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  27.     <a href="changelog.html">Current fontforge changes</a><br />
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  28.     <a href="oldchangelog.html">Older fontforge changes</a>
    29. 

  29. 

  30.     <ul>
    31. 

  31.       <li>1-Mar-2004
    32. 

  32. 

  33.         <ul>
    34. 

  34.           <li>The Check directions option of Find Problems caused
    35. 

  35.           multilayer mode to crash.</li>
    36. 

  36. 

  37.           <li>Expand stroke would produce counter-clockwise paths
    38. 

  38.           when given an open contour and asked to fill it with a
    39. 

  39.           circular (or elliptical) pen</li>
    40. 

  40. 

  41.           <li>Try to do a better job of guessing the correct
    42. 

  42.           direction of a path in an eps file (or a type3 or svg
    43. 

  43.           font)</li>
    44. 

  44. 

  45.           <li>FontForge would crash when editing in the grid
    46. 

  46.           layer</li>
    47. 

  47. 

  48.           <li>When the control key is down, make the scroll wheel
    49. 

  49.           do a magnify/minify.</li>
    50. 

  50. 

  51.           <li>Various cosmetic changes to find problems
    52. 

  52. 

  53.             <ol>
    54. 

  54.               <li>Specify that "nearness" is measured in
    55. 

  55.               em-units</li>
    56. 

  56. 

  57.               <li>change "refs deeper than" to "refs nested deeper
    58. 

  58.               than"</li>
    59. 

    60. 

  60.               <li>make check dir be on by default</li>
    61. 

  61.             </ol>
    62. 

  62.           </li>
    63. 

  63. 

  64.           <li>Put in more comments about fontforge. We now have a
    65. 

  65.           domain under <a href=
    66. 

  66.           "http://fontforge.sf.net/">fontforge</a>, future releases
    67. 

  67.           will be found there.</li>
    68. 

  68.         </ul>
    69. 

  69.       </li>
    70. 

  70. 

  71.       <li>29-Feb-2004
    72. 

  72. 

  73.         <ul>
    74. 

  74.           <li>FontForge could crash if given a bad 'cmap'
    75. 

  75.           subtable</li>
    76. 

  76. 

  77.           <li>Clean up generation of OS/2 a bit</li>
    78. 

  78. 

  79.           <li>Pass motion events to windows even when a dlg is
    80. 

  80.           active (so that the mouse location will be shown in an
    81. 

  81.           outline window when the Point info dlg is active).</li>
    82. 

  82. 

  83.           <li>Put in a comment about changing to FontForge in the
    84. 

  84.           copyright notice the program prints at start up.</li>
    85. 

  85. 

  86.           <li>The "preflight" script on the mac had problems if the
    87. 

  87.           program had never been installed before</li>
    88. 

  88.         </ul>
    89. 

  89.       </li>
    90. 

  90. 

  91.       <li>27-Feb-2004
    92. 

  92. 

  93.         <ul>
    94. 

  94.           <li>Redid the way menus respond to arrow keys</li>
    95. 

  95. 

  96.           <li>a multilayer enabled FontForge would crash when
    97. 

  97.           editing a normal font.</li>
    98. 

  98.         </ul>
    99. 

  99.       </li>
    100. 

  100. 

  101.       <li>24-Feb-2004
    102. 

  102. 

  103.         <ul>
    104. 

  104.           <li>Remove the AddHint command and replace it with
    105. 

  105.           AddHHint and AddVHint.</li>
    106. 

  106. 

  107.           <li>FontForge would crash when generating a mac family
    108. 

  108.           with NFNT bitmaps.</li>
    109. 

  109. 

  110.           <li>Added support of exporting a character into PDF
    111. 

  111.           format.</li>
    112. 

  112. 

  113.           <li>Oh dear, I was figuring out hintmasks in the wrong
    114. 

  114.           direction (because PS splines get reversed before output,
    115. 

  115.           so I now reverse them during the hintmask calculation
    116. 

  116.           too).</li>
    117. 

  117. 

  118.           <li>At Werner's suggestion, added code to show what hints
    119. 

  119.           are currently active at a point.</li>
    120. 

  120. 

  121.           <li>At Werner's suggestion added code to show what points
    122. 

  122.           are affected by a hintmask</li>
    123. 

  123. 

  124.           <li>Added support for real editing of type3 (and svg)
    125. 

  125.           fonts. Support for editing stroked paths, different fill
    126. 

  126.           colors, multiple stroke/fill operations, etc. Because
    127. 

  127.           this involves a lot of extra overhead it is wrong for
    128. 

  128.           people who want to edit CJK fonts, so this mode is off by
    129. 

  129.           default. It may be turned on by
    130. 

  130. 

  131.             <blockquote>
    132. 

  132.               <pre>
    133. 

  133. $ configure --with-multilayer
    134. 

  134. </pre>
    135. 

  135.             </blockquote>
    136. 

  136.           </li>
    137. 

  137. 

  138.           <li>FontForge failed to interpret h/vstem3 commands
    139. 

  139.           properly when building a hintmask (when reading a type1
    140. 

  140.           font with hint substitution)</li>
    141. 

  141.         </ul>
    142. 

  142.       </li>
    143. 

  143. 

  144.       <li>11-Feb-2004
    145. 

  145. 

  146.         <ul>
    147. 

  147.           <li>FontForge would crash when saving a non-multi master
    148. 

  148.           font.</li>
    149. 

  149. 

  150.           <li>Adding new scripting commands ClearCharCounterMasks,
    151. 

  151.           SetCharCounterMask</li>
    152. 

  152.         </ul>
    153. 

  153.       </li>
    154. 

  154. 

  155.       <li>10-Feb-2004
    156. 

  156. 

  157.         <ul>
    158. 

  158.           <li>FontForge could produce bad tfm files.</li>
    159. 

  159. 

  160.           <li>Added CheckForAnchorClass scripting command</li>
    161. 

  161. 

  162.           <li>Added SetFontHasVerticalMetrics scripting
    163. 

  163.           command.</li>
    164. 

  164. 

  165.           <li>FontForge would crash if asked to generate a
    166. 

  166.           contextual lookup which refered to a lookup which only
    167. 

  167.           was activated by a character(s) which was not worth
    168. 

  168.           outputting.</li>
    169. 

  169. 

  170.           <li>FontForge did the wrong thing when evaluating the
    171. 

  171.           PostScript "index" command (it returned the wrong value
    172. 

  172.           from the stack (stack index off by one))</li>
    173. 

  173. 

  174.           <li>Added support for the PostScript "for" loop.</li>
    175. 

  175. 

  176.           <li>I have created a simple (1 axis) Multiple Master
    177. 

  177.           Type1 font with FontForge. It works with both ghostview
    178. 

  178.           and freetype.</li>
    179. 

  179. 

  180.           <li>FontForge would crash when generating a ttf file from
    181. 

  181.           an sfd file which contain an invalid script/lang index.
    182. 

  182.           Put in code to warn user about this, and in some cases to
    183. 

  183.           correct it.</li>
    184. 

  184. 

  185.           <li>FontForge had problems reading sfd files in the old
    186. 

  186.           point count format, this meant we still got bad point
    187. 

  187.           count errors.</li>
    188. 

  188. 

  189.           <li>FontForge wrote bad sfd files if there were
    190. 

  190.           countermasks (all the contours of the glyph would be
    191. 

  191.           lost)</li>
    192. 

  192. 

  193.           <li>I finally figured out why FontForge kept crashing
    194. 

  194.           when palettes were docked and an outline view was
    195. 

  195.           closed.</li>
    196. 

  196. 

  197.           <li>Fixed various crashes in Interpolate fonts</li>
    198. 

  198. 

  199.           <li>FontForge had problems with using subroutines to
    200. 

  200.           express references in PostScript (introduced 30-Jan)</li>
    201. 

  201. 

  202.           <li>Added a new scripting commands AddHint and
    203. 

  203.           ReplaceCharCounterMasks.</li>
    204. 

  204.         </ul>
    205. 

  205.       </li>
    206. 

  206. 

  207.       <li>4-Feb-2004
    208. 

  208. 

  209.         <ul>
    210. 

  210.           <li>Make it illegal to select both "Condense" and
    211. 

  211.           "Extend" in the mac style.</li>
    212. 

  212.         </ul>
    213. 

  213.       </li>
    214. 

  214. 

  215.       <li>3-Feb-2004
    216. 

  216. 

  217.         <ul>
    218. 

  218.           <li>Point Info dlg crashed on the mac</li>
    219. 

  219. 

  220.           <li>Add UI control over Mac Style through the Font Info
    221. 

  221.           dlg</li>
    222. 

  222. 

  223.           <li>more prep work for mm fonts</li>
    224. 

  224.         </ul>
    225. 

  225.       </li>
    226. 

  226. 

  227.       <li>2-Feb-2004
    228. 

  228. 

  229.         <ul>
    230. 

  230.           <li>Generating a postscript font from a database with
    231. 

  231.           quadratic splines didn't work</li>
    232. 

    233. 

  233.           <li>FontForge crashed on a font with two /CharStrings
    234. 

  234.           entries</li>
    235. 

  235. 

  236.           <li>Small tweak to menubar behavior given left/right
    237. 

  237.           arrow (for Werner)</li>
    238. 

  238. 

  239.           <li>Composite glyphs created with seac (type1) had the
    240. 

  240.           wrong transformation for the accent.</li>
    241. 

  241. 

  242.           <li>more prep work for mm fonts</li>
    243. 

  243. 

  244.           <li>Still have problems with ttf point counts</li>
    245. 

  245. 

  246.           <li>If a user loaded a ttf file and made it monospace and
    247. 

  247.           then generated it as ttf, all glyphs except the .notdef
    248. 

  248.           had an advance width of 0</li>
    249. 

  249.         </ul>
    250. 

  250.       </li>
    251. 

  251. 

  252.       <li>1-Feb-2004
    253. 

  253. 

  254.         <ul>
    255. 

  255.           <li>sfd reader had a bug. Went into an infinite loop if a
    256. 

  256.           hintmask contained any of the characters [a-fA-F].</li>
    257. 

  257.         </ul>
    258. 

  258.       </li>
    259. 

  259. 

  260.       <li>31-Jan-2004
    261. 

  261. 

  262.         <ul>
    263. 

  263.           <li>In Type2 output, when putting a glyph into a
    264. 

  264.           subroutine, if that glyph had no conflicts but had a
    265. 

  265.           hintmask fontforge produced a bad font (which crashed
    266. 

  266.           FontForge when it tried to read it in).</li>
    267. 

  267. 

  268.           <li>configure script still wasn't working on solaris (or
    269. 

  269.           mac with libiconv probably)</li>
    270. 

  270.         </ul>
    271. 

  271.       </li>
    272. 

  272. 

  273.       <li>30-Jan-2004
    274. 

  274. 

  275.         <ul>
    276. 

  276.           <li>The kerning state machine addition broke the indic
    277. 

  277.           state machine dialog</li>
    278. 

  278. 

  279.           <li>The mac docs claim that the 'feat' table should be
    280. 

  280.           sorted by feature id. But if you do this WorldText can't
    281. 

  281.           find features. All Apple fonts seem to be sorted by the
    282. 

  282.           order the features are used in the 'morx' table's chains.
    283. 

  283.           WorldText works if you do this.</li>
    284. 

  284. 

  285.           <li>Yannis proposed several extensions to the State
    286. 

  286.           Machine editor, most notably the ability to move the edit
    287. 

  287.           dialog with Up/Down/Left/Right buttons.</li>
    288. 

  288. 

  289.           <li>I had the feature settings for Linguistic
    290. 

  290.           Rearrangement and Vertical Subs. reversed.</li>
    291. 

  291. 

  292.           <li>In some cases I wasn't outputting anything to turn a
    293. 

  293.           feature off.</li>
    294. 

  294. 

  295.           <li>Fixed many problems with kerning state machine
    296. 

  296.           dlg</li>
    297. 

  297. 

  298.           <li>Fixed several problems with insertion state
    299. 

  299.           machines</li>
    300. 

  300. 

  301.           <li>Fixed several problems with reading in state
    302. 

  302.           machines.</li>
    303. 

  303. 

  304.           <li>Added SetMacStyle() to give the user control over how
    305. 

  305.           mac families are built.</li>
    306. 

  306. 

  307.           <li>Added a fflush after doing Print()s in scripting</li>
    308. 

  308. 

  309.           <li>FontForge would crash when given an extremely long
    310. 

  310.           real number in a cff dictionary (in this case the font
    311. 

  311.           itself was in error)</li>
    312. 

  312. 

  313.           <li>FontForge did not copy a bitmap character's width
    314. 

  314.           when it copied the bitmap.</li>
    315. 

  315. 

  316.           <li>Char Info didn't handle pairwise positioning
    317. 

  317.           properly.</li>
    318. 

  318. 

  319.           <li>Some more pangrams from <a href=
    320. 

  320.           "http://shair.net/misc/txt/pangram.en">http://shair.net/misc/txt/pangram.en</a>
    321. 

