---------------------- GIMP FreeType ------------------------
     A GIMP font renderer based on the freetype library
-------------------------------------------------------------

The goal of this project is to get superb font support into
The GIMP. As a first step, we develop a plug-in for GIMP
based on the freetype2 library. Later (most probably for 
Gimp-2.0) this might become a tool or a pluggable module.

This is an alpha release. Do not expect it to work at all.
Don't bug us with useless bug reports. If you fail to install
it, make sure you've read the following lines carefully. If 
that doesn't help, you are lost.

You checked out the HEAD branch of gimp-freetype which is
supposed to work with the HEAD branch of GIMP from CVS. If
you are searching for gimp-freetype for GIMP-1.2, check out
the "gimp-1-2" branch of gimp-freetype.

You need gtk+-2.0 and FreeType2 to compile. GTK+ is available 
from http://www.gtk.org/ or from the Gnome CVS server. 
FreeType2 can be grabbed from http://www.freetype.org/. To 
compile and install gimp-freetype, run
 
   ./autogen.sh
   make
   make install

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as 
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of 
the License, or (at your option) any later version. See the 
file COPYING for details.

More info might be available at the projects homepage:
     http://freetype.gimp.org/


For serious questions and helpful bug-reports mail to
freetype@gimp.org. Please note that this is not a mailing list
that you can subscribe to automatically. If you want to join 
development, just ask politely and we'll add you to the list...
