1 birdfont (2.14.0) stable;
2
3 * Improved horizontal metrics in TTF fonts
4 * Sandbox support on Mac OS
5 * Bug fixes
6
7 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com Thu Nov 12 20:45:02 CET 2015
8
9 birdfont (2.13.0) stable;
10
11 * More descriptive fields in TTF fonts (license, designer, URL etc.)
12 * Stylistic alternates (OpenType feature tag: salt)
13 * Small Caps (OpenType feature tag: scmp)
14 * Capitals to Small Caps (OpenType feature tag: c2sc)
15 * Swashes (OpenType feature tag: swsh)
16 * Parse circles, ellipses and lines in SVG files
17
18 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com Mon Oct 26 11:33:09 CET 2015
19
20 birdfont (2.12.0) stable;
21
22 * Support for HiDPI screens and many small tweaks
23
24 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Thu Sep 23 19:59:00 CEST 2015
25
26 birdfont (2.11.3) stable;
27
28 * Bug fixes
29
30 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Thu Aug 27 15:04:03 CEST 2015
31
32 birdfont (2.11.0) stable;
33
34 * Merge overlapping regions
35 * Bug fixes in the TTF generator
36
37 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Tue Aug 18 16:57:08 CEST 2015
38
39 birdfont (2.10.5) stable;
40
41 * Lock grid and guides
42
43 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sat Jun 27 15:17:01 CEST 2015
44
45 birdfont (2.10.2) stable;
46
47 * Bug fixes
48
49 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Fri Jun 26 10:56:45 CEST 2015
50
51 birdfont (2.10.1) stable;
52
53 * Bug fixes
54
55 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Thu Jun 25 14:33:32 CEST 2015
56
57 birdfont (2.10.0) stable;
58
59 * Layers
60 * Mac specific TTF fonts (fixes fontbook problems)
61
62 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sun Jun 21 18:33:10 CEST 2015
63
64 birdfont (2.9.2) stable;
65
66 * Fallback font with support for many languages
67 * Faster GUI
68
69 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sat Jun 6 19:32:44 CEST 2015
70
71 birdfont (2.8.0) stable;
72
73 * Speed optimization in font export
74 * Faster search queries in the Unicode Data Base.
75 * Better parsing of SVG files generated with Illustrator
76 * Dialog for importing a folder with SVG files
77
78 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Tue May 19 15:04:13 CEST 2015
79
80 birdfont (2.7.0) stable;
81
82 * Stroke
83 * Round line caps
84 * Bug fixes
85
86 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Wed May 13 16:11:44 CEST 2015
87
88 birdfont (2.6.2) stable;
89
90 * Bug fixes
91
92 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sat Apr 25 14:04:17 CEST 2015
93
94 birdfont (2.6.0) stable;
95
96 * A tool box in the recent files tab
97 * Bright and dark color themes
98 * Bug fixes
99
100 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Fri Apr 24 11:15:23 CEST 2015
101
102 birdfont (2.5.1) stable;
103
104 * Bug fixes
105
106 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Wed Apr 15 19:52:35 CEST 2015
107
108 birdfont (2.5.0) stable;
109
110 * Export settings
111 * Curve orientation
112 * Bug fixes
113
114 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sat Apr 13 16:45:00 CET 2015
115
116 birdfont (2.4.4) stable;
117
118 * Bug fixes
119
120 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sat Mar 31 11:00:00 CET 2015
121
122 birdfont (2.4.3) stable;
123
124 * Bug fixes
125
126 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sat Mar 27 12:27:00 CET 2015
127
128 birdfont (2.4.2) stable;
129
130 * Bug fixes
131
132 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sat Mar 27 12:27:00 CET 2015
133
134 birdfont (2.4.1) stable;
135
136 * Bug fixes
137
138 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sat Mar 27 12:27:00 CET 2015
139
140 birdfont (2.4.0) stable;
141
142 * Contextual ligature substitution
143 * Kerning strings
144 * Bug fixes
145
146 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sat Mar 24 22:09:00 CET 2015
147
148 birdfont (2.3.2) stable;
149
150 * Bug fixes
151
152 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sat Mar 21 17:43:16 CET 2015
153
154 birdfont (2.3.1) stable;
155
156 * Bug fixes
157
158 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Fri Mar 20 18:23:31 CET 2015
159
160 birdfont (2.3.0) stable;
161
162 * Customizable color themes and better icons
163 * High contrast settings for better readability
164 * Fixes for problems in TTF creation and other bugs
165
166 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Wed Mar 18 14:46:30 CET 2015
167
168 birdfont (2.2.0) stable;
169
170 * Customizable guides
171 * Bug fixes and many small UI improvements
172
173 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Mon Mar 9 13:01:03 CET 2015
174
175 birdfont (2.1.0) stable;
176
177 * A new spacing tab
178 * Improved Beziér editing
179 * Side bearing metrics in edit view
180 * Key bindings for zoom in and zoom out in kerning tab
181 * Bug fixes
182
183 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sat Mar 7 14:49:19 CET 2015
184
185 birdfont (2.0) stable;
186
187 * New UI layout
188 * New zoom tool
189 * Improved background import
190 * Customizable short cuts
191 * New tab for changing font name
192 * Illustrator SVG import and other bug fixes
193 * Load bf fonts faster
194
195 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Fri Dec 26 14:24:07 CET 2014
196
197 birdfont (1.8) stable;
198
199 * Fix compability with Inkscape
200 * Bug fixes
201
202 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Thu Nov 6 12:13:15 CET 2014
203
204 birdfont (1.8) stable;
205
206 * A new Beziér drawing tool
207 * Move paths independent from handles or along handles.
