Note that FreeType is a *library*. It is not a font server for your
favorite platform, even though it was designed to be used in many of
them. Note also that it is *not* a complete text-rendering library.
Its purpose is simply to open and manage font files, as well as load,
hint and render individual glyphs efficiently. You can also see it as
a "TrueType driver" for a higher-level library, though rendering text
with it is extremely easy, as demo-ed by the test programs.
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