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Announcing
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F R E E T Y P E 1 . 3 . 1
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The FREE TrueType Font Engine
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Copyright (C) 1996-1999 The FreeType Development Team
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The FreeType engine is a free and portable TrueType font rendering
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engine, available in ANSI C and Pascal source code. It has been
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developed to provide TrueType support to a great variety of
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platforms and environments.
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Notice that FreeType is a *library*. It is *not* a font server
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for your preferred environment, even though it has been designed
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to be the basis of many high-level libraries, tools and font
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servers.
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DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER
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DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER
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DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER
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DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER
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WE HAVE RECENTLY DISCOVERED THAT APPLE OWNS SEVERAL PATENTS
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RELATED TO THE RENDERING OF TRUETYPE FONTS. THIS COULD MEAN THAT
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THE FREE USE OF THE FREETYPE LIBRARY MIGHT BE ILLEGAL IN THE USA,
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JAPAN, AND POSSIBLY OTHER COUNTRIES. FOR MORE INFORMATION, WE
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STRONGLY ADVISE YOU TO GO TO THE FREETYPE WEB SITE AT:
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http://www.freetype.org/patents.htm
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DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER
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DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER
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DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER
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DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER DISCLAIMER
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It's a clean-room implementation that is not derived from the
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original TrueType engine developed by Apple and Microsoft, though
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it matches it regarding rendering quality. To our knowledge, it's
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the only royalty-free complete TrueType engine available.
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Version 1.3.1 fixes several bugs found in 1.3.
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Version 1.3 fixes several bugs found in 1.2, as well as provide
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the engine with enhanced capabilities, like support for embedded
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bitmaps and rudimentary TrueType Open support.
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For more information, please visit the freetype web site at:
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http://www.freetype.org
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