is presented Release Freetype 2.12.0 , modular font engine providing a single API to unify the processing and output of font data in various vector and raster formats.
- Added support for the font format OpenType-SVG (OT-SVG), allowing you to create OpenType colored fonts. The main feature of OT-SVG is the ability to use in one glyph of several colors and gradients.
All glyphs or part of the glyphs are presented in the form of SVG images, which allows you to display text with the quality of full vector graphics, keeping the possibilities of working with information as text (editing, search, indexation) and inheritating the features of Openmentpe format, such as glyphs replacement or alternative glyph styles .To enable OT-SVG support in Freetype, the “ft_config_option_svg” parameter is provided. By default, only the SVG table from the font is provided, but using the SVG-Hooks property provided in the new OT-SVG module, it is possible to connect external SVG drawing engine. For example, the examples presented as part are used to draw a library librsvg .
- improved font processing with table ‘ SBIX ‘ (Standard Bitmap Graphics Table), defined in the OpenType 1.9 specification.
- updated to version 1.2.11 The code of the built-in ZLIB library.
- Improvements are made to the assembly system, including changes related to the use of the built-in or external ZLIB library.
- Added support for Universal Windows Platform for not desktop systems.
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