Current changes
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30-Oct-2002
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GenerateFamily() scripting command had a number of problems.
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26-Oct-2002
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The "Apple" checkbox was sometimes (incorrectly) invisible in the Generate
Font/Family dialogs
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Minor improvements to the "Insert Character" dialog (to match
umap)
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Minor tweak to text fields
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More configuration changes
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25-Oct-2002
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Problems when reading an sfd with references to cleaned up characters.
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Removed code from ttf generation that check for points of inflection (but
fixed a couple of bugs in it before doing that).
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Change the way scripting GenerateFamily behaves. One person has already been
unable to figure out how to use it, and I agree that it didn't make much
sense the way I had it.
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24-Oct-2002
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Change the default configuration process to use dynamic libaries
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Added "configure.static" which will configure for static libaries (On Mac
OS/X the compiler gets internal compiler errors if asked to generate pic
code)
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Enable reading a straight ttf file out of a .bin or .hqx wrapper (ie. doesn't
need to be in a resource fork)
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The Kern Pairs dlg did not show Hebrew/Arabic right to left. Fixed
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Added a popup menu to Kern Pairs which will allow you to reset a kern pair
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Added a way to configure the font family used for info messages in the outline
and bitmap character views.
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New man pages which use the macros supported by Sun. Thanks to R. P. Channing
Rodgers.
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22-Oct-2002
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Initial version of Mac Family (FOND) generation
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Fix old sfds so that their bad pngs will become bitmaps
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optimize the fix to draw magnified.
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21-Oct-2002
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Verbose addition to scripting broke loops
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Various changes to make utf8/ucs2 selections work properly with other programs
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Hebrew/Arabic drag and drop could cause crashes
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The Increment right side bearing command (Metrics->Set RBearing) set the
width to the value rather than incrementing by that value.
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Fixes for the local encoding being utf8
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Imported bitmap pngs still were seen as indexed
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Problems drawing magnified images when the scale factor was 100%
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20-Oct-2002
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Updated French and Japanese UI translations
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Use LC_CTYPE (rather than LC_MESSAGES) to determine the current local encoding
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If the width line were selected then PfaEdit would sometimes snap cursor
movements to an arbetrary x-value (often the axis)
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KANOU provided a patch which fixes some remove overlap problems.
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I had broken the generation of pure bitmap sfnts from scripts (7-Sept)
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Added a verbose mode to scripts (prints script to stdout as it is executed).
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18-Oct-2002
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Tweaked metrics view so that null kerning now displays as an empty string
rather than "0"
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If a font contained a kerning pair to a character that was omitted when saving
the sfd file, then loading that font would leave it in a bad state and eventually
cause a crash. Fixed on both ends (don't generate bad sfds any more, and
can deal with them properly when found)
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Improved the "Insert Character" dialog a bit.
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17-Oct-2002
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More work on Ik format files
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Redid UI for Auto Width/Kern to make it easier for cyrillic/greek users to
kern their alphabets.
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Changed so that CJK encodings will attempt to map directly to a CJK font
(rather than going through unicode) when displaying in the fontview.
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Added a command to join paths
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KANOU points out that support for mimetype cut/paste (11-Sept) broke cut/paste
in scripting.
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KANOU supplied a patch for the knife tool.
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KANOU points out that IsVisible didn't work properly if passed a NULL point
(it should never be passed a NULL pointer, but if it is no reason not to
work correctly).
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KANOU points out that the UniqueID for ttf files used a bad date.
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Had the wrong MS language ID for hungarian
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Some of Luc Devroye's fonts contain a "div" in the FontMatrix. ATM doesn't
support this, but it is easy enough to accept. Still don't support a full
expression there, just a div.
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If we read in a gsf font and then generated postscript from that, we weren't
able to read in the result.
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Added an empty glyph-encoding sub-table to mac FONDs
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Save multiple postscript did not save the first sub-font
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The second count in BeginChars could be wrong in an sfd file (PfaEdit doesn't
care, but I suppose some program might).
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Add support for local encoding being UTF-8. Prefs now has an option to try
and figure out the encoding from the locale
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Display filenames in the local encoding.
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There was an erroneous test in simplify which caused PfaEdit to complain
about an internal error when in truth all was well.
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There was a bad test in dumpbdf
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Export will now allow the user to generate png files (if s/he's got the png
libraries)
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It is possible to invoke Export from a script
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11-Sept-2002
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Added a menu in textfields (right mouse button)
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Added support for STRING_UTF8 selections
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Added support for "image/png", "image/bmp", "image/eps",
"text/plain;charset=ISO-10646-UCS-2", "text/plain;charset=UTF-8"
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(two image format)
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(one format for reading spline data)
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(two more ways of expressing unicode text data)
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10-Sept-2002
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Added support for UTF8 in display/print dlg imports.
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9-Sept-2002
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Added support for loading Ikarus .IK font files
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Fixed a divide by zero problem when generating ttfs
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If you type into the Kern Pairs dlg, it will now scroll to the pairs associated
with the character you typed.
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8-Sept-2002
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Display crashed on systems without freetype
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my xfig reader didn't handle arcs
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Merge fonts and Interpolate fonts didn't merge/interpolate kerning pairs
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7-Sept-2002
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The ruler tool will give the length of a spline if applied between the spline's
endpoints
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Made PfaEdit a little smarter about when to change the xuid field.
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Added a dlg to display fonts using freetype.
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Added support for the obselete _XFREE86_GLYPH_RANGES property and then turned
it off by default.
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Improvements to type2 output.
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Changed greek accents to use 0x384 rather than 0x30d when substituting for
0x301
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I've found another case where Apple and MS/Adobe disagree on the format of
ttf/otf files. So there's now a check box in the Generate dlg which allows
you to select between the two defns. I've removed the two different kinds
of bitmaps for ttf files, these are now controlled by this new checkbox too.
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PfaEdit would sometimes in otf files generate curves which should have been
done as lines.
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macbinary resource output broke when I fixed straight resource output the
other day.
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When a grid line was a line but expressed with control points, then pfaedit
would get very confused about how to snap to it.
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Fixed a bug in the generation of ttf/otf fonts with big5/sjis/wansung encodings.
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The ligature dlg had a bad habit of crashing.
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On the Mac, Obliqued fonts are stored in a weird postscript format. Try to
support them
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2-Sept-2002
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When in no-x mode, pfaedit did not notice any arguments (except -script).
It will now notice -version, -usage and -help.
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The PS Names check box would be visible when generating otf fonts. It should
not have been.
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If a font contained multiple encodings for the same character, then generating
an otf font from it would crash pfaedit.
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There is now a proper french translation of the ui (Merci Pierre Hanser!)
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Under cygwin, PfaEdit would fail to find internet explorer/netscape (because
not in user's path) and if it did find them would try to invoke them with
a cygwin style name (ie. /usr/local/share/doc/pfaedit/overview.html rather
than c:\cygwin\usr/local/share/doc/pfaedit/overview.html )
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Added a preference item to allow you to control whether a mapping file from
glyph ids to character names is produced along with ttf and otf fonts.
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1-Sept-2002
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Added an #ifdef to an include file to make it work when built without X11
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31-August-2002
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Making a font be a cid-keyed font might screw up all other fontviews and
lead to crashes.
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type1 cid keyed fonts got the wrong fontmatrix if the em-size was something
other than 1000. Doesn't seem to make a difference though, we still get bad
output for emsize!=1000
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got maxp.numGlyphs wrong for otf cid-keyed fonts which lacked a .notdef character
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Added a check to make sure fontnames are less than 63 characters. Needed
for ATM.
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format 2 Coverage tables (used by GPOS and GSUB tables (kerning & ligatures
for otf)) were being generated incorrectly. This meant that windows would
refuse to read my otf files which had complex kerning. (presumably complex
ligs, but I had no test cases). The mac printer driver has also had problems
with my otf files. This may be why.
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Added a popup to the kern pair dlg to tell user how many kern pairs there
are, and how many characters start kern pairs.
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29-August-2002
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Merge and Elide were backwards
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And merge (simplify) had problems when a desired spline at the same slope
at the start and end (or something like that).
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Added a field to Review Hints showing the total number of hints, flag for
h/vstem3, ability to move points associated with hint when moving hint. also
added a hot key for it.
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Added a Find Problem to detect things which are almost but not quite h/vstem3
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AutoHint wasn't finding all the ghost hints it should have.
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Put in (what I hope is) a better way of detecting extranious hints (the hypen
case. At first sight the hstem and vstem appear equally valid) remove hints
which are wider than they are long.
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More fixes from KANOU for cid fonts
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The scale to em checkbox only (sort of) worked if the emsize increased. Fix
from KANOU
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Autohint could go into an infinite loop on characters containing a 0-length
spline.
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Problem with cff name table fix of 27-Aug
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bdf fonts were loaded into background by default
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Scripting problem loading bitmap fonts into background.
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27-August-2002
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Further attempts to fix the fact that PfaEdit in some ways does not believe
that monospaced ttf files are monospaced.
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Problems with endif
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Redid the Find Problems dialog by adding tabs so that related problems are
grouped together.
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Added a problem which will report advance widths which do not match some
standard value.
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CID keyed generation was broken again by the (failed) attempt to make things
work with FontLab (18-Aug)
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cff name table could be off by 1 if there were a real notdef character
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Added ability to display blue zones in outline view.
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21-August-2002
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Broke cid-keyed otf generation on 27 July when I enabled the [Stop] button.
Fix by KANOU.
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Bringing up progress indicator early (20 August) broke scripting without
X11.
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Added ability to load a font protected by fstype=2 to a scripting (extra
argument to open).
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Enhanced print abilities.
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Added ability to Print to scripting.
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Attempt to fix the fact that windows doesn't recognize my monospaced ttf
fonts as monspace.
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PfaEdit could be confused by strange values of Ascent in the hhea table
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Added a Round to Int option to the transform dialogs
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Added ability to change the em-size (and rescale the font) to fontinfo
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20-August-2002
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Under KDE my tools palettes are made too wide and without borders. That's
ok until they get reparented (docked). Added code in the docking routines
to fix these problems.
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May have fixed a race condition problem due to reparented windows under freebsd.
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TeX sfd files are a little more complicated than I had originally thought,
the parser is now more general.
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PfaEdit sometimes thought some X fonts had iso8859-1 encoding when they did
not.
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cleaned up some problems with encodings
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Added support for TeX (actually MetaFont) gf files
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RLE background images sometimes showed up inverted (with background color
as foreground & vice versa)
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The Fit in window command should now take docked palettes into consideration.
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Added a Japanese translation of the UI, courtesy of KANOU Hiroki.
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Added the ability to run
mf
on a .mf font, generate a gf file,
autotrace the gf file, and leave you with a font based on an mf file.
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Menus now do pointer grabs.
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Fixed a bug in generating PostScript resource file fonts on Mac OS/X
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18-August-2002
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Added a dlg to show all kern pairs (and another to show all ligatures)
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Added a "Find Problems" item to check for missing bitmaps.
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Put in some warnings to the ttf parser for bad cmap and glyf tables
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PfaEdit was still having trouble about loading space bitmaps (that had been
generated with freetype).
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PfaEdit did not set the flag indicating manual hinting after changes by Review
Hints or Create Hint. Should be set now.
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Various small tweaks to the pfa/pfb output because FontLab doesn't like what
we currently do. Probably none will make much difference.
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The Print command would attempt to print characters outside the encoding
of type1 fonts. This did not work well.
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The autowidth command got very confused when given a sans-serif script to
autowidth when the Latin characters in the font were serifed.
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The Print sample text is now ordered so that the language specified in the
LANG environment variable comes first in the list.
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Added $version
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PfaEdit will now read scripts from stdin if you follow the "-script" argument
with "-".
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Valek points out the using CharInfo to change a character's color did not
change it until the fontview was refreshed
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Expand Stroke had problems when intersections bent the wrong way.
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9-August-2002
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I've decided to encourage use of the mailing
lists for reporting bugs. A feeble attempt to cut down on the spam I
get by removing my e-mail address from the site.
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Bug in the dlg asking for the resolution of a bdf font. The second (and
subsequent) time(s) it came up it would have a good chance of never going
away again, and potentially crashing PfaEdit into the bargain. (number of
other bugs here too)
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If the postscript "FontName" contained a hyphen then any generated BDF fonts
would have invalid X fontnames (they hyphen would be included which would
throw the name parsing off by one hyphen).
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Greg Ford points out that generating a bdf font and then loading it back
in will often change the fontname. This is because the fontname is not actually
stored in bdf files. I've added a FONT_NAME property to the bdf fonts I generate.
