Fedora 20 Update: ttfautohint-1.1-1.fc20

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2014-6214
2014-05-10 02:43:16.298840
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Name        : ttfautohint
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 1.1
Release     : 1.fc20
URL         : http://www.freetype.org/ttfautohint
Summary     : Automated hinting utility for TrueType fonts
Description :
This is a utility which 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 autohinting
module. The idea is to provide the excellent quality of the autohinter on
platforms which don't use FreeType.

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Update Information:

New in 1.1:

* Support for the Devanagari script.

* Bug fixes in the computation of strong stem widths. GDI hinting now gives much more consistent results.

* Better recognition of script coverage: ttfautohint now properly scans composite glyphs to cover components also.

* Improved glyph shape analysis: Non-flat local extrema are now recognized more reliably, and stem detection works better.

New in 1.00:

* Much less memory consumption while handling fonts with complicated glyphs.

* Option `-s' was partially broken.

New in 1.00rc1:

* OpenType feature support.  ttfautohint now uses the HarfBuzz library to analyze data from the `GSUB' table. This allows the hinting of glyphs that don't have an entry in a font's `cmap' table, for example superscripts or small caps.

Related to this, the new option `--default-script' controls the default (fallback) script used for OpenType features.

* More than a single standard character is used. For example, the `latin' script uses characters `o', `O', and digit `0'.  This improves the hinting of fonts (and features) that have only a partial coverage of a script's character repertoire.

* Much better GDI ClearType hinting in the range 30-80ppem (approx.), avoiding overly flat tops and bottoms of round glyphs.

* Better handling of non-square pixels (this is, horizontal and vertical resolutions differ) in the created TrueType bytecode.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed May  7 2014 Christopher Meng <rpm at cicku.me> - 1.1-1
- Update to 1.1
* Sat Mar 22 2014 Christopher Meng <rpm at cicku.me> - 1.00-1
- Update to 1.00
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1094735 - ttfautohint-1.1 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1094735
  [ 2 ] Bug #1083912 - [abrt] ttfautohint: _dl_map_object_deps(): ttfautohint killed by SIGSEGV
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1083912
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update ttfautohint' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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