208 * Bug fixes
209
210 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sat Oct 18 15:13:52 CEST 2014
211
212 birdfont (1.7) stable;
213
214 * Fixes a critical spacing bug and bugs in the drawing canvas.
215
216 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Fri Oct 10 15:28:26 CEST 2014
217
218 birdfont (1.6) stable;
219
220 * Ligature substitution, (Open Type Feature, GSUB table)
221 * Input characters by unicode value in kerning tab
222
223 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sun Oct 5 22:16:36 CEST 2014
224
225 birdfont (1.5) stable;
226
227 * Bug fixes
228 * A new XML parser
229
230 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sat Sep 27 19:08:27 CEST 2014
231
232 birdfont (1.4) stable;
233
234 * Bug fixes
235 * A complete Czech translation
236
237 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sun Sep 21 13:19:55 CEST 2014
238
239 birdfont (1.3) stable;
240
241 * A bug fix
242
243 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sat Sep 13 22:53:12 CEST 2014
244
245 birdfont (1.2) stable;
246
247 * Bug fixes
248 * Generate fonts compatible with Microsoft Word on Mac OS
249 * Command line utility for autotracing images (birdfont-autotrace)
250
251 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sat Sep 13 18:11:42 CEST 2014
252
253 birdfont (1.1) stable;
254
255 * Bug fixes
256 * A tool for moving the canvas
257
258 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sun Sep 7 09:44:48 CEST 2014
259
260 birdfont (1.0) stable;
261
262 * Autotrace – convert raster images to vector fonts
263 * Simplify paths. Deleteing points reduces the number of control points while
264 still keeping the same approximate path. Use Ctrl+Del to break the paths.
265 * Spacing classes that copies side bearings and kerning pairs from one glyph
266 to another. This feature makes it easier to create fonts with only upper
267 case characters as well as mono spaced fonts.
268 * Copy and paste multiple glyphs in the overview tab.
269 * Redo command
270
271 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Wed Sep 3 13:36:00 CEST 2014
272
273 birdfont (0.47) stable;
274
275 * Oblique and italic transformation
276 * Improved overview tab
277 * Compability with CS6
278
279 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sun Aug 17 16:43:24 CEST 2014
280
281 birdfont (0.46) stable;
282
283 * Copy and paste side bearings
284 * Support for many more languages including Japanese with CMAP format 12.
285 * Tools for adjusting side bearings in the kerning tab
286 * A tool for moving objects to the baseline
287 * A spin buttons for moving objects to a specific coordinate, rotating
288 objects and resizing paths.
289 * Bug fixes
290
291 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Fri Aug 15 16:52:50 CEST 2014
292
293 birdfont (0.45) stable;
294
295 * A bug fix for quadratic control points in TTF files
296
297 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Thu Aug 7 20:08:40 CEST 2014
298
299 birdfont (0.44) stable;
300
301 * Better conversion from SVG to TTF
302
303 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Wed Aug 6 21:45:44 CEST 2014
304
305 birdfont (0.43) stable;
306
307 * Fixes TTF export bug
308
309 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Thu Jul 31 18:52:14 CEST 2014
310
311 birdfont (0.42) stable;
312
313 * Parse transform directive in SVG import.
314 * A new command line utility that makes it possible to import a set of SVG
315 files to a bf font file (birdfont-import).
316 * Crop rotaded and resized images.
317 * Better conversion from SVG files to TTF fonts.
318 * Important bug fixes.
319 * Load, save and export fonts in background threads.
