最近の変更点
PfaEdit (FontForge の旧名称) の変更点
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24-Aug-2004
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Oops, didn't get the expand stroke scripting patch quite right
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スクリプトでの環境設定項目の扱いを変更:
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デフォルトで、スクリプト開始時に環境設定ファイルを読み込むことはなくなりました。
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環境設定は、ユーザが指定しない限りファイルに保存されなくなりました。
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LoadPrefs() と SavePrefs() の 2 つの新スクリプトコマンドを追加。
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ユーザが環境設定を読み込むかを設定できる FONTFORGE_LOADPREFS を追加。
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Used to have a preference item DumpGlyphMap. Now we have an equivalent flag
in the Generate Fonts [Options] dialog.
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The SetPanose scripting command didn't work. MURAOKA Taro provides a patch
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It was not possible to get or set NewCharset preference item with GetPref/SetPref
scripting commands. Now GetPref returns a magic number, which may be used
in SetPref. SetPref will accept either a number or one of the encodings accepted
by Reencode().
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If you copied a glyph feature from a glyph that didn't have that feature,
and then did a paste ff would crash.
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Added two new tools to the outline character view. One allows you to rotated
your glyph through 3dimensions (and project it back on the xy plane), the
other allows you to do a perspective transformation.
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Extended the Transformation dialog to handle 3D rotation+projection. After
all it's just:
cos(y-axis-rotation) |
0 |
0 |
cos(x-axis-rotation) |
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Add a Point of View dialog to do real perspective projections
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Remove the FONTFORGE_CONFIG_NONLINEAR flag, and enable the nonlinear dlg
perminantly. I need some of its routines to do the projective projections.
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There was a path through LoadEncodingFile (in a script) where it would silently
fail.
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LoadEncodingFile would save default encodings even though it hadn't loaded
them. It no longer does this, but now SavePrefs does it instead.
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Added the ability to see (and create) simple substitutions in the font view.
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The embossed box around the fontinfo dlg wasn't always in the right place
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8-Aug-2004
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Zhang Lin-bo reports two bugs (which were really three)
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Expand Stroke failed when given a path consisting of a single point had a
zero length spline returning to itself.
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AddExtrema falls into an infinite loop if the initial spline of a path needs
an extremum added to it.
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Expand Stroke generates garbage output in some very obscure conditions.
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AutoHint crashes when given garbage input.
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Michael Gährken points out that ExpandStroke scripting command doesn't
work for caligraphic stroking, provides a patch and an extension.
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KANOU provides a patch for BDFMakeChar in CID keyed fonts.
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Change the Shades palette in the bitmap view so that it shows what grey level
is underneath the cursor.
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When the width is huge, then moving it causes it to wrap into negative values.
It should probably stick at SHRT_MAX instead.
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If one moves to a negative width and releases the mouse, an error message
pops up warning of this. If you move the cursor around the width continued
to change.
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If one moves to a negative width, and in response to the width warning says
[No] then the width reverted to the wrong value.
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ff would crash on a postscript sequence containing "{}" if that was the first
function defined.
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I got the locale wrong for Hong Kong
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If nothing was selected in the import dlg (or any of the file open dlgs)
and the user pressed [OK], then the directory would be returned.
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Improved error message for Import dlg.
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In spanish various dlgs had buttons that were too close together (and similar
problems)
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01-Aug-2004
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ff did not generate amfm files correctly
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Changed the Merge Kern Infor (menu item and scripting command) to
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support pfm files
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detect file type from the file header rather than from the extension
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Added InterpolateFonts as a scripting command
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Added GetEnv as a scripting command
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The scripting $fontversion and $copyright psuedo variables broke when I added
the fond name changes.
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More problems with tfm files.
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Fixed a couple of problems related to dialog sizing for different languages.
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In Windows 3.1 some chinese fonts were released with a ttf version of 2 (rather
than 1). Add this to the list of supported TrueType/OpenType versions (see
discussion on freetype mailing list, july 2004 for more info)
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Added both a menu and scripting command to copy kerning & substitution
info from one glyph to another.
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FontForge fails to load some svg fonts properly (if they use the "t" directive
within a path => quadratic splines, control point implied, relative to
last point). Result is a nasty scribble.
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Windows file systems are not case conscious. The file names generated for
Export use glyph names (which are case conscious). So on windows exporting
"a" and "A" will overwrite the same file. (Add a "$" in front of capital
letters to distinguish).
