FontCreator
Changelog
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FontCreator 15.0.0.2934 [September 13, 2023]
- Added Lock aspect ratio to Transform panel as well as support for expressions in X and Y position
- Fixed single stroke preview issue
- Fixed rare undo bug related to outline editing
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FontCreator 15.0.0.2931 [September 6, 2023]
- Several minor improvements
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FontCreator 15.0.0.2927 [September 1, 2023]
- Fixed rare issue concerning glyphs without layers
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FontCreator 15.0.0.2926 [August 31, 2023]
- Elements -> supports outlines with both components and contours, so called hybrid outlines
- Redesigned Transform panel
- Support for the GlyphsApp .glyphs file format
- Improved shaping engine
- Improved detection and fixing of interpolation issues
- Improved auto attach
- Improved optimize contour feature
- Improved join (union, intersection, exclusion, and also cut/knife) contours feature; including support for cubic curves
- Improved support for UFO and DesignSpaces
- Improved subsetting variable fonts
- Order axes
- Made optional mark attachment class for lookups obsolete (instead use a mark filtering set)
- Cancel changes in edit field (ESC key)
- Fixed remove overlap issue
- New transform feature to round xy coordinates
- Increased stability and some speed gains
- Several other bug fixes and improvements
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2901 [January 6, 2023]
- Improved the validation features
- Improved curve selection
- Improved union, intersection, and exclusion of contours
- Added groups and kerning to the UFO export
- Anchors are now merged when compiling feature code
- Fixed issue with joining and splitting contours
- New line height option in Web Font test page
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2899 [December 20, 2022]
- Fixed optical metrics issue
- Fixed join contours issue
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2898 [December 15, 2022]
- Fixed an export issue related to .notdef
- Improved incorrect contour direction algorithm
- Fixed undo issue releated to font validation wizard
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2897 [December 8, 2022]
- Fixed an OpenType layout feature related export issue
- Improved algorithm for determining contour directions
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2896 [November 24, 2022]
- Fixed export issue
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2895 [November 23, 2022]
- Fixed rare undo issue
- Dropped restrictions related to trial period and home edition
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2894 [November 22, 2022]
- Fixed variable font interpolation issue
- Several minor improvements and bug fixes
- Updated Help and Manual
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2888 [November 1, 2022]
- Several minor improvements and bug fixes
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2886 [October 31, 2022]
- Improved smart point deletion
- Several minor improvements and bug fixes
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2885 [October 28, 2022]
- Fixed auto attach issue with complex ligatures
- Improved detection of contours with incorrect direction
- Include sample character within glyph frame for empty characters
- Improved processing of glyph metrics expressions
- Numerous other improvements and bug fixes
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2883 [October 12, 2022]
- Fixed issue with undo after adding glyphs
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2882 [October 10, 2022]
- Improved OpenType layout features after deleting glyphs
- Fixed issue with subsetting variable fonts
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2881 [October 8, 2022]
- Fixed issue with exporting instances of a variable font
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2880 [October 7, 2022]
- New exporting subsets of variable fonts
- Support for DesignSpace version 5.0 (subsets including extrapolation and discrete axes)
- Support for UFO Meta
- Support for UFO Unicode Variation Sequences
- Fixed processing axis variations table
- Improvements to the OpenType Designer
- Ceased hinting support for legacy Symbol fonts
- Ceased support for exporting legacy kern table; use GPOS pair positioning
- Added option to flatten components on export
- Fixed stability issue
- Numerous other improvements and bug fixes
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2877 [September 7, 2022]
- Fixed import SVG bug
- Easy selection of contours with one or two points
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2875 [September 6, 2022]
- Double stroke now always double
- Improved exporting fonts
- Several other improvements
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2874 [September 3, 2022]
- Improved cutting through contours
- Improved exporting variable fonts
- Several other improvements
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2872 [August 24, 2022]
- Fixed minor flaw while selecting different master
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2871 [August 23, 2022]
- Fixed issue related to exporting ligatures
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2870 [August 23, 2022]
- Improved export of OpenType layout features
- Improved detection of interpolation issues
- Several other improvements
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2860 [June 30, 2022]
- Fixed bug related to editing variable fonts
- Improved import of SVG files
- Improved smart point removal (select points and press Backspace)
- New ability to add glyphs to multiple composite glyphs at once
- Numerous other improvements and bug fixes
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2856 [June 23, 2022]
- Fixed a rare export issue which only affected variable fonts
- Improved the way floating points are shown
- Several improvements to the web font test page
- Moved instant validation of incompatilbe layers to Validation wizard
- Numerous other improvements and bug fixes
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2853 [June 15, 2022]
- New option to optimize storage of OpenType layout features on export
- Fixed an export issue related to italic style
- Improved Italic transformation feature
- Fixed an export instances issue
- Improved import of SVG files
- Fixed pasting side-bearings
- Several improvements in the OpenType Designer
- Improvements to the shaping engine
- Copy an interpolated glyph outline
- On the Master tab you can type x / y and then press Enter. It will use that as run/rise for italic angle and caret slope!
