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# $Id: README,v 1.18 1999/08/19 16:30:24 mleisher Exp $
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# Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Computing Research Labs,
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# New Mexico State University
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#
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# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
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# copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
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# to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
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# the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
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# and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
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# Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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#
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# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
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# all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
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#
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# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
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# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
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# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
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# THE COMPUTING RESEARCH LAB OR NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY BE LIABLE FOR ANY
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# CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT
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# OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR
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# THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
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#
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This is version 2.7 of a program to convert TrueType fonts to BDF fonts using
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the FreeType renderer.
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BDF fonts can be edited using the XmBDFEditor which is available from (replace
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the <version> with the most current version number):
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[Sources]
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ftp://crl.nmsu.edu/CLR/multiling/General/xmbdfed.tar.gz
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[Binaries: Linux/Pentium, Solaris, SunOS]
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ftp://crl.nmsu.edu/CLR/multiling/General/xmbdfed-<version>-ELF.tar.gz
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ftp://crl.nmsu.edu/CLR/multiling/General/xmbdfed-<version>-SOLARIS.tar.gz
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COMPILING ttf2bdf
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-----------------
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1. Pick up the latest FreeType distribution from:
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ftp://ftp.physiol.med.tu-muenchen.de/pub/freetype/devel/freetype-current.tar.gz
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2. Unpack FreeType and build it.
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3. Go into the "contrib/ttf2bdf/" directory and type "make" to build "ttf2bdf".
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RUNNING ttf2bdf
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---------------
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Type the following to get a list of command line options:
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% ttf2bdf -h
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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----------------
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Thanks go to the following people:
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Robert Wilhelm <robert@physiol.med.tu-muenchen.de> for pointing out a
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crucial problem with the pre-1.0 code.
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Lho Li-Da <ollie@ms1.hinet.net> for pointing out a problem with Big5 and
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GB2312 encoding ids being documented incorrectly in the TT docs and a
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problem with glyphs that are height 1 or width 1, and a font name problem.
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Adrian Havill <havill@threeweb.ad.jp> for unintentionally pointing out a
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missing feature.
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Richard Verhoeven <rcb5@win.tue.nl> for pointing out a font names problem,
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problem with bitmaps missing their last byte in each row, and an invalid
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FONT_DESCENT property value.
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Choi Jun Ho <junker@jazz.snu.ac.kr> for his inspiration from his
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implementation that changed some character set names, and added a
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number of new command line parameters.
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Pavel Kankovsky <peak@kerberos.troja.mff.cuni.cz> for providing some
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critical grid fitting and metrics fixes when generating the bitmaps,
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adding the code to "auto-detect" bold and italic fonts, removing the
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dependency on ttobjs.h, finding some remapping bugs, and other fixes.
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Matti Koskinen <mjkoskin@sci.fi> for pointing out a problem with using
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the code 0xffff.
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Eugene Bobin <gene@ftim.ustu.ru> for contributing the Cyrillic mapping
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tables (iso8859.5, koi8.r, windows.1251) and the sample shell scripts for
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generating sets of BDF fonts.
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Oleg N. Yakovlev <yashka@optima.dnepropetrovsk.ua> for alerting me to the
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problem of certain codes not being loaded correctly in the mapping tables.
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Bertrand Petit <elrond@phoe.frmug.org> for providing additional command line
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parameters to allow more control over the XLFD name generated.
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Roman Czyborra <czyborra@cs.tu-berlin.de> for pointing out the need for a
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change from UNICODE-2.0 to ISO10646-1 in the font XLFD name.
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Mike Blazer <blazer@mail.nevalink.ru> for pointing out the include changes
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needed to compile on Windows.
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Solofo Ramangalahy <solofo@mpi-sb.mpg.de> for contributing the ISO8859.1 and
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ISO8859.3 mapping tables.
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Antoine Leca <Antoine.Leca@renault.fr> for suggesting the exchange of
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columns in the mapping table to better fit the mapping table format used by
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many.
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Robert Brady <rwb197@ecs.soton.ac.uk> for pointing out a problem with the
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length of _XFREE86_GLYPH_RANGES properties and an Exceed font compiler.
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CHANGES
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Version 2.7
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===========
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1. Swapped all the columns in the mapping files.
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2. Changed the mapping table loader to index on the second column instead of
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the first.
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3. Reduced the line length of _XFREE86_GLYPH_RANGES properties to 256
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instead of 512.
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Version 2.6
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===========
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1. Changed the includes to deal with compilation on Windows.
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2. Added some new mapping tables.
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Version 2.5
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===========
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1. Updated the copyright dates.
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2. Fixed an incorrect parameter for Traditional C compilers.
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3. Added generation of the _XFREE86_GLYPH_RANGES properties.
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Version 2.4
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1. Change all CRLF's, CR's, or LF's in copyright strings to double spaces.
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2. Changed it so gcc 2.8.1 likes the return type of main() again.
