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diff --git a/graphics/ttfautohint/README b/graphics/ttfautohint/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..842f87edff5ad --- /dev/null +++ b/graphics/ttfautohint/README @@ -0,0 +1,36 @@ +ttfautohint provides 99% automated hinting process and a +platform for finely hand-hinting the last 1%. It is ideal +for web fonts and supports many scripts: Latin,Greek,Hebrew, +Devanagari,Khmer,Thai and many more. + +It takes a TrueType font as the input,removes its bytecode +instructions (if any), and returns a new font where all +glyphs are bytecode hinted using the information given by +FreeType's auto-hinting module. The idea is to provide the +excellent quality of the auto-hinter on platforms +that don't use FreeType. + +The library has a single API function, `TTF_autohint'; see +`lib/ttfautohint.h' for a detailed description. +Note that the library itself won't get installed currently. + +A command-line interface to the library is the `ttfautohint' +program; after compilation and installation, say + + ttfautohint --help + +for usage information, or say + + man ttfautohint + +Optional dependencies: + +Inkscape: To convert SVG images to PDF. +pandoc-bin: To create pdf and html docs. + +Note: + +For this to build properly you will need to have a true login +shell in order to have a correctly populated environment +you will need to either use "su -l" when switching to root, +or source the /etc/profile script after doing "su" |