! Thanks to Werner
================================================================================
OLD CHANGES - 14-apr-2000
- fixed a bug in the TrueType glyph loader that prevented the correct
loading of some CJK glyphs in mingli.ttf
- improved the standard Type 1 hinter in "src/type1"
- fixed two bugs in the experimental Type 1 driver in "src/type1z"
to handle the new XFree86 4.0 fonts (and a few other ones..)
- the smooth renderer is now complete and supports sub-banding
to render large glyphs at high speed. However, it is still located
in "demos/src/ftgrays.c" and should move to the library itself
in the next beta.. NOTE: The smooth renderer doesn't compile in
stand-alone mode anymore, but this should be fixed RSN..
- introduced convenience functions to more easily deal with glyph
images, see "include/ftglyph.h" for more details, as well as the
new demo program named "demos/src/ftstring.c" that demonstrates
its use
- implemented FT_LOAD_NO_RECURSE in both the TrueType and Type 1
drivers (this is required by the auto-hinter to improve its results).
- changed the raster interface, in order to allow client applications
to provide their own span-drawing callbacks. However, only the
smooth renderer supports this. See "FT_Raster_Params" in the
file "include/ftimage.h"
- fixed a small bug in FT_MulFix that caused incorrect transform
computation !!
- Note: The tutorial is out-of-date, grumpf.. :-(
================================================================================
OLD CHANGES - 12-mar-2000
- changed the layout of configuration files : now, all ANSI configuration
files are located in "freetype2/config". System-specific over-rides
can be placed in "freetype2/config/<system>".
- moved all configuration macros to "config/ftoption.h"
- improvements in the Type 1 driver with AFM support
- changed the fields in the FT_Outline structure : the old "flags"
array is re-named "tags", while all ancient flags are encoded into
a single unsigned int named "flags".
- introduced new flags in FT_Outline.flags (see ft_outline_.... enums in
"ftimage.h").
- changed outline functions to "FT_Outline_<action>" syntax
- added a smooth anti-alias renderer to the demonstration programs
- added Mac graphics driver (thanks Just)
- FT_Open_Face changed in order to received a pointer to a FT_Open_Args
descriptor..
- various cleanups, a few more API functions implemented (see FT_Attach_File)
- updated some docs
================================================================================
OLD CHANGES - 22-feb-2000
- introduced the "psnames" module. It is used to:
o convert a Postscript glyph name into the equivalent Unicode
character code (used by the Type 1 driver(s) to synthetize
on the fly a Unicode charmap).
o provide an interface to retrieve the Postscript names of
the Macintosh, Adobe Standard & Adobe Expert character codes.
(the Macintosh names are used by the SFNT-module postscript
names support routines, while the other two tables are used
by the Type 1 driver(s)).
- introduced the "type1z" alternate Type 1 driver. This is a (still
experimental) driver for the Type 1 format that will ultimately
replace the one in "src/type1". It uses pattern matching to load
data from the font, instead of a finite state analyzer. It works
much better than the "old" driver with "broken" fonts. It is also
much smaller (under 15 Kb).
- the Type 1 drivers (both in "src/type1" and "src/type1z") are
nearly complete. They both provide automatic Unicode charmap
synthesis through the "psnames" module. No re-encoding vector
is needed. (note that they still leak memory due to some code
missing, and I'm getting lazy).
Trivial AFM support has been added to read kerning information
but wasn't exactly tested as it should ;-)
- The TrueType glyph loader has been seriously rewritten (see the
file "src/truetype/ttgload.c". It is now much, much simpler as
well as easier to read, maintain and understand :-) Preliminary
versions introduced a memory leak that has been reported by Jack
Davis, and is now fixed..
- introduced the new "ft_glyph_format_plotter", used to represent
stroked outlines like Windows "Vector" fonts, and certain Type 1
fonts like "Hershey". The corresponding raster will be written
soon.
- FT_New_Memory_Face is gone. Likewise, FT_Open_Face has a new
interface that uses a structure to describe the input stream,
the driver (if required), etc..
TODO
- Write FT_Get_Glyph_Bitmap and FT_Load_Glyph_Bitmap
- Add a function like FT_Load_Character( face, char_code, load_flags )
that would really embbed a call to FT_Get_Char_Index then FT_Load_Glyph
to ease developer's work.
