New features in this version of FontCreator include:

•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

•Order axes

•Cancel changes in edit field (ESC key)

•Fixed remove overlap issue

•Increased stability and some speed gains

•Several other bug fixes and improvements

 

FontCreator is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. The 64-bit version can allocate more memory and it is faster with time-consuming tasks like autokern, optical metrics, exporting fonts, and image to outline conversions.

A complete list of current and previous changes can be found online:

https://www.high-logic.com/font-editor/fontcreator/changelog