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We were not scaling refs/images uniformly when we dragged corners. Instead
we changed the sides by the same amount (this works for squares, but nothing
else).
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XML does not allow backspace as an input character, even when specified by
an entity. This means we can't specify the unicode code point for backspace
in a an svg font (and many ttf fonts contain a blank backspace char, god
only knows why).
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The Default ATT->Unicode decomposition didn't work.
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Added a new entry to Default ATT, Caps->Small Caps (and cleaned up lower
case->small caps too).
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Eschew 0 width hints.
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Add support for localized unicode glyph names (currently only french is
available)
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3-July-2004
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Undoes in the Guide layer caused a crash (introduced with multi-layer)
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Fixed another problem with subroutine references in type1 output
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Preserve hhea.ascent/descent and some OS/2 values (no UI for these, but they
are retained)
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KANOU provided two patches
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One to set the the average Char Width field of OS/2 properly
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One to set the 'gasp' table so that Windows would actually use embedded bitmaps
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Added support (in build accent) to look for upper case and cyrillic variants
of accents (use grave.cap rather than grave, use breve.cyr rather than breve)
when building upper case or cyrillic letters.
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Points were not being properly renumbered if they were out of order (when
editing in quadratic mode)
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When a character had a color attached to it, it looked very strange if the
user changed it.
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Added an "x" to check boxes when checked
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FF did not realize that tonos should be treated as an accent (it is spacing,
which confused ff)
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Cleaned up an ancient message in the nomen files. Used to be three seperate
strings, now one with format specs in it.
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18-June-2004
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Point types were not set properly after conversion from quadratic to cubic
splines.
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Several preference items were not being saved and were not accessable from
scripts.
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Scripts could not set the resolution for bdf fonts
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Still having problems with references to references in type1 subroutines.
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AutoTrace had problems with multi-layered mode.
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Enhance "ItalicConstrained" in the Character View to allow vertical constrains
as well as those parallel to the italic angle.
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Build Accented Characters had problems when there were bitmap characters
involved.
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Can no longer blindly rotate splinesets in type2 fonts to avoid an initial
flex.
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Add three new problems to Find Problems
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Check for intersecting contours
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Check for mulitple glyphs with same unicode code point
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Check for multiple glyphs with same name
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31-May-2004
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In the 19-May build I introduced a bug which could generate NaN values for
control points.
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29-May-2004
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The MergeKern scripting command didn't have the capabilities of its menu
counterpart.
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Enhance the pattern matching capabilities on font names when loading kerning
information from a mac FOND (there is no place in the FOND that names the
styles, so best we can do is make reasonable guesses).
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When editing quadratic fonts (truetype), changing the type of a point to
be a tangent caused the previous control point to be set the to same location
as the next control point. Bleah.
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New versions of libpng will not automagically load libz when they are loaded.
Needed a patch to load libz manually.
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Fixed a couple of bugs in contextual / chaining dialog.
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When reading PostScript arrays FF failed to parse negative numbers properly.
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Make it an error (which it should be) to create a mac postscript resource
file without also generating an NFNT.
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Warn that NFNTs don't work under OS/X, warn that POST resources are probably
depreciated.
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WinAscent/Descent were being saved incorrectly in sfd files, leading to bad
WinAscent/Descent in t/otf OS/2 tables.
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Crash in ExpandStroke from a NaN when try to intersect parallel lines
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Improved Merge a little bit for quadratic splines
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23-May-2004
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Added popups in the Open Font dialog to show the fontname(s) of any font(s)
in a file.
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FontForge failed to load background images. A bug introduced 24-Feb (part
of multi-layer)
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Reordered the which glyph FF would pick when searching for accents. It used
to use ASCII versions of the accents over those in the U+03xx range.
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20-May-2004
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Bug in scripting change for mac families.
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Added a Paste After command (which isn't visible by default) which will allow
you to build up words more easily.
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19-May-2004
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Give the user access to the OS/2 fields WinAscent and WinDescent.
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Add a new command (Points->Make Line) which will turn a spline between
two selected points into a line.
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Improve the behavior of defaulting control points so we don't get
self-intersecting loops
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Add a mode to the pointer tool. Holding down the <Alt> key now means
we don't join two open contours if they make contact while dragging.
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When loading an otf file and saving it as ttf, sometimes the space glyph
would become zero width.