- Support for base() for lsb and rsb on opening fonts and when using anchor based complete composites
- Numerous other improvements and bug fixes
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2843 [May 31, 2022]
- Several improvements and bug fixes
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2840 [May 25, 2022]
- Fixed issue with Italic font style
- Fixed several issues related to undo and redo
- Fixed an Auto Attach issue
- Fixed Insert Glyphs issue
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2836 [May 13, 2022]
- Fixed import VOLT issue
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2834 [May 12, 2022]
- Fixed avar axis mapping issue
- Improved Web font export
- Added anchors and suffixes categories
- Added new master from current location
- New side-bearings function base() to be used with precomposed characters (composites)
- Several other improvements and bug fixes
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2828 [April 26, 2022]
- Fixed complete composites
- Added support for Unicode 14
- Updated OpenType layout tags
- Fixed an expression issue related to rsb
- Fixed issue with insert contour feature with open contours
- Fixed import VOLT issue
- Fixed Add outline layer issue related to Cursive attachment
- Fixed setting WWS bit in Font selection flags
- Fixed rare issue related to corrupt exported font
- Fixed codepoint issue within Insert Glyphs
- Fixed axis mappings issue
- Comes with ttfautohint version 1.8.4
- Improved Web font export
- Added edit in class manager option for mark and contextual lookups
- Several minor changes and improvements
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2814 [August 20, 2021]
- Re-implemented calculation for metrics for horizontal writing mode
- Improved name generation on exporting a font
- Fixed background image color issue in Dark Theme
- Fixed issue with storing color members in font projects
- Fixed a Search glyphs by name bug
- Several minor changes and improvements
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2808 [July 15, 2021]
- New Apply Everywhere (transparent outline fill)
- Edit Across Layers (delete glyph members, contours, points will keep layers compatible)
- Improved snap to grid functionality
- Fixed rare issue with mark-to-ligature
- Improved exporting instances
- Several improvements to the shaping engine
- Improved support for fea feature syntax
- Fixed issue with existing hinting
- Interpolation improvements
- Improved export
- Fixed a side-bearing issue
- Performance improvements
- Numerous other enhancements and bug fixes
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2794 [June 29, 2021]
- Fixed load and save project issue
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2793 [June 29, 2021]
- Fixed import svg issue
- Fixed intersection and exclusion issue
- Fixed theme background color issue on Find panel
- Fixed Shift and Ctrl options with new rectangle and ellipse
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2792 [June 26, 2021]
- Fixed export issue (CFF format reverted to TFF)
- Fixed minor shaping engine issue
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2791 [June 25, 2021]
- Fixed shaping engine issue that caused incorrect positioning
- Correct Windows edition in about box
- Fixed import svg issue
- Fixed issue with opening outdated font projects
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FontCreator 14.0.0.2789 [June 23, 2021]
- New variable font support
- New dockable panels
- New masks
- New anchor cloud
- Improved auto attach
- Improved shaping engine
- Improved interactive proofing of OpenType layout features
- Improved AFDKO fea syntax support, including variable font support
- Support for design spaces
- Improved import and export of Unified Font Object (UFO) based fonts
- Improved import of vector-based images
- Improved high DPI support
- Improved font data compression on export
- Updated vendor information
- Numerous enhancements and improvements
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2683 [August 29, 2020]
- Fixed minor issue in Glyph Properties toolbar
- Improved support for VOLT import and export
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2681 [July 21, 2020]
- Fixed rare mark filtering sets issue
- Added support for mark filtering sets to VOLT import and export
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2680 [July 20, 2020]
- New duplicate class
- New open substituation lookup from contextual lookups in code editor
- Several minor improvements and bug fixes
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2678 [July 8, 2020]
- Load and save color palettes
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2675 [July 6, 2020]
- Optional slanted grid for italic fonts
- Improved paste contours into glyph overview window
- Improved OpenType Explorer
- Several minor improvements
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2672 [June 29, 2020]
- Improved Shaping Engine
- New: Edit and export OpenType layout features in VOLT syntax
- Added resize option to preview area in html test
- Updated vendor information
- New toggle (z) in Glyph Edit window
- Added tag color to tabs