  321.           (link provided by David Shaal)</li>
    322. 

  322. 

  323.           <li>My old approach to hint substitution caused problems
    324. 

  324.           with multiple master fonts. So now I keep track of which
    325. 

  325.           points are substitution points and what the hint masks
    326. 

  326.           are at those points. There is a new command which will
    327. 

  327.           automatically figure out these points, and the user may
    328. 

  328.           control them directly through Point Info (Element-&gt;Get
    329. 

  329.           Info). At the same time I figured I might as well do the
    330. 

  330.           same thing for counter masks, so FontForge will read
    331. 

  331.           counter masks in from otf file (I did not implement this
    332. 

  332.           for type1s), there is a new command to try and make a
    333. 

  333.           guess as to what they should be, and the user may control
    334. 

  334.           them directly through Element-&gt;Char Info. (new
    335. 

  335.           scripting commands, SubstitutionPoints() and
    336. 

  336.           AutoCounter() do the obvious).</li>
    337. 

  337. 

  338.           <li>Added a Hints-&gt;Don't AutoHint command to mark a
    339. 

  339.           character as having hints the user likes which should not
    340. 

  340.           be modified until the user explicitly calls AutoHint().
    341. 

  341.           (and a matching scripting command).</li>
    342. 

  342. 

  343.           <li>Added ability to control whether a PostScript font
    344. 

  344.           (type1&amp;type2) is output with rounding.</li>
    345. 

  345. 

  346.           <li>FontForge could generate a bad 'post' table for
    347. 

  347.           bitmap only fonts.</li>
    348. 

  348. 

  349.           <li>FontForge didn't allow you to create two pairwise
    350. 

  350.           positioning items with the same tag.</li>
    351. 

  351. 

  352.           <li>Hungarian names for mac features and for some
    353. 

  353.           standard names like "Bold", etc. provided by Laszlo
    354. 

  354.           Karoly.</li>
    355. 

  355. 

  356.           <li>Pierre HANSER noticed that if FontForge mapped a
    357. 

  357.           single glyph to two encodings then bitmap generation
    358. 

  358.           through freetype got confused.</li>
    359. 

  359. 

  360.           <li>If a font contained a non-.notdef character at
    361. 

  361.           encoding 0, then generating an opentype font from it had
    362. 

  362.           a fair chance of crashing.</li>
    363. 

  363. 

  364.           <li>Added a couple of new select menu items:
    365. 

  365.           Select-&gt;Contours, Select-&gt;First Point, Next
    366. 

  366.           Contour</li>
    367. 

  367. 

  368.           <li>Added a new sub-menu to allow ordering contours
    369. 

  369.           within a glyph. This is almost totally useless (the final
    370. 

  370.           look of the character should not be affected by the order
    371. 

  371.           in which the contours are drawn), but for multiple master
    372. 

  372.           fonts, the contour list must have the same ordering in
    373. 

  373.           corresponding glyphs.</li>
    374. 

  374.         </ul>
    375. 

  375.       </li>
    376. 

  376. 

  377.       <li>11-Jan-2004
    378. 

  378. 

  379.         <ul>
    380. 

  380.           <li>A patch for reading broken mac tables got lost. I've
    381. 

  381.           reinstated it.</li>
    382. 

  382.         </ul>
    383. 

  383.       </li>
    384. 

  384. 

  385.       <li>10-Jan-2004
    386. 

  386. 

  387.         <ul>
    388. 

  388.           <li>FontForge would crash when asked to use the truetype
    389. 

  389.           debugger on fpgm</li>
    390. 

  390. 

  391.           <li>FontForge always coloured the background of debugger
    392. 

  392.           windows grey.</li>
    393. 

  393. 

  394.           <li>The Points window did not show any points.</li>
    395. 

  395. 

  396.           <li>Changed the Points window and the character view to
    397. 

  397.           show whether a point has a watch point set on it.</li>
    398. 

  398. 

  399.           <li>Display the code range ('fpgm'/'prep'/Glyph) in the
    400. 

  400.           character's info line when debugging.</li>
    401. 

    402. 

  402.           <li>When creating a 'fpgm'/'prep' table we created one
    403. 

  403.           with some garbage instructions in it.</li>
    404. 

  404. 

  405.           <li>Somehow I neglected to put in a dlg for editing the
    406. 

  406.           'cvt ' table. This has been rectified.</li>
    407. 

  407. 

  408.           <li>There was a bug in the postscript interpreter (the
    409. 

  409.           thing used for reading .eps files and type3 fonts) and
    410. 

  410.           transforming a point by a matrix with diagonal entries
    411. 

  411.           (rotation, skew, etc.) gave the wrong value.</li>
    412. 

  412. 

  413.           <li>Added code to preserve more of the PS graphic state
    414. 

  414.           when eps file does a gsave</li>
    415. 

  415. 

  416.           <li>Merge Fonts would crash when merging a font with
    417. 

  417.           references into an empty font</li>
    418. 

  418. 

  419.           <li>I wasn't providing default values for width/weight
    420. 

  420.           classes in the OS/2 table</li>
    421. 

  421. 

  422.           <li>The bitmap dlg could write one byte beyond the area
    423. 

  423.           allocated in some cases.</li>
    424. 

  424. 

  425.           <li>Changed the outline character popup menu to include
    426. 

  426.           an Add Anchor Point entry</li>
    427. 

  427. 

  428.           <li>The Ligature index wasn't correctly enabled in some
    429. 

  429.           cases.</li>
    430. 

  430. 

  431.           <li>Add little arrows near the first point of each
    432. 

  432.           contour (in the outline character view) showing the
    433. 

  433.           direction of the contour.</li>
    434. 

  434. 

  435.           <li>The mac's interpretation of the CFF spec is very
    436. 

  436.           picky, but correct. If a font contained no references
    437. 

  437.           then FontForge would generate an empty subroutine index.
    438. 

  438.           This is wrong. There should be no subroutine index,
    439. 

  439.           rather than an empty one. (Strangely, global subroutines
    440. 

  440.           have the reverse requirement. Stupid). Now if there are
    441. 

  441.           no references, then FontForge will not generate a local
    442. 

  442.           subroutine index.</li>
    443. 

  443. 

  444.           <li>Yannis Haralambous has corrected the French UI.</li>
    445. 

  445. 

  446.           <li>Three new scripting commands: AddAnchorClass,
    447. 

  447.           AddAnchorPoint, RemoveAnchorClass</li>
    448. 

  448. 

  449.           <li>Show ATT did not show glyph classes properly.</li>
    450. 

  450. 

  451.           <li>Made scripting dlg be resizable.</li>
    452. 

  452. 

  453.           <li>Save As &amp; Import dlgs looked bad in French.
    454. 

  454.           Various other improvements to make things look better on
    455. 

  455.           non-english systems.</li>
    456. 

  456. 

  457.           <li>Added the ability to set the glyph class from Char
    458. 

  458.           Info.</li>
    459. 

  459. 

  460.           <li>FontsInFile did not work on pfb files (nor on
    461. 

  461.           cff)</li>
    462. 

  462. 

  463.           <li>Opening a mac resource file with multiple FONDs from
    464. 

  464.           a script would crash.</li>
    465. 

  465. 

  466.           <li>In Font Info-&gt;TTF Names the languages now appear
    467. 

  467.           in unicode ordering no matter what the locale (used to be
    468. 

  468.           the langs were in alphabetical ordering for English, even
    469. 

  469.           if they were actually French)</li>
    470. 

  470.         </ul>
    471. 

  471.       </li>
    472. 

  472. 

  473.       <li>2-Jan-2004
    474. 

  474. 

  475.         <ul>
    476. 

  476.           <li>More accurate round joints in stroking.</li>
    477. 

  477. 

  478.           <li>Better approximations to splines which turn through
    479. 

  479.           180 degrees or more</li>
    480. 

  480. 

  481.           <li>Support for reading cff files.</li>
    482. 

  482. 

  483.           <li>Yet more problems counting ttf points</li>
    484. 

  484. 

  485.           <li>Update copyright notices.</li>
    486. 

  486. 

  487.           <li>Add code to protect FontForge against reading bad
    488. 

  488.           Apple lookup tables (I think the Zapfino.dfont that ships
    489. 

  489.           with 10.3 has two bad lookups, but perhaps I just don't
    490. 

  490.           understand them).</li>
    491. 

  491. 

  492.           <li>Try harder to avoid using 'DFLT' script when coming
    493. 

  493.           up with a default script for glyphs with no innate
    494. 

  494.           script.</li>
    495. 

  495. 

  496.           <li>Add a Find Problems to detect 'DFLT'</li>
    497. 

  497. 

  498.           <li>I've been generating bad Simple Positioning subtables
    499. 

  499.           for GPOS all along.</li>
    500. 

  500. 

  501.           <li>Be pickier about what glyph names I let the user
    502. 

  502.           choose.</li>
    503. 

  503. 

  504.           <li>On cygwin (perhaps elsewhere, but I was never able to
    505. 

  505.           find the bug elsewhere) if you invoked one command from
    506. 

  506.           the menu while another was still executing, then
    507. 

  507.           fontforge would probably crash.</li>
    508. 

  508. 

  509.           <li>Support for reading and writing bare cff files.</li>
    510. 

  510. 

  511.           <li>Build Accents crashed when asked to build accented
    512. 

  512.           chars for iacute, etc. in a font without dotlessi.</li>
    513. 

  513.         </ul>
    514. 

  514.       </li>
    515. 

  515. 

  516.       <li>28-Dec-2003
    517. 

  517. 

  518.         <ul>
    519. 

  519.           <li>RemoveATT scripting command didn't work if the third
    520. 

  520.           argument were "*"</li>
    521. 

  521. 

  522.           <li>FontForge's clipping in the character view left
    523. 

  523.           something to be desired.</li>
    524. 

  524. 

  525.           <li>Make Meta-Arrow move selected points by 10 times what
    526. 

  526.           Arrow would move them by.</li>
    527. 

  527. 

  528.           <li>Grabbed the feature ordering for GPOS/GSUB specified
    529. 

  529.           on the <a href=
    530. 

  530.           "http://www.microsoft.com/typography/specs/default.htm">microsoft
    531. 

  531.           site</a> and taught it to FontForge.</li>
    532. 

  532. 

  533.           <li>Change the Point Info dlg
    534. 

  534. 

  535.             <ul>
    536. 

  536.               <li>to allow the user to control the point type from
    537. 

  537.               there.</li>
    538. 

  538. 

  539.               <li>to enforce constraints on control points (ie. the
    540. 

  540.               control points of a curve point must be in line with
    541. 

  541.               the point itself)</li>
    542. 

  542. 

  543.               <li>by adding an alternated mode of entering data, by
    544. 

  544.               distance and angle (rather than just offset)</li>
    545. 

  545.             </ul>
    546. 

  546.           </li>
    547. 

  547. 

  548.           <li>Some MF fonts have glyph names with characters which
    549. 

  549.           aren't allowed in PostScript names</li>
    550. 

    551. 

  551.           <li>FontForge failed to set widthset when it read in
    552. 

  552.           glyphs from a windows FNT (FON) file. This meant that
    553. 

  553.           some glyphs might be ignored.</li>
    554. 

  554. 

  555.           <li>The context chaining dialog had a bad test for valid
    556. 

  556.           glyph names and complained about any name containing
    557. 

  557.           digits</li>
    558. 

  558. 

  559.           <li>The histogram dlg would crash if the mouse moved
    560. 

  560.           across it when the window was so wide that it could
    561. 

  561.           contain more stem widths than were actually in use.</li>
    562. 

  562. 

  563.           <li>Added three commands to the metrics view view menu to
    564. 

  564.           allow users to insert glyphs by name or encoding.</li>
    565. 

  565. 

  566.           <li>Yannis points out that afm files produced on fonts
    567. 

  567.           with vertical metrics did not contain "WY" values
    568. 

  568.           (vertical advance width), also that the vkerns in the
    569. 

  569.           file actually contained the values of horizontal
    570. 

  570.           kerns.</li>
    571. 

  571. 

  572.           <li>The 'kern' table did not contain pairwise vertical
    573. 

  573.           kerns (it did contain vertical kerning by class).</li>
    574. 

  574. 

  575.           <li>The View-&gt;Substitutions sub menu of the
    576. 

  576.           metricsview was not being cleared properly if the current
    577. 

  577.           glyph had no substitutions.</li>
    578. 

  578. 

  579.           <li>Yannis wants the View-&gt;Substitutions menu to have
    580. 

  580.           a way to return to the original glyph.</li>
    581. 

  581. 

  582.           <li>Yannis points out that the metricsview in vertical
    583. 

  583.           mode changed the top side bearing in an unexpected way.
    584. 

  584.           Also the vertical advance width did not refresh the
    585. 

  585.           display properly.</li>
    586. 

  586. 

  587.           <li>Thanks to David Opstad, I now have an example of a
    588. 

  588.           format 1 kerning table and have extended FontForge to
    589. 

  589.           support kerning by state machine.</li>
    590. 

  590. 

