updating docs/CHANGES

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2007-01-08 David Turner <david@freetype.org>
* docs/CHANGES: updating documentation
* include/freetype/ftgasp.h, src/base/ftgasp.c: adding a
new API FT_Get_Gasp to return entries of the GASP table
corresponding to a given character pixel size.

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- Various memory leaks have been found and fixed.
- Fixed the TrueType name loader that didn't deal properly with some
fonts that encode their names in UTF-16 (the spec was vague, and
the code assumed UCS-4)
- Fixed the TrueType bytecode loader to deal properly with subtle
monochrome/gray issues when scaling the CVT. Some fonts exhibited
bad rendering artefacts otherwise.
- FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden now supports vertical layouts correctly
(it mangled the vertical advance height)
II. NEW API FUNCTIONS
- FT_Library_SetLcdFilter allows you to select a special filter to
be applied to the bitmaps generated by FT_Render_Glyph when one
of FT_RENDER_MODE_LCD and FT_RENDER_MODE_LCD_V is used. This
filter is used to reduce color-fringes, several settings are
available through the FT_LCD_FILTER_XXX enum.
See its declaration and documentation in FT_LCD_FILTER_H, a.k.a.
include/freetype/ftlcdfil.h.
*IMPORTANT*: note that this function returns an error
(FT_Err_Unimplemented_Feature) in default builds of the library
for patent reasons. See below
- FT_Get_Gasp allows you to query the TrueType GASP flags for a
given character pixel size. This is only useful to duplicate
Windows' text rendering, when the native bytecode interpreter is
enabled (which still isn't the default for other patent reasons)
Declaration and documentation in FT_GASP_H, a.k.a.
include/freetype/ftgasp.h
III. IMPORTANT CHANGES
- The auto-hinter has been severely tuned to improve its results
with serif fonts. This results in much better font rendering of
many web pages.
II. IMPORTANT CHANGES
- The unpatented hinter is now part of the default build of the
library; we have added code to automatically support `tricky'
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*disable* the feature to save code space by undefining
TT_CONFIG_OPTION_UNPATENTED_HINTING in ftoption.h.
- LCD-optimized rendering is now DISABLED in all default builds of
the library, mainly due to PATENT issues. For more information
see:
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The displayed result should be equal to normal anti-aliased
rendering.
Additionally, if FT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_RENDERING is not
defined, the new FT_Library_SetLcdFilter function will return
the FT_Err_Unimplemented_Feature error code.
- Some computation bugs in the TrueType bytecode interpreter were
found, which allow us to get rid of very subtle and rare
differences we had experienced with the Windows renderer.
- It's now possible to cross-compile the library easily. See the
file docs/INSTALL.CROSS for details
III. MISCELLANEOUS
- TrueType glyph loading is now about 25% faster.
- Various performance and memory footprint optimizations have been
performed on the TrueType and CFF font loaders, sometimes with
very drastic benefits (e.g. the TrueType loader is now about
25% faster, FreeType should use less heap memory in nearly all
conditions)
- The anti-aliased rasterizer has been optimized and is now 15% to
25% percent faster than in previous versions, depending on
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- The Type 1 loader has been improved; as an example, it now skips
top-level dictionaries properly.
- fixed the PFR font loader so that font files without any outlines
are not recognized as FT_FACE_FLAG_SCALABLE anymore
- better support for Mac Fonts on POSIX systems, plus compilation
fixes for PPC64
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