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Welcome to the early alpha of the FreeType Project !
FreeType is the name of a single-man project dedicated to writing a FREE
TrueType engine and making its source code available. If you think you can
help, please write to the author whose address can be found below..
Please read the file 'FREETYPE.TXT' for more info.
This version of the source code is a very early alpha. I started this
project in late December 1995, but had to stop it nearly completely for
various personnal matters around Feb 96. My work and social life won't
let me polish it before Christmas 96, which is why I prefered giving this
source away, in the hope that someone could alreday find it useful.
It was developped using both Borland Pascal on DOS and Virtual Pascal
on OS/2 ( a must-have of a compiler !! ).
The rasterizer is nearly completed. It works extremely well but lacks
some minor features that won't be of importance until the interpreter is
fully debugged and functionnal. So what you get now is a very good library
to display non-hinted TrueType chars, plus several lines of code forming
an already solid interpreter and a debugger..
The rasterizer is quite advanced, and is able to take advantage of the
memeory available. When memory is scarce, it will sub-band the work to
render with the same quality, only taking slightly more time..
( And most of the comments have been translated into english )
I would like to see ports to Delphi 1 and 2, I don't think this should be
a great problem. I have not the time ( nor the software :) to do it right now
Please send me any of the modifications you could find useful so that I
include it in this distribution. Thanks in Advance..
This software is provided AS IS, as you might already suspect :-)
Please let me know your feedback, I'll be happy to discuss about the
engine.
- David TURNER
Student at Telecom ( Paris )
turner@enst.fr
32 rue de Tolbiac
75013 Paris.