About:
FreeType 2 is a high-quality and portable font engine that is capable of supporting several font formats (be they bitmapped or scalable) through a simple and uniform interface. Its design is modular and allows independent "font driver" modules to be added, even at runtime, to support additional formats. It also provides a high-quality anti-aliasing renderer, an innovative auto-hinting engine, and support for the following font formats: TrueType Type1, CID-Type 1, Multiple Masters Type 1 OpenType/CFF, pure CFF, and CEF Windows FNT/FON.

Release focus: Major bugfixes

Author:
David Turner <turner __at__ enst __dot__ fr> [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.13/10.00 (9 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.freetype.org/
Tar/GZ:
http://freetype.sourceforge.net/download.html
Tar/BZ2:
http://freetype.sourceforge.net/download.html
Zip:
http://freetype.sourceforge.net/download.html
Mirror site:
http://freetype.sourceforge.net/
Demo site:
http://freetype.sourceforge.net/links.html#demos

Trove categories: [change]

[Environment]		X11 Applications
[Intended Audience]		End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Topic]		Desktop Environment :: Fonts

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	2.3.5	27-Sep-2007	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
2.3.5	N/A	27-Sep-2007 21:26
2.1.9	Major bugfixes	07-Apr-2005 02:18
2.1.7	Major bugfixes	24-Feb-2004 22:20
2.1.5	Major bugfixes	24-Feb-2004 22:14
2.1.4	Minor feature enhancements	16-Apr-2003 00:37
2.1.3	Minor feature enhancements	13-Jan-2003 06:08
2.1.2	Minor bugfixes	16-Aug-2002 02:58
2.1.0	Minor bugfixes	02-May-2002 14:05
2.0.9	Minor bugfixes	02-Apr-2002 02:12
2.0.8	Minor bugfixes	13-Feb-2002 13:52

 Articles referencing this project

Red Hat: Updated freetype packages fix various security issues by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Jun 22nd 2008 22:14 Debian: New freetype packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Jan 8th 2008 07:08 Debian: New freetype packages fix arbitary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Jul 23rd 2007 02:53 SuSE: New freetype2 packages fix remote code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Jul 8th 2007 03:14 Red Hat: Updated freetype packages fix a security flaw by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Jun 11th 2007 04:04

Debian: New freetype packages fix integer overflow by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Jun 11th 2007 04:03 Red Hat: Updated freetype packages fix a security flaw by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Apr 16th 2007 13:34 Debian: New freetype packages fix execution of arbitrary code by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Sep 19th 2006 05:58 SuSE: New freetype2 packages fix possible code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Thu, Aug 24th 2006 12:37 [more articles]

 Comments

[»] freetype building
by Cory - Apr 30th 2003 20:17:21

I did not see this in the docs... make fails if
there are spaces in the path. e.g. "some folder"
needs to be "some_folder"

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[»] Not really UNIX friendly
by Wolfpack Entertainment - Aug 8th 2001 16:51:14

Unfortunatly the instructions give a very
misleading route to compiling and installing
this library.

It's better off using its own compiler
control called jam which also has its problems
and dosen't really compile (catch 22) on
UNIX and dosen't support installing.

It also has issues with the devel headers
that don't work out right when depending on
their internal prototypes. None of the
author's e-mail addresses were valid for
contact either.

I would recomend this untill it gets ported
for UNIX formally.

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