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2670 [June 22, 2020]
- Use SHIFT-H in Glyph Edit window to only show glyph outline
- In Glyph Edit window press ";" to set default bearings
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2668 [June 20, 2020]
- Fixed rare anchor issue
- Improved validation of codepoint ranges
- Fixed minor auto-attach glitch (afterwards all glyphs where inadvertently selected)
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2663 [June 18, 2020]
- Added PairPosFormat1 option
- Improved resizing of contours
- New resizing selection of points
- Added No Tag category
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2656 [June 11, 2020]
- Added VOLT import support for ligature carets
- Fixed import VOLT issue
- Improved unused glyphs algorithm
- OpenType Explorer supports both glyphs and glyph classes
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2655 [June 10, 2020]
- Export font as UFO
- Better parser validation for class based kerning
- New OpenType Explorer
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2648 [June 5, 2020]
- Improved Open Installed Fonts dialog
- Fixed cut and paste glyphs bug
- Improved AutoMetrics Preview of figures (digits)
- Search box above single and pair pos also supports a single character
- Glyph name completion in Insert Glyphs window
- Glyph name completion in feature code editor
- Added sample text validation
- Added glyph hint to Select Class Members dialog
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2645 [May 29, 2020]
- Improved empty pair positioning compiler check
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2644 [May 28, 2020]
- Fixed rare mark filtering set bug
- New: drag and drop support for lookups in OpenType Designer
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2643 [May 19, 2020]
- Several AFDKO FEA feature improvements
- Added on export exclude legacy cmap option
- New context menu item to duplicate a lookup
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2642 [May 16, 2020]
- Minor improvements to decompiling AFDKO FEA feature definitions
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2640 [May 15, 2020]
- New: Sort glyphs by glyph names from UFO lib.plist file
- Improved .fea syntax support
- GDEF ligature carets
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2637 [May 8, 2020]
- New: Sort glyphs by glyph names from file
- Support for editing individual lookup with fea syntax
- Import glyph outline from individual UFO .glif file
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2636 [May 6, 2020]
- New: Open Unified Font Object fonts
- New: OpenType feature script editor now also supports AFDKO fea syntax
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2630 [April 15, 2020]
- Fixed rare export bug
- Several minor improvements
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2627 [April 10, 2020]
- Minor proofing improvements
- Improved shaping engine
- Improved Web Font Test page
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2620 [April 4, 2020]
- Further improved Auto Attach
- Several anchor related improvements
- Minor proofing improvements
- Fixed a cursive attachment issue
- Fixed issues with Reverse Chaining Contextual Single Substitution Subtable
- New: Copy and paste composites in same font
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2613 [March 19, 2020]
- Improved Insert Glyphs by Name
- Improved Auto Attach
- Proofing improvements
- Fixed an issue with Check for Updates
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FontCreator 13.0.0.2610 [March 18, 2020]
- Interactive proofing of OpenType layout features
- Support for OpenType SVG color fonts
- Improved Color Export options
- Enhanced Anchor Manager
- Fixed issues with anchors
- Improved Auto Attach
- New range is now optional in Insert Glyphs dialog
- Improved Shaping Engine
- Improved high DPI support
- Added preferred outline format to Options dialog -> Exchange tab
- Numerous enhancements and improvements
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FontCreator 12.0.0.2566 [March 11, 2020]
- OpenType layout improvements
- Unicode 13.0 support
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FontCreator 12.0.0.2565 [March 6, 2020]
- Improved layout engine
- Supporting Anchor NULL
- Improvements to the Web Font test page
- Some bug fixes
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FontCreator 12.0.0.2563 [February 21, 2020]
- Fixed link to user manual in Welcome dialog
- Reduced error reporting in case the font editor raises an exception or crashes
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FontCreator 12.0.0.2560 [February 18, 2020]
- Fixed color font export issue
- Improved font preview for complex scripts
- Improved high DPI support
- Some tweaks and improvements
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FontCreator 12.0.0.2555 [January 24, 2020]
- Fixed CFF based font export failure
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FontCreator 12.0.0.2554 [January 23, 2020]
- Fixed font export issue
- Improved high DPI support
- Improved check for updates
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FontCreator 12.0.0.2552 [January 15, 2020]
