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FREEWARE: FreeType/2 a free TrueType driver for all OS/2s
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Turner)
Sun Feb 1 21:17:49 1998
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 01 Feb 1998 20:11:00 -0500
From: turner@Email.ENST.Fr (David Turner)
Reply-To: turner@Email.ENST.Fr (David Turner)
Reply-to: turner@Email.ENST.Fr (David Turner)
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FREETYPE/2 BETA
is now available for public download.
FreeType/2 is an OS/2 TrueType Font Driver DLL based on the FreeType engine.
It replaces IBM's TRUETYPE.DLL in Warp 4, but it can be installed on older
versions of OS/2 also.
Some features of FreeType/2:
- Seamless integration with OS/2. You almost don't know it's there!
- Supports outlines for further glyph manipulation
- Supports national characters (if provided in the font). Tested only with
Latin 2 languages so far
- Works fine with older releases of OS/2. Tested on Warp 3 and OS/2 2.1
- It's free
- And last but not least, it renders fonts better than the IBM engine!
See the FreeType/2 web page for more information and download instructions :
http://www.physiol.med.tu-muenchen.de/~robert/ft_os2/index.html
Information on the FreeType engine, on which the driver is built, can be
found at :
http://www.physiol.med.tu-muenchen.de/~robert/freetype.html
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