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ttfautohint 0.93
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by Werner Lemberg <wl@gnu.org>


This project provides a library which takes a TrueType font as the input,
removes its bytecode instructions (if any), and returns a new font where all
glyphs are bytecode hinted using the information given by FreeType's
autohinting module.  The idea is to provide the excellent quality of the
autohinter on platforms which don't use FreeType.

The library has a single API function, `TTF_autohint'; see
`lib/ttfautohint.h' for a detailed description.  Note that the library
itself won't get installed currently.

A command-line interface to the library is the `ttfautohint' program; after
compilation and installation, say

  ttfautohint --help

for usage information, or say

  man ttfautohint

to read its manual page.

A GUI to the library is `ttfautohintGUI'; it uses the Qt4 framework.  The
compilation of this application can be disabled with the `--without-qt'
configuration option.

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New in 0.93:

* New option `--components' to treat components of composite glyphs
  separately.  This greatly reduces the bytecode size.

  I'm waiting for reports whether this option works for most fonts; in case
  this is true I'm inverting the option, making it the default (and the old
  behaviour optional).

* Full support of TTCs, this is, all subfonts get auto-hinted now.

* The upper limit of the `--increase-x-height' option has been removed.

* Drag-and-drop support in the GUI.

* The TTY version of ttfautohint now acts like a (Unix) filter, this is, it
  accepts stdin and stdout as input and output, respectively.

* Less memory consumption.
Source: README, updated 2012-10-09