- Improved WOFF2 export
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FontCreator 12.0.0.2550 [January 14, 2020]
- Fixed trial outdate issue
- Some minor improvements
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FontCreator 12.0.0.2547 [September 12, 2019]
- Fixed issue with PDF import
- Fixed issue with drawing outlines (TCanvasD2D)
- Improved font templates
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FontCreator 12.0.0.2546 [August 24, 2019]
- Fixed issue with 30-day trial period
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FontCreator 12.0.0.2543 [July 10, 2019]
- The 30-day trial period allows you to use all features, but generated fonts will contain watermarks
- Compile OpenType layout feature code will now merge anchors
- Within the glyph edit window, hold down the Alt key and click one of the “comparison glyphs” to make it the current glyph
- Fixed a bug that failed to correctly export symbol fonts
- Updated CompositeData.xml
- Updated Unmapped Subscripts for Fractions.xml
- Updates to help and manual
- Some bug fixes and improvements
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FontCreator 12.0.0.2539 [June 4, 2019]
- Updated the way Vertical Line Spacing values are calculated
- Some performance improvements
- Updates to help and manual
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FontCreator 12.0.0.2535 [May 23, 2019]
- Added option to enter glyphs by code-point in preview text: /$40 or /64
- Updated Glyph Properties tool window
- Expressions for glyph metrics (left side-bearing, right side-bearing, and advance width)
- Included new transform script for Auto-attach
- Some bug fixes and improvements
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FontCreator 12.0.0.2525 [May 10, 2019]
- Unicode 12.1 support
- Enhanced font overview categories panel (added Scripts)
- Fixed rare issue with formulas
- Updated CompositeData.xml
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FontCreator 12.0.0.2522 [May 7, 2019]
- OpenType Designer remembers last Script and Language settings
- Fixed issue with storing preview text
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FontCreator 12.0.0.2521 [May 7, 2019]
- Anchor based composites
- Extended generation of OpenType layout features (frac, liga, mark, mkmk, init, medi, fina, curs, salt, ssxx, cvxx, and many more)
- Custom and generic localized forms
- Improved generation of friendly glyph names
- New glyph sort (design mode)
- Unicode 12 support
- Comes with ttfautohint version 1.8.3
- Improved complete composites
- Full undo and redo support
- Enhancements to transform scripts
- Option to exclude glyphs on export
- Support for delete in multiple substitutions
- Support for glyph ranges in glyph transformer
- Extended Insert Glyphs dialog
- Smart glyph switching in Glyph Edit window
- Improved OpenType Designer
- Improved window tab bar
- Extended Reopen menu
- New insert glyphs by name
- New Option: Decompose composite glyphs with scaled components (Recommended)
- Snap to guidelines and grid on resizing a glyph orthogonally
- Snap to guidelines and grid for anchor movement
- Improved glyph names for release (on exporting a font)
- New: sort glyphs in class in class manager
- Updated font templates for new fonts
- _shaper now supports (basic) normalization
- Preview support for comparing same text with different features enabled
- View unknown tables
- Updated vendor information
- Insert Glyphs supports generation of composite from glyph name formula: ffi=f+f+i
- Auto Attach repositions glyph members based on anchors
- Several bug fixes
- Numerous enhancements and improvements
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FontCreator 11.5.0.2430 [December 5, 2018]
- Fixed SVG import issue
- Fixed WOFF 1 export issue
- Fixed class0 in preview
- Added a generate button to smoothing
- Improvements to the user manual
- Several user interface improvements
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FontCreator 11.5.0.2427 [April 16, 2018]
- Support for WOFF 2.0
- Fixed issue with exporting CFF based WOFF files
- Several user interface improvements
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FontCreator 11.5.0.2422 [March 5, 2018]
- Several user interface improvements
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FontCreator 11.5.0.2421 [February 22, 2018]
- Support for Unicode variation sequences
- Comes with ttfautohint version 1.8.1
- Open contours while designing fonts
- Export as single line font (Open contours are not allowed in fonts, so FontCreator will do some magic to make fonts look like single line fonts which can be used for engraving)
- Support for last resort fonts
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FontCreator 11.0.0.2412 [January 21, 2018]
- Bug fix recognizing non-assigned code points
- Fixed visual glitch related to XPlacement value
- Allow Complete Category for all Unicode blocks
- Fixed display problem with Arabic fonts in Microsoft Word
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FontCreator 11.0.0.2408 [September 8, 2017]
- Bug fix related to exporting CFF based fonts, which was introduced in v11.0.0.2407.
