freetype: A free, high-quality, and portable font engine¶
Description¶
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‘FreeType’ is also called ‘FreeType 2’, to distinguish it from the old, deprecated ‘FreeType 1’ library, a predecessor no longer maintained and supported.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¶
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¶
home: https://www.freetype.org
repo:
Dependencies¶
See the dependencies file.
Type¶
standard
Equivalent System Packages¶
conda:
$ conda install freetype-devel harfbuzz glib
cygwin:
$ apt-cyg install freetype-devel harfbuzz glib
Debian/Ubuntu:
$ sudo apt-get install freetype-devel harfbuzz glib
freebsd:
$ sudo pkg install freetype-devel harfbuzz glib
homebrew:
$ brew install freetype-devel harfbuzz glib
nix:
$ nix-env --install freetype-devel harfbuzz glib
opensuse:
$ sudo zypper install freetype-devel harfbuzz glib
slackware:
$ sudo slackpkg install freetype-devel harfbuzz glib
void:
$ 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.