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The idea of writing this library was due to the SciTeXt-project which
was founded in 1996. They needed a font raster system with some more
functionality than X11 provided. You may find that some things (for
example the format of the font database file) is really closely
related to SciTeXt. In February '97 the SciTeXt developers decided to
migrate from C to Java and did not need a font rasterizer any more. Since I
thought there could be other applications for this library I continued the
work on it and voila.
I have removed the history description which followed at this place in some
previous versions. The history can be roughly viewed in the file Changes
which is located in the toplevel directory of the distribution.
2004-10-04