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PfaEdit would sometimes forget about the first bitmap character in each bitmap
font stored in an sfd file. Please check any
sfd files to see if they are missing bitmaps of space, exclamation point,
etc. Probably introduced 11-June.
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8-Aug-2002
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After yesterday's fix textfields ignored backspaces
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More work on the metrics lines. There's now a dlg to control which ones get
drawn.
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FontInfo would sometimes crash after adding ttf names.
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Added minimal ability to dock palettes into their respective views.
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Added a way of looking at the fontview where there are now holes in the font
(ie. a compacted view where every cell contains a glyph). This is just another
encoding, but people have been asking for it and it is slightly easier to
get to than normal reencoding of a font. Note: It has no defined relationship
to the glyph array in a ttf file.
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7-Aug-2002
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The 21-July autowidth/kern change broke autowidth/kern scripting.
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And the serif detection failed if the character I did not reach the baseline.
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PfaEdit read RGB png files incorrectly.
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PfaEdit used to bring up most dialogs underneath the cursor. Now it only
does that if the focus is set to FocusFollowsMouse, and otherwise centers
dlgs.
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PfaEdit now will draw metrics lines in the fontview if you want it to.
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PfaEdit remembers what outline character views were open when a font was
saved (as an sfd file) and will automagically reopen them when you next load
that font.
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Added
View->Find In Font View
command to the outline character
view. Will scroll the fontview to display the current character.
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Textfields within PfaEdit ignored the numeric keypad
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4-Aug-2002
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Yesterday's resize fix didn't quite work
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Try to improve conversion of cubic to quadratic spline (actually, we make
the conversion worse, but it probably helps rasterizers not to have points
quite so close together).
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Some more work on the TTF style name
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3-Aug-2002
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Failed to read ttf fontnames properly for some dfonts (probably some ttc
files as well)
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Didn't position references by point matching properly (when loading from
ttf)
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removed some debugging code inadvertantly left in after the rle fix.
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Added support for X Input Methods (to do CJK character
input properly)
This only works if X_HAVE_UTF8_STRING is defined -- an XFree 4.0.2 extension
(ie. not on solaris)
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Added a possible fix to a resizing problem for some window managers.
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Added CIDFlattenByCMap function to scripting.
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30-July-2002
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Fixed a couple of problems found by
valgrind
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Applied a patch from KANOU Hiroki. PasteInto did not work.
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Added run length encoding compression to sfd files (for background images).
Bitmap image sizes are much smaller now.
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PfaEdit failed to recognize that a PNG black and white image was monochrome.
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Now PfaEdit will immediately put up the progress indicator when loading the
first font (so the user has something to look at)
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A little more work on generate multiple.
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Removed a confusing message about autohinting a font for which no autohinting
was actually done (it was just checking to see if it needed to).
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Oops. Windows won't accept a ttf file if there is no name table entry with
the same platform/specific entries as those in the cmap.
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If a character contained a reference to a blank character that PfaEdit decided
wasn't worth outputting, then the truetype composite for it would not work.
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The standard format for the ttf "version" name is different from the equivalent
postscript name. Added code to interconvert between the two rather than expecting
them to be the same.
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Added a gasp table for when there was no hinting.
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28-July-2002
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Pressing the [Filter] button on a blank field will show the current filter
text (holding the mouse over the [Filter] button will cause a popup to appear
with the same info).
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If there were know selection the pressing an arrow key would presume that
the selection was at encoding -1, which caused strange behavior. Now we will
pretend that the selection is visible and halfway down the screen.
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Oops. CMap files allow for multiple encodings for the same glyph. Now prepared
to put in refs.
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Oops. Generate multiple had several problems (couldn't handle encodings above
0x80000000, was surprised by empty font numbers, etc.)
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If a family name contained a space then only the first word in it would be
read out of an sfd file
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27-July-2002
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Oops. I was calling TeX sfd files Sub Font Directories and their proper name
was Sub Font Definition.
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Enabled the [Stop] button in the progress dlg when saving a font.
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PfaEdit would go into an infinite loop when reading one of its sfd files
when it was expecting a TeX sfd file. Fixed, and put in guards so that won't
happen anyway.
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Added two new menu commands "Flatten to CMap" and "Convert By CMap". These
will use one of Adobe's CMap files to guide the Flattening/Converting process
(rather than one of my cidmap files)
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Added support for some really large encodings if they have almost equally
large gaps in them (use adobe's "coderange" data to manage a sparce array).
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If we could not find any style modifiers in a fontname, then we used to claim
that the style was "Regular". I think it is better if we claim that it is
/Width (ie. whatever is in the FontInfo /Width entry) and if that isn't set
then return "Regular")
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26-July-2002
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Added support for Werner's (TeX's) Sub Font Definition files which provide
a way of splitting up a 2 byte encoding into lots of little pfb fonts with
256 characters in each.
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Normally in a ttf font, PfaEdit generates a 'post' table with the names of
all the characters in it. I've just added a way to make it generate a short
'post' table with no character names.
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PfaEdit generates bad truetype hints. There is now a way to turn these off
in the Generate Font dlg.
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24-July-2002
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Code for finding the style still not working as it should.
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Oops, the postscript parser was over-zealous about generating warnings.
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Oops, the code which interprets results from autotrace was over-zealous on
getting rid of contours in small images.
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SetUnicodeValue did not behave as it should have.
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Made acorn2sfd a little sturdier.
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Bitmap copies didn't work from the font view (probably broke when I added
anti-aliased support)
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23-July-2002
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Crash bug introduced yesterday by the duplicate name work.
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Initial version of acorn2sfd -- a program
to convert Acorn RISC/OS font directories into sfd files.
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If a font is loaded from a ttf file, then it will have both postscript and
ttf versions of certain names stored (family, copyright, version, etc.).
The postscript names are obviously displayed, but changing them would not
change the ttf versions. So generating a ttf font and then looking at it
would still show the old setting of the name. The two should be better
synchronized now.
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22-July-2002
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Introduced a crash yesterday if a postscript font contained an name in an
encoding vector which was not defined in the font.
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More work on duplicate names. I no longer append a ".<number>" to the
end of duplicate entries and when generating fonts I remove them and generate
an encoding with has multiple references to the base glyph. Which is what
I should have been doing.
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Small improvements to the style name detector.
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If the Width field was a null string, then reading it from an sfd file caused
us to thing the next keyword was the width.
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Fixed a bug in the display of menus.
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21-July-2002
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Various small bugs in build accented characters
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On the mac the filenames for mac resource fonts are different from same fonts
elsewhere (elsewhere they have an additional ".bin"). Made either extension
work from a script file (so they can work cross platform).
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Expand Stroke had problems with curved splines where the slope at one of
the end-points was 0/0. Since this will happen by default when joining a
corner point to a curved point this should have been a frequent occurance.
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Bug in generating 'post' table if glyph 0 existed but was not .notdef.
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Postscript fonts with one glyph going to multiple encodings cause problems.
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Now both PS and TTF load will have consistant names in the above case.
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My presumption of how symbol encodings were stored under MicroSoft was wrong.
It is not a one byte encoding, it is a map into the private/corporate use
area of unicode. 0xf000-0xf0ff. Changed to deal with that.
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Loading a font with mac roman encoding often generated a font of 65536 characters
(rather than 256+a few extras). Fixed.
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New version of autowidth/kern. I don't think it kerns serifed fonts well,
might do ok for sans.
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Ability to provide autokern with a list of potential kern pairs and have
it just check them.
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Scripting support for kernpair files
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AutoWidth/Kern now does a little better on serifed fonts
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15-July-2002
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Correct Direction should now only set the changed bit when it actually changes
a character.
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Correct Direction will now warn about flipped references, and offer you the
chance to unlink them (after which it will be able to correct their direction)
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Added ability to scripting to check if a character has changed, and to get
a font's filename.
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Cleaned up build accented chars a bit.
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Another attempt to keep X from crashing on disappearing progress dlgs.
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Maximizing the fontview could make it bigger than the screen so that the
scroll bar was unusable.
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14-July-2002
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Valek points out that bitmaps generated by freetype were one pixel too high.
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Changed the get info dlg for references so that the user could change the
transformation matrix.
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Font Info->PS Private got the wrong value when guessing the vertical stem
snaps
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PfaEdit did not find ghosthints for things at the numeric height.
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PfaEdit got non-integer values for some hints where it should have found
integer values.
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Bug when auto-hinting references fixed.
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PfaEdit would find hints for things that don't need to be hinted (finding
a vertical stem for the top of "E" for instance. There is a vertical stem
there, but it is deemed irrelevant). It now finds fewer of these hints. I
hope it still finds all the legitimate ones.
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13-July-2002
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I think I've finally worked out Apple's scaled offset
composite glyphs (and they do not behave
as Apple documents)
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PfaEdit was not setting the maxCompositePoints and maxCompositeContours fields
of the maxp table of truetype fonts. This meant that in some cases rasterizers
would crash when trying to deal with characters containing many components.
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The translation tables between unicode and johab were wrong.
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PfaEdit failed to generate ttf fonts with big5/sjis/wansung cmaps.
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Changed so that reading sjis/wansung encoded ttf files would use a sjis/wansung
encoding in pfaedit (rather than the 94x94 encoding that no one but me seems
to understand).
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9-July-2002
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Bug in generating ttf fonts with embedded bitmaps.
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Open Font dlg will now try again if it can't load a valid font.
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Started working on a
minimal
testsuite, and what do you know? I found some bugs...
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Scripting had problems when user preference was set to ask for bdf resolution.
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Generate() scripting built in now takes an optional resolution argument
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Problems generating the vertical metrics tables in cid keyed otf fonts
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Problems working with cid-keyed fonts in scripts if pfaedit could not find
the requisite cidmap file
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Fixed various problems with parsing EPS files, and extended the vocabulary
a little.
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If the ".notdef" character was whitespace (as it is for most postscript fonts)
then generating a ttf font would produce an entry for glyph 0 that both flint
and NT consider to be erroneous, while freetype and windows think it's fine.
Fixed so that Flint no longer complains.
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the fontview could get confused about matching short names with periods in
them against the standard postscript unicode names, so it could think that
"b.0" matched "bracketleft". This caused some confusion in the display.
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27-June-2002
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A couple more vms patches
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26-June-2002
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Merged in Jouk Jansen changes for OpenVMS
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23-June-2002
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Valek wanted to be able to add comments to characters and to flag characters
with some visible mark. The Char Info dlg
has been extended to do this. The scripting language has been extended to
allow scripts to set and test these too.
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Added a "foreach selected character in the font" loop.
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Added $selection variable to return the current selection as an array
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Extended the Select() and SelectMore() commands to accept an array as an
argument (and set the selection to the array).
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22-June-2002
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Yesterday's unicode sprintf change introduced another bug. Fixed
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Valek points out that if you have a bitmap only font and you attempt
simultaneously to scale it and delete all the bitmaps, then PfaEdit would
crash. (Same thing would happen if you just removed all the bitmaps).
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Valek provided some additional russian translations.
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21-June-2002
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Ttf fonts seem to be unhappy if they contain a glyph with a single contour
and a single point on that contour. I don't know why. Output all such as
spaces.
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Added ability to set the resolution of a bdf font.
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Rearranged preferences.
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Added scripting access to Force-Encoding
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PfaEdit memory allocation optimizations didn't work if sizeof(int *)==8
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Bug in unicode sprintf routine when sizeof(long)==8
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In some cases when reading a ttf font with a (unicode) cmap which assigned
one glyph to two encodings, and if that glyph happened to be in the
AdobeStandardEncoding, then when converting to Type1 PfaEdit would create
a dictionary which recursively seac-ed (invoked) itself. This caused an infinite
loop in GhostView, and crashed some printers.
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11-June-2002
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CID fix on 3 June was wrong, it broke all non-CID keyed postscript fonts
(it did work for CID fonts). Both should work now.
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Added better support for bdf foundries and for bdf copyrights.
-
Added a preference item to specify the ttf VendorID (foundry). Used to truncate
the bdf foundry to 4 characters.
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Small bug fix in print
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Cleaned up bug in scripting ($bitmaps)
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7-June-2002
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Fixed some more CID font problems
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Tweaked behavior of FamilyName/FullName in GetFontInfo dlg.
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6-June-2002
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PfaEdit now supports greymap strikes in truetype files
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The bitmap editor has been extended to handle greymap (anti-aliased) fonts
-
There is no longer a separate mechanism for generating greymap files from
the Generate Font dlg, instead they may be added to the font database file
with the bitmap dlg.
-
Added support for vertical metrics in bdf files.
-
Fixed some problems in moving the vwidth line in outline character views
-
Added some default window positioning code.