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Redid the way mac families were output. Should be more flexible under OS/X
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9-May-2004
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Several problems with tfm files. Didn't handle tfms with more that 128 lig/kerns.
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Failed to set the r2l flag properly in 'morx' tables
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More typos in the ghost hint code
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Allow users to express error term of the scripting Simplify command as a
fraction.
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The strings in the context / chaining dlg's initial pane were wrong
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Fixed some bugs in converting OT contextual substitutions to Mac state machines
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If we wanted to put a glyph with references into a subroutine (in type1 output)
we failed miserably
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Added a new command
Edit->ReplaceWithReference (and
a scripting version too), which searches all glyphs in the font for any selected
glyphs, and for each embedded occurance it replaces the outlines of the glyph
with a reference to it. This is because reading a postscript (type2 or type1)
font generally loses all reference information.
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The documentation for OS/2.winAscent makes no sense. I shall ignore it and
set winAscent to hhea.ascent
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Sivan says that hebrew kerning is broken again.
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The search dlg didn't work on quadratic (truetype) fonts
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2-May-2004
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I've changed the colour of check boxes because people found black confusing
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FontForge read Italic Correction incorrectly out of tfm files and had minor
problems generating tfm files.
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the kern class dlg had an uninitialized variable (introduced with the multiple
master code I think)
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FontForge would sometimes crash when generating a GDEF table for some types
of otf font.
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Pierre Hanser has updated the french UI, and pointed out some problems with
the english UI.
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In a version of FontForge compiled with MultiLayer on, Pasting something
containing a reference screwed up memory
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25-Apr-2004
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AutoHint produced ghost hints for curved stems that sometimes were outside
of the character.
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Fixed some uninitialized variables in MetaFont (but the algorthim is still
flawed)
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FontForge had problems when the fontview was maximized.
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The 18-Apr patch for cubic->quadratic conversion had a bug which generally
resulted in a crash.
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When flickering in and out of compacted mode, during a Generate Fonts, the
encodings in the displayed bitmap could get out of sync with those of the
font leading to a crash.
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Don't mess with the control points in point type conversion
(corner->curve/tangent) when the they are already reasonable.
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Allow rectangles and ellipses to have seperate settings of the center out
flag.
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Add a dialog which allows you to specify exactly where rectangles/ellipses
should go.
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Double-clicking on the scale/flap/rotate/skew tool brings up the transform
dialog.
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Add a couple of entries in the transform dlg option menus which copy information
from the last ruler measurement.
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Give the user control over how long the ruler window hangs around.
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18-Apr-2004
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Fix a couple of bugs dealing with references in multilayered editing.
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Uninitialized variable in creation of 'name' table (introduced on 10-Apr)
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Edit->Merge didn't work properly on quadratic splines
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LCarets should have ignored the script assigned to them, but they didn't.
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Put in more protection against bad GSUB/GPOS tables. In particular mangal.ttf
has a bad GSUB table (with erroneous class specifications).
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FontForge wasn't setting 'hhea'.caretSlopeRun appropriately in italic
fonts (should match tan(italicAngle)).
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Oops. Can do much better converting from cubic to quadratic splines. We were
getting far too many linear segments.
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Our cubic->quadratic conversion could generate splines where the endpoints
were less than 1 unit apart. Since ttf rounds all coords to ints, this meant
we'd get the two endpoints on top of one another.
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When generating a truetype font from a cubic database, FontForge calculated
'maxp'.maxCompositePoints incorrectly.
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Gave the user control over when point numbers are visible (even for cubic
fonts)
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10-Apr-2004
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The flatten commands didn't preserve the ttf 'name' table nor the 'OS/2'
table
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Redid the way 'name' table was generated, hopefully we do better for the
mac now.
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the 'kern' table had a bad rangeShift value (it was the negative of what
it should be)
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Pasting a reference from one font to another could crash if the destination
font did not have the refered character.
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".null" was appearing twice in the 'post' table when saving a ttf file a
second time.
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Markus Schwarzenberg points out that the ScaleToEm() scripting command didn't
work when given a single argument.
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Pierre Hanser points out that the version fix on 4-Apr had a bug that caused
crashes on Macs (perhaps elsewhere).
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04-Apr-2004
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Several more fixes for cff output.
