Freetype 1.3.1 download

Downloading and compiling a development snapshot or using the git repositories directly is one of the first things to do when you encounter something that looks like a bug in FreeType.

Note that we do not guarantee that all development snapshots work on a given day, though such glitches should happen very rarely. Note that the binary comes from the excellent MinGW distribution , which we highly recommend over Cygwin, if you don't need POSIX-compliance, in terms of ease of use and performance.

However, these files have been contributed and might be out of date, thus use them with care. Development Versions The gitlab instance of freedesktop. After installation you should check that it is correctly invoked by typing: make -v The first lines should read: GNU Make 3. Additionally, the API reference has been completely overhauled and modernized, as already announced.

As usual, many minor fixes and corrections have been applied also; a detailed list is given here. A revamped version of the FreeType website is available for preview here. It includes a complete interface redesign, and uses markdown as input which greatly improves maintainability.

Comments are welcome. This is a maintenance release; most importantly fixing correct handling of Type 1 fonts with flex features, which was broken in version 2. An overview of the remaining changes is given here. All users should upgrade. FreeType version 2.

The main reason for starting a new series is Ewald Hew's GSoC contribution of making Adobe's CFF engine handle Type 1 fonts also, greatly improving the rendering quality of this ancient but still important font format. If you are going to use variation fonts, please update to this version since it comes with some important fixes. More information on this and other changes can be found here. FreeType 2.

This is mainly a maintenance release with one important change: By default, FreeType now offers high quality LCD-optimized output without resorting to ClearType techniques of resolution tripling and filtering. In this method, called Harmony , each color channel is generated separately after shifting the glyph outline, capitalizing on the fact that the color grids on LCD panels are shifted by a third of a pixel.

This output is indistinguishable from ClearType with a light 3-tap filter. CFF2 support and OpenType variation font handling is now complete; the auto-hinter now understands 25 more scripts, for example N'Ko and Tifinagh. See here for a list of changes; noteworthy bug fixes are the handling of TrueType fonts: unhinted loading didn't work as expected, and the light auto-hinter used incorrect metrics.

Here's a link to our ideas list — if you have another one, please write to our mailing list so that we can discuss your suggestions, eventually adding them to the list.

And if you want to participate as a student, now is the time to discuss everything, again using the mailing list. The most important news is preliminary support of Adobe's new CFF2 font format and variation fonts as specified in the new OpenType specification version 1.

See here for a list of changes. If you are used to the old full-pixel hinting, you will see many rendering changes. A description of the remaining changes can be found here , as usual. This release is almost identical to the previous version, with two differences. It compiles again on Mac OS X, and it reverts the activation of subpixel hinting by default; it will be enabled by default in the forthcoming 2.

Main reason for reverting this feature is the principle of least surprise: a sudden change in appearance of all fonts even if the rendering improves for almost all recent fonts should not be expected in a new micro version of a series. The most important change is a new bytecode hinting mode for TrueType fonts that finally activates subpixel hinting a.

ClearType hinting by default. The new release also brings support for the following new scripts in the auto-hinter: Armenian, Cherokee, Ethiopic, Georgian, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Malayalam, Sinhala, and Tamil. See here for a detailed list of changes. It brings support for four new Asian scripts in the auto-hinter Khmer, Myanmar, Kannada, and Bengali , together with other, minor improvements and bug fixes. Read more. This is a minor release that mainly provides better handling of malformed fonts.

A new feature is stem darkening support for the auto-hinter. Note, however, that it is off by default, since most graphic systems don't provide correct linear alpha blending with gamma correction, which is crucial for a good appearance.

For the same reason, stem darkening for the CFF engine is now off by default, too. See here for a more detailed list of changes. This is a minor release that corrects problems with CFF metrics, and that provides better handling of malformed fonts. Two notably new features are auto-hinting support for the Lao script and a simple interface for accessing named instances in GX TrueType variation fonts.

This is a new major release that provides a better and simpler thread-safety model. Among other new features we now have auto-hinting support for Arabic and Thai, together with much improved handling of Apple's GX TrueType variation font format.