The FreeType engine is a free and portable TrueType font rendering engine, developed to provide TrueType support for a variety of platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete text-rendering library. This package contains the obsolote version 1.x of FreeType for applications which still need this old version. New applications should use the more advanced FreeType 2.x library packaged as freetype.