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We have released version 0.6 of the GNU font utilities.

This version fixes bugs in 0.5.  There are no new programs or major new
features.

To compile these programs, you will need GCC and GNU Make.  For the
programs which do online graphics, you will also need an X11 server and
the X11R4 or R5 libraries.

Send bugs or suggestions to bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu.

You can get the complete source (about 1.2MB compressed) by ftp from
  prep.ai.mit.edu [18.71.0.38]:pub/gnu/fontutils-0.6.tar.Z.

GNU software is also available from these other sites around the world;
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retrieve the file DISTRIB from a GNU archive.

I've also made diffs from version 0.5, omitting changes that can be
reproduced with etags, Bison, TeX, and makeinfo.  They're about 200K
compressed, in fontutils-0.5-0.6.diff.Z in the same place.  Before
applying the patch, do the following in the 0.5 directory:
	rm -f GNUmakefile doc/Makefile
	(cd bzrto; rm -f oblique.c oblique.h)
	(cd imageto; rm -f epsf.c epsf.h strips.c strips.h)

Here is a list of the important changes (in the file NEWS in the distribution):

* Imageto changes:
  - Automatically removes all pieces of adjacent characters; the
    `-clean-threshold' kludge is gone.
  - `-info-filename' option renamed to `-ifi-filename'.
  - Writes a complete GF font if the image file is incomplete.
  - No longer crashes on a filename lacking an extension.

* BZRto changes:
  - No longer requires TFM files as input along with the BZR files.
  - Doesn't guess that the CCC file is the same as the BZR file.
  - Ligature/kern Metafont output doesn't crash on missing characters.
  - Metafont output does better at not overflowing MF's memory.

* GSrenderfont changes:
  - Handles invisible characters, such as spaces.
  - Reads Type 3 PostScript fonts, as well as Type 1.
  - No longer requires an output encoding; default is same as input.
  - Reads fonts that aren't known to Ghostscript by default.

* Other program changes:
  - Limn doesn't try to log uninitialized floating-point numbers.
  - All the programs handle fontnames containing `.' better.
  - Verbose output usually goes to standard output, instead of standard error.
  - Minor installation and configuration fixes.

* Documentation changes:
  - The chapter on bug reporting has some further explanation of the
    purpose of what we ask for, and clarifications.  Please read before
    submitting bug reports.
  - The chapter on Imageto has been substantially rewritten.  I hope the
    difficulties people encountered using that program because of
    deficiencies in the manual will be cleared up now.

karl@cs.umb.edu
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