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