  591.           <li>The code for generating and loading otb (OpenType
    592. 

  592.           bitmap) fonts was broken.</li>
    593. 

  593. 

  594.           <li>And the code for generating my own weird bitmap only
    595. 

  595.           fonts for windows had some flaws too (different
    596. 

  596.           flaws).</li>
    597. 

  597. 

  598.           <li>If I typed a character into a fontview (or char view)
    599. 

  599.           and the font did not contain the character, fontforge
    600. 

  600.           would not select that slot that encoded the character,
    601. 

  601.           even if the character was in the encoding.</li>
    602. 

  602. 

  603.           <li>When loading a ps type3 font, make sure that the
    604. 

  604.           glyph name is available when parsing glyphs so we can
    605. 

  605.           produce reasonable error msgs. (mostly this means "Spline
    606. 

  606.           stroke is too big"</li>
    607. 

    608. 

  608.           <li>Only generate Spline stroke too big errors once per
    609. 

  609.           font.</li>
    610. 

  610. 

  611.           <li>Adam Goode tells me that the format 12 (32bit
    612. 

  612.           unicode) cmap was wrong, and provided a patch to fix
    613. 

  613.           it.</li>
    614. 

  614. 

  615.           <li>Pretty much rewrote the stroking command from
    616. 

  616.           scratch.</li>
    617. 

  617. 

  618.           <li>Merge fonts would crash when merging in a font
    619. 

  619.           containing either a ligature caret or a nested
    620. 

  620.           lookup.</li>
    621. 

  621. 

  622.           <li>Made FontForge cognizant of the proposed unicode
    623. 

  623.           dotlessj character (0237), it will now use either this or
    624. 

  624.           the dotlessj in adobe's private use area (depending on
    625. 

  625.           which is in the font)</li>
    626. 

  626. 

  627.           <li>FontForge would crash when trying to build an
    628. 

  628.           accented character based on inverted breve in pala.ttf
    629. 

  629. 

  630.             <ul>
    631. 

  631.               <li>It wrongly considered pala.ttf to be slightly
    632. 

  632.               italic (.0005°)</li>
    633. 

  633. 

  634.               <li>It would crash when doing this in an italic
    635. 

  635.               font</li>
    636. 

  636.             </ul>
    637. 

  637.             <hr />
    638. 

  638.           </li>
    639. 

  639. 

  640.           <li>When importing postscript (type3 fonts, eps files)
    641. 

  641.           counter-clockwise paths which are both stroked and filled
    642. 

  642.           cause problems</li>
    643. 

  643. 

  644.           <li>Changed the version stamp of otb fonts from 'OTTO' to
    645. 

  645.           1.0</li>
    646. 

  646.         </ul>
    647. 

  647.       </li>
    648. 

  648. 

  649.       <li>10-Dec-2003
    650. 

  650. 

  651.         <ul>
    652. 

  652.           <li>When there were multiple features with the same tag
    653. 

  653.           (different scripts with 'kern' for instance) FontForge
    654. 

  654.           would produce multiple copies of the same lookup instead
    655. 

  655.           of different lookups.</li>
    656. 

  656. 

  657.           <li>FontForge was not setting the right to left lookup
    658. 

  658.           flag bit properly for hebrew (and presumably arabic)
    659. 

  659.           kerning</li>
    660. 

  660. 

  661.           <li>Remove overlap was coalescing some splines that it
    662. 

  662.           should not have.</li>
    663. 

  663. 

  664.           <li>Typo in expand stroke meant that some round line
    665. 

  665.           joins were really weird</li>
    666. 

  666.         </ul>
    667. 

  667.       </li>
    668. 

  668. 

  669.       <li>5-Dec-2003
    670. 

  670. 

  671.         <ul>
    672. 

  672.           <li>When changing the ascent/descent with fontinfo or
    673. 

  673.           scaletoem some of the OS/2 fields did not get updated
    674. 

  674.           properly.</li>
    675. 

  675. 

  676.           <li>The OS/2 TypoDescent field was set positive instead
    677. 

  677.           of negative.</li>
    678. 

  678. 

  679.           <li>Added two scripting functions SetTTFName and
    680. 

  680.           GetTTFName to give scripts access to the truetype names
    681. 

  681.           as well as the PS ones</li>
    682. 

  682. 

  683.           <li>Patch from Kazuyuki. SetPanose didn't work when
    684. 

  684.           argument was an array.</li>
    685. 

  685. 

  686.           <li>New French translations from Pierre</li>
    687. 

  687. 

  688.           <li>$copyright didn't return the correct thing (Patch
    689. 

  689.           from Giuseppe Ghibo)</li>
    690. 

  690. 

  691.           <li>Kerning pair data for non-ASCII unicode characters
    692. 

  692.           did not get output properly into SVG fonts</li>
    693. 

  693. 

  694.           <li>The AddATT scripting command did not add ligatures
    695. 

  695.           correctly leading to problems when time came to generate
    696. 

  696.           a font.</li>
    697. 

  697.         </ul>
    698. 

  698.       </li>
    699. 

  699. 

  700.       <li>23-Nov-2003
    701. 

  701. 

  702.         <ul>
    703. 

  703.           <li>FontForge would crash if given an encoding for the
    704. 

  704.           locale which it didn't understand</li>
    705. 

    706. 

  706.           <li>Center/Thirds in width from the font view would
    707. 

  707.           change the width</li>
    708. 

  708. 

  709.           <li>There was a synchronization problem and the truetype
    710. 

  710.           debugger window could deadlock</li>
    711. 

  711. 

  712.           <li>FontForge failed to read a Contextual (but not
    713. 

  713.           Contextual chaining) Coverage lookup properly.</li>
    714. 

  714.         </ul>
    715. 

  715.       </li>
    716. 

  716. 

  717.       <li>10-Nov-2003
    718. 

  718. 

  719.         <ul>
    720. 

  720.           <li>FontForge was crashing when loading a bitmap font
    721. 

  721.           with encoded characters outside the range specified by
    722. 

  722.           the encoding (ie. a character 0x10000 in a unicode BMP
    723. 

  723.           font).</li>
    724. 

  724. 

  725.           <li>Fixes for several memory leaks provided by Kazuki
    726. 

  726.           Ohta</li>
    727. 

  727. 

  728.           <li>Slight improvements to the
    729. 

  729.           View-&gt;Combinations-&gt;Ligature dlg</li>
    730. 

  730.         </ul>
    731. 

  731.       </li>
    732. 

  732. 

  733.       <li>8-Nov-2003
    734. 

  734. 

  735.         <ul>
    736. 

  736.           <li>Bug introduced 6-Nov, FontForge generated a bad
    737. 

  737.           'loca' table when outputting a ttf outline font with
    738. 

  738.           bitmaps.</li>
    739. 

  739. 

  740.           <li>FontForge was getting the truetype point number wrong
    741. 

  741.           when reading outlines from an sfd file.</li>
    742. 

  742. 

  743.           <li>If the loca table was 2 or 4 bytes long, FontForge
    744. 

  744.           failed to warn about a bad glyph count.</li>
    745. 

  745. 

  746.           <li>FontForge got confused if two truetype glyphs had the
    747. 

  747.           same name.</li>
    748. 

  748. 

  749.           <li>When dumping out embedded ttf bitmaps, FontForge got
    750. 

  750.           confused by the extra glyphs (.null and return) and
    751. 

  751.           generated garbage.</li>
    752. 

  752. 

  753.           <li>Make View-&gt;Combinations-&gt;ligature dlg a bit
    754. 

  754.           better for non-latin glyphs</li>
    755. 

  755.         </ul>
    756. 

  756.       </li>
    757. 

  757. 

  758.       <li>6-Nov-2003
    759. 

  759. 

  760.         <ul>
    761. 

  761.           <li>The clut used for drawing anti-alias bitmaps in the
    762. 

  762.           metrics view was wrong.</li>
    763. 

  763. 

  764.           <li>In a bitmap only ttf file, FontForge was usually
    765. 

  765.           producing bad line spacing data as far as the mac was
    766. 

  766.           concerned.</li>
    767. 

  767. 

  768.           <li>When importing bitmaps into an empty font, we might
    769. 

  769.           as well change to font view to show the bitmaps rather
    770. 

  770.           than the empty outline data.</li>
    771. 

  771. 

  772.           <li>If glyph 0 was selected in the fontview then the
    773. 

  773.           File-&gt;Open Outline command was disabled.</li>
    774. 

  774. 

  775.           <li>With a user defined encoding we were again getting
    776. 

  776.           occasional crashes. (introduced by my work on
    777. 

  777.           bitmaps)</li>
    778. 

  778. 

  779.           <li>On certain glyphs, the optimizer introduced an slight
    780. 

  780.           error when calculating a spline's coefficients from its
    781. 

  781.           control point. Even though this error was on the order of
    782. 

  782.           7e-8 it was enough that the rasterizer produced grossly
    783. 

  783.           incorrect results. I have pulled the relevant routine out
    784. 

  784.           into its own file which is now compiled by itself without
    785. 

  785.           optimization.</li>
    786. 

  786.         </ul>
    787. 

  787.       </li>
    788. 

  788. 

  789.       <li>4-Nov-2003
    790. 

  790. 

  791.         <ul>
    792. 

  792.           <li>When FontForge removes glyphs with Font
    793. 

  793.           Info-&gt;Encoding-&gt;Number of characters, it will now
    794. 

  794.           run through the font and remove any ligatures,
    795. 

  795.           substitutions, etc. refering to non-existent glyph
    796. 

  796.           names.</li>
    797. 

  797. 

  798.           <li>Some improvements to remove overlap.</li>
    799. 

  799. 

  800.           <li>Added a warning message so that when user attempts to
    801. 

  801.           output a ttf file where no characters have unicode
    802. 

  802.           encodings, then the user at least gets warned that the
    803. 

  803.           result will probably not work. For fonts with fewer than
    804. 

  804.           256 glyphs it will offer the choice of a symbol
    805. 

  805.           encoding.</li>
    806. 

  806. 

  807.           <li>If a reference were copied in the outline character
    808. 

  808.           view and pasted into the font view, fontforge would
    809. 

  809.           crash.</li>
    810. 

  810. 

  811.           <li>the expand stroke patch on 29-Sept broke calligraphic
    812. 

  812.           and ellipse modes.</li>
    813. 

  813. 

  814.           <li>The mouse's scroll wheel did not work in the metrics
    815. 

  815.           view.</li>
    816. 

  816. 

  817.           <li>The metrics view resized very slowly under window
    818. 

  818.           managers which do continuous resizing.</li>
    819. 

  819. 

  820.           <li>Give the magnifying glass's rectangle mode a
    821. 

  821.           threshold so that it doesn't resize tiny rectangles which
    822. 

  822.           are really caused by mouse jitter.</li>
    823. 

  823. 

  824.           <li>Attempt to set a zoom size for character and bitmap
    825. 

  825.           windows, but modern window managers don't seem to support
    826. 

  826.           the old protocol, and I can't find docs on a new
    827. 

  827.           version.</li>
    828. 

  828. 

  829.           <li>Was not converting filenames to unicode properly for
    830. 

  830.           the open/generate progress dlgs.</li>
    831. 

  831. 

  832.           <li>FontForge would crash when attempting to draw a
    833. 

  833.           character for which in had no (X11) glyph when doing
    834. 

  834.           bidirectional text.</li>
    835. 

  835.         </ul>
    836. 

  836.       </li>
    837. 

  837. 

  838.       <li>29-Oct-2003
    839. 

  839. 

  840.         <ul>
    841. 

  841.           <li>When removing an ATT feature from a glyph using a
    842. 

  842.           script, FontForge would screw up memory. Leading to
    843. 

  843.           unpredictable results.</li>
    844. 

  844.         </ul>
    845. 

  845.       </li>
    846. 

  846. 

  847.       <li>28-Oct-2003
    848. 

  848. 

  849.         <ul>
    850. 

  850.           <li>FontForge would crash when converting from cubic to
    851. 

  851.           quadratic splines in a script</li>
    852. 

  852. 

  853.           <li>FontForge would leave a dangling pointer when
    854. 

  854.           converting from cubic to quadratic. This did not affect
    855. 

  855.           ttf generation, but would affect most other
    856. 

  856.           operations.</li>
    857. 

  857.         </ul>
    858. 

  858.       </li>
    859. 

  859. 

  860.       <li>27-Oct-2003
    861. 

  861. 

  862.         <ul>
    863. 

  863.           <li>FontForge would crash when changing the encoding of a
    864. 

  864.           font with a .notdef character to a user defined
    865. 

  865.           encoding.</li>
    866. 

  866. 

  867.           <li>If one had multiple ligatures for the same glyph with
    868. 

  868.           the same tag and script, FontForge would eat all but one
    869. 

  869.           of them.</li>
    870. 

  870. 

  871.           <li>When generating most kinds of font, of a font which
    872. 

  872.           had ligatures containing glyph names that were not in the
    873. 

  873.           font, then FontForge would often screw up memory and
    874. 

  874.           eventually crash.</li>
    875. 

  875.         </ul>
    876. 