- Several other improvements
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FontCreator 11.0.0.2407 [September 6, 2017]
- Fixed glyph name issue with exported CFF based fonts
- Several other improvements
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FontCreator 11.0.0.2403 [August 30, 2017]
- Improved OpenType layout feature preview
- Improved AutoKern and Optical Metrics
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FontCreator 11.0.0.2400 [August 23, 2017]
- Unicode 10 support
- Improved OpenType layout feature preview
- New context menu option in Preview to copy input as text to clipboard
- Improved AutoKern and Optical Metrics
- Fixed duplicate anchors issue
- Glyphs shown in edit glyph name feature(s)
- Improved class name generation
- Fixed outline movement misalignment
- New option to keep existing glyph names on opening a font
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FontCreator 11.0.0.2388 [June 2, 2017]
- Inserted contours that overlap are now added as filled contours
- Improved auto-update
- Improved suspicious points detection
- Improved font installer
- Extended New Contour with right-click (quadratic based contours only)
- Bug fix in processing chained context substitution
- Enhancements to the OpenType feature code syntax
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FontCreator 11.0.0.2370 [May 22, 2017]
- Bug fix: font install issues
- Bug fix related to contour selection
- More changes to the way vector based images are imported
- Several tweaks
- Update: improvements to help and manual
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FontCreator 11.0.0.2366 [May 13, 2017]
- Bug fix: failed to save Unicode code-points beyond the first plane
- Bug fix: failed to edit custom naming fields
- Update: improvements to help and manual
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FontCreator 11.0.0.2365 [May 10, 2017]
- Support for cubic bezier curves (CFF/ PostScript based outlines)
- High DPI (Large Fonts) support
- New icon set
- Font validation improvements (and new Suspicious points)
- Improved Complete Composites
- Enhancements to Transform scripts
- Auto kern now allows composite glyphs to follow base glyph. Also added option to exclude lowercase-lowercase pairs.
- Vertical metrics support as requested here. Vertical metrics are only useful with fonts that are used for vertical writing, so in general you'll only need to add it in CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) fonts.
- Support for launch custom externals
- Improved the installed fonts dialog
- Show angle (with a single point) or distance (between two selected points) in status bar
- Move cubic control points while forcing "C1 continuity" by holding down the "ALT" key while moving the points.
- Updated OpenType features and languages lists
- Class Manager -> added option in Select Class Members dialog to filter by AnchorClass
- Option for Glyph Fill Opacity in Glyph Edit window
- Improved extreme control point detection
- Improved moving cubic points
- Select Multiple Glyphs in Insert Glyph Member to Composite Glyphs
- Convert all outlines to either quadratic or cubic
- New Project dialog to support predefined outlines as either cubic or quadratic
- Cubic outlines, select on curve point and press 'S' to force C1
- Cubic outlines, select on curve point and press 'D' to force vertical or horizontal alignment
- Improvements to Add Script, Language, Feature, Lookup dialog
- Added a round coordinates button (R)
- Fixed AutoKern (and Optical Metrics) bug
- Added a smooth, smooth and align, and round coordinates in context menu (point mode only)
- Glyph names -> search and replace as well as bulk replace
- New "smart delete points" (backspace)
- Copy and paste path from Photoshop
- Show codepoint of selected glyph in composite glyph member dialog
- Optical Metrics no longer wipes the 'use this glyphs metrics' flag
- Insert Contour feature will now allow you to define quadratic and cubic curves; based on TrueType outline format in Export settings.
- Insert Contour feature will now use click and drag to make curves; right-click no longer adds off curve points (would otherwise be a challenge with cubic curves).
- Allow FontCreator to use more memory, which is needed to open/save large font projects. FontCreator can still run out of memory if it requires a large block of memory but can't find any due to memory fragmentation. A 64 bit version has access to more memory, so that is the future.
- Replace glyph member within Glyph Edit window. Select one, and right-click, then click replace...
- Show Transform toolwindow when editing composites
- Minor improvements related to the Background toolwindow
- Provide correct contour direction when inserting rectangle and ellipse contours