The last FreeType 2 beta, a.k.a. the "2.0 release candidate" should appear next week on your regular channels.. Yepeee !!

I've thus started a major clean-up of the source code, a tricky hunt for bugs and memory leaks and I've still got tons of documentation to write :-(. The following has already been done:

• Added support for "pure CFF" and CEF font files to the CFF/Type2 font driver. I hope Raph will like it ;-)

• Added a Windows FNT/FON driver (yes, FT2 does bitmap font formats too :-). At this point, it's really a proof of concept rather than a real font driver, as it doesn't deal correctly with the infamous Windows charsets/codepages yet.. It's funny to see the "Terminal", "System" and other well-known Microsoft fonts on a Unix box though.. ;-) The PCF/BDF drivers are still in the work by the way..

• Due to popular demand, I've started working on an advanced glyph cache on which it should be easy to write several kinds of font managers. The tricky part is to make the code generic while very powerful (it uses some features of FreeType that were originally specifically designed for this kind of use, and should have a _really_ low footprint). I'll have some code soon in the CVS, even though it will not be part of the release (think of it as an add-on to the core font library).

On a completely unrelated level, I found some music video from Weird Al Yankovic on the net (look here and here, as well as many mpegs from Gnutella), and Boy, that is hilarious. I only regret that my wife and most of my friends cannot understand the lyrics or the references.. there are exquisite things in there !!

Shame on me, I've just ordered the DVD even though I have nothing to play it ;-)