  876.       </li>
    877. 

  877. 

  878.       <li>26-Oct-2003
    879. 

  879. 

  880.         <ul>
    881. 

  881.           <li>Simplify sometimes removed points at extrema even
    882. 

  882.           when it should not have</li>
    883. 

  883. 

  884.           <li>If one had a ttf font (with instructions) and merged
    885. 

  885.           in a postscript font and then generated a ttf font,
    886. 

  886.           FontForge would complain about an internal error, but go
    887. 

  887.           on to produce a valid font. It should no longer
    888. 

  888.           complain.</li>
    889. 

  889. 

  890.           <li>When generating fonts from a script, if the font were
    891. 

  891.           in compacted format the generated font would have a
    892. 

  892.           compact encoding (instead of the desired encoding).</li>
    893. 

  893. 

  894.           <li>Kanou provided a patch to speed up importing bitmap
    895. 

  895.           fonts.</li>
    896. 

  896.         </ul>
    897. 

  897.       </li>
    898. 

  898. 

  899.       <li>23-Oct-2003
    900. 

  900. 

  901.         <ul>
    902. 

  902.           <li>The change on the 20th to make custom encoding
    903. 

  903.           support 32bit unicode was incomplete and made custom
    904. 

  904.           encodings crash instead.</li>
    905. 

  905. 

  906.           <li>The File-&gt;Display dialog ignored the
    907. 

  907.           left-sidebearing of a glyph causing output of some fonts
    908. 

  908.           to look awful.</li>
    909. 

  909. 

  910.           <li>Was getting the AdobeStandardEncoding a bit wrong
    911. 

  911.           (after the 5-Oct change to the new unicode glyph list
    912. 

  912.           which does not contain "fi" nor "fl")</li>
    913. 

  913. 

  914.           <li>I used to set the "widthset" bit on .notdef
    915. 

  915.           characters, but there's really no point to that.</li>
    916. 

    917. 

  917.           <li>Maxim Iorsh tells me that U+fb4f should be a historic
    918. 

  918.           ligature.</li>
    919. 

  919. 

  920.           <li>On some displays right scrolling the Histogram dlg
    921. 

  921.           would leave black lines on the window.</li>
    922. 

  922. 

  923.           <li>AutoHint removed too many stems from consideration as
    924. 

  924.           hints on some very bold fonts</li>
    925. 

  925. 

  926.           <li>Make FontBBox of Type1 fonts be executable. Adobe
    927. 

  927.           says it doesn't have to be, but dvips expects it to
    928. 

  928.           be.</li>
    929. 

  929.         </ul>
    930. 

  930.       </li>
    931. 

  931. 

  932.       <li>20-Oct-2003
    933. 

  933. 

  934.         <ul>
    935. 

  935.           <li>Windows XP &amp; 2000 insist on having (what cygwin
    936. 

  936.           describes as) the execute bit of the file set. So
    937. 

  937.           FontForge now sets execute permissions on ttf, otf and
    938. 

  938.           pfb fonts on the cygwin platform.</li>
    939. 

  939. 

  940.           <li>If a menu was so big that it had to be positioned
    941. 

  941.           over the menubar (instead of above or below it), and the
    942. 

  942.           user clicked on the menubar to invoke it, then the mouse
    943. 

  943.           release would go to the new menu and invoke whatever item
    944. 

  944.           happened to be under the cursor. Not good.</li>
    945. 

  945. 

  946.           <li>Oops. The Effects sub-menu should have been disabled
    947. 

  947.           for quadratic (truetype) fonts.</li>
    948. 

  948. 

  949.           <li>Added a new configuration option --with-regular-link
    950. 

  950.           to disable my dlopening of libraries. I dislike this. I
    951. 

  951.           don't think it is anywhere near as flexible as the dlopen
    952. 

  952.           method. It makes it much harder to ship something that
    953. 

  953.           will work with freetype (detecting whether the bytecode
    954. 

  954.           interpreter is present must be done at link time rather
    955. 

  955.           than run time and that is a severe disadvantage. But I
    956. 

  956.           have been asked for it.</li>
    957. 

  957. 

  958.           <li>Change internal format so that custom encodings can
    959. 

  959.           handle 32 bit unicode.</li>
    960. 

  960.         </ul>
    961. 

  961.       </li>
    962. 

  962. 

  963.       <li>16-Oct-2003
    964. 

  964. 

  965.         <ul>
    966. 

  966.           <li>FontForge was still outputting a disordered name
    967. 

  967.           table.</li>
    968. 

  968. 

  969.           <li>The source tarball on the website included many files
    970. 

  970.           twice and some files that it should not have included at
    971. 

  971.           all. I should now be less than half the size it used to
    972. 

  972.           be.</li>
    973. 

  973.         </ul>
    974. 

  974.       </li>
    975. 

  975. 

  976.       <li>15-Oct-2003
    977. 

  977. 

  978.         <ul>
    979. 

  979.           <li>FontForge did not bother to open files in binary
    980. 

  980.           mode. If cygwin was configured with DOS linebreaks, then
    981. 

  981.           fontforge failed to generate valid font files on cygwin.
    982. 

  982.             <hr />
    983. 

  983.           </li>
    984. 

  984. 

  985.           <li>Added some more warnings to the default build list
    986. 

  986.           and fixed the problems they indicated.</li>
    987. 

  987.         </ul>
    988. 

  988.       </li>
    989. 

  989. 

  990.       <li>12-Oct-2003
    991. 

  991. 

  992.         <ul>
    993. 

  993.           <li>Several bad bugs in last night's build (name table
    994. 

  994.           was (usually) all screwed up, conversion from PS to TTF
    995. 

  995.           got incorrect Internal Error msgs)</li>
    996. 

  996. 

  997.           <li>Order tables in truetype output
    998. 

  998.             <hr />
    999. 

  999.           </li>
    1000. 

  1000. 

  1001.           <li>My 5-Oct-2003 libpng fix broke it completely. Should
    1002. 

  1002.           now be refixed.</li>
    1003. 

  1003.         </ul>
    1004. 

  1004.       </li>
    1005. 

  1005. 

  1006.       <li>11-Oct-2003
    1007. 

  1007. 

  1008.         <ul>
    1009. 

  1009.           <li>Another patch from Kanou to recognize encodings
    1010. 

  1010.           better in bdf files.</li>
    1011. 

  1011. 

  1012.           <li>Various memory fixes found by valgrind</li>
    1013. 

  1013. 

  1014.           <li>The Element-&gt;Find Problems-&gt;ATT-&gt;Missing
    1015. 

  1015.           glyph names fixup dlg had some formatting problems and
    1016. 

  1016.           failed to skip properly.</li>
    1017. 

  1017. 

  1018.           <li>Draw an "x" through encodings which do not map to
    1019. 

  1019.           glyphs</li>
    1020. 

  1020. 

  1021.           <li>If the user is in a compacted encoding and asks to
    1022. 

  1022.           print a font, then revert to the uncompacted encoding for
    1023. 

  1023.           the duration of the printing.</li>
    1024. 

  1024. 

  1025.           <li>View-&gt;Show ATT would show ligatures (and
    1026. 

  1026.           substitutions) even if some of the glyphs in the glyph
    1027. 

  1027.           list were missing.</li>
    1028. 

  1028. 

  1029.           <li>Fix a number of bugs found by the MS Font Validator
    1030. 

  1030. 

  1031.             <ul>
    1032. 

  1032.               <li>I misunderstood (and the spec incorrectly
    1033. 

  1033.               documented) the behavior of the maxp table</li>
    1034. 

  1034. 

  1035.               <li>I had a typo in figuring out the OS/2 table</li>
    1036. 

  1036.             </ul>
    1037. 

  1037.           </li>
    1038. 

  1038. 

  1039.           <li>I had one more case where I was computing the point
    1040. 

  1040.           count of a glyph incorrectly.</li>
    1041. 

  1041. 

  1042.           <li>Make the width line snap to zero when the user drags
    1043. 

  1043.           near it.</li>
    1044. 

  1044.         </ul>
    1045. 

  1045.       </li>
    1046. 

  1046. 

  1047.       <li>6-Oct-2003
    1048. 

  1048. 

  1049.         <ul>
    1050. 

  1050.           <li>Give the Metrics View a vertical mode in which it
    1051. 

  1051.           does vertical kerning, etc.</li>
    1052. 

  1052. 

  1053.           <li>Add a hack to allow FontForge to parse a weird pfb
    1054. 

  1054.           file.</li>
    1055. 

  1055.         </ul>
    1056. 

  1056.       </li>
    1057. 

  1057. 

  1058.       <li>6-Oct-2003
    1059. 

  1059. 

  1060.         <ul>
    1061. 

  1061.           <li>Fixed a number of bugs in the new kerning class dlg
    1062. 

  1062.           including:
    1063. 

  1063. 

  1064.             <ul>
    1065. 

  1065.               <li>Vertical kerning classes were displayed
    1066. 

  1066.               horizontally</li>
    1067. 

  1067. 

  1068.               <li>When adding a new class the new offsets were
    1069. 

  1069.               garbage</li>
    1070. 

  1070.             </ul>
    1071. 

  1071.           </li>
    1072. 

  1072. 

  1073.           <li>The routine to convert a horizontal kerning class to
    1074. 

  1074.           the equivalent vertical kerning class (of the vertical
    1075. 

  1075.           variants of the glyphs in the horizontal class) didn't
    1076. 

  1076.           work.</li>
    1077. 

  1077. 

  1078.           <li>In Back and Lookup Classes of a contextual chaining
    1079. 

  1079.           substitution by class, the [New] button was never
    1080. 

  1080.           enabled. (it was disabled if []SameAs was on, and then
    1081. 

  1081.           never enabled).</li>
    1082. 

  1082. 

  1083.           <li>My new 94x94 encodings were actually 93x93. Patch by
    1084. 

  1084.           kanou.</li>
    1085. 

  1085.         </ul>
    1086. 

  1086.       </li>
    1087. 

  1087. 

  1088.       <li>5-Oct-2003
    1089. 

  1089. 

  1090.         <ul>
    1091. 

  1091.           <li>Got rid of GreekFixup and added Interpretations of
    1092. 

  1092.           encodings to FontInfo</li>
    1093. 

  1093. 

  1094.           <li>FontForge failed to output ligature substitutions
    1095. 

  1095.           nested under a context/chain sub</li>
    1096. 

  1096. 

  1097.           <li>If a font had more than about 5 nested ligatures,
    1098. 

  1098.           fontforge would screw up its memory and (likely)
    1099. 

  1099.           crash</li>
    1100. 

  1100. 

  1101.           <li>Fixed various problems pertaining to adding a kerning
    1102. 

  1102.           class to an empty font</li>
    1103. 

  1103. 

  1104.           <li>Add a runtime check for the case where the user's
    1105. 

  1105.           system has a dynamic libpng installed without libz</li>
    1106. 

  1106. 

  1107.           <li>If a character had ligature carets then FontForge
    1108. 

  1108.           could crash when determining its script</li>
    1109. 

  1109. 

  1110.           <li>FontForge was reading mac 'kern' format 3
    1111. 

  1111.           incorrectly.</li>
    1112. 

  1112. 

  1113.           <li>Rewrote the Kerning class creation dialog. I hope it
    1114. 

  1114.           is clearer now.</li>
    1115. 

  1115.         </ul>
    1116. 

  1116.       </li>
    1117. 

  1117. 

  1118.       <li>2-Oct-2003
    1119. 

  1119. 

  1120.         <ul>
    1121. 

  1121.           <li>got rid of my strange 94x94 encodings for JIS/KSC/GB
    1122. 

  1122.           (based on the kuten array) and used instead the much more
    1123. 

  1123.           obvious encoding that everyone else uses.</li>
    1124. 

  1124. 

  1125.           <li>BDF files were output with the wrong encoding name
    1126. 

  1126.           for JISX0208 (I was outputting "JISX208" instead--
    1127. 

  1127.           missing a "0").</li>
    1128. 

  1128. 

  1129.           <li>Autotrace failed to read potrace output properly if
    1130. 

  1130.           there were more than one contour in a given glyph.</li>
    1131. 

  1131. 

  1132.           <li>Upgraded psunicodenames to the current Adobe Glyph
    1133. 

  1133.           List for New Fonts.</li>
    1134. 

  1134. 

  1135.           <li>Simplify now works for quadratic splines. If one uses
    1136. 

  1136.           the []Allow Slopes to Change checkbox then results are
    1137. 

  1137.           not good. I need a better algorithm.</li>
    1138. 

  1138. 

  1139.           <li>If asked to generate a type0 postscript font for a
    1140. 

  1140.           font encoded with an extended 1byte encoding (ie. one
    1141. 

  1141.           that had about 300 characters) FontForge would probably
    1142. 

  1142.           crash.</li>
    1143. 

  1143.         </ul>
    1144. 

  1144.       </li>
    1145. 

  1145. 

  1146.       <li>29-Sept-2003
    1147. 

  1147. 

  1148.         <ul>
    1149. 

