D-Type Links

Apple’s Font Format Specifications
Apple’s font format specifications.

Compact Font Format (CFF)
An overview of Adobe’s Compact Font Format (CFF) font format.

Font Rasterization (Wikipedia)
A rather limited and outdated overview of the font rasterization process.

HarfBuzz
HarfBuzz text shaping engine website.

Independent JPEG Group
An informal group that writes and distributes a widely used free library for JPEG image compression.

INTEGRAL (DSL)
INTEGRAL is a modern, versatile, extensible and elegant domain-specific language (DSL) designed for dynamic content publishing, which D-Type Script Interpreter supports.

JPEG (named after the Joint Photographic Experts Group)
A bitmap image format utilized by D-Type External Format Plugin.

libpng
The official PNG reference library. It supports almost all PNG features, is extensible, and has been extensively tested for over 18 years.

Microsoft OpenType
Microsoft OpenType format specifications.

Microsoft Typography
Microsoft typography site with information, specifications and tools to support TrueType and OpenType font development.

OpenType (Wikipedia)
An overview of the OpenType font format.

PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
A bitmap image format utilized by D-Type External Format Plugin.

PostScript fonts (Wikipedia)
An overview of Adobe’s numerous PostScript font formats.

Squirrel
INTEGRAL DSL is built on the Squirrel programming language and D-Type technologies.

SVG (Wikipedia)
Scalable Vector Graphics — an XML-based vector image format for two-dimensional graphics with support for interactivity and animation.

TLSF (The Two-Level Segregate Fit Allocator)
This is an optional memory allocator that can be used with D-Type engines. It is fast, efficient and particularly suitable for embedded and/or real-time systems.

TrueType (Wikipedia)
An overview of the TrueType font format.

Unicode Standard
Official Unicode website.

Vector Magic
A popular bitmap-to-vector conversion program. Vectorized photographs and illustrations produced by this program typically contain hundreds or thousands of adjacent contours and, as a result, look absolutely amazing when rendered using D-Type Direct Color Rasterizer.

W3C SVG Working Group
The W3C SVG Working Group developed and now maintains the SVG format.

zlib
A popular general-purpose compression library.