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4-June-2002
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Oops, more bug fixes for the new greymap format.
-
One more attempt to solve the X Server bug where destroying/unmapping a window
before its map notify event gets processed causes the X server to crash.
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3-June-2002
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Stopped using my extension to bdf to make it support greymaps and started
using that supported by freetype (removed the BITSPERPIXEL keyword and added
an extra argument to the SIZE keyword).
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More fixes for cid fonts
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18-May-2002
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Font Info will prompt user about changing the UniqueID/XUID if the font name
is changed without changing them.
-
Fixed some Mac configuration problems.
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16-May-2002
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PfaEdit would not compile when trying to used libjpeg as a static library
(as on Mac OS/X)
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Use psili rather than koronis where appropriate
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It was not possible to select the ellipse/star tool from the tools palette.
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14-May-2002
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Made pfaedit work without X (ie. the scripting engine can be linked without
requiring that X be present. Possibly useful for Mac OS/X, Cygwin)
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When showing what a greek accented character will be built from, the character
info dlg will now show the non-unicode alternate whether or not the characters
needed exist in the font.
-
The Reference Info dlg will now include the unicode value of the referenced
character
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The positioning of ypogegrammeni with respect to eta was broken (again)
-
Some more greek fixes.
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13-May-2002
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Various fixes for greek accented characters
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7-May-2002
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PfaEdit would crash when attempting to Flatten a CID keyed font (introduced
16-Apr with the multiple fontview support)
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PfaEdit did not process panose information correctly (broken 21-Jan, comment
change)
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PfaEdit did not create new ttf names properly when they were for a language
which had not been used before in the font.
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6-May-2002
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Oops. Adobe describes two naming conventions for ligatures and I only supported
one of them. I should support the other one now.
-
Fixed a number of bugs caused by custom encodings.
-
If the selection in the font view contained either "dotlessi" or "dotlessj"
and the Element menu was pulled down then the dotless characters would be
created from their dotted variants (you didn't even have to select anything
from the menu) (broken 24-Feb-2002)
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PfaEdit had trouble reading non-empty ttf glyphs with 0 contours.
-
PfaEdit failed to read images from an sfd file without a transparent colour
-
Allow parens in familyname in the fontinfo dlg.
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When the width was selected, depressing a mouse button would snap the logical
pointer location to a random x coordinate (often 0).
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When generating a ttf file from a subfont of a CID keyed font pfaedit would
crash. This has been fixed.
-
When exiting with multiple font views looking at one (changed) font, there
would be no prompt to save the font.
-
Added a Find/Replace feature
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16-Apr-2002
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BDF fonts did not mark the missing (.notdef, undefined, etc.) character properly.
-
otf fonts had the default and normative widths reversed on output
-
Added marginally better support for non-latin ligatures in GPOS/GSUB tables.
-
Added support for arabic forms in the GSUB table (ie. we now produce 'init',
'medi', 'fina', and 'isol' features)
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Build composit should now note whether arabic ligatures are
<initial>, <final>, <medial> or <isolated>
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It is now possible to have multiple font views looking at one font. I expect
this will be a rich source of bugs, especially for CID keyed fonts.
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9-Apr-2002
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Under KDE we could get two textfields flashing cursors (thinking they had
focus) should be fixed.
-
Added Undo/Redo to metricsview
-
Added Undo/Redo to fontview
-
Added Element menu to metricsview
-
Added [Fix] button to (some of) Find Problems
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5-Apr-2002
-
Applied various patches from KANOU Hiroki
-
Changes to metricsview
-
Fixed some minor bugs
-
Double clicking on a character will open that character
-
Enabled Copy/(CopyRef/CopyWidth/)Paste but not Cut
-
PfaEdit had problems when there were exactly two X resources.
-
Made the Point Info dlg wider.
-
Improved printing text samples at large point sizes.
-
I was generating flex hints incorrectly.
-
Extended postscript interpretter slightly to recognize the eps files (called
"art") produced by fontographer
-
Additions to the scripting language
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CenterInWidth
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AutoWidth (from Andreas Påhlsson)
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AutoKern
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The Expand Stroke fix for 4-Mar-2001 was too extreme.
-
Added a field to Char Info that shows the components out of which this character
(accented, ligature, hangul sylable, etc.) may be built.
-
3-Apr-2002
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Various scrollbar enhancements
-
thumb now has a bigger minimum size
-
fontview/charview both respond to page up and page down requests
-
right mouse button may be used to position thumb
-
Installed James A. Crippen makefile patch so that distclean reports success
even if there are no files to clean.
-
PfaEdit had problems guessing default ligatures for characters outside of
BMP.
-
In the outline character view, double clicking with one of the point tools
(curve, corner, tangent, pen) will add a point and then bring up a
Point Info dialog
-
If you edit in a textfield (so that the mouse pointer vanishes) and then
tabbed into another text field the mouse pointer would never reappear.
-
Merge Fonts left memory in a bad state and would often cause a crash.
-
Merge Fonts used a string for a title which was ascii when unicode was expected.
This could cause strange characters to be displayed.
-
More fixes for build accented characters (for inverted breve and Oslash).
-
14-Mar-2002
-
Nifty. The modifier keys auto-repeat under cygwin (if Control is down one
gets a series of Press/Release, Press/Release... while normal X just gives
one Press.) This meant we'd keep refreshing the tools palette, which meant
an annoying flicker and slowed things down.
-
Raise the palettes after a resize
-
PfaEdit didn't handle 8bit colormaps well. I've improved the behavior, and
added an x resource to give the user some control over behavior.
-
10-Mar-2002
-
Oops. I broke CID-keyed postscript input (ie. none-otf) when I added the
6-Mar fix for type1utils
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Applied another patch from KANOU Hiroki, on otf cid support
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9-Mar-2002
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8-Mar-2002
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Added a new program, sfddiff, to compare fonts
and show their differences.
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6-Mar-2002
-
Small change to the format of cidmap files (to bring names into conformance
with adobe's spec on modifed unicode names), and corresponding changes to
a few routines.
-
Add support for the type1 format produced by GNU type1utils. Which is vaguely
like that used by ghostview.
-
4-Mar-2002
-
Fixed more problems with reading eps files (these were mostly within Expand
Stroke, so presumably also problems with Element->Expand Stroke)
-
And one more problem with the file chooser.
-
Scripting additions:
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Ability to generate a pfm file from script
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Ability to Merge Kerning Info from a script
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Ability to Remove All Kerning info from a script
-
Will now display something useful for rotated and italic cids
-
3-Mar-2002
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Fixed a number of problems involved in reading in eps files.
-
28-Feb Mac work introduced a bug in the file picker dlg (in wildcarding).
-
2-Mar-2002
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Rounding errors could accumulate when generating Type1 fonts.
-
Fix for some overlap problems due to KANOU Hiroki
-
If PfaEdit crashed (or was interrupted) after making some (unsaved) changes
to a font, and that font was subsequently deleted, the PfaEdit's autorecovery
would complain about a missing file each time it was started. Now it will
notice the problem and ask whether it should delete the recovery file (whereupon
it will stop complaining).
-
Enabled a fix from Greg Ford so that PfaEdit set the mac style bits
appropriately.
-
28-Feb-2002
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When running under Mac OS/X PfaEdit is now able to open/create mac resource
forks
-
I may have fixed a bug displaying images on solaris screens with bit depth
8
-
Cleaned up a problem with the postscript name table (in a ttf file) when
there was a .notdef character
-
Fixed some problems with references when reading in truetype.
-
24-Feb-2002
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Substr() did not work when given three arguments
-
Added
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$bitmaps (returns an array of all bitmap sizes rasterized for the current
font)
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BitmapsAvail()
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BitmapsRegen()
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Changed the FontInfo dlg to give direct access to the postscript names rather
than trying to build the fontname out of family and modifiers.
-
Added the ability to create an encoding which is any given plane of unicode
(ie BMP is plane 0, SMP is plane 1, SIP is plane 2...)
-
Fixed a bug in Revert
-
More work on hints.
-
Build Composit will now build a dotlessi from an "i" (and same for dotlessj)
-
20-Feb-2002
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Made Shift-Arrow keys move along italic axis.
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$argv didn't work in scripting. (broken when I added arrays)
-
19-Feb-2002
-
Bugs in the generation of MacRoman encoding tables in ttf output (introduced
14-Feb)
-
The Goto Dlg sometimes didn't notice Returns (ie. OK button wasn't always
invoked)
-
Some linear splines were not noticed as such.
-
18-Feb-2002
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Cancelling the Point Info dlg would leave minimum distance hints in a bad
state.
-
Using Undo also left the MD hints wonky
-
added $fontchanged to scripting
-
Added SaveAll menu item in font view.
-
Sometimes the underlines for accelerators didn't print in the menu (depended
on what PfaEdit thought the screen resolution was).
-
Added a new minimum distance hint for serifs of diagonal stems.
-
Fixed a bug where some extra serif stems were hinted.
-
16-Feb-2002
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Created a "Select" submenu of the edit menu in the outline view. Moved
Edit->Select All, View->Next Point, View->Prev Point into it.
-
Added Deselect All, Select Next Control Point, Select Prev Control Point,
Select First Point, Select Width, Select VWidth
-
It is now possible to select the width (right bearing) line and move it with
the arrow keys or transform dlg (or to move points and the width line
concurrently). VWidth too.
-
Added variables with global and font scope to Scripting.
-
Yet another bug in the new simplify/merge code
-
Cleaned up unicode range names a bit more.
-
Changed the Goto Character dialog so that it will now (for two/four byte
encodings) display a list of unicode ranges which are in the font and allow
you to go to a range by name.
-
Made it possible to copy and paste the left and right side bearings (from
menus and scripts)
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14-Feb-2002
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My TrueType parser will now read cmap subtable formats 8,10 and 12 (the 4
byte encoding tables) and will produce format 12 subtables for full unicode
fonts.
-
Cleaned up various encoding problems.
-
Fixed display of SJIS.
-
Added better commentary on unicode outside of BMP
-
Cleaned up the spec file
-
In pfb files subroutines for references didn't work if the first thing called
was untranslated.
-
The arrow keys can be used to move a control point.
-
12-Feb-2002
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Added sjis and Wansung encodings
-
Used freetype for a couple of other things (generating gdf files and exporting
bitmaps)
-
Textfields didn't respond to middle button clicks (to paste the primary
selection).
-
PfaEdit would sometimes fail to exit properly if you brought up a script
dlg.
-
Added a --version command line option.
-
Fixed another bug in generating postscript.
-
Added a user defined print command option to the print dlg.
-
Fixed a bug in Simplify/Merge
-
Fixed a bug in loading integer resources
-
Cleaned up the help command line option.
-
9-Feb-2002
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PfaEdit will now use freetype (if available) to generate bitmaps for the
fonts (results are much better).
It still does its own rasterizing for the fontview (there's a lot of overhead
involved with freetype, and this needs to be fastish)
-
Made the Generate Font dlg settings sticky across invocations of pfaedit.
-
8-Feb-2002
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PfaEdit would crash when generating a PostScript font from ARIAL.TTF.
-
Changed the bitmap dlgs so that they allow you to specify some control over
interesting screen resolutions. (before just support X standard res. of 75
and 100, now support MS 96&120 and Mac 72).
-
Oops, Apple now documents that the bdat and bloc tables should have version
number 0x20000. But when I last looked it said 0x10000 and that didn't work.
-
Put the docs in their own rpm file.
-
7-Feb-2002
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I think I've figured out how Apple does asian bitmaps now. They don't use
NFNTs at all (or they do, but those NFNT are tiny stubs with no real data
in them). All the data are in the sfnt. I should produce them properly now.
-- Except I don't.
-
I've also added the ability to create bitmap only sfnts for the mac.
-- Which also isn't recognized by the mac.
-
Made it possible for scripts to generate bitmaps without generating an outline
font
-
Fixed some problems loading bitmaps from ttf files.
-
Fixed some problems loading bitmaps from anything...
-
Allowed importation of eps files from the font view (to the extent that I
can parse eps files, that is)
-
Oops, scripting didn't support importation of pcf files.
-
5-Feb-2002
-
Sometimes popup windows (tool tips) would show up with nothing in them. That
should be fixed now.
-
Added icons for pcf files
-
Started work on 32 bit unicode.
-
Oops. Scripting handled the caligraphic pen angle incorrectly.
-
Put something into the about box.
-
4-Feb-2002
-
Oops. PfaEdit was misusing the type1 "seac" command in some cases. I had
not realized that the character being built needed to have the same width
as the base (non-accent) character. This has been fixed.
