

                             Announcing


                      F R E E T Y P E    1 . 1

			The Public Release!


                   The FREE TrueType Font Engine


       Copyright (C) 1996-1998 The FreeType Development Team



  The FreeType engine is a free and portable TrueType font rendering
  engine, available in  ANSI C and Pascal source  code.  It has been
  developed to  provide TT support  to a great variety  of platforms
  and environments.
  
  Notice that  FreeType is a *library*.   It is *not*  a font server
  for your  preferred environment, even though it  has been designed
  to  be the  basis of  many  high-level libraries,  tools and  font
  servers.

  It's  a clean-room  implementation that  is not  derived  from the
  original  TT engine developed  by Apple  and Microsoft,  though it
  matches it  regarding rendering  quality.  To our  knowledge, it's
  the only royalty-free complete TrueType engine available.

  Version 1.1  fixes several bugs found  in 1.0, as  well as provide
  the engine  with enhanced capabilities, like  support for vertical
  metrics.

  For more information, please visit the freetype web site at:

		      http://www.freetype.org

