The VFlib Project

VFlib 3.7.2 is released! New!

Download from http://www-masu.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/~kakugawa/download/TypeHack/VFlib3-3.7.2.tar.gz

NOTICE: License of VFlib 3.7.2 (and later) is changed to :

GPLv3, and
Freetype Project License (FTL)

VFlib 3.6.10 and later contains an automatic vflibcap (font definition database) file generator, named vflmkcaptex, so that DVI files with PostScript fonts can be previewed/printed directly.

News!

EducAide Software ported VFlib & DVIlib to Windows. Download from http://www.educaide.com/downloads/files/beta/dvilib-win32.zip.
It contains improvement to use FreeType2. Read build instruction by EducAide Software. (May 17, 2006)
Their contribution will be included in VFlib as soon as possible.

What is VFlib?

VFlib is a software component (a font rasteriser library) that supports multiple font formats. It hides the font format of font files and provides a unified API for all supported font formats to obtain glyphs. Thus, programmers for application software need not have knowledge on font file formats. Read abstruct of VFlib.

Open Source Policy!
VFlib is distributed with all source code under the terms of GNU Library General Public License. You can read, understand and improve it! You can browse the latest source code tree (version 3.6.12).
It's Portable!
VFlib does not depend on operating and window systems - it has own font file parser inside. VFlib is tested on FreeBSD, Linux, SunOS 4, Solaris 2.5, and OS/2.

Screenshots and Demos

A TeX DVI previewer xgdvi and spawg (from The TeX-Guy Project).
Screenshots of vflx11.
A multilingual WWW page.
Hello from the world.
Morohashi Kanwa Characters (by eKanji fonts).
The Ogura Hyakunin Issyu.

Documents

Technical Manual of VFlib 3.6: [HTML] [PostScript]
Draft paper on VFlib 3.6 (in PostScript)
Report on VFlib 3.5 (in PostScript)
Change History of VFlib 3

Download

Go to the Download Page, or visit here.
Install guide:
Read install guide for VFlib 3.6 and VFlib 2.25.
See also a note on the inter-library dependency problem.
If you cannot print and/or view VFlib 2.x document in Japanese, try this page.

Bugs? Comments? Donation?

Please send a message to h.kakugawa@computer.org.

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