-
When using the charinfo dlg to change the name of a char, and that name was
in use, and you cancelled the dlg after being warned about it then PfaEdit
would crash (it would muck up memory).
-
PfaEdit wasn't always calling subroutines (in postscript) when a character
was in a subr.
-
PfaEdit will now read in X11 pcf font files (they can be compressed, if so
PfaEdit will decompress them first).
-
Bug in wildcard processing for file chooser window.
-
1-Feb-2002
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Nifty! SUSE ships some greek (bitmap) fonts with iso8859-1 encodings rather
than iso8859-7. PfaEdit is now alert and when it sees a bitmap font with
foundary "greek" and encoding "iso8859-1" it will pretend it has encoding
"iso8859-7".
-
PfaEdit got confused by some fonts produced by type1fix.pl. Should be fixed.
-
Build Composit Characters will now check the user defined ligature string
to see what characters to use to build a ligature.
-
31-Jan-2002
-
Conversion tables between JIS0201 (Katakana) and Unicode were wrong. KANOU
Hiroki provided correct ones.
-
30-Jan-2002
-
Oops. I'd left diagonal stems enabled in ttf generation. Caused problems.
Disabled now.
-
More work on accented characters.
-
29-Jan-2002
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Sped up background image drawing (finally)
-
28-Jan-2002
-
Added
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Strtol
-
Strskipint
-
AskUser
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Error
-
Added a menu of commonly used scripts which the user can specify with the
preference dlg.
-
25-Jan-2002
-
Oops. Generate command in scripting language only generated pfb fonts
-
PfaEdit would get confused if it loaded a font from a script when running
with windows. Eventually it would crash, but perhaps not until you exited.
-
Added
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$italicangle
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$cidfontname, $cidfamilyname, $cidfullname
-
$weight, $copyright
-
$cidweight, $cidcopyright
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SetItalicAngle
-
Removed $cidname (replaced with $cidfontname)
-
Added a Call... button to the execute script dlg to allow you to insert a
call to a script file easily
-
24-Jan-2002
-
Added a way to scale dlgs in different languages.
-
23-Jan-2002
-
Fixed a crash in merge (caused by selecting all points on a path and merging
it (to remove the path))
-
Improved positioning of ogonek and cedilla accents in Build Accented Character
-
22-Jan-2002
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Added:
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SetCharCnt
-
SetCharName
-
SetUnicodeValue
-
CIDChangeSubFont
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SetFontNames
-
CIDSetFontNames
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$curcid, $nextcid, $firstcid, $cidname
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Cleaned up ligature handling in char info dlg
-
Cleaned up array freeing in scripting.
-
Fixed a crash in FontInfo introduced yesterday
-
21-Jan-2002
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Import will now allow you to import background images from the font view
(and the default setting of "Background" for "pk" files has been set to true)
-
Added a scripting command to access
-
Import
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strlen
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strstr
-
strcasecmp
-
strsub
-
arrays
-
access to the postscript names of the font
-
access to information about individual characters
-
Cleaned up some display oddities in the fontview.
-
Added a Set Width command to the bitmap view IF there is no outline font.
-
Added a menu item to invoke a script
-
Added a "Comment" field to FontInfo. This does not correspond to any postscript
or truetype entity. It is to be used for a changelog within the sfd file
(or something similar).
-
19-Jan-2002
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Initial version of scripting.
-
Optimizer caused rounding errors which caused test for divide by zero to
fail leading to errors in Simplify and Merge commands.
-
bdf fonts with an encoding which did not itself include "-1" (or similar)
failed to get the implied "-0" added.
-
17-Jan-2002
-
PfaEdit used to crash (sometimes anyway) if a list popup were active when
a window was destroyed.
-
TextFields within tabsets (like Font Info) responded to some events twice.
-
Bug in the new TTF hinting routines could cause a crash (and did cause glyph
programs which were erroneous)
-
Crash caused by long names in /etc/passwd when creating a new font
-
Redid fontname handling in Font Info dlg to allow URW names to pass through
unscathed
-
Recognize "Regu" as meaning "Regular"
-
Only updates the fullname (human readable name) if it were previously in
sync
-
Recognize "-" as starting the modifiers rather than trying to find the end
of the family name
-
If you don't change the family or the modifiers then pfaedit will now leave
the fontname untouched
-
14 Jan 2002
-
The 9 Jan metrics view fix caused crashes when changing the last character
displayed.
-
The outline view now will display points at extrema in a different color
from other points if you want that.
-
Added a command to the font view to clear out the backgrounds of all selected
characters.
-
Fixed one more image freeing problem (see 29-Dec-2001)
-
bdf fixes of 9&11 Jan did not work on bdf files with character encodings
of "-1"
-
Fixed several bugs with ttf bitmap tables.
-
Added a mechanism for specifying a font inside a truetype collection from
the command line:
$ pfaedit "gulim.ttc(GulimChe)"
will load the GulimChe font within the collection file.
-
12 Jan 2002
-
Russian ui had an unexpected space in it which confused makenomenh. Have
fixed both (makenomenh & nomen.ru)
-
Last fix to Merge made most merges return straight lines
-
Added an elide command which allows the slopes of the endpoints to change
-
Releasing the control or super key when in one of the palettes did not update
the tool cursor.
-
The point info dlg now comes up beside (rather than on top of) the selected
point.
-
11 Jan 2002
-
bdf "fix" of 9 Jan. lost the encoding of the font.
-
PfaEdit source included "ushort" in a couple of places. Linux must define
this but some systems don't. It has been changed to uint16 which I define.
-
Worked around some imaging bugs of the X server under cygwin (PfaEdit seems
to work under cygwin now)
-
Using the arrow keys to scroll only worked if something were selected. should
always work now.
-
The fontview now contains an indication of which characters have backgrounds
-
Minor improvements to merge when given an impossible problem.
-
9 Jan 2002
-
destroy window fix on 2 Jan was not enough, it popped up again. Hope I've
killed it this time
-
PfaEdit had trouble reading bdf fonts that
-
did not have standard X font names (-vendor-family-weight-italic-...)
-
had the same name used for different characters
-
The metrics view got confused by characters with negative lbearings.
-
Added some Japanese (Kanji) text samples.
-
8 Jan 2002
-
Fixed a bug in gdf output
-
7 Jan 2002
-
Added a traditional chinese sample
-
In the metrics view, the kerning offset was not rescaled when the size of
the window changed.
-
Added a preference item to control the amount by which the arrow keys move
selected points
-
Changed the behavior of the grid layer so that now points will snap to any
spline in the grid layer, not just horizontal and vertical splines
-
Added a preference item to control this snap distance.
-
Added a couple new outline display sizes to the fontview
-
Use the "super" modifer to simulate a mouses middle button. If the super
key (the one with a windows flag on it on pc keyboards) is depressed then
any mouse click will be treated as if it were mouse button 2 that was used.
-
Minor improvements in truetype hinting
-
4 Jan 2002
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if a dfont (or other mac resource file) contains multiple truetype fonts,
pfaedit will let you pick one (before it would read in the first and ignore
the others)
-
The tools palette now shows the mouse bindings.
-
Next/Prev control points are drawn in different colors now, and those colors
are reflected in the point get info dlg.
-
Merge and Simplify will now retain the slope of curve points.
-
Simplify will no longer remove points at the extrema of their curves (PostScript
fonts are supposed to have points at the extrema)
-
New command in Element menu to add
points at extrema to a spline or set of splines.
-
Next/Prev Point commands will shift the screen so the newly selected point
is visible.
-
Metrics View now allows for anti aliased character display.
-
Metrics View View menu was broken and was missing half its entries.
-
Revert Font would leave pfaedit in a state where some commands would cause
a crash. Should be fixed now.
-
TextFields did not scroll properly with the arrow keys.
-
The outline and bitmap views may be scrolled with the arrow keys by holding
down either the control or meta key.
-
When reading a ttf file with an encoding pfaedit doesn't recognize which
has some glyphs which are refered to from multiple code points, then pfaedit
used to crash.
-
Support Menu key on windows keyboard
-
Use the Windows "flag" key as a modifier to indicate mouse button 2 (so if
that key is depressed, and a mouse button is pressed/released pretend it
was button2)
-
2 Jan 2002
-
Copy From has been made global and sticky (each font used to have a seperate
value and it got lost on exit. Now there is one global value and it is saved
in the prefs file).
-
Copy From now allows you to control whether a character's name should be
copied along with the glyph data (only in font view).
-
View->Fill should now show the current setting.
-
If there were background images in a glyph then changing the Show/Hide rulers
made the display wrong
-
In the Outline view, the character's popup box would appear if the mouse
were over the menubar. Werner thought that inappropriate.
-
If import bitmaps needed to expand the number of characters in a font (to
provide slots for all the bitmaps) it would fail to do so properly. Resulting
in a crash.
-
Hmm. There appears to be a race condition inside the XServer on my machine
and if I map a window but destroy it before I read the MapNotify (or possibly
Expose) event on the queue, then the server will calmly crash. This can happen
if a progress indicator is ended just after we decide to display it. I've
tried to work around it, but there may still be holes.
-
Added an "About..." menu entry to display the splash screen again
-
Gleep! type1 cid font generation had a couple of problems
-
Print Sample is now available for cid fonts.
-
View-AntiAlias didn't work (characters were always displayed as antialiased)
-
Menus made more responsive to key presses.
-
The Zoom In and Out commands are now centered around the selection (if there
is one, if not they continue to use center of the window)
-
Changed the order of entries in the Point Info dlg so that Prev is above
Next
-
The Escape key can be used to deselect
-
New copyright notices.
-
29-Dec-2001
-
TextFields had numerous display problems. Should have fewer now.
-
The 15 Dec image crash fix was not complete, turns out there were two memory
problems (well, two so far)
-
Some dialogs could show up half off the right edge of the screen. Should
not do so now.
-
Added a few more language samples for printing.
-
Bidi display didn't work when there were lots of combining letters around
-
Bidi printing didn't work when there was more than one line of right to left
text
-
Typing control characters to the fontview will no longer move to that character.
-
Typing [Return] opens selected characters
-
Typing [Tab] moves to next character with something in it.
-
Depressing the right mouse button invokes a popup menu in the fontview now.
-
Trying to move a control point with the mouse while simultaniously moving
the point itself with the arrow keys used to cause a crash
-
Selecting a bdf font which was in a bad format as a background caused a crash.
-
19-Dec-2001
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The german ui file should be in better german
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pfaedit would not notice that an iso10646 bdf file was unicode
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Support for conversion to and from some 2 byte encodings (LocalCharset preference
item)
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sfd files store the font's encoding as a string rather than a number now
so if we add more standard encodings things won't get screwed up as they
were when we added johab.
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18-Dec-2001
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TrueType hints were terrible. I
fixed one huge bug. There are still problems with diagonals and the results
are not as nice as Fontographer's, but they are better.
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Some more greek fixes.
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Metrics window did not handle the transition from a left -> right view
to a right->left one properly (mostly this means if you had a blank metrics
view and you put a hebrew/arabic character into it then that character was
displayed left to right).
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The transform dialog in the fontview now has a checkbox which allows you
to control whether you want the background transformed in sync with the
foreground.
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17-Dec-2001
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Fixed another bug with cid fonts, this one when attempting to create such
a font in the absence of cidmap files
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Fixed a bug when outputting otf cid files (bug appeared when I added vertical
metrics)
-
When loading a cid font PfaEdit could get caught up in an semi-infinite loop
asking for cidmap files. Should be fixed now.
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Finally got rid of the annoying warning about tempnam() when linking.
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16-Dec-2001
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Scrollbars didn't always update in big textfields
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Missed the hot key for unlink reference in the font view.
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Fixed crash when clearing empty character cells
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More greek accent fixes
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changed character popups slightly.
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Added another problem to find problems. Will now check for flipped references
(=>counter-clockwise paths most of the time)
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Interesting. The EuroFont uses the endchar opcode in way that both the type1
and type2 docs claim to be illegal (it is not the last thing in the subroutine,
it is followed by a return). Since EuroFont is from adobe, I presume the
docs are wrong, so I ignore this error now. (The Adobe people insist that
the docs are right, just misleading. That the endchar is the last thing in
the subr because nothing after it gets executed. Hmm, I continue to be misled)
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PfaEdit will be better able to figure out where hints should be active when
it reads in a postscript font.
-
Autohint will no longer find some erroneous hints.
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Autohint will now find the serifs in Nimbus Roman
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15-Dec-2001
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Copying a background image caused a crash at some indeterminate future time
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Made the Help browser configurable
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Changed greek accent processing so that it uses more of the greek accents.