  1149.           <li>When a path was both stroked and filled (in a
    1150. 

  1150.           postscript/eps file), fontforge would ignore the
    1151. 

  1151.           stroke.</li>
    1152. 

  1152. 

  1153.           <li>I forgot that the stroke linewidth needs to be
    1154. 

  1154.           transformed by the current transformation matrix. This
    1155. 

  1155.           meant that when a path should have been stroked by an
    1156. 

  1156.           ellipse (when reading a ps/eps file) fontforge would
    1157. 

  1157.           blithely stroke it with a circle.</li>
    1158. 

  1158. 

  1159.           <li>Added some support for reading the /Metrics
    1160. 

  1160.           array.</li>
    1161. 

  1161. 

  1162.           <li>If there were a sharp corner (where the "radius of
    1163. 

  1163.           curvature" of the corner was less than the radius of the
    1164. 

  1164.           pen used to stroke the path) then FontForge would
    1165. 

  1165.           generate an incorrect path.</li>
    1166. 

  1166. 

  1167.           <li>Round line joins were not a good approximation to
    1168. 

  1168.           circular arcs.</li>
    1169. 

  1169. 

  1170.           <li>When filling the outline character view, rounding
    1171. 

  1171.           errors caused the fill bitmap to stray from the
    1172. 

  1172.           outline.</li>
    1173. 

  1173. 

  1174.           <li>Extend the functionality of the magnifying (or
    1175. 

  1175.           minifying) tool so that if the user drags out a rectangle
    1176. 

  1176.           with it then the view will be shifted and scaled so that
    1177. 

  1177.           rectangle fits in the window.</li>
    1178. 

  1178. 

  1179.           <li>FontForge will no longer auto-generate hints on
    1180. 

  1180.           non-integral boundaries. In Type1 fonts such hints become
    1181. 

  1181.           meaningless and just confuse things.</li>
    1182. 

  1182. 

  1183.           <li>FontForge will now draw a halo around points which
    1184. 

  1184.           will be part of a flex hint. See the <a href=
    1185. 

  1185.           "prefs.html#UpdateFlex">UpdateFlex</a> preference
    1186. 

  1186.           item.</li>
    1187. 

  1187. 

  1188.           <li>FontForge now has as set of commands for manipulating
    1189. 

  1189.           typographic features in large lumps rather than one at a
    1190. 

  1190.           time.
    1191. 

  1191. 

  1192.             <ul>
    1193. 

  1193.               <li>Copy features from one font to another</li>
    1194. 

  1194. 

  1195.               <li>Remove certain features</li>
    1196. 

  1196. 

  1197.               <li>Give features a new tag</li>
    1198. 

  1198.             </ul>
    1199. 

  1199.           </li>
    1200. 

  1200. 

  1201.           <li>I have greatly rewritten the code for dealing with
    1202. 

  1202.           AAT fonts
    1203. 

  1203. 

  1204.             <ul>
    1205. 

  1205.               <li>FontForge now supports mac feature/setting values
    1206. 

  1206.               to be used as feature tags as well as opentype 4
    1207. 

  1207.               letter tags</li>
    1208. 

  1208. 

  1209.               <li>FontForge will now read any feature in even if it
    1210. 

  1210.               doesn't map to an opentype tag</li>
    1211. 

    1212. 

  1212.               <li>FontForge understands the most of the state
    1213. 

  1213.               machines in the morx/mort tables (it does not
    1214. 

  1214.               understand ligature state machines, it parses these
    1215. 

  1215.               for all unconditional ligatures, but it will miss any
    1216. 

  1216.               conditional ones).</li>
    1217. 

  1217. 

  1218.               <li>FontForge now lets you edit apple state
    1219. 

  1219.               machines</li>
    1220. 

  1220. 

  1221.               <li>FontForge lets you specify feature/setting names
    1222. 

  1222.               in the font to override the default values specified
    1223. 

  1223.               in preferences</li>
    1224. 

  1224.             </ul>
    1225. 

  1225.           </li>
    1226. 

  1226. 

  1227.           <li>Added support for reading Apple's format 3 kern
    1228. 

  1228.           sub-table format (another way of storing a kerning
    1229. 

  1229.           class)</li>
    1230. 

  1230. 

  1231.           <li>Oops. SVG didn't read relative movetos properly in a
    1232. 

  1232.           path option. Patch by Kengo Ichiki.</li>
    1233. 

  1233. 

  1234.           <li>Simplify had a bug when passed a path which consisted
    1235. 

  1235.           of a single point with a zero length spline connecting it
    1236. 

  1236.           to itself</li>
    1237. 

  1237. 

  1238.           <li>Simplify was not greyed out properly in quadratic
    1239. 

  1239.           fonts</li>
    1240. 

  1240. 

  1241.           <li>Some of the low-level error routines consumed massive
    1242. 

  1242.           amounts of cpu time while waiting for events</li>
    1243. 

  1243. 

  1244.           <li>The PostScript parsing routines would sometimes think
    1245. 

  1245.           that "noaccess" was part of the value of something in the
    1246. 

  1246.           private dictionary.</li>
    1247. 

  1247. 

  1248.           <li>Several other patches to importing images by
    1249. 

  1249.           templates from scripts. By Kengo Ichiki</li>
    1250. 

  1250. 

  1251.           <li>Importing pcf bitmaps into the background had some
    1252. 

  1252.           problems.</li>
    1253. 

  1253.         </ul>
    1254. 

  1254.       </li>
    1255. 

  1255. 

  1256.       <li>4-Sept-2003
    1257. 

  1257. 

  1258.         <ul>
    1259. 

  1259.           <li>the 17-Aug addition of context/chaining broke anchor
    1260. 

  1260.           classes. Should be fixed now.</li>
    1261. 

  1261. 

  1262.           <li>Károly László has added Hungarian translations for
    1263. 

  1263.           the style codes to Font Info-&gt;TTF Names</li>
    1264. 

  1264. 

  1265.           <li>If a font had comments, an svg file generated from it
    1266. 

  1266.           had syntax errors.</li>
    1267. 

  1267. 

  1268.           <li>Add support for generating multilingual strings (in
    1269. 

  1269.           'name') for the apple platform.</li>
    1270. 

  1270. 

  1271.           <li>Add support for the packed gb2312 which mac and
    1272. 

  1272.           windows seem to use.</li>
    1273. 

  1273. 

  1274.           <li>Make a UniqueID of -1 in Font Info mean that the font
    1275. 

  1275.           has no UniqueID.</li>
    1276. 

  1276.         </ul>
    1277. 

  1277.       </li>
    1278. 

  1278. 

  1279.       <li>31-Aug-2003
    1280. 

  1280. 

  1281.         <ul>
    1282. 

  1282.           <li>Add problems for maximum number of hints (96) and
    1283. 

  1283.           maximum number of subroutine nests (references) ~10.</li>
    1284. 

  1284. 

  1285.           <li>I looked at AppleChancery again and figured out why I
    1286. 

  1286.           was having trouble parsing its 'mort' ligature tables,
    1287. 

  1287.           and put in code to make it easy to parse tables of this
    1288. 

  1288.           type.</li>
    1289. 

  1289. 

  1290.           <li>After figuring that out, I realized there was a bug
    1291. 

  1291.           in my own table generation. Suppose we have two ligatures
    1292. 

  1292.           "f l =&gt; fl" and "s t =&gt; st", and are given "fst".
    1293. 

  1293.           Then my table would fail to find the "st" ligature. The
    1294. 

  1294.           state of 'read "f" waiting for "l"' would see that it
    1295. 

  1295.           didn't get an "l" and revert back to the initial state.
    1296. 

  1296.           It should instead have checked to see if "s" could start
    1297. 

  1297.           a ligature in its own right, and if so jump to the 'got
    1298. 

  1298.           "s" waiting for "t"' state.</li>
    1299. 

    1300. 

  1300.           <li>The same fix needs to be done for contextual glyph
    1301. 

  1301.           substitution.</li>
    1302. 

  1302.         </ul>
    1303. 

  1303.       </li>
    1304. 

  1304. 

  1305.       <li>29-Aug-2003
    1306. 

  1306. 

  1307.         <ul>
    1308. 

  1308.           <li>FontForge failed to display the morx table if all it
    1309. 

  1309.           contained were simple substitutions.</li>
    1310. 

  1310. 

  1311.           <li>FontForge generated incorrect simple substitution
    1312. 

  1312.           (AAT) tables if it found a substitution with no valid
    1313. 

  1313.           elements</li>
    1314. 

  1314. 

  1315.           <li>New problem for find problems. Check for characters
    1316. 

  1316.           with more than 1500 points in them.</li>
    1317. 

  1317. 

  1318.           <li>FontForge will now draw selected points in a
    1319. 

  1319.           different color (currently yellow), and draws them
    1320. 

  1320.           bolder. This makes them stand out better for Find
    1321. 

  1321.           Problems (but also makes it harder to distinguish between
    1322. 

  1322.           corner and curved points).</li>
    1323. 

  1323. 

  1324.           <li>Redid the way FontForge handled arabic forms in AAT.
    1325. 

  1325.           Old method was cleaner but depended on behavior which is
    1326. 

  1326.           unspecified in Apple's docs.</li>
    1327. 

  1327.         </ul>
    1328. 

  1328.       </li>
    1329. 

  1329. 

  1330.       <li>27-Aug-2003
    1331. 

  1331. 

  1332.         <ul>
    1333. 

  1333.           <li><span class="c1"><strong><big>The preference dlg has
    1334. 

  1334.           been broken since about 12 July. Anything on the
    1335. 

  1335.           Preference-&gt;Font Info tab is probably
    1336. 

  1336.           wrong.</big></strong></span></li>
    1337. 

  1337. 

  1338.           <li>FontForge wasn't always getting the script/lang right
    1339. 

  1339.           when filling in the fields of the New Substitution
    1340. 

  1340.           dlg.</li>
    1341. 

  1341. 

  1342.           <li>The newly generated apple state machines for
    1343. 

  1343.           context/chaining were quite wrong. I hope I've got them
    1344. 

  1344.           right now.</li>
    1345. 

  1345. 

  1346.           <li>The []PSNames checkbox (in Generate Font, Options
    1347. 

  1347.           dlg) did the opposite of what it was documented to do.
    1348. 

  1348.           Behavior has been changed to conform to the documentation
    1349. 

  1349.           (and expectations).</li>
    1350. 

  1350. 

  1351.           <li>FontForge would crash when loading some sfd files
    1352. 

  1352.           from a few months ago.</li>
    1353. 

  1353.         </ul>
    1354. 

  1354.       </li>
    1355. 

  1355. 

  1356.       <li>26-Aug-2003
    1357. 

  1357. 

  1358.         <ul>
    1359. 

  1359.           <li>When I added metadata to svg fonts (20-Aug) I
    1360. 

  1360.           inadvertently put in two closing metadata tags. Which
    1361. 

  1361.           broke the font.</li>
    1362. 

  1362. 

  1363.           <li>Fixed a bug conversion of context/chain coverage
    1364. 

  1364.           sub-table into a morx subtable.</li>
    1365. 

  1365. 

  1366.           <li>Figured out in what cases I could generate a morx
    1367. 

  1367.           subtable from context/chain glyph or class format
    1368. 

  1368.           subtables.</li>
    1369. 

  1369. 

  1370.           <li>Fixed problems reading required features from ttf
    1371. 

  1371.           files.</li>
    1372. 

  1372. 

  1373.           <li>Updated French UI</li>
    1374. 

  1374.         </ul>
    1375. 

  1375.       </li>
    1376. 

  1376. 

  1377.       <li>25-Aug-2003
    1378. 

  1378. 

  1379.         <ul>
    1380. 

  1380.           <li>View-&gt;Show ATT didn't show contextual/chaining
    1381. 

  1381.           tables even if they would be put in the 'morx' table</li>
    1382. 

  1382. 

  1383.           <li>View-&gt;Show ATT had problems showing anything in
    1384. 

  1384.           'morx'</li>
    1385. 

  1385. 

  1386.           <li>Make it possible to edit contextual/chaining lookups
    1387. 

  1387.           that are formatted by class</li>
    1388. 

  1388. 

  1389.           <li>parsing/generating ttf files with class format
    1390. 

  1390.           context/chaining had problems</li>
    1391. 

  1391. 

  1392.           <li>loading a class format context/chaining lookup caused
    1393. 

  1393.           memory problems when closing the file.</li>
    1394. 

  1394. 

  1395.           <li>FontForge would sometimes lose track of
    1396. 

  1396.           script/languages of lookups when reading from a ttf
    1397. 

  1397.           file</li>
    1398. 

  1398. 

  1399.           <li>Added a conversion routine from glyph to class format
    1400. 

  1400.           context/chain</li>
    1401. 

  1401. 

  1402.           <li>Kanou points out that not all encodings available in
    1403. 

  1403.           Font Info-&gt;Encoding are present in the scripting
    1404. 

  1404.           interface, and fixes that.</li>
    1405. 

  1405.         </ul>
    1406. 

  1406.       </li>
    1407. 

  1407. 

