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Package: libfreetype6

Description: FreeType 2 font engine, shared library files
The FreeType project is a team of volunteers who develop free, portable and high-quality software solutions for digital typography. They specifically target embedded systems and focus on providing small, efficient and ubiquitous products.
The FreeType 2 library is their new software font engine. It has been designed to provide the following important features:
 * A universal and simple API to manage font files
 * Support for several font formats through loadable modules
 * High-quality anti-aliasing
 * High portability & performance
Supported font formats include:
 * TrueType files (.ttf) and collections (.ttc)
 * Type 1 font files both in ASCII (.pfa) or binary (.pfb) format
 * Type 1 Multiple Master fonts. The FreeType 2 API also provides
 routines to manage design instances easily
 * Type 1 CID-keyed fonts
 * OpenType/CFF (.otf) fonts
 * CFF/Type 2 fonts
 * Adobe CEF fonts (.cef), used to embed fonts in SVG documents with
 the Adobe SVG viewer plugin.
 * Windows FNT/FON bitmap fonts
This package contains the files needed to run programs that use the FreeType 2 library.
Homepage: https://freetype.org
copyright | changelog | Debian changelog | README

Other documents:

/usr/share/doc/libfreetype6

Other packages built from the same source:

freetype2-doc libfreetype-dev libfreetype6-dev

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