From 7db74b3f85ca6140eb540a8fd6ecc87195ae9ccf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Turner Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 07:53:22 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] updating docs/CHANGES --- docs/CHANGES | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/CHANGES b/docs/CHANGES index 58fe0df8c..4ff9970bb 100644 --- a/docs/CHANGES +++ b/docs/CHANGES @@ -24,12 +24,42 @@ LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.3 and 2.1.2 - The computation of bearings in the BDF driver has been fixed. + - The Postscript hinter did crash when trying to hint certain glyphs + (more precisely, when trying to apply hints to an empty glyph outline !) + + - The TrueType glyph loader now supports composites in "Apple format" + (they differ slightly from Microsoft/OpenType ones in the way transform + offsets are computed...) II. MISCELLANEOUS - The automatic and postscript hinters have both been updated. This results in a relatively important increase of rendering quality since - many nasty defaults have been supressed. + many nasty defaults have been supressed. Please visit the web page: + + http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/smooth-hinting.html + + for additional details on this topic.. + + - Added support for the DESTDIR variable during "make install", to make + packager's life a bit less miserable :-) + + - The DocMaker tool used to generate the on-line API reference has been + completely rewritten. If is now located in "src/tools/docmaker/docmaker.py" + It now provides: + + - better cross-referenced output + - more polished output + - uses Python regular expressions (though it didn't speed the program) + - much more modular structure, which allows for different "backends" + in order to generate HTML, XML or whatever format... + + one can re-generate the API reference by calling: + + python src/tools/docmaker/docmaker.py --prefix=ft2 --title=FreeType-2.1.3 + --output= include/freetype/*.h include/freetype/config/*.h + include/freetype/cache/*.h + - A new, experimental, support for incremental font loading (i.e., loading of fonts where the glyphs are not in the font file itself, but @@ -38,7 +68,8 @@ LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.3 and 2.1.2 - A new, experimental, path stroker has been added. It doesn't suffer from severe rounding errors, and treat bezier arcs directly. Still - work in progress. + work in progress (i.e. not part of the official API). See the file + for some of the details... - The massive re-formatting of sources and internal re-design is still under-way. Many internal functions, constants, and types have been