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We had a bad habit of including extraneous hintmask operators in output
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Add a proper ff version (well, as much as my versions be proper) to
postscript/svg output
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Patch from Kanou about reading format 2 bitmaps in a sfnt
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Patch from Kanou. MS requires a weird format for GSUB in vertical writing.
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29-Mar-2004
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When Type1 output needed to output a reference as inline splines (as opposed
to a subroutine call or using a seac command) then it would lose any translation
applied to that reference.
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Patch to Type3 output from R.L.Horn
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FontForge used to crash when reading in a bdf glyph with a bad bounding box.
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Reading a kerning class from an sfd file when that class had more second
character classes than first character classes would screw up memory and
probably cause a crash.
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Attempting to edit a 'cvt ' table in a font without one caused a crash.
Attempting to edit a 'cvt ' table in a font with one showed an empty table.
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Make scaling from the fontview apply to kerning and positioning data.
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Drawing a rectangle by dragging from center out didn't work
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Display phantom points when debugging. Be prepared to find either 2 (horizontal
metrics) or 4 (both horizontal or vertical) depending on what version of
freetype we've got.
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Bug in both reading and writing encoding format 0 of cff fonts. I forgot
to ignore .notdef so everything was off by 1.
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If a glyph was used as a reference in another glyph, and we put it in a
subroutine (type1 output), and it had hint conflicts, then the first group
of hints never got output.
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In multilayered mode, the Revert Glyph command left memory in a potentially
bad state. (If you immediately closed the charview, then nothing bad would
happen, but if you tried any editing in it, then nasty things happened.)
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21-Mar-2004
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When flattening a CID file fontforge lost track of the script/lang list (and
other things) which caused bugs when dealing with substitutions
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When saving multiply, fontforge could free a fonts hash table several times
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When flattening by a CMAP file from a script fontforge could crash
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Added a CIDFlatten command to scripting.
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The "cleanup of OS/2" on 29-Feb actually broke WinAscent/Descent
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When loading a mac unicode string from the 'name' table, fontforge failed
to convert the language correctly.
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When loading a mac contextual substitution statemachine, fontforge made egregious
errors in guessing to what glyphs were usable for a substitution of the marked
glyph.
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Added the current encoding to the font's window title (also display a flag
to show whether the font has been changed)
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When moving points around on an order2 contour fontforge could end up with
bad control points and would then produce annoying internal errors alerting
the user to this fact.
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The CID Flatten commands did not work when the view was compacted.
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CharInfo had been deliberately disabled in CID fonts
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Show ATT didn't work with CID keyed fonts
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The preference mapping between mac and opentype small caps features was wrong.
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Werner found a strange bug in splinefill that I can't reproduce (and can't
understand how it could happen) but the fix appears obvious.
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Add a command to show what glyphs use the current glyph in a substitution
(so "A.swash" would show that "A" used it, and "i" would show that "fi" used
it).
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Changed the extension shown in the Generate Fonts dlg for multiple saves
to ".pfb". Put in a %s to make it obvious that more will be added to the
name. Support people who want .pfa fonts too.
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The dialog for adding/editing correspondences between mac feature/settings
and opentype features never went away.
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Disable the Default ATT menu if no char is selected in the fontview.
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FontForge sometimes had trouble drawing the correct rotated glyph in cid
fonts on the display lines of the fontview.
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Changed the way names used in cidmap files, so there are new cidmap files
now.
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The ShowAtt dialog could overwrite itself if there were enough aats in it.
(and at one point the vertical scroll bar was set to the bounds of the horizontal
scroll bar)
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Still getting the windows ascent/descent wrong. This time in CID keyed fonts.
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Add some new language translations for things like "Bold" (dutch, swedish,
norwegian)
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Dragging and dropping a char from the font view into the char info dlg (to
create a substitution) created a crash instead.
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Support more of postscript in the interpreter
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Our svg fonts pointed to a not-yet-existing dtd file
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Support for Apple's distortable fonts (sort of like truetype multi-master
fonts)
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Depressing the control key now makes popups live longer (until the mouse
moves).
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new command in MM menu: Blend to new font
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2-Mar-2004
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PfaEdit から FontForge への名称変更
FontForge の最初の版は 2004 年 3 月 2 日に公開されました。このプログラムはそれ以前 PfaEdit と呼ばれていましたが、2000 年 9 月に開発が始まり、2000 年 11 月 7 日に最初に公開され、2001 年 1 月 21 日に pfaedit.sf.net に移行しました。