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Welcome to the documentation directory.
Most of the files here are obsolete or will undergo great changes!
However, the following titles are up-to-date and useful:
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apiref.txt FreeType high-level API reference. All the types,
functions and error codes of FreeType
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user.txt FreeType's user guide. A guide to FreeType's
concepts, a step by step example, and a note about
future works and projects.
The following files are incomplete, but useful:
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FAQ A rather obsolete faq, but many of its sections
remain true.
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convntns.txt The FreeType developer's conventions guide. Lists
the design and coding conventions used in the
engine's source code. This file is incomplete and
needs some updates, but still contains very
important information.
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history.txt FreeType's history. Yes, this engine is the result
of several damaged brains who decided to provide a
_real_ TrueType engine to the masses. This text
isn't up to date but gives some relatively good
info.
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memory.txt This document is a draft that originated FreeType's
internal memory and object management model. Even if
the real one is more sophisticated, this file gives
some interesting clues. It will soon disappear.
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raster.doc The scan-line converter's internals explained. The
document is still incomplete but presents many key
concepts.
Soon to come: These documents will probably come with the first
public release, also known as FreeType 1.0.
FAQ An updated FreeType faq, with many more questions,
and answers!
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develop.txt The FreeType developer's guide. All you need to know
in order to be able to understand and even hack the
engine's core source code.
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extend.txt The FreeType extension writer's how-to. All you need
to be able to provide new extensions to the engine.
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porting.txt The FreeType porting guide. All you need to
configure and adapt very easily FreeType's source
code to tailor it to your own platform.
Learn how to provide your own memory, i/o and mutex
components, best fitted to your system. See how you
can build a singly-threaded, thread-safe or
re-entrant version of the engine from the same
source code!
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history.txt Updated, with all the juicy bits! Things you could
have never imagined from FreeType's authors (neither
did we :-)
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undoc.txt Undocumented TrueType!
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the TrueType
specification is fuzzy and misleading enough to
disband some serious commercial developers, but
that's wasn't enough for us. Even though it took
some time (aaargh...), we finally discovered through
hard work the real meanings of the specs, fixed some
errors and even found surprising undocumented
behaviour or features!