Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:41:17 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <200410051441.i95EfHa23419@esds.vss.fsi.com> From: "Dr. Volker Zell" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New packages: t1lib-5.0.2-1/t1lib-x11-5.0.2-1 - Library for generating character- and string-glyphs from Adobe Type 1 fonts Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Hi The packages t1lib/t1lib-x11 are now available with the Cygwin distribution: * http://site.n.ml.org/info/t1lib/ (Homepage) * http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/libs/graphics/ (Download location) DESCRIPTION: ============ t1lib: ====== sdesc: "Library for generating character- and string-glyphs from Adobe Type 1 fonts" ldesc: "t1lib is a library distributed under the GNU General Public Library License for generating character- and string-glyphs from Adobe Type 1 fonts under UNIX. t1lib uses most of the code of the X11 rasterizer donated by IBM to the X11-project. But some disadvantages of the rasterizer being included in X11 have been eliminated. Here are some of the features: - t1lib is completely independent of X11 (although the program provided for testing the library needs X11) - fonts are made known to library by means of a font database file at runtime - searchpaths for all types of input files are configured by means of a configuration file at runtime - characters are rastered as they are needed - characters and complete strings may be rastered by a simple function call - when rastering strings, pairwise kerning information from .afm-files may optionally be taken into account - an interface to ligature-information of afm-files is provided - a program to generate afm-files from Type 1 font files is included - rotation and arbitrary transformations are supported - there's support for extending and slanting fonts - underlining, overlining and overstriking is supported - new encoding vectors may be loaded at runtime and fonts may be reencoded using these encoding vectors - antialiasing is implemented - Right-To-Left typesetting is supported - Font subsetting is easily possible - support of composite character information - stroking of character outlines with variable strokewidths - An interactive test program called 'xglyph' is included in the distribution. This program allows to test all of the features of the library. It requires X11." category: Libs requires: cygwin t1lib-x11: ========== sdesc: "Library for generating character- and string-glyphs from Adobe Type 1 fonts (X11 support)" ldesc: "t1lib is a library distributed under the GNU General Public Library License for generating character- and string-glyphs from Adobe Type 1 fonts under UNIX. t1lib uses most of the code of the X11 rasterizer donated by IBM to the X11-project. But some disadvantages of the rasterizer being included in X11 have been eliminated. Here are some of the features: - t1lib is completely independent of X11 (although the program provided for testing the library needs X11) - fonts are made known to library by means of a font database file at runtime - searchpaths for all types of input files are configured by means of a configuration file at runtime - characters are rastered as they are needed - characters and complete strings may be rastered by a simple function call - when rastering strings, pairwise kerning information from .afm-files may optionally be taken into account - an interface to ligature-information of afm-files is provided - a program to generate afm-files from Type 1 font files is included - rotation and arbitrary transformations are supported - there's support for extending and slanting fonts - underlining, overlining and overstriking is supported - new encoding vectors may be loaded at runtime and fonts may be reencoded using these encoding vectors - antialiasing is implemented - Right-To-Left typesetting is supported - Font subsetting is easily possible - support of composite character information - stroking of character outlines with variable strokewidths - An interactive test program called 'xglyph' is included in the distribution. This program allows to test all of the features of the library. It requires X11." category: Libs requires: cygwin t1lib xorg-x11-bin-dlls external-source: t1lib Enjoy Volker -- To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Once you've downloaded setup.exe, run it and select "Libs" and then click on the appropriate fields until the above announced version numbers appear if they are not displayed already. If your mirror doesn't yet have the latest version of this package after 24 hours, you can either continue to wait for that site to be updated or you can try to find another mirror. Please send questions or comments to the Cygwin mailing list at: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com If you want to subscribe go to: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/ I would appreciate if you would use this mailing list rather than emailing me directly. 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