A truetype outline font library for Amiga computers.
Older Change History
Changes in v0.8.2
Correct rendering of accents in some fonts
Changes in v0.8.1
Full unicode support fixed
Many more fonts which previously failed will work. Specifically, fonts
which lack an 'OS/2' table (common in fonts comming from the Mac) should
now work.
ttfmanager has a new SpaceWidth entry gadget on the Options window
CPU Specific archives for the entire 68K line
Changes in v0.8.0
Full unicode support now enabled
Many fonts which previously reported 'broken font - invalid
reference' should now work. Dig out those broken fonts!
Eliminate some needless memory copying in font loading.
New mapping test window available on the Options window.
Encoding selection will choose Win Unicode over Apple; fixes
quite a few screwy fonts with bad Apple Unicode tables.
Preview window no longer limited to 640x400.
Changes in v0.7.9
rotation and shearing support added
Changes in v0.7.8
fixes yMin entry gadget
eliminate crash potential when a random file is entered as a
codepage definition
add Bitline, a tool for bitmap generation
Changes in v0.7.7
adds options to select various or custom metrics to determine
the height factor used to scale fonts to the proper size.
In particular, this should make the M$ euro fonts usable (again).
variety of small bug fixes
Changes in v0.7.5
eliminate possible crash when font file was missing
width lists corrected (broken in v0.7) (Should look much better in
AmigaWriter.)
kerning support enabled
add some keyboard controls to ttfmanager, especially in preview window
Changes in v0.7.3
support for infamous win symbol encoding
added 'stretch' option for larger glyphs at small sizes
applied the most current freetype patches
Changes in v0.7.2
plugged a nasty memory leak in the library
font specific a codepage support enabled
Changes in v0.7.1
fixes a few baseline problems (especially with accented characters)
several small cosmetic changes
Changes in v0.7
Reinstall warning - Fonts installed with any previous versions
of ttf.library must be reinstalled with version 0.7
ttfmanager has many new options
In addition to several internal changes, the library is faster.
Typical diskfont use completes in one third less time on a 040/25MHz.
Changes in v0.6.3
Added provisions for alternate character sets to allow
use on systems not using Amiga default ECMA Latin-1 (See the
Unicode site
for useful codepage mapping files.)
Changes in v0.6.2
Really fixed character advance calculations and the left side
bearing is repaired.
Source of mystery crashes found and fixed.
Changes in v0.6
Re-examined the character advance calculations to improve
spacing at smaller sizes.
Modified the font install routines to calculate the extremes
of the ascent and descent by default. Problem fonts (baseline
shifts or clipped glyphs) should be re-installed with the
new ttfmanager or ttfinstall version.
Added a fake version number to ttf.library for WordWorth.
Changes in v0.5
ttfmanager - a Workbench interface for font installation
added ttflib.guide and ttflib.readme to distribution
Changes in v0.4
WidthLists are now supported.
Subtle changes to returns of non-existent glyphs to be more
compatible with bullet, and make smaller (memory wise) fonts
when called by diskfont.library.
ttfinstall - correct advance width problem with monospaced fonts
added ttflib.guide and ttflib.readme to distribution
changes in V0.3
Sets many more tags in otag file to make some programs much
happier (FinalWriter, to name one.)
Mimic bullet.library in handling of glyphless codes, such as space.
Widths are calculated more appropriately, resulting in better
display under many conditions.
Several other peculiar, but un-enumerated, bugs were squashed.
Due to several of these changes, All fonts installed with
v0.2 or earlier must be re-installed. Sorry, but the results
are usually worth it.
