Solaris Package Archive -- freetype 1.3.1
Solaris Package Archive
freetype 1.3.1
Mark <mark@ibiblio.org>
What is it (from the web page):
freetype 1.3.1 is a clean-room implementation that is not derived from the
original TrueType engine developed by Apple and Microsoft. It has been created
with the sole help of the published TrueType specifications. Much hard work has
been undertaken to solve ambiguities. The end result is a portable and fast
renderer.
Note that freetype 1.3.1 is a library. It is not a font server for your favorite
platform, even though it was designed to be used in many of them. Note also that
it is not a complete text-rendering library. Its purpose is simply to open and
manage font files, as well as load, hint and render individual glyphs efficiently.
You can also see it as a "TrueType driver" for a higher-level library, though
rendering text with it is easy, as demonstrated by the test programs.
Its quality matches these of Windows and the Macintosh, while its memory foot-print
and code size remain modest.
The main site for freetype is
http://www.freetype.org/
Email To
Send bug reports to freetype@freetype.org.
Solaris Issues
I've locked each package to the Solaris release it was built on. Only install
the correct version for your system.
Note that this package was compiled with the X11R6.x software available on this site installed
on the production machine. This means that to sucessfully use this software you need
to install the X11 package as well, or create some X11 library links as mentioned in
the README.
Click here to read about the 32 bit and 64 bit Solaris 7 and 8 packages.
Source Code
You can download the source code from
ftp://freetype.sourceforge.net/pub/freetype/freetype1/freetype-1.3.1.tar.gz
Special Issues
As previously mentioned, also install the X11R6.4 package to ensure the required libraries are available.
See the main packages README for installation information.