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# FreeType-2.6.2 API Reference

# Table of Contents

## General Remarks

FreeType's header inclusion scheme | How client applications should include FreeType header files.
User allocation | How client applications should allocate FreeType data structures.

## Core API

FreeType Version | Functions and macros related to FreeType versions.
Basic Data Types | The basic data types defined by the library.
Base Interface | The FreeType 2 base font interface.
Glyph Variants | The FreeType 2 interface to Unicode Ideographic Variation Sequences (IVS), using the SFNT cmap format 14.
Glyph Management | Generic interface to manage individual glyph data.
Mac Specific Interface | Only available on the Macintosh.
Size Management | Managing multiple sizes per face.
Header File Macros | Macro definitions used to #include specific header files.

## Format-Specific API

Multiple Masters | How to manage Multiple Masters fonts.
TrueType Tables | TrueType specific table types and functions.
Type 1 Tables | Type 1 (PostScript) specific font tables.
SFNT Names | Access the names embedded in TrueType and OpenType files.
BDF and PCF Files | BDF and PCF specific API.
CID Fonts | CID-keyed font specific API.
PFR Fonts | PFR/TrueDoc specific API.
Window FNT Files | Windows FNT specific API.
Font Formats | Getting the font format.
Gasp Table | Retrieving TrueType ‘gasp’ table entries.

## Controlling FreeType Modules

The auto-hinter | Controlling the auto-hinting module.
The CFF driver | Controlling the CFF driver module.
The TrueType driver | Controlling the TrueType driver module.

## Cache Sub-System

Cache Sub-System | How to cache face, size, and glyph data with FreeType 2.

## Support API

Computations | Crunching fixed numbers and vectors.
List Processing | Simple management of lists.
Outline Processing | Functions to create, transform, and render vectorial glyph images.
Quick retrieval of advance values | Retrieve horizontal and vertical advance values without processing glyph outlines, if possible.
Bitmap Handling | Handling FT_Bitmap objects.
Scanline Converter | How vectorial outlines are converted into bitmaps and pixmaps.
Glyph Stroker | Generating bordered and stroked glyphs.
System Interface | How FreeType manages memory and i/o.
Module Management | How to add, upgrade, remove, and control modules from FreeType.
GZIP Streams | Using gzip-compressed font files.
LZW Streams | Using LZW-compressed font files.
BZIP2 Streams | Using bzip2-compressed font files.
LCD Filtering | Reduce color fringes of subpixel-rendered bitmaps.

## Error Codes

Error Enumerations | How to handle errors and error strings.
Error Code Values | All possible error codes returned by FreeType functions.

## Miscellaneous

OpenType Validation | An API to validate OpenType tables.
Incremental Loading | Custom Glyph Loading.
The TrueType Engine | TrueType bytecode support.
TrueTypeGX/AAT Validation | An API to validate TrueTypeGX/AAT tables.

## Global Index

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