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Updated: Wednesday, July 27, 2022
 
 

libfreetype (3lib)

Name

libfreetype - font rendering library

Synopsis

#include <ft2build.h>
#include FT_FREETYPE_H

Description

libfreetype(3lib)             Interface Libraries            libfreetype(3lib)



NAME
       libfreetype - font rendering library

SYNOPSIS
       #include <ft2build.h>
       #include FT_FREETYPE_H

DESCRIPTION
       libfreetype is a software library to access the contents of font files.
       It supports both bitmap and scalable formats, including TrueType, Open-
       Type, Type1, CID, CFF, WOFF, Windows FON/FNT, X11 PCF, and others.

       Full documentation of the library is available on the community website
       at https://www.freetype.org/

FILES
       The following files are provided by this library:

       /usr/include/freetype2/ft2build.h
           Public header file

       /usr/lib/libfreetype.so
           32-bit shared library

       /usr/lib/64/libfreetype.so
           64-bit shared library

       /usr/lib/pkgconfig/freetype2.pc
           pkg-config(1) file for 32-bit shared library

       /usr/lib/64/pkgconfig/freetype2.pc
           pkg-config(1) file for 64-bit shared library

       /usr/share/doc/freetype
           documentation files, including FreeType API Reference.


ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+---------------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |     ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
       +---------------+---------------------------+
       |Availability   | system/library/freetype-2 |
       +---------------+---------------------------+
       |Stability      | Pass-through volatile     |
       +---------------+---------------------------+

SEE ALSO
       freetype-config(1), pkg-config(1), attributes(7)

       /usr/share/doc/freetype/index.html

NOTES
       See the FreeType API Reference for details on the thread safety of  the
       various  API  calls, including details on which data structures must be
       protected by a mutex if used in multiple threads.


       Source code for open source software components in Oracle  Solaris  can
       be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
       code-downloads.html.

       This    software    was    built    from    source     available     at
       https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland.    The  original  community
       source      was      downloaded      from       https://download.savan-
       nah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.11.1.tar.xz.

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at https://www.freetype.org/.



FreeType 2.11.1                   20 Oct 2020                libfreetype(3lib)