  1408.       <li>22-Aug-2003
    1409. 

  1409. 

  1410.         <ul>
    1411. 

  1411.           <li>Fix simplify again</li>
    1412. 

  1412. 

  1413.           <li>Patch from Andrey V. Panov to improve bluevalues</li>
    1414. 

  1414. 

  1415.           <li>KDE refused to make the find problems explanation
    1416. 

  1416.           window visible, so now I shan't make it invisible in the
    1417. 

  1417.           first place.</li>
    1418. 

  1418. 

  1419.           <li>Generate mac family crashed instead (introduced
    1420. 

  1420.           2-July)</li>
    1421. 

  1421.         </ul>
    1422. 

  1422.       </li>
    1423. 

  1423. 

  1424.       <li>20-Aug-2003
    1425. 

  1425. 

  1426.         <ul>
    1427. 

  1427.           <li>Support for <a href=
    1428. 

  1428.           "http://potrace.sf.net/">potrace</a></li>
    1429. 

  1429. 

  1430.           <li>Fix some bugs with simplify more</li>
    1431. 

  1431. 

  1432.           <li>Mac build was badly configured and linked with a
    1433. 

  1433.           shared library it should not have.</li>
    1434. 

  1434. 

  1435.           <li>When compiled with -O2 fontforge had rounding errors
    1436. 

  1436.           which resulted in a bad bezier order3=&gt;order2
    1437. 

  1437.           conversion (PS-&gt;TTF)</li>
    1438. 

  1438. 

  1439.           <li>SetPanose sometimes didn't</li>
    1440. 

    1441. 

  1441.           <li>Patch from KANOU to set ulUnicodeRange for version
    1442. 

  1442.           4</li>
    1443. 

  1443.         </ul>
    1444. 

  1444.       </li>
    1445. 

  1445. 

  1446.       <li>18-Aug-2003
    1447. 

  1447. 

  1448.         <ul>
    1449. 

  1449.           <li><span class="c1"><strong><big>FontForge did not
    1450. 

  1450.           interpret SVG relative paths properly, and did not
    1451. 

  1451.           generate correct SVG output because of
    1452. 

  1452.           this</big></strong></span>. FontForge was mistakenly
    1453. 

  1453.           assuming things should be interpreted as in the Type1
    1454. 

  1454.           rrcurveto operator (where each point is relative to the
    1455. 

  1455.           previous point in the operator) rather than the rcurveto
    1456. 

  1456.           operator (where each point is relative to the initial
    1457. 

  1457.           point).</li>
    1458. 

  1458. 

  1459.           <li>If FontForge opened a Bold font stored in OTF CFF
    1460. 

  1460.           format, then when it closed that font it would either
    1461. 

  1461.           crash, or screw up memory so that a crash would happen
    1462. 

  1462.           later.</li>
    1463. 

  1463.         </ul>
    1464. 

  1464.       </li>
    1465. 

  1465. 

  1466.       <li>17-Aug-2003
    1467. 

  1467. 

  1468.         <ul>
    1469. 

  1469.           <li>Support for contextual, chaining contextual and
    1470. 

  1470.           reverse chaining contextual sub-tables of GPOS/GSUB.
    1471. 

  1471. 

  1472.             <ul>
    1473. 

  1473.               <li>Will generate an Apple contextual glyph
    1474. 

  1474.               substitution table if:
    1475. 

  1475. 

  1476.                 <ol>
    1477. 

  1477.                   <li>There is an apple feature which matches the
    1478. 

  1478.                   otf tag</li>
    1479. 

  1479. 

  1480.                   <li>The sub-table is in coverage format</li>
    1481. 

  1481. 

  1482.                   <li>The sub-table contains either exactly one
    1483. 

  1483.                   nested single glyph replacement substitution,
    1484. 

  1484.                   or<br />
    1485. 

  1485.                   it contains exactly two single glyph replacements
    1486. 

  1486.                   and one of them refers to the last glyph matched
    1487. 

  1487.                   (and the other does not)</li>
    1488. 

  1488.                 </ol>
    1489. 

  1489.               </li>
    1490. 

  1490.             </ul>
    1491. 

  1491.           </li>
    1492. 

  1492. 

  1493.           <li>KANOU points out that on screens with high dpi
    1494. 

  1494.           FontForge would sometimes draw splines 2 pixels wide and
    1495. 

  1495.           sometimes 1 pixel wide (122dpi had this effect)</li>
    1496. 

  1496. 

  1497.           <li>KANOU provided another patch for reading bitmaps one
    1498. 

  1498.           part covered a memory leak the other fixed a bug reading
    1499. 

  1499.           ttc files.</li>
    1500. 

  1500. 

  1501.           <li>Added a LoadEncodingFile scripting command</li>
    1502. 

  1502. 

  1503.           <li>New french ui.</li>
    1504. 

  1504. 

  1505.           <li>FontForge was using the wrong definition of ascent
    1506. 

  1506.           &amp; descent to set those fields in the 'hhea' table.
    1507. 

  1507.           This confused some mac programs (perhaps others).</li>
    1508. 

  1508. 

  1509.           <li>Added a "BBox" item to CharInfo scripting.</li>
    1510. 

  1510. 

  1511.           <li>Added a FontsInFile scripting command to return an
    1512. 

  1512.           array containing the fontnames of all fonts in a file. If
    1513. 

  1513.           an error occurs, a zero length array is returned.</li>
    1514. 

  1514. 

  1515.           <li>Change so that when opening a file containing
    1516. 

  1516.           multiple fonts the font's filename contains the fontname
    1517. 

  1517.           (so it is possible to open other fonts from the same
    1518. 

  1518.           file).</li>
    1519. 

  1519. 

  1520.           <li>Kanou provides a patch for compressing bitmaps with
    1521. 

  1521.           more than 8 bits of white space to their left.</li>
    1522. 

  1522. 

  1523.           <li>Markus Schwarzenberg provides a patch to make
    1524. 

  1524.           fontforge recognize $cidfamilyname as it should have
    1525. 

  1525.           done.</li>
    1526. 

  1526. 

  1527.           <li>Add the ability to generate fonts which contain both
    1528. 

  1528.           OpenType and Apple Advanced Typography tables (ie. a font
    1529. 

  1529.           that should work everywhere).</li>
    1530. 

  1530. 

  1531.           <li>Added Utf8(int), Chr(int), Ord(int) to interconvert
    1532. 

  1532.           between strings and their encodings.</li>
    1533. 

  1533. 

  1534.           <li>Add two problems to Find problems
    1535. 

  1535. 

  1536.             <ul>
    1537. 

  1537.               <li>Search for substitutions, contexts, kerning
    1538. 

  1538.               classes, etc. which refer to a name which does not
    1539. 

  1539.               match any glyph in the font</li>
    1540. 

  1540. 

  1541.               <li>Search for contexts, chains, etc. which refer to
    1542. 

  1542.               a nested lookup which does not exist</li>
    1543. 

  1543.             </ul>
    1544. 

  1544.           </li>
    1545. 

  1545. 

  1546.           <li>Add a new command line argument "-last" which will
    1547. 

  1547.           load the last sfd file closed.
    1548. 

  1548.             <hr />
    1549. 

  1549.           </li>
    1550. 

  1550. 

  1551.           <li>FontForge would crash when importing bitmap
    1552. 

  1552.           fonts</li>
    1553. 

  1553. 

  1554.           <li>FontForge would crash when trying to do an
    1555. 

  1555.           Element-&gt;Default ATT-&gt;Suffix to Tag command</li>
    1556. 

  1556.         </ul>
    1557. 

  1557.       </li>
    1558. 

  1558. 

  1559.       <li>3-Aug-2003
    1560. 

  1560. 

  1561.         <ul>
    1562. 

  1562.           <li>I still wasn't getting r2l kerns correct</li>
    1563. 

    1564. 

  1564.           <li>Add support for vertical kerning
    1565. 

  1565. 

  1566.             <ul>
    1567. 

  1567.               <li>In 'GPOS', 'kern' tables of Open/TrueType</li>
    1568. 

  1568. 

  1569.               <li>In SVG fonts</li>
    1570. 

  1570. 

  1571.               <li>menu commands
    1572. 

  1572. 

  1573.                 <ul>
    1574. 

  1574.                   <li>Remove VKern</li>
    1575. 

  1575. 

  1576.                   <li>Vertical Kern By Classes</li>
    1577. 

  1577. 

  1578.                   <li>VKern From HKern</li>
    1579. 

  1579.                 </ul>
    1580. 

  1580.               </li>
    1581. 

  1581. 

  1582.               <li>scripting
    1583. 

  1583. 

  1584.                 <ul>
    1585. 

  1585.                   <li>RemoveVKern</li>
    1586. 

  1586. 

  1587.                   <li>SetVKern</li>
    1588. 

  1588. 

  1589.                   <li>VKernFromHKern</li>
    1590. 

  1590. 

  1591.                   <li>Add a "VKern" item to CharInfo</li>
    1592. 

  1592. 

  1593.                   <li><span class="c2">Type argument to SelectByATT
    1594. 

  1594.                   has changed</span>!!!</li>
    1595. 

  1595.                 </ul>
    1596. 

  1596.               </li>
    1597. 

  1597.             </ul>
    1598. 

  1598.           </li>
    1599. 

  1599. 

  1600.           <li>Add support for other Pairwise positioning
    1601. 

  1601.           features.</li>
    1602. 

  1602. 

  1603.           <li>Add a $panose command to return an array of panose
    1604. 

  1604.           values (scripting)</li>
    1605. 

  1605. 

  1606.           <li>Add a SetPanose command allowing scripts to change
    1607. 

  1607.           panose values</li>
    1608. 

  1608. 

  1609.           <li>FontForge was not rotating .vert glyphs properly</li>
    1610. 

  1610.         </ul>
    1611. 

  1611.       </li>
    1612. 

  1612. 

  1613.       <li>31-Jul-2003
    1614. 

  1614. 

  1615.         <ul>
    1616. 

  1616.           <li>Installed KANOU's fix for a buffer overrun</li>
    1617. 

    1618. 

  1618.           <li>Installed KANOU's fix for compacted cid-keyed
    1619. 

  1619.           fonts</li>
    1620. 

  1620. 

  1621.           <li>Fixed another bug with compacted cid-keyed fonts</li>
    1622. 

  1622. 

  1623.           <li>Mathias Wollin points out that my pfm files don't
    1624. 

  1624.           have the correct kerning table format</li>
    1625. 

  1625. 

  1626.           <li>Handles the case where a font has both a 'glyf' and a
    1627. 

  1627.           'CFF ' table by asking user which to use</li>
    1628. 

  1628. 

  1629.           <li>Various improvements to the goto dialog from James
    1630. 

  1630.           Crippen.</li>
    1631. 

  1631. 

  1632.           <li>If the ttf "Apple" box got checked then it remained
    1633. 

  1633.           checked in subsequent Generate Fonts even though the
    1634. 

  1634.           [Options] dialog did not show it checked.</li>
    1635. 

  1635. 

  1636.           <li>FontForge would crash if given an Anchor class with
    1637. 

  1637.           no marks.</li>
    1638. 

  1638. 

  1639.           <li>Hmm... I notice that volt only uses format 2 coverage
    1640. 

  1640.           tables. I wonder if windows fails to handle format 1
    1641. 

  1641.           tables...</li>
    1642. 

  1642.         </ul>
    1643. 

  1643.       </li>
    1644. 

  1644. 

  1645.       <li>30-Jul-2003
    1646. 

  1646. 

  1647.         <ul>
    1648. 

  1648.           <li>Add support for <a href=
    1649. 

  1649.           "http://www.w3c.org/TR/SVG11/fonts.html">svg fonts</a>
    1650. 

  1650.           (and add dependency on libxml2 for reading them in)</li>
    1651. 

  1651. 

  1652.           <li>Add support for importing/exporting svg files (again
    1653. 

  1653.           libxml2 needed for import)</li>
    1654. 

  1654. 

  1655.           <li>Add support for required features.</li>
    1656. 

  1656. 

  1657.           <li>In quadratic fonts the ellipse tool did not draw
    1658. 

  1658.           ellipses</li>
    1659. 

  1659. 

  1660.           <li>Add support for rectangles/ellipses drawn center out
    1661. 

  1661.           rather than just within the bounding box</li>
    1662. 

  1662. 

  1663.           <li>Preserve the rect/ellipse tool settings across
    1664. 

  1664.           invocations</li>
    1665. 

  1665. 

  1666.           <li>Put a license entry into the help menu</li>
    1667. 

  1667.         </ul>
    1668. 

  1668.       </li>
    1669. 

  1669. 

  1670.       <li>20-Jul-2003
    1671. 

  1671. 

  1672.         <ul>
    1673. 

  1673.           <li>made the default linux browser be mozilla rather than
    1674. 

  1674.           netscape.</li>
    1675. 

  1675. 

  1676.           <li>If the metrics view were displaying an anchored pair
    1677. 

  1677.           (mark-base), and a character were typed into the text
    1678. 

