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Copyrights and Credits

There are some copyrights on parts of the library and there are some programmers (or corporations) which I want to give credit. The library uses:
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all internal parts of the X11-rasterizer donated to the X11-project by IBM. This rasterizer does the real hard work of scan-conversion.
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the modifications to the rasterizer done by Piet Tutelaers in his ps2pk-package. The main purpose was decoupling the sources from the X11-system sources.
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the parse_AFM software which was made freely available by Adobe. This is used to parse the AFM files (what a surprise) and to generate the data structures the information is saved in.

Raph Levien (raph@acm.org) contributed an algorithm for sampling down non-antialiased bitmaps to antialiased bitmaps in a very efficient manor. This makes antialiasing a lot faster.

Fred L. Drake, Jr. (fdrake@acm.org) wrote a Python interface to t1lib, which is distributed with t1lib. This wrapper is called t1python and allows Python-programmers to use Type 1 fonts. I can not tell anything more on this topic since I do not know the Python language. All questions concerning the Python interface should thus be addressed to Fred L. Drake, Jr.

Evgeny Stambulchik (fnevgeny@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il), maintainer of the grace-project--a descendent of xmgr, never gets tired of finding and reporting (and fixing) bugs in t1lib. Other members of this project spent time in porting t1lib to further systems:

Hirotsugo Kakugawa (h.kakugawa@computer.org) added support for GNU libtool to t1lib.

David Huggins-Daines (bn711@freenet.carleton.ca) spent effort in finding memory leaks and maintains a Debian-package of t1lib.

Thanks to all these people
and to all those contributors not mentioned here!


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2005-01-12