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FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
The FreeType project is a team of volunteers who develop free, portable and high-quality software solutions for digital typography.  They specifically target embedded systems and focus on bringing small, efficient and ubiquitous products.

The FreeType 2 library is their new software font engine.  It has been designed to provide the following important features:
  * A universal and simple API to manage font files
  * Support for several font formats through loadable modules
  * High-quality anti-aliasing
  * High portability & performance

Supported font formats include:
  * TrueType files (.ttf) and collections (.ttc)
  * Type 1 font files both in ASCII (.pfa) or binary (.pfb) format
  * Type 1 Multiple Master fonts.  The FreeType 2 API also provides routines to manage design instances easily
  * Type 1 CID-keyed fonts
  * OpenType/CFF (.otf) fonts
  * CFF/Type 2 fonts
  * Adobe CEF fonts (.cef), used to embed fonts in SVG documents with the Adobe SVG viewer plugin.
  * Windows FNT/FON bitmap fonts

 This package contains the files needed to run programs that use the FreeType 2 library.

  Home Page: http://www.freetype.org/
  Authors: David Turner   <david.turner@freetype.org>
           Robert Wilhelm <robert.wilhelm@freetype.org>
           Werner Lemberg <werner.lemberg@freetype.org>