Fontconfig to select fonts and the X protocol for rendering them. When
available, Xft uses the Render extension to accelerate text drawing.
When Render is not available, Xft uses the core protocol to draw
client-side glyphs. This provides completely compatible support of
client-side fonts for all X servers.
Xft (2.0) hides most of the underlying system details so that developers
can confidently use its API to access client-side fonts in any X
environment.
I will try to track the most current tarball available.
ChangeLog has:
2006-06-06 Daniel Stone <daniel@freedesktop.org>
* configure.ac:
Bump to 2.1.10.
* include/X11/Xft/Xft.h:
* src/xftname.c:
Add XftNameUnparse to the public API.
2006-06-03 Daniel Stone <daniel@freedesktop.org>
* configure.ac:
* include/X11/Xft/Xft.h:
Bump to 2.1.9.
* src/*.c:
* include/X11/Xft/Xft.h:
Bug #4711: Don't export unnecessary symbols. (Alan Coopersmith)
