FreeType has released version 2.14.0 of its modular font engine, which offers a unified API for processing and outputting font data in various vector and raster formats. The project code, written in C, is distributed under the BSD-like license Freetype.
Some of the changes in this release include:
- Optimized TrueType instructions, resulting in 15% faster loading of glyphs.
- Accelerated processing of variable fonts.
- 5-10% faster loading of TrueType and CFF glyphs on modern 64-bit platforms.
- Reduced font loading time by 75% in the BDF driver.
- Increased ‘GPOS’ processing productivity by 3.5 times.
- Improved handling of diacritic glyphs and basic glyphs in the auto hinter for small characters.
- Added configuration macro “ft_config_option_use_harfbuzz_dynamic” for dynamic loading of glyph layout features from HarfBuzz.
- Ignored flagsh ft_load_no_Bitmap in completely raster fonts of TrueType, now loading bitmaps instead of outputting errors.
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