For reasons known best to themselves, unicode tends to map greek varia to
grave, oxia to accute, etc.
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More work to make sure the screen fonts are readable
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tabbing into a text field selects all of it.
-
autotrace 2.8 has changed its argument conventions. new versions of pfaedit
will no longer work with autotrace2.7.
-
If a menu doesn't fit in its window there is now a way to get at the menu
items which are offscreen
-
Cleaned up the panose (fontinfo) window
-
Added names to the private use area of unicode for greek small caps (starting
at 0xf500)
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Fixed a couple of autohint problems
-
Manual hint addition might refuse to add a hint if it didn't like it. It
should now realize that the user is in charge...
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14-Dec-2001
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Oops Edward Lee points out that I was missing some colons in my eps file
generation.
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Hot key added for Unlink Reference
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Werner found two more bugs when reading in cid keyed fonts without a
corresponding cidmap file.
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11-Dec-2001
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Fixed a crash if there were no .cidmap files and PfaEdit was not installed
in a directory named bin.
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Cleaned up the distribution a bit per Werner's requests
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Added a ScreenWidthCentimeters resource
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PfaEdit will no longer ask the X (Font) Server to scale bitmap fonts. It
will only used unscaled bitmaps or outline fonts.
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10-Dec-2001
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Fixed a crash when adding (manually) a minimum distance hint to the width.
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Fixed a bug in the configure script which caused it to fail on solaris
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9-Dec-2001
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Added proper names for Hangul Syllables
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The Greek fixup wasn't working as it should (sometimes would generate two
characters named "Delta" in pfb files). Should be fixed. Should also be
controlable by Preference item (ie. you can turn it off if you want to)
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The metrics view did not display changes
-
The metrics view's cursor sometimes got stuck in the wrong shape
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3-Dec-2001
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Merge Kern Info dlg crashed if you cancelled it.
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The encoding tables in the cmap are supposed to be ordered by platform and
mine were not.
-
PfaEdit would crash when writing out very large copyright notices
-
I lifted the 2000 character restriction on copyright strings.
-
If there were more than 2 lines of tabs in a TabSet then clicking on a tab
would often cause the wrong pane to appear.
-
Cleaned up Font Info a bit so it looks better with the Russian translations.
-
Fixed a memory leak when generating a truetype font with an encoding other
than unicode.
-
Fixed a crash when generating a truetype font which referenced characters
with encodings bigger than 65535.
-
Added a patch from Ulrich, PfaEdit now reads class based kerning from the
GPOS table.
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1-Dec-2001
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Figured out the format of mac .dfont files
-
The mac Command (Apple, Cloverleaf) modifier key is now treated as if it
were the Control key (So users may exit PfaEdit with Command-Q as they expect).
-
Another bug reading in flex hints from OTF. Fixed by Ulrich Klauer.
-
PfaEdit had problems with drawing images when there was an endian mismatch
between the X server and the machine running pfaedit.
-
27-Nov-2001
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Build Accented Character failed to update bitmaps in CID keyed fonts
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Build Accented Character will generate rotated characters when appropriate
for CID keyed fonts
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If a character's name is "vertcid_<cid>" where <cid> should be
replaced by a number, then that character will be replaced by a rotated version
of <cid>
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If a character's name is "vertuni<uni>" where <uni> should be
replaced by a 4 hex-digit number, then that character will be replaced by
a rotated version of the unicode character <uni>.
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When saving a font with rotated characters PfaEdit will now generate a vrt2
feature in the GSUB table (this lets the font's users find out about the
rotated glyphs.
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Before this PfaEdit would only read entries in the 'name' table which were
in unicode (or macroman). PfaEdit is a bit more general now and will read
the other encodings it knows about.
-
Oops. Another screw up reading in open type.
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If the character at encoding 0 was not .notdef then PfaEdit would omit it
when generating a postscript/opentype font.
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26-Nov-2001
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Adobe has upgraded their cid version for traditional chinese, so I generated
a new cidmap to reflect that. I've also cleaned up most of the others.
-
Initial version of vertical metric support.
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(only in true/open type fonts)
-
Added ability to set the vertical advance of each character
-
Added ability to set the vertical origin (as an offset from the origin in
the design coordinate system (which happens to be the origin for horizontal
metrics)).
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Added ability to set the line gap (er, column gap?)
-
What else do I need?
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24-Nov-2001
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Oops. Urich Klauer found a bug in my parsing of ttf/otf tables (introduced
by the linegap change on 8 Nov) and sent a patch.
-
PfaEdit was erroneously complaining that all ttf composit glyphs were too
big (when reading them in, introduced 15 Nov).
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PfaEdit stored StdHW and StdVW in the wrong format when reading opentype
fonts and any .pfa/b fonts generated from that db caused ghostview problems.
-
23-Nov-2001
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Fixed a potential crash from popups in the fontview.
-
Fixed three crashes in remove overlap (there are more problems)
-
Added support for reading/writing mixed 8/16 bit encodings. (used in some
CJK fonts)
-
Added support for big5, johab (johab is untested, big5 minimally)
-
Improved treatment of ttf encodings we don't understand.
-
Added a command to move to the next defined character (useful in CJK encodings
with great holes in the middle. Unicode too I suppose)
-
Added a resource (pfaedit.FontView.FontFamily) to
control the font for the character labels that appear above every user defined
character.
-
PfaEdit now supports multi-line copyright notices (must be less that 2000
ascii characters though).
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17-Nov-2001
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Changed the configure script to deal with Mac OS/X properly (I hope)
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15-Nov-2001
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PfaEdit had a bug when loading some ttc files which caused it to crash.
-
PfaEdit wasn't prepared for the erroneous truetype found in wcl-02.ttf, this
caused a crash. PfaEdit should do better now.
-
PfaEdit's scrollbars didn't work very well. Should be much improved now.
-
PfaEdit used to generate an entire antialiased bitmap font to display in
the fontview window. Now it only generates the images when it needs them.
This speeds up the loading of large fonts and reduces their memory requirements.
-
12-Nov-2001
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Some nearly horizontal (but non-linear) splines could not be selected.
-
Changed the point info dlg so that users could set points back to have default
control points.
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There was a pathway whereby points could be marked as having default control
points even when they didn't. That one is plugged.
-
The chinese font, kaui contains some interesting bugs which we've had to
work around:
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Glyph 257 contains a contour consisting of one off-curve point.
-
The encoding cmap refers to non-existant glyphs
-
The fpgm attempts to move points around (it isn't allowed to do that according
to the docs)
-
11-Nov-2001
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Added support for macintosh resource fonts (by reading them from and writing
them to macbinary wrapped files)
-
Fixed a bug in metricsview where pasting with more than one character caused
a crash.
-
8-Nov-2001
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PfaEdit will now save ligature information in the GSUB table when creating
an opentype font.
-
When double clicking on a previously unused character, PfaEdit would not
set the default ligature properly.
-
PfaEdit would crash if you merged a font containing ligature information
into another one (or diagonal stems or minimum distances).
-
When opening some bdf files, pfaedit would display nothing until you resized
the window.
-
Added the ability to set the TTF linegap fields. There are two of them (one
in OS/2 and one in hhea). I don't understand the distinction between them,
so I set both to the same value.
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When merging fonts, characters which did not fit in the current encoding
would be placed immediately after the last character with something in it.
The intent was that they should go to an unused slot outside of the encoding
rather than within. This has been fixed.
-
I've added a preference item allowing you to configure the seperation between
the base character and the accent in the Build Accented Character command.
I've also changed it so that if the character is close to the x-height or
the cap height, the accent is positioned as if the character were at the
x-height (or cap height), this means the accents will be at a consistent
level rather than slightly ragged.
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I moved the Make First command to the Point menu.
-
Added a command to copy the splines in the foreground layer into the background
layer.
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2-Nov-2001
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PfaEdit would not notice certain disk errors when generating truetype fonts.
It should do better now.
-
PfaEdit could crash when generating postscript from a unicode font that did
not contain all the greek letters.
-
Fixed a display bug in the metrics view.
-
PfaEdit should not be able to read in an opentype GPOS table and extract
kerning information from it.
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PfaEdit will now put kerning info into the GPOS table when saving an opentype
font. TrueType fonts will still put kerning info into the kern table.
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31-Oct-2001
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Added a command to remove width MDs & changed ttf generation to check
if there were any width MDs before setting the "metrics depend on pointsize"
flag in the head table.
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Improved (I hope) placement of palettes under default gnome.
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There was a bug in my otf read in of 'hflex1' instructions which warped some
otf fonts badly.
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29-Oct-2001
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Change type1 encoding vectors so that they start with a for loop setting
everything to notdef. older versions of dvipdfm assume it's there
-
Added two new concepts to hinting which only apply to truetype:
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You can specify that a certain point should be rounded to the grid in x or
y
(note: points on hints don't need this, they'll always be rounded)
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You can specify that the x or y distance between two points should never
vanish (this is called Minimum Distance)
(note: each hint implies one of these going from one side of the hint to
the other, also there is an implied one of these between any two non-overlapping
hints)
You can also specify that the distance between a point and the width should
never vanish. This means that there will always be at least one pixel between
that point and the advance width of the character.
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I removed the serif checker from the ttf instruction generator and moved
it to the autohinter (with some changes of course) and it now generates minimum
distances.
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I added a minimum distance between the last stem of a character and the width.
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I added a user interface to display and control these
-
I realized I was misinterpretting the ttf docs (again) and that IUP worked
better than I thought, and so I removed my own interpolation code (thank
you freetype! it is so good to see what the instructions do.)
-
Cleaned up some rather technical issues in the truetype instruction generation
occasioned by non-overlapping and non-intersecting hints.
-
PfaEdit will now read (but not produce) '.gsf' files. These are yet another
postscript format, like a pfa but without the eexec encoding. Ghostscript
uses them (others may, I think Wadalab did...).
-
Oops. In encodings containing characters with no defined postscript unicode
names, then the name generated for an unused character was wrong.
-
Oops. PfaEdit thought all user defined encodings were two byte encodings
and produced a warning message for them when generating type1 fonts.
-
Added a force encoding flag to the Font Info dlg. This is for those cases
where PfaEdit reads in a font but can't figure out what the proper encoding
is, then doing a force encoding will simply rename all the characters to
match what they should be in the chosen encoding.
-
Oops, neither afm nor bdf files were correctly normalized for fonts whose
em size wasn't 1000.
-
Improved bdf "CHARSET_COLLECTIONS" output.
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Added a command to make two lines parallel
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21-Oct-2001
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PfaEdit could crash when autohinting a diagonal hint.
-
20-Oct-2001
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PfaEdit generated awful instructions (hints) for truetype characters. I've
fixed some of the more egregious problems (I hope).
In particular:
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Diagonal hints were completely broken
-
Overlapping hints didn't work either
-
Normal hints with more than one point on them sometimes had the second (third,
fourth...) point moved by the wrong amount.
-
Points that weren't on any hints were often not interpolated properly.
-
The serif code picked up on things which weren't serifs and tried to hint
them as though they were.
-
I've written a tool which will allow you
to look at what the instructions are and what they do.
-
TTF spline approximation (cubic->quadratic) should be twice as fast.
-
Clearing/Cutting a character with references from the font view corrupted
PfaEdit's internal state. If this were followed by a reduction in the number
of characters in the font (Element->Font Info->Encoding) a crash could
occur.
-
Clearing/Cutting a character with dependents from the font view now gives
the user the option of instanciating the character in all its dependents.
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11-Oct-2001
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Hmm. Apple has some very strange things to say about how offsets and scaling
factors overlap in compound ttf glyphs. It is not well enough described (at
least when it applies to rotations) for me to implement it. Microsoft doesn't
do this. Great. OpenType gives a pair of bits to control this behavior (bit
11 set do it apple's way, bit 12 set do it MS way, neither set flip a coin
and guess, both set die in horrible agony). But still no description of exactly
what Apple does. So I've changed my ttf output routine always to set bit
12 in the composit flags. And the read in does something if it gets the apple
bit. Probably not the right thing though.
-
Fixed a potential problem clipping splines in the outline character display.
-
Added a warning when attempting to save a font with a two byte encoding into
a format that only supports one byte encodings (ie. unicode to pfb)
-
PfaEdit crashed when loading a bare bdf with more than 256 characters
-
PfaEdit used out of date versions of config.guess and config.sub. These should
be updated now.
-
3-Oct-2001
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Added support for saving bitmaps into ttf files. I don't know that I've got
it right. Windows Me ignores the bitmaps I put in. Windows may ignore all
bitmaps, or I may have done something wrong... There are so few files to
test bitmaps on though...
