next up previous contents index
Next: How to Reach the Up: Introduction Previous: Copyrights and Credits   Contents   Index

Motivation

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