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revision 1.104 by freetype, Tue Mar 15 23:31:47 2005 UTC revision 1.105 by wl, Wed Mar 16 01:49:54 2005 UTC
# Line 19  LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.10 and 2.1.9 Line 19  LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.10 and 2.1.9
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20      - FreeType didn't properly parse empty Type 1 glyphs.      - FreeType didn't properly parse empty Type 1 glyphs.
21            
22      - An unbounded dynamic buffer growth was fixed in the PFR loader      - An unbound dynamic buffer growth was fixed in the PFR loader.
23            
24      - Several bugs were fixed in the cache sub-system.      - Several bugs have been fixed in the cache sub-system.
25    
26      - Fixed bug #12263: incorrect behaviour when resizing to distinct but      - FreeType behaved incorrectly when resizing two distinct but very
27        very close character pixel sizes through FT_Set_Char_Size        close character pixel sizes through `FT_Set_Char_Size' (Savannah
28          bug #12263).
29                
30      - The auto-hinter didn't work when a font didn't have a Unicode charmap.      - The auto-hinter didn't work properly for fonts without a Unicode
31        it even refused to load the glyphs !        charmap -- it even refused to load the glyphs.
32    
33    
34    II. IMPORTANT CHANGES    II. IMPORTANT CHANGES
35    
36      - a LOT of work has been done in order to drastically reduce the      - Many fixes have been applied to drastically reduce the amount of
37        amount of heap memory used by FreeType, especially when using        heap   memory   used   by   FreeType,   especially   when  using
38        memory-mapped font files (which is the default on Unix systems        memory-mapped font files  (which is the default on Unix  systems
39        which support them). This should be good news for any Unix distribution        which support them).
40        upgrading to this release of the font engine.  
41        - The auto-hinter  has been completely rewritten  as a new module,
42      - The auto-hinter has been completely rewritten as a new module,        called the `auto-fitter',  which is now the default auto-hinting
43        called the 'auto-fitter'. The latter is the new default auto-hinting        module.  It consumes a lot less memory than its predecessor.
       module. It also consumes a lot less memory than its predecessor.  
44    
45      - George Williams  contributed code to read  kerning data from PFM      - George Williams  contributed code to read  kerning data from PFM
46        files.        files.
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63        an FT_Bitmap structure in 1bpp, 2bpp, 4bpp, or 8bpp format  into        an FT_Bitmap structure in 1bpp, 2bpp, 4bpp, or 8bpp format  into
64        another 8bpp FT_Bitmap, probably using a different pitch.        another 8bpp FT_Bitmap, probably using a different pitch.
65    
66    
67    III. MISCELLANEOUS    III. MISCELLANEOUS
68    
69      - The BDF driver  no longer converts  all returned bitmaps  with a      - The BDF driver  no longer converts  all returned bitmaps  with a
# Line 87  LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.10 and 2.1.9 Line 88  LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.10 and 2.1.9
88        the array in a novel compressed way that saves about 20 Kb of code        the array in a novel compressed way that saves about 20 Kb of code
89        as well.        as well.
90    
91    
92    ======================================================================
93    
94  LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.9 and 2.1.8  LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.9 and 2.1.8
95    
96    I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES    I. IMPORTANT BUG FIXES

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