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Introduction
D-Type is a professional high-performance scalable rasterizing technology for fast and smooth (anti-aliased) text and 2D graphics with built-in support for D-Type, TrueType, OpenType, Type 1, Type 3 and bare CFF fonts. This powerful technology is fully cross-platform and ideal for software developers who wish to render high-quality anti-aliased text and scalable graphics from their applications.
D-Type technology is a result of our extensive experience in digital type technologies, 2D rendering and font hinting. Our work on D-Type started in 1995 as a research project. Due to the success of this project, in early 1996 we decided to release the first commercial version of D-Type Font Engine and Rasterizer. D-Type PowerDoc Engine and Text Layout Extension followed a few years later. The goal of the project from the very beginning was to create a superior font and scalable graphics rendering engine suitable for all types of applications – including the most demanding ones such as games and multi-media software. To achieve this goal, a whole set of completely new algorithms had to be invented and developed: sophisticated anti-aliased rendering, revolutionary automatic font hinting, advanced real-time font interpolation and grayscale bitmap tuning are just a few of them. Today, D-Type is most likely the world's fastest rendering engine for smooth text and 2D graphics.
At present, D-Type technology consists of the following engines:
D-Type Text Layout Extension has recently been added to the list of D-Type engines. This is an important extension that allows developers to easily lay out Unicode text and complex scripts such as Arabic, Indic and Thai.
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Why D-Type?
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Unsurpassed quality, speed and performance. D-Type can be used in a broad range of applications, including charting, presentation, computer animation, games, desktop publishing etc.
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Excellent anti-aliasing capabilities with support for up to 256 levels of gray. Regardless of the size, D-Type text is always sharp and smooth!
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Manual font hinting is not necessary. D-Type Font Engine has a built-in auto-hinting subsystem that produces absolutely stunning results with virtually any font.
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Supports kerning, rotation, true text outline with custom thickness, custom transparency and special effects. Suitable for both device independent and device dependent text.
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Clean, robust, reliable, object-oriented and cross-platform API, effective memory management and highly optimized code.
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Support for D-Type, TrueType, OpenType, Type 1 and bare CFF fonts as well as TrueType and OpenType font collections. Multiple-Master support is available for Type 1 and D-Type fonts. Limited support for PostScript Type 3 fonts.
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2D text transformations including horizontal and vertical compression, expansion, skew, mirroring and rotation.
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D-Type can pass grayscale data to your application as a bitmap image. This is ideal for bitmap data manipulation or masking other images.
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D-Type libraries are fully reentrant and, when used properly, thread-safe. You can initialize as many instances of D-Type engine as necessary and use them simultaneously!
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Over 10 years of experience in digital type technology, rasterization and font hinting.
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Licensing
D-Type licenses are available out of the box for Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP, XBox, Linux, DOS and Mac OS. Custom builds for other platforms are also available upon request. For more information on pricing and different licensing options, please see our Contact Us page. Also, D-Type Evaluation Libraries are available to registered evaluators.
To ensure quick and smooth integration, D-Type comes with numerous examples that demonstrate various D-Type features. In addition, all licensing options include free support and upgrades.
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