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FreeType is a freely available software library to render fonts. |
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FreeType is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, |
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highly customizable, and portable while capable of producing high-quality output |
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It is written in C, designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable, and portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images) of most vector and bitmap font formats. |
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(glyph images). It can be used in graphics libraries, display servers, font |
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conversion tools, text image generation tools, and many other products as well. |
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Some products that use FreeType for rendering fonts on screen or on paper, either exclusively or partially: |
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The FreeType engine is a free and portable font rendering |
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engine, developed to provide advanced font support for a variety of |
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platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and |
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manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render |
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individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete |
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text-rendering library. |
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This includes some tools that are in FreeType 1's contrib directory. |
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ttf2pfb: Converting TrueType fonts to the Postscript Type 1 format. |
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Note that FreeType is a font service and doesn't provide APIs to perform |
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ttf2pk: A simple conversion tool to bring TrueType quality to the |
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higher-level features like text layout or graphics processing (e.g., colored |
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TeX world. |
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text rendering, "hollowing", etc.). However, it greatly simplifies these tasks |
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ttf2bdf: Produce bitmapped fonts from TrueType files for your X11 |
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by providing a simple, easy to use, and uniform interface to access the content |
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applications. |
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of font files. |
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ttfbanner: make posters using a TrueType font |
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WWW: http://www.freetype.org/ |
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WWW: http://www.freetype.org/ |