  1678.           field at top before the anchored pair, then the display
    1679. 

  1679.           got very strange.</li>
    1680. 

  1680. 

  1681.           <li>FontForge got confused when merging a font which
    1682. 

  1682.           contained multiple encodings for the same glyph</li>
    1683. 

  1683. 

  1684.           <li>FontForge got confused if there were an lparen in a
    1685. 

  1685.           directory name (thought this meant a font
    1686. 

  1686.           collection).</li>
    1687. 

  1687.         </ul>
    1688. 

  1688.       </li>
    1689. 

  1689. 

  1690.       <li>15-Jul-2003
    1691. 

  1691. 

  1692.         <ul>
    1693. 

  1693.           <li>We weren't parsing any type3 fonts properly any
    1694. 

  1694.           more</li>
    1695. 

  1695. 

  1696.           <li>Extend our ps interpreter to understand some of
    1697. 

  1697.           METAPOST's idioms better.</li>
    1698. 

    1699. 

  1699.           <li>I used to call all characters which weren't in the
    1700. 

  1700.           encoding ".notdef" this could cause problems if a user
    1701. 

  1701.           forgot to name them. I now give them unique names
    1702. 

  1702.           starting with "NameMe". I still leave characters &lt;256
    1703. 

  1703.           called ".notdef" if the encoding calls for it, this may
    1704. 

  1704.           be a mistake...</li>
    1705. 

  1705. 

  1706.           <li>Fix on 14-July to simplify was incomplete.</li>
    1707. 

  1707. 

  1708.           <li>More fiddling with autohint</li>
    1709. 

  1709. 

  1710.           <li>Added support for the new X11 opentype bitmap
    1711. 

  1711.           format.</li>
    1712. 

  1712.         </ul>
    1713. 

  1713.       </li>
    1714. 

  1714. 

  1715.       <li>14-Jul-2003 (Bastille Day!)
    1716. 

  1716. 

  1717.         <ul>
    1718. 

  1718.           <li>There are still cases where I'm getting the truetype
    1719. 

  1719.           point count wrong. If a truetype file had a control point
    1720. 

  1720.           that lay under an end point, then I would treat that as a
    1721. 

  1721.           "no control point" mark, and ignore the cp. But if I do
    1722. 

  1722.           that blindly I mess up the point count, so during font
    1723. 

  1723.           generation I must be prepared to put the cp back.</li>
    1724. 

  1724. 

  1725.           <li>Kanou provided a patch to fix a bug in the underlying
    1726. 

  1726.           graphics library.</li>
    1727. 

  1727. 

  1728.           <li>Add a popup menu to Show Att to allow those data to
    1729. 

  1729.           be saved (as utf8 text)</li>
    1730. 

  1730. 

  1731.           <li>Fixed (I hope) right to left kerning</li>
    1732. 

  1732. 

  1733.           <li>Added 'ccmp' entries by default for Hebrew</li>
    1734. 

  1734. 

  1735.           <li>Fixed a couple of bugs with the new simplify more
    1736. 

  1736.           options</li>
    1737. 

  1737. 

  1738.           <li>fontforge didn't compile on solaris. It now
    1739. 

  1739.           does.</li>
    1740. 

  1740.         </ul>
    1741. 

  1741.       </li>
    1742. 

  1742. 

  1743.       <li>12-Jul-2003
    1744. 

  1744. 

  1745.         <ul>
    1746. 

  1746.           <li>Remove weirdness in scripting interface to TeX font
    1747. 

  1747.           parameters</li>
    1748. 

  1748. 

  1749.           <li>Kanou points out that the code for reading format 4
    1750. 

  1750.           embedded (ttf) bitmaps was ambiguous and would behave
    1751. 

  1751.           incorrectly sometimes. He provided a patch.</li>
    1752. 

  1752. 

  1753.           <li>FontForge used not to create ghost hints for curved
    1754. 

  1754.           splines. It does now.</li>
    1755. 

  1755. 

  1756.           <li>FontForge did not find some of the hints needed for
    1757. 

  1757.           n021004l.pfb</li>
    1758. 

  1758. 

  1759.           <li>New French UI</li>
    1760. 

  1760. 

  1761.           <li>FontForge would sometimes crash when autotracing
    1762. 

  1762.           characters</li>
    1763. 

  1763. 

  1764.           <li>Don't snap to points when moving control points</li>
    1765. 

    1766. 

  1766.           <li>Directory browsing didn't work if the local encoding
    1767. 

  1767.           wasn't latin1 and the directory name contain non-ascii
    1768. 

  1768.           characters.</li>
    1769. 

  1769. 

  1770.           <li>Add an entry to find problems to look for 'GSUB'
    1771. 

  1771.           entries to non-existent characters.</li>
    1772. 

  1772. 

  1773.           <li>Expanded the simplify more command</li>
    1774. 

  1774. 

  1775.           <li>The GPOS output routines got very unhappy if a
    1776. 

  1776.           duplicate glyph happened to have GPOS data. Fixed on both
    1777. 

  1777.           ends I hope.</li>
    1778. 

  1778. 

  1779.           <li>The pcf reader was unhappy if
    1780. 

  1780. 

  1781.             <ul>
    1782. 

  1782.               <li>the glyph bb width was a multiple of 8 (we read
    1783. 

  1783.               an extra byte per line which made the result appear
    1784. 

  1784.               as garbage)</li>
    1785. 

  1785. 

  1786.               <li>several glyphs had the same name.</li>
    1787. 

  1787.             </ul>
    1788. 

  1788.           </li>
    1789. 

  1789. 

  1790.           <li>the FontInfo dlg failed to parse the merge_with field
    1791. 

  1791.           of Anchor Classes properly, meaning that each time [OK]
    1792. 

  1792.           was pressed in fontinfo each anchor class name got a
    1793. 

  1793.           number prepended to it.</li>
    1794. 

  1794. 

  1795.           <li>Change the way the merge_with field of anchor classes
    1796. 

  1796.           is handled by the UI so that it makes more sense. We used
    1797. 

  1797.           to display a number, now display the name of another
    1798. 

  1798.           anchor class with which it can be merged.</li>
    1799. 

  1799. 

  1800.           <li>Added an arabic text sample, courtesy of Thomas
    1801. 

  1801.           Milo.</li>
    1802. 

  1802. 

  1803.           <li>Upgraded to Unicode 4.0 (<span class=
    1804. 

  1804.           "c1"><strong>Note: <a href=
    1805. 

  1805.           "http://libuninameslist.sf.net/">libuninameslist</a> has
    1806. 

  1806.           also been upgraded</strong></span>)</li>
    1807. 

  1807. 

  1808.           <li>Added a new preference item CharCenterHighest to
    1809. 

  1809.           assist in accent placement.
    1810. 

  1810.             <hr />
    1811. 

  1811.           </li>
    1812. 

  1812. 

  1813.           <li>Oh. This isn't documented, but each langsys table can
    1814. 

  1814.           only point to one (1) feature with a given tag. So if I
    1815. 

  1815.           have multiple 'mark' lookups, I can't have multiple
    1816. 

  1816.           'mark' features, I must have one 'mark' feature with
    1817. 

  1817.           pointers to many lookups.</li>
    1818. 

  1818. 

  1819.           <li>FontForge could crash when generating a tfm file from
    1820. 

  1820.           a CID keyed font</li>
    1821. 

  1821. 

  1822.           <li>Change GDEF output so that the class def table isn't
    1823. 

  1823.           generated when it isn't needed (we used to generate a 0
    1824. 

  1824.           length one, which would confuse the freetype-1 opentype
    1825. 

  1825.           code, and perhaps others).</li>
    1826. 

  1826. 

  1827.           <li>Fixed a bug in autohint caused by negative stem
    1828. 

  1828.           widths.</li>
    1829. 

  1829.         </ul>
    1830. 

  1830.       </li>
    1831. 

  1831. 

  1832.       <li>4-July-2003
    1833. 

  1833. 

  1834.         <ul>
    1835. 

  1835.           <li>Added a page to the font info dlg which allows users
    1836. 

  1836.           to set TeX font parameters</li>
    1837. 

  1837. 

  1838.           <li>Added a mechanism for specifying TeX charlists and
    1839. 

  1839.           extension characters</li>
    1840. 

  1840. 

  1841.           <li>Added a mechanism for specifying TeX Italic
    1842. 

  1842.           Correction</li>
    1843. 

  1843. 

  1844.           <li>Revamped support for reading tfm files so that it
    1845. 

  1845.           sets all these new things correctly.</li>
    1846. 

  1846.         </ul>
    1847. 

  1847.       </li>
    1848. 

  1848. 

  1849.       <li>2-July-2003
    1850. 

  1850. 

  1851.         <ul>
    1852. 

  1852.           <li>Add an Options dialog to the Generate Font window,
    1853. 

  1853.           and remove the check boxes from it.
    1854. 

  1854. 

  1855.             <ul>
    1856. 

  1856.               <li>Add a UI for the 'PfEd' table</li>
    1857. 

  1857. 

  1858.               <li>Add a UI to turn off PostScript hinting</li>
    1859. 

  1859.             </ul>
    1860. 

  1860.           </li>
    1861. 

  1861. 

  1862.           <li>FontForge can now generate a tfm and enc file (for
    1863. 

  1863.           TeX)</li>
    1864. 

  1864.         </ul>
    1865. 

  1865.       </li>
    1866. 

  1866. 

  1867.       <li>30-June-2003
    1868. 

  1868. 

  1869.         <ul>
    1870. 

  1870.           <li>I<span class="c1"><strong>n the table of contents at
    1871. 

  1871.           the start of a true/open type file the GDEF table was
    1872. 

  1872.           listed as having the wrong size. This caused many
    1873. 

  1873.           applications to ignore it, which in turn meant that Mark
    1874. 

  1874.           to Base GPOS tables were ignored</strong></span> (at
    1875. 

  1875.           least I hope that's what was going on).</li>
    1876. 

    1877. 

  1877.           <li>On the mac local help files weren't working
    1878. 

  1878.           properly.</li>
    1879. 

  1879. 

  1880.           <li>Combining unicode characters (mark glyphs) should
    1881. 

  1881.           have an advance width of 0, and now they default to
    1882. 

  1882.           that.</li>
    1883. 

  1883. 

  1884.           <li>Several people at EuroTeX wanted more pen shapes in
    1885. 

  1885.           the expand stroke dlg. Ellipses are easy, so we add
    1886. 

  1886.           them.</li>
    1887. 

  1887. 

  1888.           <li>One guy at EuroTeX wanted to be able to store
    1889. 

  1889.           arbitrary per-glyph data in the font, so add a new
    1890. 

  1890.           (private) true/open type table that can contain the glyph
    1891. 

  1891.           comments. This table has tag 'PfEd' and can contain
    1892. 

  1892.           sub-tables containing font comment, glyph comments, glyph
    1893. 

  1893.           colors. Perhaps other data as need arises.</li>
    1894. 

  1894. 

  1895.           <li>Kanou has added a new scripting command, SizeOf, to
    1896. 

  1896.           return the number of elements in an array.</li>
    1897. 

  1897.         </ul>
    1898. 

  1898.       </li>
    1899. 

  1899. 

  1900.       <li>19-June-2003
    1901. 

  1901. 

  1902.         <ul>
    1903. 

  1903.           <li>Added a histogram dialog to help figure values for
    1904. 

  1904.           StemSnap[H/V]</li>
    1905. 

  1905.         </ul>
    1906. 

  1906.       </li>
    1907. 

  1907. 

  1908.       <li>17-June-2003
    1909. 

  1909. 

  1910.         <ul>
    1911. 

  1911.           <li>Scripting interface to SelectByATT</li>
    1912. 

  1912. 

  1913.           <li>Crash bug caused by incorrect CID fix on 15-June</li>
    1914. 

  1914. 

  1915.           <li>(the web interface to the cvs tree seems broken. It
    1916. 

  1916.           doesn't show rmligamarks). Here's a copy of <a href=
    1917. 

  1917.           "rmligamarks.c">rmligamarks.c</a>.</li>
    1918. 

  1918.         </ul>
    1919. 

  1919.       </li>
    1920. 

  1920. 

  1921.       <li>15-June-2003
    1922. 

  1922. 

  1923.         <ul>
    1924. 

  1924.           <li>Cleaned up the spelling of some scripts.</li>
    1925. 

  1925. 

  1926.           <li>Deactive the [Edit] button of the Script/Lang list
    1927. 

  1927.           when appropriate.</li>
    1928. 

  1928. 

  1929.           <li>FontForge wasn't removing the quotes around the
    1930. 

  1930.           copyright notice when read from a bdf file. After several
    1931. 

  1931.           rounds of read/save there were lots of quotes.</li>
    1932. 

  1932. 

  1933.           <li>Added a wireframe effect.</li>
    1934. 

  1934. 

  1935.           <li>Added a find problems entry which will check for
    1936. 

  1936.           control points which are very close to their main point
    1937. 

  1937.           (so close that it is unlikely that they will effect the
    1938. 

  1938.           curve much).</li>
    1939. 

