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It occurs to me that this could be of interest.


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From: Robert Wilhelm <robert@physiol.med.tu-muenchen.de>
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Subject: Freetype alpha release 3 - free TrueType font engine
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                           Welcome to the

                  F R E E T Y P E    P R O J E C T

                          Alpha Release 3

                   The FREE TrueType Font Engine

    Copyright 1995 David Turner
    Copyright 1996 David Turner    <turner@enst.fr>
                   Robert Wilhelm  <robert@physiol.med.tu-muenchen.de>
                   Werner Lemberg <a7971428@unet.univie.ac.at>



  The FreeType project aims the  development  of a free and portable
  quality TrueType  renderer,  available  with  source  code.   This
  package  is  known  as  AR3  (Alpha  Release  3)  and contains the
  current  library  and  two   test  programs  used  to  demonstrate
  performance (a simple glyph viewer, and a simple profiler).

  It is release for informative and demonstration purposes only. The
  authors provide it as is, with no warranty.

  IMPORTANT NOTE : FreeType is not a font server for your preferred OS.
                   It is a *portable* library on which it will later be
                   possible to write TrueType subsystems for various
                   platforms. Source codes are provided in ANSI C and
                   Pascal ( for Borland and Virtual compilers ).
                   The current package has been compiled succesfully
                   under Dos, Linux, OS/2, Amiga and a variety of Unix
                   systems.

  0. Where to find the latest FreeType release ?

       freetype.zip was uploaded to sunsite and should appear
       there and at mirror sites soon.
       Please make sure to get the  171506 bytes long archive
       dated December 1996.

          ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/X11/fonts/freetype.zip

       The home site of the FreeType project is
       
           ftp://ftp.physiol.med.tu-muenchen.de/pub/freetype
       
       
       There is also a mailing list:
       
           freetype@lists.tu-muenchen.de 
       
       send the usual subscription commands to:
       
           majordomo@lists.tu-muenchen.de .
       
       
       Any suggestions/bug reports are welcome.
       
  --------------------------------------------------------------------

  1. What's in this release :

       Unfortunately, we could not release a beta. Some things have
       evolved more than expected, some others slower.  Anyway, you
       can now benefit from the following features that were not in
       the previous release AR2 :

          - grayscale support in DOS, OS/2 and X11

          - much, much better portability, configurability 
            and memory usage

          - the engine now loads all character mappings (in C)
            though there is no character to glyph index mapping
            fuction yet.

          - more bugfixes, of course .. ;)

       What is to come in the next release is :

          - full-featured TrueType interpreter.

          - multiple opened font instances.

          - new file and memory models for better performance and
            caching.

          - a first high-level interface.

          - and still more bugfixes..


Thanks for your time and consideration,

David Turner, Robert Wilhelm, Werner Lemberg,
and all the FreeType enthousiasts ...

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