On Saturday, August 21st, 2021 at 12:39 PM, Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]> wrote:
> ttfautohint 1.8.4 has been released. > > 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/1.8.4 > > 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/ > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > http://freetype.org/ttfautohint > > 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 > > autohinting module. The idea is to provide the excellent quality of the > > autohinter on platforms which don't use FreeType. > > The library has a single API function, `TTF_autohint'; see` > 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 Qt framework. The > > compilation of this application can be disabled with the `--without-qt' > > configuration option. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Version 1.8.4 (2021-Aug-14) > ----------------------------- > > - Support for Hanifi Rohingya, Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong, Medefaidrin, and > > Yezidi. > - Bug fix: Option combination `-f none -S` to suppress hinting of > > unassigned glyphs was broken. > - Parallel builds of the package are now fully supported. > - The `configure` option `--with-freetype-config` has been removed; > > similarly to HarfBuzz, the `pkg-config` interface is now used > > exclusively for finding FreeType. Thank you
