presented release Freetype 2.13.0 , a modular font engine providing a single API to unify the processing and output of font data in various vector and raster formats.
Among :
- A new extended version of the FTMULTI demonstration utility, which now combines in one application, the functionality of all graphic demonstration programs previously delivered to Freetype. The FTMULTI interface is implemented on the basis of the Framwar Qt.
- In the category of stable, the API was converted to access to color vector fonts COLR V1 (the subset of Opentype fonts containing in addition to vector glyphs layers with color information).
- Added support for the second version of the extension “ avar ” (Axis Variation Table) that allows the font to change the bindings between normalized and axial values.
- Added API ft_glyphslot_slant for inclination of a glyph at a given angle.
- declared outdated and 38 version of the Truetype interpreter, released 10 years ago, will be removed. By default, Freetype has been used for six years 40 version of the Truetype interpreter.
/Media reports cited above.