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Changes for version 0.05 - 2015-01-27

  • No changes since 0.05_02

Changes for version 0.04_03 - 2014-12-22

  • Simplify rendering tests t/30render.t, as there is false-negative tests results (GH#17).

Changes for version 0.04_02 - 2014-12-22

  • Update Changes.
  • Add licence, min perl version and link to repository in Makefile.PL (Ivan Baidakou, basiliscos).

Changes for version 0.04_01 - 2014-12-21

  • New BoundingBox class, which represents outline's bounding box for a face (Ivan Baidakou, basiliscos).
  • New NamedInfo class, which allows to access to information from 'names table' in font file, e.g. get font copyrigh information (Ivan Baidakou, basiliscos).
  • New CharMap class, which allows to access to character map from font typefaces (Ivan Baidakou, basiliscos).
  • Improve module building, i.e. use Devel::CheckLib instead of pkg-config invocation (Ivan Baidakou, basiliscos).
  • Skip pgm-comparison tests as they are dependend on underlying FT2 library version (Ivan Baidakou, basiliscos).
  • Retrieve more font face metrics: text_heigh, ascender and descender (Ivan Baidakou, basiliscos).
  • Update examples/font-info.pl which mimics more ftdump utility (Ivan Baidakou, basiliscos).
  • Apply patch to build (RT#64110) and fix compilation errors (RT#32713) (Zakariyya Mughal).

Modules

read font files and render glyphs from Perl using FreeType2
character map from font typefaces loaded from Font::FreeType
font typefaces loaded from Font::FreeType
glyphs from font typefaces loaded from Font::FreeType
information from 'names table' in font file