- Update the tutorial !!
- consider adding support for Multiple Master fonts in the Type 1
drivers.
- Test the AFM routines of the Type 1 drivers to check that kerning
information is returned correctly.
- write a decent auto-gridding component !! We need this to release
FreeType 2.0 gold !
----- less urgent needs : ----------
- add a CFF/Type2 driver
- add a BDF driver
- add a FNT/PCF/HBF driver
- add a Speedo driver from the X11 sources
==============================================================================
OLDER CHANGES - 27-jan-2000
- updated the "sfnt" module interface to allow several SFNT-based
drivers to co-exist peacefully
- updated the "T1_Face" type to better separate Postscript font content
from the rest of the FT_Face structure. Might be used later by the
CFF/Type2 driver..
- added an experimental replacement Type 1 driver featuring advanced
(and speedy) pattern matching to retrieve the data from postscript
fonts.
- very minor changes in the implementation of FT_Set_Char_Size and
FT_Set_Pixel_Sizes (they now implement default to ligthen the
font driver's code).
=============================================================================
OLD MESSAGE
This file summarizes the changes that occured since the last "beta" of FreeType 2.
Because the list is important, it has been divided into separate sections:
Table Of Contents:
I High-Level Interface (easier !)
II Directory Structure
III Glyph Image Formats
IV Build System
V Portability
VI Font Drivers
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High-Level Interface :
The high-level API has been considerably simplified. Here is how :
- resource objects have disappeared. this means that face objects can
now be created with a single function call (see FT_New_Face and
FT_Open_Face)
- when calling either FT_New_Face & FT_Open_Face, a size object and a
glyph slot object are automatically created for the face, and can be
accessed through "face->glyph" and "face->size" if one really needs to.
In most cases, there's no need to call FT_New_Size or FT_New_Glyph.
- similarly, FT_Load_Glyph now only takes a "face" argument (instead of
a glyph slot and a size). Also, it's "result" parameter is gone, as
the glyph image type is returned in the field "face->glyph.format"
- the list of available charmaps is directly accessible through
"face->charmaps", counting "face->num_charmaps" elements. Each
charmap has an 'encoding' field which specifies which known encoding
it deals with. Valid values are, for example :
ft_encoding_unicode (for ASCII, Latin-1 and Unicode)
ft_encoding_apple_roman
ft_encoding_sjis
ft_encoding_adobe_standard
ft_encoding_adobe_expert
other values may be added in the future. Each charmap still holds its
"platform_id" and "encoding_id" values in case the encoding is too
exotic for the current library
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Directory Structure:
Should seem obvious to most of you:
freetype/
config/ -- configuration sub-makefiles
ansi/
unix/ -- platform-specific configuration files
win32/
os2/
msdos/
include/ -- public header files, those to be included directly
by client apps
src/ -- sources of the library
base/ -- the base layer
sfnt/ -- the sfnt "driver" (see the drivers section below)
truetype/ -- the truetype driver
type1/ -- the type1 driver
shared/ -- some header files shared between drivers
demos/ -- demos/tools
docs/ -- documentation (a bit empty for now)
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Glyph Image Formats :
Drivers are now able to register new glyph image formats within the library.
For now, the base layer supports of course bitmaps and vector outlines, but
one could imagine something different like colored bitmaps, bi-color
vectors or wathever else (Metafonts anyone ??).
See the file `include/ftimage.h'. Note also that the type FT_Raster_Map is
gone, and is now replaced by FT_Bitmap, which should encompass all known
bitmap types.
Each new image format must provide at least one "raster", i.e. a module
capable of transforming the glyph image into a bitmap. It's also possible
to change the default raster used for a given glyph image format.
The default outline scan-converter now uses 128 levels of grays by default,
which tends to smooth many things. Note that the demo programs have been
updated significantly in order to display these..
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Build system :
You still need GNU Make to build the library. The build system has been
very seriously re-vamped in order to provide things like :
- automatic host platform detection (reverting to 'config/ansi'
if it is not detected, with pseudo-standard compilation flags)
- the ability to compile from the Makefiles with very different and
exotic compilers. Note that linking the library can be difficult for
some platforms.