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Some older systems have problems taking the cubed root of 0. This can pop
up in the Cubic Solution code now (when doing simplify for example). There
should be a work-around in place now.
-
On monospaced fonts PfaEdit generated a .notdef character whose width was
the em-square rather than the size of the rest of the font.
-
1-Oct-2001
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makefile wouldn't build ui files if "." wasn't in PATH environment variable.
Should be fixed.
-
Holding down the Shift key when invoking Element->AutoTrace will cause
it to prompt for command line arguments to the autotrace program (you have
to figure these arguments out yourself).
-
30-Sept-2001/1-Oct-2001
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Improved importing background bitmap fonts (scaling factor set more accurately,
pk characters whose bitmap width was a factor of 8 had problems).
-
Import width from background bitmap fonts if the outline character is empty.
-
Merge Fonts was disabled except under bizarre circumstances, should be fixed.
-
Makefiles should create the *.ui files now.
-
Mac encoding table should include the Euro character now (I was using an
old version which had the currency symbol instead).
-
24-Sept-2001
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Mac OS/X port done (or at least a semi-working
version has been produced)
-
Localization didn't work if there was no preference file.
-
Can now read metafont pk files as bitmap fonts (Warning: No encoding on these
files, you've got to guess at the encoding before loading them).
-
Can now read kerning information from TeX .tfm files (Again, there's no encoding
in these guys, I just assume the font's encoding matches the tfm)
-
22-Sept-2001
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Can now read bitmap fonts out of a truetype EBDT (or bdat) table
-
Can import a bitmap and put it into the background of a font.
-
PfaEdit would sometimes get character widths wrong when reading a ttc file.
-
19-Sept-2001
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Major rewrite of Remove Overlap.
-
Fixed potential crash in autohint
-
I now find the intersection of a (cubic) spline and a line by the cubic
algorithem rather than by iteration.
-
15-Sept-2001
-
Fixed more remove overlap/merge/simplify problems related to having many
points at the same location.
-
Fixed a bug in Point Info.
-
14-Sept-2001
-
Fixed a couple more memory problems (caused by the chunk allocation), one
in remove overlap, one in autotrace
-
I'm told that yesterday's executable upload didn't work. Hope today's does
better
-
13-Sept-2001
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Fixed a crash when joining two paths
-
More tweaking of search path for ui files.
-
11-Sept-2001
-
more configuration fixes
-
Fixed many simplify bugs
-
otf output would crash if given an open path. Fixed
-
8-Sept-2001
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Font View Paste has changed slightly. If the copy buffer contains more than
one character, and the selection is exactly one character, then the selection
will be changed so that it will exactly fit the copy buffer.
-
Also Font View Copy will copy the hints of the character.
-
Fixed a bug with reading CID keyed Type1 fonts
-
cleaned up some compilation problems on older systems (I hope)
-
Inserted Olaf's bug fix in gresource.c
-
Cleaned up behavior on zero-length splines
-
5-Sept-2001
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Ug. yesterday's install changes weren't complete. I forgot to remove the
old files from /usr/local/bin so pfaedit used out of data translation tables
and things looked confused for non-English users. Also libgunicode had an
old version of some header files so there were compilation problems if this
was tar x'ed last (the other packages had the correct headers).
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Also I posted a bad libgdraw source.
-
And got the dates wrong.
-
Added a tiny bit of German to the ui (hope it's right)
-
4-Sept-2001 (but posted as 5-Sept-2001)
-
Menubar should be redrawn properly after a resize now.
-
File chooser should be smarter about retaining filenames after changing
directories.
-
Various fixes to support URW's odd habit of abbreviating everything to 4
characters (ie. recognize "obli" for "oblique", and "medi" for "medium")
-
Fixed a crash bug in postscript generation when character 0 was deemed worth
outputting
-
Tweaked XHeight calculation to look for greek/cyrillic "x"
-
Changed install process to put user-interface files into /usr/share/pfaedit
instead of into the bin directory.
-
1-Sept-2001
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Small fixes to (my implementation of) Adobe Standard Encoding.
-
Small tweaks to get things to compile on solaris again.
-
31-August-2001
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If you dragged on a new spline, and then translated one or both of its end-points
the spline reverted to its default configuration
-
TTF files encoded in Wansung/SJIS will be read into a font encoded with either
KSC5601 or JIS208.
-
30-August-2001
-
Fixed some bugs in otf output:
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hintmasks were being output incorrectly, omitting bytes of data. This could
cause horrendous errors. If PfaEdit read in one of these fonts it would often
report "stack underflow".
-
Another hintmask problem caused characters to be offset from where they should
be.
-
Placing a hintmask between multiple [rhv]lineto s caused us to skip a line
segment
-
cleaned up generation of subroutines (used to be extraneous rmovetos)
-
If the user gave bad input to certain Private values (BlueValues for instance),
PfaEdit could go into an infinite loop.
-
Non-CID otf fonts did not get their encodings read
-
Improved parsing of hints in a type1 font with hint substitution
-
Fixed a crash bug in Inserting a font (or a blank font) into a CID font
-
Generate font dialog would sometimes default to producing a CID keyed font
when it was not appropriate.
-
I got the ulCodePageRange bits wrong of the CJK codepages (which meant that
windows thought the wrong characters were in the font)
-
I generated a bad cmap (ttf encoding) table for CID keyed otf fonts.
-
If a TTF/OTF font is encoded with KSC5601 or JIS208 then I will give it a
Wansung / SJIS encoding in the cmap (if a unicode encoding is desired then
reencode as unicode).
-
Found format for afm files of CID fonts. Can now produce such for CID font
output.
-
Improved reference handling in type1s. If a reference doesn't fit into a
"seac" then try to use subroutines. Subroutines are possible if:
-
None of the references in the character use hint substitution (or flex
hints)
- or -
-
Only one of the references uses hint substitution and it isn't translated
(not moved)
-
Improved reference handling in type2s (opentype). Allow a reference to a
character with hint substitutions to go into a subroutine if none of the
other referenced characters use any hints at all, and the character with
hint substitutions is not translated.
-
Get Info was broken inside outline characters
-
Made an attempt to speed up handling of larger fonts. Only noticeable difference
I've seen is that it speeds up freeing the font.
-
Added a dialog to show what characters refer to the current character
-
Made a feeble attempt to sort out the confusion engendered by adobe's naming
conventions for greek letters.
-
if a font contains either the of the characters U+00B5 or U+03BC then when
saving the font PfaEdit ensures that characters with the names: "mu", "uni00B5"
and "uni03BC" are all present. Similarly for Delta, uni0394 uni2206 and Omega,
uni03A9 uni2126
-
Added support for command line arguments which begin with "--".
-
Added -usage and -help arguments
-
Added -recover={none,auto,clean} to give you control over the autorecovery
process.
-
-recover=none means that the current run will not perform auto recovery but
will leave things so that the next run will do so. (Note: If you change a
font that will be recovered later, the results are indeterminate).
-
-recover=auto default behavior
-
-recover=clean cleans out the autorecovery directory
-
extension guessing would do the wrong thing if we actually wanted to open
a font with no extension.
-
8-August-2001
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Some minor fixes to gchardlg.c
-
Try to upgrade the CJK translation tables to Unicode 3
-
Improve processing of ttc files (I can actually read one no)
-
chooser icon for cid-keyed fonts
-
6-August-2001
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KSC5601-1987 was still wrong.
-
Fixed a crash in FontInfo on CID fonts.
-
4-August-2001
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Eek. FontInfo->Panose,TTF Values never got stored into the font.
-
Also added access to Version, and UniqueID
-
Was given a TTf font with no fontname. This caused a crash. PfaEdit now assigns
a fontname if the font doesn't provide one.
-
Added support (well ability to read) for SJIS, Big5 and Wansung TTF encodings
(platform=3, specific=2,3,5)
-
After playing with large asian fonts I am now making (minimal) attempts to
conserve memory and have changed all my doubles to floats (it's configurable
of course, but default is float).
-
Fixed a number of bugs in open type output
-
Was using out of date Korean->Unicode conversion. Should be fixed now.
-
Initial support for CID keyed fonts.
-
26-July-2001
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Added a constrain points command to align a collection of points, or to space
points evenly on a line.
-
25-July-2001
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Fixed a rare crash from closing the outline (or bitmap) view
-
Added a new problem to find problems
-
Fixed some small bugs in find problems
-
Oops. TrueType names came out in the wrong endianness.
-
24-July-2001
-
Although the family name accepted spaces, it then silently removed them.
No longer. (I hope)
-
PfaEdit is now more careful when you attempt to clear a character from the
font view which has dependents (at least one of which is not being cleared
itself). It will warn you and allow you not to clear that character.
-
PfaEdit is also more careful when you attempt to paste a reference to a character
that does not exist in the current font. Before it silently ignored it. Now
it will warn you and give you the option of pasting the outlines of the original
character being refered to (if it can find that character).
-
Fixed an uninitialized variable in print that could cause things to go into
an infinite loop.
-
Fixed a rounding error problem in ttf generation that could cause an infinite
loop.
-
Small bitmap fonts will be magnified in the font view
-
Expand Stroke didn't work on counter-clockwise triangles (presumably other
shapes, but I didn't check). It also would randomly leave paths counter-clockwise
when they should have been clockwise.
-
Finally!
Often when joining two paths (or closing one path) the point would jump when
you released the mouse. I finally figured out why.
-
22-July-2001
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wrote a unicode printf which is now used by most of the error routines. Should
be no visible difference to users.
-
cleaned up the truetype names aspect of the font info dlg.
-
Added a Translate Styles button to the above aspect if the string is Style
and the language is American English. (Sorry about the linguistic chauvanism)
-
Allowed spaces in the Postscript family name again
-
Fixed a bug where the "lpr" radio button would sometimes be disabled.
-
Various other small improvements to "Print".
-
The "Clockwise" detector failed on some paths. I've rewritten it, it should
work better now.
-
The clockwise detector in find problems also needed to be rewritten.
-
Added a Find Problems detector for almost horizontal/vertical control points.
-
Some improvements to metafont (well, a few characters look better anyway,
I hope it's an improvement). It still doesn't work of course.
-
17-July-2001
-
Using almost any stringized error routine would munch memory. Many inexplicable
errors resulted. I hope it is now fixed and that PfaEdit is stable again.
-
Valek's improvements to Find Problems
-
Valek's russian version of "A quick brown fox..."
-
use textarea gadget for Font's copyright notice.
-
16-July-2001
-
PfaEdit did not do a very good job of guessing at where hints should be active
when they were supplied by the user. Should do better now.
-
More tuneups for autohint.
-
Added a command to the outline view to allow you to set the "First Point"
of each spline set. This is important for Interpolate font.
-
Fixed a bug in Font Reencoding having to do with references.
-
Added direction detection to Find Problems (to make sure outer paths are
clockwise)
-
Cleared selections between explainations on Find Problems
-
Gave some indication of how near horizontal/vertical lines are wrong in find
problems
-
Fixed a crash in MetaFont
-
Added a progress indicator to MetaFont
-
Added some more to the print sample text (bulgarian, macedonian, welsh, czech,
lithuanian, polish, slovene)
-
Stringized some more files
-
15-July-2001
-
PfaEdit should now be able to read truetype collection files and do something
reasonable --
At least in theory. I don't have any truetype collection files to test on.
-
Oh dear. The rasterizer was looking at vertical hints when it should have
looked at horizontal ones, looking at no hints when it should have looked
at vertical ones. The result was that vertical edges weren't found.
-
PfaEdit had problems reading in lone bdf fonts with strange encodings.
-
Cleaned up print behavior slightly on systems without ghostview
-
Find Problems would not always stop immediately after pressing the stop button.
-
more files stringized
-
11-July-2001
-
Eek! Memory problem in metrics view (writing beyond what was allocated).
Fixed now.
-
There is scrollbar in the metricsview again. This time it actually does
something.
-
10-July-2001
-
Did significant improvement to arabic ligature creation (at least it's done
right to left now and the proper forms will be picked).
-
Improved the character icons of Anti-Aliased fonts.
-
Oops. FontInfo would mistakenly complain about modifiers like "-Bold". Fixed.
-
There's the start of a command to change the weight
of a font. It doesn't work very well yet. It probably never will work
perfectly, but I hope it may eventually be useful.
-
7-July-2001
-
Fixed a crash when referring to a character whose encoding was bigger than
65535
-
Rewrote the Font Info dlg.
-
Made the dialog controlled by tabs instead of trying to show everything at
once.