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Version 2.3
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1. Changed Makefile.in a bit to make installation more consistent.
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2. Changed the lower limit for the vertical and horizontal resolutions to be
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10dpi instead of 50dpi.
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Version 2.2
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1. Added missing documentation in the manual page.
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2. Added the `-u' parameter to allow setting the character used to replace
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dashes or spaces in the font name.
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3. Changed the CHARSET_REGISTRY and CHARSET_ENCODING to be "ISO10646-1"
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instead of "Unicode-2.0".
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4. The numGlyphs property comes back incorrect for some fonts, so the loop
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cycles through all 65536 possibilities every time now.
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Version 2.1
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===========
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1. Added patches provided by Bertrand Petit.
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2. Insured compatibility with FreeType 1.1.
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Version 2.0
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1. Created two new subdirectories. One for mapping tables and one for any
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other contributed code, scripts, or data.
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2. Updated Cyrillic mapping files sent by Eugene Bobin.
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3. Minor fixes to make compatible with the latest version of FreeType.
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Version 1.9
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===========
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1. Fixed a problem with the first code of a mapping table being lost.
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Version 1.8
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1. Added the Unicode->Cyrillic mapping tables provided by Eugene Bobin.
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2. Created a shell script based on Eugene Bobin's scripts to generate sets
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of BDF fonts at one time.
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Version 1.7
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1. If a remapping table is provided, code ranges are now expected to be
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specified in terms of the codes in the mapping table.
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2. The glyph generation loop is improved a bit.
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Version 1.6
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1. Added two expected keywords REGISTRY and ENCODING in the remap files.
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These values are used when the font's XLFD name is generated.
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2. Added TTF2BDF_VERSION macro used for adding the "Converted by" comment.
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3. Handle the case of no glyphs being generated. No BDF font is produced.
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4. Updated for new API with TT_Engine.
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Version 1.5
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1. Fixed a problem with updating the average width field of the XLFD
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font name.
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2. Changed things so bitmaps are generated to a temporay file so an
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accurate count and metrics can be calculated.
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3. Changed things so the font header is not generated until the bitmaps
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have been generated. This allows accurate calculations of the various
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fields needed.
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4. Added the '-l' command line parameter that allows specification of a
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subrange of glyphs to generate. The syntax is the same as that used in
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X11 for subranges. See the X11 XLFD documentation, page 9 for more
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detail.
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Example:
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% ttf2bdf -l '60 70 80_90' font.ttf -o font.bdf
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The command above will only generate the glyphs for codes 60, 70,
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and 80 through 90 inclusive.
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5. Added the ability to load a mapping table that will remap a font to
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another character set. The mapping table should have two columns.
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The first column should be the hexadecimal code of the glyph in the
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"cmap" table ttf2bdf is using. The second column should have the
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code which should be used in the BDF font. An example mapping file
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is provided which will map fonts from Unicode (default cmap table) to
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ISO8859-2.
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6. Fixed grid fitting to avoid dropout in some cases.
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7. Removed dependency on ttobjs.h by using the new API function for
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retrieving strings.
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8. Removed warning about getpid() on Solaris.
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9. Rearranged the man page a bit to be more useful. Minor
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improvements also done.
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10. Changed the loop so it does not include 0xffff as a code because
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it causes crashes when converting some fonts.
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Version 1.4 [Never released as binaries]
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1. Changed the names of two MS encodings (Wansung and Johab) to
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KSC5601.1987 and KSC5601.1992.
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2. Added the '-n' command line flag to turn hinting off.
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3. Added the '-c' command line flag to set the font spacing.
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4. Added the '-t', '-w', and '-s' command line options to override the
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default typeface, weight and slant names.
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Version 1.3
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1. Converted to use the new FreeType API.
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2. Added the '-rh' and '-rv' command line parameters to allow both the
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horizontal and vertical resolutions to be set individually.
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3. Fixed a problem with ignoring undefined glyphs. All undefined were
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being rendered which caused missing glyphs on the end.
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4. Fixed a problem with offset calculations needed to render glyph
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bitmaps.
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Version 1.2
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1. Fixed a problem with dashes that appear in the font family name causing
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parse problems with the XLFD font names.
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2. Fixed a problem with certain bitmaps missing their final byte on each
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row.
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3. Fixed an incorrect FONT_DESCENT value.
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4. Changed things around so names can be retrieved in a more general way.
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5. Fixed a problem with bitmaps not being generated after a certain point.
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Version 1.1
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1. Fixed the actual glyph count for the CHARS line.
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2. Swapped the Big5 and GB2312 XLFD encoding strings because of incorrect TT
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specifications.
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3. Fixed a problem with bitmap generation for glyphs that are width 1 or
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height 1.
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4. Added command line parameters to set the font and render pool memory
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sizes in Kilobytes from the command line.
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Version 1.0
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1. Initial release.
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mleisher@crl.nmsu.edu (Mark Leisher)
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15 October 1997
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