320 * Faster TTF export
321
322 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Mon Jul 28 16:04:20 CEST 2014
323
324 birdfont (0.41) stable;
325
326 * Retain the angle of a control point handle while adjusting the length
327 * Parse round corners and stroke endings in SVG files
328 * Fixes bugs in the SVG import code and elsewhere in order to improve
329 compability with potrace and Illustrator
330 * Delete and undo for kerning pairs
331 * Complete Ukrainian and Spanish translations
332
333 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sat Jul 5 21:36:04 CEST 2014
334
335 birdfont (0.40) stable;
336
337 * Bug fixes
338
339 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sat Jun 28 15:02:02 CEST 2014
340
341 birdfont (0.39) stable;
342
343 * Bug fixes in the kerning code
344
345 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Thu Jun 26 22:04:19 CEST 2014
346
347 birdfont (0.38) stable;
348
349 * Many bugs and memory leaks have been fixed in this version
350
351 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sun Jun 8 16:12:17 CEST 2014
352
353 birdfont (0.37) stable;
354
355 * Font size settings in the kerning tab
356 * A new SVG parser
357 * Compatibility with many Microsoft Windows applications
358 * Bug fixes
359
360 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Thu Apr 10 16:09:59 CEST 2014
361
362 birdfont (0.36) stable;
363
364 * Paste letters in the kerning tab
365 * Settings for the freehand tool
366 * Bug fixes
367
368 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sat Mar 22 16:47:45 CET 2014
369
370 birdfont (0.35) stable;
371
372 * A new tool for drawing freehand shapes with the mouse
373 * Bug fixes related to conversion from SVG to TTF
374 * Fixes crash bug in SVG import code
375
376 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Wed Mar 19 20:24:14 CET 2014
377
378 birdfont (0.34) stable;
379
380 * Solves kerning issues and other bugs.
381
382 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Fri Feb 14 14:20:12 CET 2014
383
384 birdfont (0.33) stable;
385
386 * Background images on new versions of Mac OS X and other bug fixes.
387
388 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Wed Feb 12 21:22:18 CET 2014
389
390 birdfont (0.32) stable;
391
392 * Touch screen friendly interface
393 * New tools for adding and moving control points
394 * Icons in 320 dpi
395 * French translation
396 * Bug fixes
397
398 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Tue Feb 11 08:53:15 CET 2014
399
400 birdfont (0.31) stable;
401
402 * Bug fixes
403
404 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Fri Sep 13 19:53:02 CEST 2013
405
406 birdfont (0.30) stable;
407
408 * Bug fixes
409
410 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Wed Sep 11 18:39:13 CEST 2013
411
412 birdfont (0.29) stable;
413
414 * Groups of paths and control points
415 * Speed optimizations
416 * Bold and italic styles
417 * Bug fixes
418 * TTF units
419 * Paste in place and paste at cursor
420
421 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Tue Sep 10 12:51:33 CEST 2013
422
423 birdfont (0.28) stable;
424
425 * Kerning classes
426 * Copy and paste paths between windows
427
428 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sat Aug 24 22:12:04 CEST 2013
429
430 birdfont (0.27) stable;
431
432 * Rotate paths
433 * Flip path
434 * Convert segments to lines
435 * Symmetrical control points
436 * Use glyphs as backgrounds
437
438 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sun Aug 11 16:33:47 CEST 2013
439
440 birdfont (0.26) stable;
441
442 * Bug fixes for Mac OS X
443
444 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sun Aug 4 18:28:40 CEST 2013
445
446 birdfont (0.25) stable;
447
448 * Bug fixes
449
450 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Thu Aug 1 23:08:20 CEST 2013
451
452 birdfont (0.24) stable;
453
454 * New overview tab
455 * Two control point handles for quadratic paths
456 * Better conversion from SVG to TTF
457 * Bug fixes
458
459 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Wed Jul 31 14:34:12 CEST 2013
460
461 birdfont (0.23) stable;
462
463 * Bugfixes
464
465 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sun Jul 14 19:25:00 CEST 2013
466
467 birdfont (0.22) stable;
468
469 * Bugfixes and many changes to make BirdFont run on Mac OS X
470
471 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sun Jul 14 01:24:00 CEST 2013
472
473 birdfont (0.21) stable;
474
475 * Bugfixes
476
477 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Fri Jul 5 22:45:40 CEST 2013
478
479 birdfont (0.20) stable;
480
481 * Descriptive fields in TTF fonts (like version number and name)
482 * Kerning for both Chrome and Firefox
483 * Read TTF font instead of SVG font in html template
484 * Bugfixes
485 * Improved translations
486
487 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Fri Jul 5 14:13:25 CEST 2013