-
Merged the private info dlg into it
-
Provided access to some ttf settings which were previously hidden
-
Provided access to the ttf name table (which allows you to give the font
and its styles different names on different languages. So CaslonItalic could
be CaslonItalique in French and CaslonKursive in German.
-
30-June-2001
-
Fixed another crash from putting strings in resources.
-
Added a snap-to feature on horizontal/vertical lines in the grid (guide)
layer.
-
Missing a few files in the distribution of the 28th.
-
28-June-2001
-
Oops. Now all empty characters are nameless, not just controls.
-
Many improvements to find problems.
-
Added some new shortcuts to the menus.
-
27-June-2001
-
When generating truetype (or opentype) fonts, PfaEdit failed to set the
ulCodePageRange for encodings other than latin1/latin2. Should do a better
job now.
-
Fixed a crash introduced by decompress.
-
Fixed a crash when trying to merge two paths (by moving them with the mouse)
when the stationary "path" consisted of exactly one point.
-
Sometimes control characters would be named "uni0001" (etc.) rather than
".notdef". Appropriate, but inconsistant. They should now always be called
".notdef" (unless explicitly renamed).
-
24-June-2001
-
Change configure script to work on solaris
-
23-June-2001
-
Make giofile.c compile on solaris
-
Fix crash in autohint
-
Decompress compressed font files automagically before loading them
-
Update russian version.
-
21-June-2001
-
Copy Width did not work from the font view
-
made the info display in the outline view more legible if the locale used
"," as decimal point.
-
One more attempt to get palettes right. They would disappear if you went
to a non-outline view window and then returned to that same window.
-
Some useful information will now be displayed in the outline view as you
add points to a path.
-
And during rectangle, elipse, polygon and star generation.
-
Build Composit Char will now create the characters 0x2000-0x2015 (spaces
and rules) if you ask it to.
-
Fixed several bugs caused by the resource string changed.
-
This one showed up in font info when removing characters.
-
And this on adding an encoding (to font info).
-
Any simple request for a string got two OK buttons (ie. no Cancel)
-
Added some more strings.
-
Cleaned up the hint translation code to work with the new (ie. hint subtitution,
diagonal)
-
Improved UI for metrics view as per Valik's suggestions
-
Before it would wait until you depressed the mouse before changing the cursor,
now it changes the cursor as you move.
-
Better cursors (seperate cursors for kerning, setting rbearing (== width),
setting lbearing)
-
Selected character is drawn in a different color.
-
Implement ghost/edge hints. (Oops)
-
19-June-2001
-
Initial version of russian menus
-
Recently AutoHint would remove control points from splines which traced out
a line (ie. if the control points were on the line segment between the two
end points). AutoHint shouldn't muck with things like that. And anyway it
got it wrong in several cases.
-
The simplify command will now remove colinear control points from a spline.
And if you hold down the shift key when invoking the menu the simplify command
will only do this (and will change its name to cleanup).
-
18-June-2001
-
Oops. PfaEdit looked in the current directory, not the executable's directory
for the ui files. Should be looking in the executable's dir.
-
Oops. The "font has changed" dialog caused a crash.
-
The simplify command will remove control points if the spline traces out
a line.
-
Cleaned up diagonal hints
-
Made a change to menus which might fix Valek's menu crash. Or might not.
-
Added some more strings to the ui files (yesterday files can't be used any
more)
-
Cleaned up some problems with the metrics view.
-
17-June-2001
-
Added a minimal help menu
-
If the Hint menu was invoked when there were not exactly two points selected,
then pfaedit would crash. Fixed
-
Created a superstructure to allow localization of the UI. Created a small
(incomplete, probably wrong in many places) french ui.
-
13-June-2001
-
Palettes would vanish when the first outline character view was closed. That
should be fixed.
-
Palettes should (I hope) do a better job of tracking windows.
-
Fixed another clipping problem
-
Added support for diagonal stems (for truetype instructioning. Not supported
by postscript hints)
-
AutoHint finds them
-
There's a Clear DStem command, and an Add DStem
-
Review Hints does not display them (they can't be described the same way
as H and V stems).
-
Changed the background color to be dark green so it will stand out against
a filled character
-
Previously if Pfaedit were given a corrupted font with no font name it would
crash. That should be fixed.
-
11-June-2001
-
Added ability to create a pfm file (for ATM under windows)
-
Extended Font Info to allow you to set the FullName (the human readable font
name) from FontInfo
-
Two bugs with hint substitution code:
-
It would occasionally generate one subr containing overlapping hints
-
It would create a Subrs array much bigger than needed. For some reason xfs
had caniptions over the blank (but unused) entries
-
6-June-2001
-
Cleaned up Exit, close and fontinfo commands to avoid possible race conditions.
-
5-June-2001
-
Added a command to look for common problems
-
Fixed a crash caused by removing character slots from a font (using Number
of Characters in Font Info)
-
Fixed a crash caused by reading in a ttf file where the kerning info specified
a non-existant glyph
-
Fixed a crash caused by reading in a pf* file where the encoding was specified
in a slightly different format from the one we expect
-
Palettes should be controllable again.
-
Menu shortcuts should be available from palettes
-
12-May-2001
-
That was a stupid idea (yesterday's). I've backed it out. Instead I've done
what Val asked for -- all windows share common palettes.
-
11-May-2001
-
Made a preference item so that palettes could live within the outline view.
It's sort of a temporary hack until I get palettes working (if ever) so it
isn't really well integrated with things...
-
10-May-2001
-
Fixed a crash bug which occurred when doing Transformations with the origin
set to Center of Selection (default) in a character with an unclosed path.
-
Fixed a similar crash when generating postscript.
-
And another when updating control points.
-
Added much to printing, should be done for now.
-
Valrk Filippov suggested that things should be constrainable to angles other
than horizontal, vertical and 45. In particular constraining to the ItalicAngle
of an Italic/Oblique font is very useful. So we do that now. Thanks Val!
-
7 May 2001
-
Fixed more locale problems (I hope)
-
Info line should show the location of a point moved with the arrows.
-
Added Next/Prev Point commands
-
Added a Print to file command that displays the entire font, or fills a page
with the current character. More options to follow.
-
Fixed a bug in seac output
-
Fixed an introduced crash bug in hint output
-
Fixed a crash bug caused by increasing the number of characters allowed in
the font with FontInfo.
-
6 May 2001
-
Redid hinting to support hint substitution and
counter hinting in Postscript (& opentype)
-
Hints now have an extent in both dimensions, indicating over what parts of
a character they should be active.
-
Dotted lines are used to show the extent of a hint in the primary dimension
-
I draw horizontal hints and vertical hints in different colors now, otherwise
it was too confusing guessing which was which.
-
If a hint conflicts with another its dotted lines are shown in cyan (rather
than light blue/green)
-
When the Review hints dlg is active the current hint is shown in dark blue/green.
-
The Review hints dlg shows whether a hint overlaps (conflicts with) another.
-
Auto Hinting will generate a list of all horizontal and vertical stems, and
then use some heuristics to remove some of the more annoying and less useful
stems from the Hint list. If you don't want this automatic pruning then holding
the Shift key down when you invoke AutoHint from the menu will leave you
with the full stem list.
-
Minor changes to truetype output to deal with the new hint list.
-
Major changes to PostScript output to deal with counters and hint substitution
-
No longer saves Type1 charstrings when loading
a type1 font
-
The icon for outline character windows was still wrong for anti-alias
fonts if there were no bitmap fonts installed. Sigh.
-
Added a Correct Direction command to the font view.
-
Fixed many bugs with Correct Direction
-
Improved accent placement when we have serifs (I hope), don't want to center
on top serif of "i" for example.
-
Slight improvements when pasting bitmaps.
-
Oops. 0x2d should be "hyphen" in the Adobe Standard Encoding rather than
"minus" as I had it.
-
3 May 2001
-
Opps. Generating postscript could crash if there were many blank characters.
-
This is the last version which will allow you to
make small modifications to fonts while retaining the original hint
substitution
-
28 Apr 2001
-
Transform from the font view will (for some transformations and if
Copy From is set to All Fonts) transform
the bitmap associated bitmap characters as well as the outline characters.
-
Cleaned up Build Accented character so that it behaves consistantly between
font/outline views, works with Copy From. The two different aspects of the
command (Accented vs. Composite) are now controlled by whether the Shift
key is down when the menu is invoked.
-
Some more locale tweaking for reading in/writing out postscript.
-
The Preference encoding for new fonts didn't work if set to a user defined
encoding. Should be fixed now.
-
27 Apr 2001
-
Tangent points should display a little better now.
-
If a font is a 94x94 CJK font then the LanguageGroup field of the Private
dictionary will be set to 1.
-
Fixed a recently introduced crash bug that happens on non-unicode fonts with
accented characters.
-
If a character contained a reference and that character could not be converted
into a seac then there would be no hints for the reference. That should be
fixed now.
-
Accented bitmaps should be positioned better now.
-
Added a couple of progress indicators to font level operations (transform,
paste, etc.)
-
Expand stroke didn't work from the font view.
-
23 Apr 2001
-
Fixed a clipping problem
-
Redid a change from yesterday. It should now work for the stuff that used
to work (as well as for what I fixed yesterday)
-
(moved to
)
-
22 Apr 2001
-
Added code to allow users to select more than one bitmap font at a time to
be imported into an sfd.
-
Cleaned up opening a bdf file.
-
Fixed various crash bugs dealing with missing bitmap characters where there
were outline characters.
-
Fixed various problems with building greek accented characters (Unicode 3's
decompositions are no longer helpful)
-
Added some support for
Adobe's
documented corporate use characters (Small Caps, Old Style numbers...)
-
Cleaned up the outline character's icon (got broken when I added anti-aliasing)
-
em space character kept vanishing. Fixed that.
-
Fixed many other small bugs.
-
20 Apr 2001
-
Addition improvements to the handling of format0 (1byte) encodings
-
Put a Symbol encoding into the FontInfo encoding list.
-
Oops. Ligature's had their semi-colons in the wrong place in afm files.
-
19 Apr 2001
-
Yesterday's builds were transfered as ASCII not BINARY and are totally useless.
-
Added a macintosh encoding to ttf output
-
Slight improvement to ttf output (I hope)
-
18 Apr 2001
-
Crash when reading a ttf font fixed (introduced by ligature code).
-
Crash when generating almost any postscript Type1 font (recently introduced)
-
Added code to read ligature information from the TTF/OTF GSUB table.
-
List buttons near the bottom of the screen would popup their list in
inappropriate places.
-
Fixed two bugs in cubic->quadratic spline conversion.
-
Added support for TrueType Symbol encodings
-
17 Apr 2001
-
Menus would go into an infinite loop if you: depressed the mouse on the menu
bar (and pulled down a menu) and then moved the mouse so that it was above
the menubar when the menu was below it. Should be fixed.
-
12 Apr 2001
-
Added a submenu of recent files and a pull down list in the open dlg.
-
Added stuff to put ligature info into an afm file (But not the GSUB table
of ttf/otf)
-
10 Apr 2001
-
Fixed a crash bug when making an encoding from a font with a non-unicode
character in it.
-
Reencoding a font got confused if the new encoding contained more than one
instance of the same glyph (common example is to have both 0x20 and 0xA0
point to space) or if it contained a non-unicode character. This should be
fixed now.
-
Fixed a couple of problems with reading otf files
-
Added ability to save an Open Type font
-
Added a "Round to Int" command
-
.sfd files contain decimal points. This means they are locale specific. Changed
the input routines so that it would accept either "." or "," as a decimal
point.
-
2 Apr 2001
-
PfaEdit provides some support for XUIDs
-
PfaEdit now has a button in the font info dialog which may be able to guess
the italic angle for the font.
-
AutoWidth/Kern didn't work well when the font was missing "A"
-
AutoWidth/Kern didn't work well when the font was italic/oblique
-
Build Accented Character didn't work too well when the font was italic/oblique
-
Previously opening a Type1 font failed to read /OtherSubrs correctly
-
Oops. In the Open Font Dialog, typing a wildcard changed the default button
to [New] rather than [Filter]. And pressing on [Filter] caused a crash.
-
Added ability to open an Open Type font (Postscript Type2 in a TrueType wrapper)
-
29 Mar 2001
-
It is now possible to edit bdf fonts directly (without first creating a dummy
postscript font to contain them)
-
Fixed crash bug under kde
-
28 Mar 2001
-
Made it possible to for the user to new encodings
-
(added TeX base encoding)
-
slight improvements to the palette code
-
26 Mar 2001
-
Fixed a clipping problem in the Metricsview
-
Fixed various other display problems in Metrics
-
Fixed various display problems in the fontview
-
Added "Remove All Kern Pairs" menu item
-
Fixed Auto Kern yet again
-
Added a preference item to control the foundry name for generated bdf fonts.
