From b0b8df68d60d0e6d7f490d1506e938710656a857 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Turner <david@freetype.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:10:27 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] updating documentation
---
ChangeLog | 2 ++
docs/CHANGES | 96 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
2 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index fc3228f0c..ccf257759 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
* src/autohint/ahtypes.h: disabling metrics hinting in the auto-hinter.
this produces much better anti-aliased text
+ * docs/CHANGES: updating the changes documentation
+
2002-09-25 Anthony Fok <anthony@thizlinux.com>
* src/sfnt/ttcmap0.c: added support for opens___.ttf (it contains
diff --git a/docs/CHANGES b/docs/CHANGES
index fda9b86d0..52d5498ca 100644
--- a/docs/CHANGES
+++ b/docs/CHANGES
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.3 and 2.1.2
offsets are computed).
- II. MISCELLANEOUS
+ II. IMPORTANT CHANGES
- The automatic and postscript hinters have both been updated. This
results in a relatively important increase of rendering quality since
@@ -42,44 +42,6 @@ LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.3 and 2.1.2
for additional details on this topic.
- - Added support for the DESTDIR variable during "make install". This
- simplifies packaging of FreeType.
-
- - The DocMaker tool used to generate the on-line API reference has been
- completely rewritten. It is now located in
- "src/tools/docmaker/docmaker.py". Features:
-
- - better cross-referenced output
- - more polished output
- - uses Python regular expressions (though it didn't speed the
- program)
- - much more modular structure, which allows for different "backends"
- in order to generate HTML, XML, or whatever format.
-
- One can regenerate the API reference by calling:
-
- python src/tools/docmaker/docmaker.py \
- --prefix=ft2 \
- --title=FreeType-2.1.3 \
- --output=<outputdirectory>
- include/freetype/*.h \
- include/freetype/config/*.h \
- include/freetype/cache/*.h
-
- - A new, experimental, support for incremental font loading (i.e.,
- loading of fonts where the glyphs are not in the font file itself, but
- provided by an external component, like a Postscript interpreter) has
- been added by Graham Asher. This is still work in progress, however.
-
- - A new, experimental, path stroker has been added. It doesn't suffer
- from severe rounding errors and treat bezier arcs directly. Still
- work in progress (i.e. not part of the official API). See the file
- <freetype/ftstroker.h> for some of the details.
-
- - The massive re-formatting of sources and internal re-design is still
- under-way. Many internal functions, constants, and types have been
- renamed.
-
- The "load_flags" parameter of FT_Load_Glyph is now an FT_Int32
(instead of just being an FT_Int). This breaks source and binary
compatibility for 16bit systems only, while retaining both of them for
@@ -106,6 +68,62 @@ LATEST CHANGES BETWEEN 2.1.3 and 2.1.2
FT_LOAD_MONOCHROME is still supported, but only affects rendering, not
the hinting.
+ Note that the 'ftview' demo program available in the 'ft2demos' package
+ has been updated to support LCD-optimized display on non-paletted
+ displays (under Win32 and X11)
+
+
+ - The cache API has been slightly modified (it's still a beta after all!!):
+
+ - the type FTC_ImageDesc has been removed, it is now replaced by
+ FTC_ImageTypeRec. Note that one of its fields is a 'load_flag'
+ parameter for FT_Load_Glyph
+
+ - the field "num_grays" of FT_SBitRec has been changed to "max_grays"
+ in order to fit within a single byte. Its maximum value is thus 255
+ (instead of 256 as previously)
+
+
+ III. MISCELLANEOUS
+
+ - Added support for the DESTDIR variable during "make install". This
+ simplifies packaging of FreeType.
+
+ - The DocMaker tool used to generate the on-line API reference has been
+ completely rewritten. It is now located in
+ "src/tools/docmaker/docmaker.py". Features:
+
+ - better cross-referenced output
+ - more polished output
+ - uses Python regular expressions (though it didn't speed the
+ program)
+ - much more modular structure, which allows for different "backends"
+ in order to generate HTML, XML, or whatever format.
+
+ One can regenerate the API reference by calling:
+
+ python src/tools/docmaker/docmaker.py \
+ --prefix=ft2 \
+ --title=FreeType-2.1.3 \
+ --output=<outputdirectory>
+ include/freetype/*.h \
+ include/freetype/config/*.h \
+ include/freetype/cache/*.h
+
+ - A new, experimental, support for incremental font loading (i.e.,
+ loading of fonts where the glyphs are not in the font file itself, but
+ provided by an external component, like a Postscript interpreter) has
+ been added by Graham Asher. This is still work in progress, however.
+
+ - A new, experimental, path stroker has been added. It doesn't suffer
+ from severe rounding errors and treat bezier arcs directly. Still
+ work in progress (i.e. not part of the official API). See the file
+ <freetype/ftstroker.h> for some of the details.
+
+ - The massive re-formatting of sources and internal re-design is still
+ under-way. Many internal functions, constants, and types have been
+ renamed.
+
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