.. _spkg_freetype:

freetype: A free, high-quality, and portable font engine
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Description
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From the documentation:

FreeType is a software font engine that is designed to be small,
efficient, highly customizable, and portable while capable of
producing high-quality output (glyph images). It can be used in
graphics libraries, display servers, font conversion tools, text image
generation tools, and many other products as well.

Note that FreeType is a font service and doesn't provide APIs to
perform higher-level features like text layout or graphics processing
(e.g., colored text rendering, ‘hollowing’, etc.). However, it greatly
simplifies these tasks by providing a simple, easy to use, and uniform
interface to access the content of font files.

Please note that ‘FreeType’ is also called ‘FreeType 2’, to
distinguish it from the old, deprecated ‘FreeType 1’ library, a
predecessor no longer maintained and supported.

The package in Sage is called freetype (in lowercase).

License
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-  FreeType (BSD-like)
-  GNU Public License v2

From the documentation:

FreeType is released under two open-source licenses: our own BSD-like
FreeType License and the GNU Public License, Version 2. It can thus
be used by any kind of projects, be they proprietary or not.


Upstream Contact
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-  home: https://www.freetype.org
-  repo:

   -  official: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/freetype
   -  mirror: https://github.com/aseprite/freetype2/

Dependencies
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See the ``dependencies`` file.

Type
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standard


Version Information
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package-version.txt::

    2.10.1


Equivalent System Packages
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conda:

.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

    $ conda install freetype-devel harfbuzz glib

cygwin:

.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

    $ apt-cyg install freetype-devel harfbuzz glib

Debian/Ubuntu:

.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

    $ sudo apt-get install  freetype-devel harfbuzz glib

freebsd:

.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

    $ sudo pkg install freetype-devel harfbuzz glib

homebrew:

.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

    $ brew install freetype-devel harfbuzz glib

nix:

.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

    $ nix-env --install freetype-devel harfbuzz glib

opensuse:

.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

    $ sudo zypper install freetype-devel harfbuzz glib

slackware:

.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

    $ sudo slackpkg install freetype-devel harfbuzz glib

void:

.. CODE-BLOCK:: bash

    $ sudo xbps-install  freetype-devel harfbuzz glib

See https://repology.org/project/freetype-devel/versions, https://repology.org/project/harfbuzz/versions, https://repology.org/project/glib/versions

If the system package is installed, ./configure will check whether it can be used.