-
25 Mar 2001
-
Oops. Fixed a typo in auto-kerning code. It should work now...
-
From the outline view, exporting to a bmp file allows you to save an anti-aliased
character as well as a bitmap.
-
The Generate Fonts command allows you to save anti-aliased greymap fonts.
The format they are saved in was invented by me an hour ago so it's totally
useless (it's exactly the same as bdf except there's one extra header
"BITSPERPIXEL" which may be 1, 2, 4 or 8 (1 would be the same as bdf), and
the number of pixels packed into a byte is 8/BITSPERPIXEL (so 8, 4, 2 or
1 respectively).
-
If you selected "No Outline font" in the Generate fonts dialog, it would
generate a postscript font anyway. This has been fixed.
-
24 Mar 2001
-
AutoKerning now lets you specify the number of kerning pairs the font may
have.
-
I'm told that ttf fonts can only have 2048 kerning pairs, so if a font has
more, the ttf generator will only save the 2048 ones with the biggest (absolute)
kerning offset.
-
Fixed a bug in autowidth (would make some characters far too wide).
-
Fixed a bug in autokern which caused it to kern things too closely together.
This also reduced the number of kern pairs generated.
-
Fixed a crash when loading a truetype font (if a glyph's start point and
end point were both off-curve points then the point between them was interpolated
incorrectly).
-
PfaEdit should now work with XFree 4.0.* before it would crash after putting
up the splash screen.
-
21 Mar 2001
-
Fixed yet another remove overlap bug.
-
12 Mar 2001
-
a number of small improvements
-
fixed a crash bug (occurred when holding down the alt key, using the pointer
tool, and no reference was selected)
-
9 Mar 2001
-
Fixed a small bug in the hinting of glyph 0 (the unknown character)
-
Added "rulers" to the character outline view
-
Expanded the abilities of the postscript importer
-
Fixed yet another clipping bug.
-
Fixed a problem displaying tangent points when the control point was less
than 1 unit away
-
Provides an interface to the autotrace program to autotrace background images
-
Fixed a crash when drawing large images.
-
Fixed a problem with detecting clockwise paths.
-
Fixed a bug with reading in Type3 fonts
-
5 Mar 2001
-
Minimal truetype instructing (hinting) is now in place.

no hints |

hints |
-
This includes applying instructions to all points that lie on the Hints generated
for Postscript, a certain amount of extra effort to detect serifs, and
application of the PostScript BlueValues to the TrueType cvt.
-
AutoHint has been improved for some characters again.
-
4 Mar 2001
-
When Get Info is applied to a single selected reference character the dialog
now has a button which will bring up a window displaying the character refered
to.
-
The Font View now displays info on the current character
-
Selecting by dragging out a rectangle in the character outline view would
sometimes miss points. I think that's fixed.
-
Doing a multi-character copy in the fontview would remove non-existant characters
from the copy set. They are no longer removed.
-
Build Accented character would always use a dotlessi when building an character
based on an "i". This behavior is only correct if the accent added is above
the letter. Adding an ogonek for example should retain the dot. This is now
fixed. (In theory the same problem could occur for j, but I don't think there
are any cases where it does).
-
When generating a type1 font PfaEdit will detect whether Flex hints can be
used and use them if appropriate.
-
There was a bug in the routine that read in flex hints. It would leave behind
6 extra points not on any path in most characters with a flex hint. These
points were not harmful, but they should not have been there.
-
I found some cases where autohint picked the wrong hints. I cleaned them
up. I hope I haven't broken others...
-
Fixed another clipping problem.
-
(Various experiments with instructing truetype have yielded no display
improvement)
-
25 Feb 2001
-
PfaEdit no longer crashes on high-end systems where the default visual has
a smaller depth than the maximum the screen supports.
-
PfaEdit no longer crashes on systems with no bitmap unicode fonts installed.
-
When PfaEdit reads in a Type1 font it will preserve the original character
strings (the type1 strings that define the glyph shape) and will write them
out again when you save the font. If you modify a character (even something
innocuous like setting the width) the string for that character will be lost.
This means that any characters you do not modify will retain flex hints and
hint substitution. (the Subrs and OtherSubrs arrays are also preserved).
-
There is now a way to edit the entries in the Private dictionary (well most
of them. No way to edit the Subrs entry). The program will guess at good
values for some entries (like StdHW or BlueValues). If there is no BlueValues
entry present when a type1 font is generated then the program will guess
at good values (and will also guess at values for OtherBlues), otherwise
it will use the one supplied. Similarly for StdHW and StdVW (if StdHW is
absent then the program will guess at SnapStemH too, similarly for SnapStemV).
If UniqueID is present in the Private dictionary then that value will be
used in the font dictionary, if no UniqueID is present then the program will
generate a random number in the allowed range.
-
Removed a number of warnings from the code
-
Made arrow keys functional in the fontview
-
Changed type0 unicode generation so that if the font does not contain
U+2700-U+27FF the printer's own ZapfDingbats (if present) will be mapped
there.
-
Added Adobe Standard to the Font Info Encoding list.
-
20 Feb 2001
-
Fixed some problems in saving both Type1s and TrueType fonts.
-
Added clipping code to the outline character view. (Before at magnifications
around 100 or so we'd run into overflow problems)
-
Added progress widget to font generation (and font database saving)
-
13 Feb 2001
-
Fixed some problems with the configure script (handles libraries now)
-
Added a progress widget to show how things are going on long operations (currenly
only font opens)
-
Fixed numerous small annoyances
-
Fixed a crash I introduced into build accented characters.
-
Fixed a couple of bugs in truetype generation
-
11 Feb 2001
-
Added a configure script
-
Rearranged (simplified) the directory structure
-
Improved the build accented character function
-
(similar improvements to display of unicode text (in text fields, etc.) with
composing characters)
-
BiDi text was previously confused by composed characters and would put them
on the wrong letter. Fixed.
-
9 Feb 2001
-
Tweaked some include files so pfaedit might compile under Irix
-
Added anti-aliasing code to the font view.
-
Fixed bugs where server has 24bit depth but 32bit pixel size
-
Added a resource which turn palettes off (so they stop trying to steal focus
and stop trying to track the main window)
-
7 Feb 2001
-
Some improvement in processing of postscript names in true type fonts (will
make truetype output marginally smaller in most cases)
-
Fixed a bug with popup menus.
-
Holding down the meta key allows you to drag (rather than resize) references
which fill the bounding box.
-
Improved saving of both postscript and truetype fonts when there are composite
characters referring to other composits.
-
Fixed bug in file chooser where typing into the listbox (to select a file)
made it think (sometimes) that it had a directory.
-
Fixed bug in Goto Char code where it would refuse to go to a character's
location (sometimes) if the character had not been created yet.
-
Improved drawing of palettes on indexed displays
-
Improved accent processing in build accented characters
-
26 Jan 2001
-
Fixed a bug that kept the file chooser (the open file dlg, etc.) from browsing
the root directory.
-
Realized that libgif is just a symbolic link to libungif. Made the readgif
routine use either one
-
A typo in writepng caused it to require libpng at link time, this has been
fixed, it should now only need libpng if someone actually loads a png file.
-
21 Jan 2001
-
Added a preference dlg. Not much in it as yet.
-
fixed a number of bugs
-
Timers sometimes failed to go off -> splash screen might not vanish, popups
might not pop, autosave might not happen...
-
Vertical lines might cause divide by 0 errors on some systems when reading
in a font
-
Some fonts were thought not to have characters they actually had.
-
94x94 fonts were encoded as 92x94 (losing 188 characters)
-
Fixed problems with kuten decoding
-
Fixed various crashes involving selecting and deselecting non-existant characters
-
9 Jan 2001
-
Added Tom Harvey's man page to the distribution (Thanks Tom!)
-
Fixed a bug where radio buttons, etc. sometimes got left highlit
-
Added an interpreter for (some) postscript type 3 fonts
-
made libgdraw and friends into one shared library
-
6 Jan 2001
-
More distribution bug fixes
-
Fixed bugs in Overlap & AutoWidth
-
Added new command to Metrics menu (Thirds in Width)
-
4 Jan 2001
-
Fixed a distribution bug
-
Fixed some problems with build accented character
-
2 Jan 2001
-
Many small improvements and bug fixes.
-
More remove overlap corrections
-
21 Dec 2000
-
I think I'm reading xfig splines properly now. The conversion to postscript
still leaves something to be desired, but it's as good as I'm likely to make
it.
-
20 Dec 2000
-
Generate Fonts can produce TrueType
-
17 Dec 2000
-
TrueType reader now gets (horizontal) kerning info
-
Added code that automagically preserves changes if the program should crash
(but does not save on the source file unless you ask it to).
-
Added a Revert File command.
-
16 Dec 2000
-
PfaEdit will now read in a TrueType font
-
(it doesn't read hints from the font)
-
(it doesn't read bitmaps from the font)
-
14 Dec 2000
-
Got PfaEdit to build on a netbsd alpha box
-
Added Auto Width & Auto Kern commands
-
If you do a translation which is of the entire outline character and is only
in the x-direction, then all the character's hints will be translated too,
and if the character is a letter then in any characters which depend on this
one, the other things in the character will also be translated.
-
12 Dec 2000
-
Added a skew command to the bitmap view
-
Added Interpolate Fonts
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11 Dec 2000
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fixed more remove overlap bugs (don't know of any left)
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Added Merge Font command
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10 Dec 2000
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fixed many small bugs with constrained movements
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fixed many autohinting bugs
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Fixed some remove overlap bugs
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Added backup files when saving sfd files
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5 Dec 2000
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Added a command that automagically builds an accented (or general composit)
character. (see below)
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Added support for various CJK encodings (JIS 208, JIS 212, old KSC 5601,
GB 2302, all 94x94)
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Implemented a fairly poor importer/exporter of xfig files. (I don't know
how to convert XSplines to Bezier Splines reasonably).
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Implemented a metrics window, added support for kerning (kern info only lives
in the afm file, not in the font itself)
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Metrics window will also display text from bitmap fonts (but you mayn't change
a bitmap's metrics)
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Reexamined palette code with transient windows. It seems to work on kde now.
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Fixed blinking cursor on 8&16 bit-depth displays
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1 Dec 2000
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Generate & save bitmaps
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Bitmap editor (added a couple of tools like flipping and corner turning,
circle drawing, etc. that aren't in fontographer)
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fontview can display a bitmap, if it does then double clicking on a char
will display the bitmap
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Changing the width of a character (in outline view) will automatically change
the width of all bitmaps of that character. Also if the character is a letter
and there are accented characters which refer to it and the accented characters
have the same with that the letter used to have, then the accented characters
(and their bitmaps) will also have their width updated.
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Can import and export bitmap images into bitmap window
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Can import a bdf file
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Can copy and paste in the fontview (bitmaps can be affected as well as outlines)
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28 Nov 2000
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Improved star tool
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Added various metrics menu items
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Added a simplify command
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fixed bugs in the merge command
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Made font view functional, can apply to many outline characters at once
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transform
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expand stroke
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remove overlap
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simplify
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metrics items above
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Char Info
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19 Nov 2000
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Added Caligraphic expand stroke
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Added Get Info
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Added Correct Path Direction
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Added Remove Overlap (probably very buggy)
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Enhanced support for Unicode, added type0 font output.
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Added type3 output (not compressed type 3, can't open a type3 or type0)
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Sped up background image drawing.
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Implemented drag-resize of images and referenced characters
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Added Rectangle, Elipse, Polygon and Star tools.
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14 Nov 2000
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Added expand stroke
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Paths stored in .sfd files are now closed (bug fix)
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13 Nov 2000
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Added the equivalent of a .fog file (Spline Font Database, sfd files)
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Implemented transform tools
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continued fixing palettes
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11 Nov 2000
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Imports and exports simple eps files for characters
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Transform allows you to pick origin
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Bunch of menu items for manual hinting added. (I hope I'm done with hints
now... at least till I look at truetype)
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Clockwise now agrees with Fontographer (and everyone else)
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Added "pen" , and a knife tools
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(Added many other tools pictures, but they aren't implemented yet)
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Fixed many palette problems. (including kde's not doing menu shortcuts)
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Put in menu items to show/hide palettes
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9 Nov 2000
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It can now calculate hints, font wide stem hints and character specific hints.
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Transform should do rotations right now.
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Metamorphosis file format bug should be fixed
PfaEdit was initially made available (on the web) on 7 Nov 2000, and moved
to sourceforge 21 Apr 2001. I started
coding it in approximately Sept of 2000.