488
489 birdfont (0.19) stable;
490
491 * Descriptions from the Unicode Character Database
492 * A new file format (.bf replaces .ffi)
493 * Bugfixes
494 * Two quadratic points with a hidden point in between creates a quadratic path with two line handles
495 * Quadratic points is now the default
496 * Scrollbar
497 * TTF export on MacOS
498 * French translation
499
500 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Thu Jun 20 16:15:08 CEST 2013
501
502 birdfont (0.18) stable;
503
504 * Bugfixes
505
506 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Tue Feb 26 16:28:20 CET 2013
507
508 birdfont (0.17) stable;
509
510 * Macports validation
511
512 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sun Feb 25 23:46:00 CET 2013
513
514 birdfont (0.16) stable;
515
516 * Correct location in ID loadcommand for Macports
517
518 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sun Feb 25 23:46:00 CET 2013
519
520 birdfont (0.15) stable;
521
522 * Macports file
523
524 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sun Feb 25 23:46:00 CET 2013
525
526 birdfont (0.14) stable;
527
528 * Bug fixes
529
530 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sun Feb 24 17:43:00 CET 2013
531
532 birdfont (0.13) stable;
533
534 * Quadratic Bézier paths
535 * Edit SVG fonts
536 * Open OTF and TTF fonts with freetype2
537 * Open Type kerning (GPOS pair adjustment positioning subtable)
538 * Bugfixes
539 * Spanish translation
540 * Russian translation
541 * Italian translation
542 * Brasilian Portuguese translation
543
544 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sat Feb 23 19:56:51 CET 2013
545
546 birdfont (0.12) stable;
547
548 * Bug fixes and updated test suit
549
550 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Thu Jan 31 19:01:04 CET 2013
551
552 birdfont (0.11) stable;
553
554 * Bug fixes
555
556 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Wed Jan 30 09:25:10 CET 2013
557
558 birdfont (0.10) stable;
559
560 * Bug fixes
561 * Move paths with keyboard
562 * Backup and crash recovery
563
564 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sun Jan 27 20:38:32 CET 2013
565
566 birdfont (0.9) stable;
567
568 * Color
569 * Adjustable control point size
570 * Select all path
571 * Resize all selected paths
572 * Import SVG files from Inkscape and Adobe Illustrator
573 * Move control points with keyboard
574 * Bugfixes
575 * Join paths
576 * German translation
577 * Chinese translation
578
579 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sat Jan 26 13:57:48 CET 2013
580
581 birdfont (0.8) stable;
582
583 * Copy and paste paths from inkscape
584 * Export SVG files
585 * New build system on top of Eduardo Schettinos doit
586 * Dutch translation by Sven Santegoeds
587
588 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Wed Dec 26 23:00:43 CET 2012
589
590 birdfont (0.7) stable;
591
592 * New icons
593 * Bug fixes
594 * Menu
595 * Internationalization
596
597 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sat Dec 8 14:40:08 CET 2012
598
599 birdfont (0.6) stable;
600
601 * Improved TrueType outlines
602 * Resize paths
603 * Bug fixes
604
605 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sun Oct 28 18:38:35 CET 2012
606
607 birdfont (0.5) stable;
608
609 * Move multiple control points
610 * Draw path from both ends
611 * New edit commands
612 * Man pages
613
614 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sat Oct 20 19:52:27 CEST 2012
615
616 birdfont (0.4.1) stable;
617
618 * Edit filled paths
619 * Bug fixes
620
621 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Wed Sep 19 15:37:40 CEST 2012
622
623 birdfont (0.4.0) stable;
624
625 * Larger control points
626 * Crop background updates position of the image
627 * Undo command for background images
628 * Faster multithreaded export
629 * Juxtapose glyphs and draw every glyph in its context
630 * New notdef. character
631 * New tab bar
632
633 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Fri Sep 14 13:11:13 CEST 2012
634
635 birdfont (0.3.0) stable;
636
637 * Embedded OpenType (EOT) support
638 * Utility for exporting fonts from the command line (birdfont-export)
639 * New preview and export codes
640 * Rotate, scale and crop background images
641 * New key bindings
642
643 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Sun Sep 9 20:54:18 CEST 2012
644
645 birdfont (0.2.0) stable;
646
647 * TTF support
648 * Desktop file and icon
649 * Merge paths
650 * Wine support
651
652 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Thu Aug 30 23:51:17 CEST 2012
653
654 birdfont (0.1.1) stable;
655
656 * Several important bug fixes
657
658 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Fri Aug 24 02:03:29 CEST 2012
659
660 birdfont (0.1.0) stable;
661
662 * First release
663
664 -- Johan Mattsson <johan.mattsson.m@gmail.com> Fri Aug 24 02:03:29 CEST 2012
665