                      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 server was originally written by Mark Leisher, and he deserves
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;
 * typographical information made available through font properties;
 * proper endianness conversion when speaking to LSBFirst machines
   (e.g. PCs); mixed endianness machines are also supported, although,
   for obvious reasons, the code has not been tested;
 * no features of the standard X font server have been removed.

Building 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), but please make
sure that the Subject header of your message contains the string
`FreeType'.

                                        J. Chroboczek
