From: "Doug Eleveld" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Announce: AllegTTF version 1.2 available Date: 29 Jul 1998 18:43:00 GMT Organization: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Lines: 50 Message-ID: <01bdbb21$01e2d640$38247d81@dougelev> NNTP-Posting-Host: client36-56.oprit.rug.nl To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Announce: AllegTTF version 1.2 available What is ALLEGTTF ALLEGTTF is a collection of functions to produce anti-aliased text output and TTF (True Type Font) loader, a GRX font loader and a bitmap font loader for use with Allegro and DJGPP. Antialiased text means that fonts have 'soft' edges and blend into their backgrounds smoothly. Antialiased fonts are useful because the look a lot better than non-antialiased fonts, expecially at low resolutions. You can get it at http://huizen.dds.nl/~deleveld/index.htm Version 1.2 - Updated Freetype lib, a lot faster for some modes, C only profiling, and bug fixes - Modified profiling program for C only compilation. - Richard Lauder contributed some fixes for Unicode character set handling. I can't say that I've tested it as I know almost nothing about Unicode. - Changes the load_ttf_font_ex no longer to use the ascii flag as it isn't used there anymore. - Added load_ttf_font_ex2 function to allow users to have more control over loading Unicode character sets. - Added the Freetype 1.2 sources. - Changed default character sets for TTF2PCX from 32-255 to 32-128 which is more normal for Allegro fonts, and added the -cs and -ce flags to TTF2PCX to send the start and stop characters. - Increased scratchpad size from 32 to 128 for more reasonable limits on character sizes. Some of the examples were crashing in DOS but not WIN95! The WIN95 DPMI thing is really BAD, and I will try to test things under pure DOS before releasing. - Huge increase in speeds for 8 bit empty background rendering by using direct memory writes with far pointers instead of putpixel. Up to 2 times as fast! - Removed the jump tables and replaced them with switch. Tests showed that the speed difference wasn't that impressive and I decided to go back to the more portable solution. Doug Eleveld