                      THE FREETYPE X FONT SERVER

This package is supposed to enable the X11R6.3 system to use TrueType
fonts.  Note that I have not proved this code correct.

The actual magic is done by the FreeType library, a very impressive
clean-room implementation of a TrueType rasteriser.  FreeType can be
found at:

  <URL:http://www.physiol.med.tu-muenchen.de/~robert/freetype.html>

and on many mirrors.  All the praise for bringing TrueType fonts to
Unix is due to the FreeType developers -- by no means myself.

This code was originally written by Mark Leisher, and he can claim
much of the credit for it.  I started with an almost working version.

The features of the server are as follows:

 * CAP_SUBSETTING: subsetting of encodings;
 * CAP_MATRIX: arbitrary linear transformations of glyphs; 
 * on-the-fly reencoding of fonts, for all three backends (TrueType,
   Type 1 and Speedo);
 * possibility to define new encodings at runtime;
 * typographical information made available through font properties;
 * proper endianness conversion when speaking to LSBFirst machines
   (e.g. PCs); mixed endianness machines are also supported;
 * no features of the standard X font server have been removed.

Building instructions (only needed if you are compiling your version)
are in the file BUILDING.  Installation instructions are in the file
INSTALL.  Usage instructions are in the file USAGE.

Up-to-date information on this code is available on

  <URL:http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/programs/xfsft/>

I can be reached by e-mail as <jec@dcs.ed.ac.uk>.  Feel free to
contact me with your problems (or success stories); please make
sure that the Subject header of your message contains the string
`FreeType'.

                                        J. Chroboczek