For example, the file `config/win32/lcclib.bat' is invoked by the
build system to create the ".lib" file with LCC-Win32 because its
librarian has too many flaws to be invoked directly from the Makefile.
Here's how it works :
- the first time you type `make', the build system runs a series of
sub-makefiles in order to detect your host platform. It then dumps
what it found, and creates a file called `config.mk' in the current
directory. This is a sub-Makefile used to define many important Make
variables used to build the library.
- the second time, the build system detects the `config.mk' then use it
to build the library. All object files go into 'obj' by default, as
well as the library file, but this can easily be changed.
Note that you can run "make setup" to force another host platform detection
even if a `config.mk' is present in the current directory. Another solution
is simply to delete the file, then re-run make.
Finally, the default compiler for all platforms is gcc (for now, this will
hopefully changed in the future). You can however specify a different
compiler by specifying it after the 'setup' target as in :
gnumake setup lcc on Win32 to use the LCC compiler
gnumake setup visualc on Win32 to use Visual C++
See the file `config/<system>/detect.mk' for a list of supported compilers
for your platforms.
It should be relatively easy to write new detection rules files and
config.mk..
Finally, to build the demo programs, go to `demos' and launch GNU Make,
it will use the `config.mk' in the top directory to build the test
programs..
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Portability :
In the previous beta, a single FT_System object was used to encompass
all low-level operations like thread synchronisation, memory management
and i/o access. This has been greatly simplified :
- thread synchronisation has been dropped, for the simple reason that
the library is already re-entrant, and that if you really need two
threads accessing the same FT_Library, you should really synchronize
access to it yourself with a simple mutex.
- memory management is performed through a very simple object called
"FT_Memory", which really is a table containing a table of pointers
to functions like malloc, realloc and free as well as some user data
(closure).
- resources have disappeared (they created more problems than they
solved), and i/o management have been simplified greatly as a
result. Streams are defined through FT_Stream objects, which can
be either memory-based or disk-based.
Note that each face has its own stream, which is closed only when
the face object is destroyed. Hence, a function like TT_Flush_Face
in 1.x cannot be directly supported. However, if you really need
something like this, you can easily tailor your own streams to achieve
the same feature at a lower level (and use FT_Open_Face instead of
FT_New_Face to create the face).
See the file "include/ftsystem.h" for more details, as well as the
implementations found in "config/unix" and "config/ansi".
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Font Drivers :
The Font Driver interface has been modified in order to support
extensions & versioning.
The list of the font drivers that are statically linked to the
library at compile time is managed through a new configuration file
called `config/<platform>/ftmodule.h'.
This file is autogenerated when invoking `make modules'. This target
will parse all sub-directories of 'src', looking for a "module.mk"
rules file, used to describe the driver to the build system.
Hence, one should call `make modules' each time a font driver is added
or removed from the `src' directory.
Finally, this version provides a "pseudo-driver" in `src/sfnt'. This
driver doesn't support font files directly, but provides services used
by all TrueType-like font drivers. Hence, its code is shared between
the TrueType & OpenType font formats, and possibly more formats to
come if we're lucky..
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Extensions support :
The extensions support is inspired by the one found in 1.x.
Now, each font driver has its own "extension registry", which lists
which extensions are available for the font faces managed by the driver.
Extension ids are now strings, rather than 4-byte tags, as this is
usually more readable..
Each extension has:
- some data, associated to each face object
- an interface (table of function pointers)
An extension that is format-specific should simply register itself
to the correct font driver. Here is some example code:
// Registering an extensions
//
FT_Error FT_Init_XXXX_Extension( FT_Library library )
{
FT_DriverInterface* tt_driver;
driver = FT_Get_Driver( library, "truetype" );
if (!driver) return FT_Err_Unimplemented_Feature;
return FT_Register_Extension( driver, &extension_class );
}
// Implementing the extensions
//
FT_Error FT_Proceed_Extension_XXX( FT_Face face )
{
FT_XXX_Extension ext;
FT_XXX_Extension_Interface ext_interface;
ext = FT_Get_Extension( face, "extensionid", &ext_interface );
if (!ext) return error;
return ext_interface->do_it(ext);
}