FontCreator - Release History
6.0.1 [July 18, 2009]
- Improved import vector based images
- Improved support for Windows Big5, PRC, and Wansung
- Enabled Font Test during trial period
- Fixed Font Install issue
6.0 [June 17, 2009]
- Added import vector based images (ai/eps/pdf)
- Improved import raster based images
- Advanced drag and drop support
- Added alphanumeric to the glyph sort feature
- Updated font vendor list
- Background image enhancements
- Improved complete composites
- New feature that copies existing glyph to the background image
- Improved codepage calculation
- Enhanced the Smoothing (Grayscale) window
- Improved cubic to quadratic bezier curve conversion (affects AI/EPS/PDF imports as well as .otf to .ttf conversions)
5.6 [July 19, 2007]
- Improved complete composites (automatically generates outlines for over 2000 glyphs!)
- New and improved transform scripts (for example make a bold version, or add Eastern Europe characters within seconds)
- Auto Center and Zoom Glyph when Window is resized
- Launch MainType from the Tools, Launch Externals Submenu or the button on the Standard toolbar
- Glyph caption in Overview window now supports "Symbol Character", used to be ISO
- Improved glyph validation performance
- Numerous enhancements to the transformation features
- Improved background image support
- Enhanced the Kerning window
- Option to resume from last time
- Added a Calculate button to the "Additional Metrics"
- Added the glyph index to the min/max values within the Font Properties window
- Save As and Sort Font buttons
- Added "Open in New Window" when you right-click a composite glyph member
- Metrics and reference lines in the Glyph Edit window
- New feature that ensures valid PostScript glyph names
- Added import kerning pairs with their values
- Added Open link in webbrowser buttons to specific naming fields
- New fonts come with predefined outlines
- Sort glyphs by Microsoft code points, standard Macintosh ordering, PostScript name, or glyph type
5.5 [May 30, 2006]
- Changed product name from Font Creator to FontCreator
- Enhanced user interface with additional buttons for frequent commands
- More shortcuts and commands to context menus
- Support for Unicode input (At least Windows 2000 or Windows XP is required)
- New drawing tools: rectangle and ellipse
- Improved glyph validation
- Improved PANOSE settings
- Added a font preview to the open installed fonts dialog
- Improved the font test dialog
- Added align and distribute operations
- Improved transform wizard (added Insert Characters and Complete Composites)
- Improved "Select Incomplete glyphs"
5.0 [January 12, 2005]
- Changed product name from Font Creator Program to Font Creator
- Better support for adding (ranges of) characters
- More calculation support in the Font Settings window
- Enhanced grid options
- Snap to grid and snap to guidelines for bearings
- Support for CFF based OpenType fonts (.otf files)
- Complete composites; quickly add diacritical marks to incomplete glyphs
- Contour operations: union, intersection, exclusion and knife
- Bearings tab on the Transform toolbar
- Improved glyph validation
- Comparison toolbar
4.5 [August 17, 2004]
- Set Left Side Bearing at x=0 (see Tools -> Options -> Font)
- Better support for assigning code points from the Supplementary Planes
- Glyph Transformation window (scale, rotate, etc. all glyphs)
- Select incomplete glyphs. This way you can delete unwanted glyphs
- Bookmark support in the Overview window
- Improved Import Image feature
- Added drag and drop support for import image on both Overview and Glyph Edit windows
- Added Launch Externals from Tools menu for Fonts folder and CharMap
- Next and previous contour - walk through. (Q and W)
- Snap to grid and guideline support when creating a new contour
- Lock guidelines support
- Extended the Naming tab on the Options window. This information is added when you create a new font through File --> New
- Generate postscript names feature added to the Postscript Names window
- Calculate supported Unicode ranges on Font Settings --> Ranges tab
- Calculate supported codepages on Font Settings --> Ranges tab
- Added predefined preview text (preview.txt) used by the Preview toolbar
4.1 [December 1, 2003]
- Added snap points to diagonal guidelines
- Extended search glyph functionality
- Added measurement feature
- New freehand selection toolbar button
- Changed the Validation report into a wizard
- Added auto fix functionality that solves detected validation problems
- Added Sort Glyphs feature
- Enhanced the paste special feature
- Minor tweaks
4.0 [May 16, 2003]
- Windows XP Theme support
- Improved Open Installed Fonts window
- Added High-Logic Online in Help menu
- Sample glyph to be used on empty glyphs
- Zoom to selected
- Improved Import Image feature
- Several new toolbar buttons
- Snap to grid (points and contours and glyphs)
- Snap to user defined guidelines (points and contours and glyphs)
- Split TrueType Collection or Extract TrueType Fonts from TrueType Collection
- Glyph Validation features
- Added import kerning pairs support to the AutoKern feature
- A Font Creator Explorer context menu item
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User Quotes
“Creating a font with Scanahand was fun!”
Al Harberg
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“MainType is the font manager that should have been built into Windows long ago.”
Robert Barnett
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“I have been able to build a successful business using FontCreator.”
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