  1939. 

  1940.           <li>The Undo command from the font view did not reset the
    1941. 

  1941.           character changed bit.</li>
    1942. 

  1942. 

  1943.           <li>GDEF table output had problems with cid-keyed
    1944. 

  1944.           fonts.</li>
    1945. 

  1945. 

  1946.           <li>So did 'prop' table output.</li>
    1947. 

  1947. 

  1948.           <li>Expanded View-&gt;Show ATT to show 'GDEF', 'lcar',
    1949. 

  1949.           'prop', 'opbd' tables.</li>
    1950. 

  1950. 

  1951.           <li>Added a Ligatures entry for View-&gt;Combinations in
    1952. 

  1952.           the outline character view</li>
    1953. 

  1953. 

  1954.           <li>Added "Edit-&gt;Select-&gt;Select by ATT", to allow
    1955. 

  1955.           user to select characters depending on advanced
    1956. 

  1956.           typographic features.</li>
    1957. 

  1957. 

  1958.           <li>
    1959. 

  1959.             <span class="c1"><strong>FontForge always used to set
    1960. 

  1960.             the "ignore-combining-marks" flag bit for all
    1961. 

  1961.             ligatures. But yudit (and probably gedit) will not
    1962. 

  1962.             process the substitution if that bit is set. On the
    1963. 

  1963.             other hand I believe some arabic ligatures may depend
    1964. 

  1964.             on it (at least arabtype-volt.ttf uses it). So... now
    1965. 

  1965.             we only set this bit for arabic ligatures which do not
    1966. 

  1966.             contain combining marks. Dunno if that is right
    1967. 

  1967.             either.</strong></span>
    1968. 

  1968. 

  1969.             <ul>
    1970. 

  1970.               <li>I have created a little tool, <a href=
    1971. 

  1971.               "http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/pfaedit/pfaedit/fonttools/rmligamarks.c">
    1972. 

  1972.               rmligamarks</a>, which will take an sfd file with the
    1973. 

  1973.               "ignore combining marks" bit in ligatures and turn it
    1974. 

  1974.               off. It does not try to guess what should be done, it
    1975. 

  1975.               ALWAYS turns the bit off.</li>
    1976. 

  1976.             </ul>
    1977. 

  1977.           </li>
    1978. 

  1978.         </ul>
    1979. 

  1979.       </li>
    1980. 

  1980. 

  1981.       <li>5-June-2003
    1982. 

  1982. 

  1983.         <ul>
    1984. 

  1984.           <li>FontForge was generating Apple 'morx' tables with the
    1985. 

  1985.           right to left bit reversed (so it thought latin text was
    1986. 

  1986.           right to left and arabic was left to right). This meant
    1987. 

  1987.           that ligatures happened backwards (the "ffi" ligature
    1988. 

  1988.           would be invoked if you typed in "iff")</li>
    1989. 

  1989. 

  1990.           <li>FontForge was generating a format=1 glyph class
    1991. 

  1991.           definition sub-table of GDEF. ttx didn't like this, I'm
    1992. 

  1992.           not sure why. Problem goes away if I generate a format=2
    1993. 

  1993.           sub-table.</li>
    1994. 

  1994.         </ul>
    1995. 

  1995.       </li>
    1996. 

  1996. 

  1997.       <li>4-Jun-2003
    1998. 

  1998. 

  1999.         <ul>
    2000. 

  2000.           <li>Added a Shadow effect</li>
    2001. 

  2001. 

  2002.           <li>More fixes for remove overlap</li>
    2003. 

  2003. 

  2004.           <li>fixed a bug with timers</li>
    2005. 

  2005. 

  2006.           <li>Preserve the Fit To Em mode of a font.</li>
    2007. 

  2007. 

  2008.           <li>Added a bunch of scripts (as in writing systems, not
    2009. 

  2009.           executable files) from the proposed ISO 15924
    2010. 

  2010.           standard.</li>
    2011. 

  2011. 

  2012.           <li>Added support for underline position to bdf
    2013. 

  2013.           files.</li>
    2014. 

  2014. 

  2015.           <li>The 18-May build was bad and failed to read
    2016. 

  2016.           postscript fonts properly on many platforms (the sources
    2017. 

  2017.           were ok, but the builds were bad)</li>
    2018. 

  2018. 

  2019.           <li>Display the version number in the about box, and
    2020. 

  2020.           attach it to the directory in the source .tgz file.</li>
    2021. 

  2021.         </ul>
    2022. 

  2022.       </li>
    2023. 

  2023. 

  2024.       <li>18-May-2003
    2025. 

  2025. 

  2026.         <ul>
    2027. 

  2027.           <li>FontForge would crash when asked to produce a ttf
    2028. 

  2028.           font where there was an unused anchor class.</li>
    2029. 

  2029. 

  2030.           <li>The original encoding is now preserved when a font is
    2031. 

  2031.           generated.</li>
    2032. 

  2032. 

  2033.           <li>The goto dialog (and scripting) now recognize
    2034. 

  2034.           "glyph&lt;nnn&gt;" as refering to glyph &lt;nnn&gt; in
    2035. 

  2035.           the original encoding.</li>
    2036. 

  2036. 

  2037.           <li>Kanou provided two scripting commands, ConvertToCID
    2038. 

  2038.           and ConvertByCMap.</li>
    2039. 

  2039. 

  2040.           <li>Added a Remove External flag to Expand Stroke to
    2041. 

  2041.           complement Kanou's Remove Internal</li>
    2042. 

    2043. 

  2043.           <li>Expanded on Remove Overlap by adding
    2044. 

  2044. 

  2045.             <ul>
    2046. 

  2046.               <li>Intersection -- which removes everything except
    2047. 

  2047.               the overlap</li>
    2048. 

  2048. 

  2049.               <li>Exclude -- which removes areas where any selected
    2050. 

  2050.               contours cross non-selected contours (and then
    2051. 

  2051.               removes the selected contours)</li>
    2052. 

  2052.             </ul>
    2053. 

  2053.           </li>
    2054. 

  2054. 

  2055.           <li>Added an Effects sub-menu of Elements, including (so
    2056. 

  2056.           far)
    2057. 

  2057. 

  2058.             <ul>
    2059. 

  2059.               <li>Outline -- turns the selected characters into
    2060. 

  2060.               outline versions of themselves</li>
    2061. 

  2061. 

  2062.               <li>Inline -- turns the selected characters into
    2063. 

  2063.               inline versions of themselves</li>
    2064. 

  2064.             </ul>
    2065. 

  2065.           </li>
    2066. 

  2066. 

  2067.           <li>FontForge would crash when reading in an sfd file
    2068. 

  2068.           containing a kerning class</li>
    2069. 

  2069. 

  2070.           <li>gimp objected to some of my ttf fonts. I think
    2071. 

  2071.           because it is inappropriately clipping to the
    2072. 

  2072.           ascent/descent values in the hhea rather than using the
    2073. 

  2073.           font's bounding box. It's easy enough to preserve the
    2074. 

  2074.           'hhea' ascent/descent values and perhaps that will be
    2075. 

  2075.           enough to make gimp happy.</li>
    2076. 

  2076. 

  2077.           <li>Kanou points out that rasterization has problems with
    2078. 

  2078.           the new TOfNextMajor, so use the new code for remove
    2079. 

  2079.           overlap and friends and the old code for
    2080. 

  2080.           rasterization</li>
    2081. 

  2081.         </ul>
    2082. 

  2082.       </li>
    2083. 

  2083. 

  2084.       <li>12-May-2003
    2085. 

  2085. 

  2086.         <ul>
    2087. 

  2087.           <li>Added a command to do non-linear transformations (but
    2088. 

  2088.           made it require user configuration to have it
    2089. 

  2089.           compiled)</li>
    2090. 

  2090. 

  2091.           <li>Added a UI for Kanou's Remove Internal flag to Expand
    2092. 

  2092.           stroke</li>
    2093. 

  2093.         </ul>
    2094. 

  2094.       </li>
    2095. 

  2095. 

  2096.       <li>9-May-2003
    2097. 

  2097. 

  2098.         <ul>
    2099. 

  2099.           <li>Apple's 'lcar' (ligature caret) table was being
    2100. 

  2100.           generated incorrectly</li>
    2101. 

  2101. 

  2102.           <li>Another bug in point numbering</li>
    2103. 

  2103. 

  2104.           <li>Make "Slanted" a synonym for Oblique.</li>
    2105. 

  2105.         </ul>
    2106. 

  2106.       </li>
    2107. 

  2107. 

  2108.       <li>8-May-2003
    2109. 

  2109. 

  2110.         <ul>
    2111. 

  2111.           <li>FontForge did not recognize "filename(fontname)"
    2112. 

  2112.           notation for loading a specific font from a resource fork
    2113. 

  2113.           of a mac file.</li>
    2114. 

  2114. 

  2115.           <li>FontForge crashed on the mac when generating a GPOS
    2116. 

  2116.           table. There was an uninitialized variable there, left
    2117. 

  2117.           behind be recent changes. Removed.</li>
    2118. 

  2118.         </ul>
    2119. 

  2119.       </li>
    2120. 

  2120. 

  2121.       <li>7-May-2003
    2122. 

  2122. 

  2123.         <ul>
    2124. 

  2124.           <li>Oops. It should be legal for a 'mkmk' anchor class to
    2125. 

  2125.           have two points in a glyph, one the normal mark point,
    2126. 

  2126.           the other the base mark point. (that is it should be
    2127. 

  2127.           possible for a glyph to attach to itself).</li>
    2128. 

  2128. 

  2129.           <li>Kanou supplied a patch to extend expand stroke.</li>
    2130. 

  2130. 

  2131.           <li>Changed behavior of AnchorClasses so that two classes
    2132. 

  2132.           could be associated to form a single feature (ie. one
    2133. 

  2133.           class of "Above" marks, and one class of "Below"
    2134. 

  2134.           marks)</li>
    2135. 

  2135. 

  2136.           <li>Show ATT now displays something meaningful for
    2137. 

  2137.           marks</li>
    2138. 

  2138. 

  2139.           <li>Some general Anchor Class clean up.</li>
    2140. 

  2140. 

  2141.           <li>Was not setting bits in the CodePage[1] field of the
    2142. 

  2142.           OS/2 table for all the weird MS specific encodings. It
    2143. 

  2143.           seems I should do that.</li>
    2144. 

  2144.         </ul>
    2145. 

  2145.       </li>
    2146. 

  2146. 

  2147.       <li>6-May-2003
    2148. 

  2148. 

  2149.         <ul>
    2150. 

  2150.           <li>Although undocumented, digits behave just like lower
    2151. 

  2151.           case letters in macintosh filenames for postscript
    2152. 

  2152.           resource fonts.
    2153. 

  2153.             <hr />
    2154. 

  2154.           </li>
    2155. 

  2155. 

  2156.           <li>Looking at the font info-&gt;ttf values dialog would
    2157. 

  2157.           cause fontforge to crash after [Ok] was pressed.</li>
    2158. 

  2158. 

  2159.           <li>Old sfd files with anchor classes but not script lang
    2160. 

  2160.           index would crash fontforge when being read in.</li>
    2161. 

  2161.         </ul>
    2162. 

  2162.       </li>
    2163. 

  2163. 

  2164.       <li>5-May-2003
    2165. 

  2165. 

  2166.         <ul>
    2167. 

  2167.           <li>Made it possible to select kerning class 0 (ie.
    2168. 

  2168.           everything that isn't specified)</li>
    2169. 

    2170. 

  2170.           <li>Put in a check to make sure the user didn't add a
    2171. 

  2171.           glyph to two different kerning classes</li>
    2172. 

  2172. 

  2173.           <li><span class="c1"><strong>FontForge was dumping out a
    2174. 

  2174.           full GSUB sub-table for each character that sub-table
    2175. 

  2175.           applied to (rather than one sub-table for all
    2176. 

  2176.           characters). So there were tons of
    2177. 

  2177.           duplicates.</strong></span></li>
    2178. 

  2178. 

  2179.           <li><span class="c1"><strong>FontForge was producing
    2180. 

  2180.           extension sub-tables that held an incorrect
    2181. 

  2181.           offset.</strong></span></li>
    2182. 

  2182. 

  2183.           <li>Added some code to protect FontForge when it read
    2184. 

  2184.           incorrect ttf fonts like those generated above.</li>
    2185. 

  2185. 

  2186.           <li>Drag and Drop to the Char Info dlg was broken.</li>
    2187. 

  2187. 

  2188.           <li>If a font had a non-notdef character at encoding 0
    2189. 

  2189.           and we used freetype to generate bitmaps for it, then
    2190. 

  2190.           those bitmaps would be assigned to the wrong glyphs (ie.
    2191. 

  2191.           the bitmap for "A" would go to "B", etc.)</li>
    2192. 

  2192. 

  2193.           <li>I used "Mac Roman" in several places where I should
    2194. 

  2194.           have said "Macintosh Latin"</li>
    2195. 

  2195.         </ul>
    2196. 

  2196.       </li>
    2197. 

  2197. 

  2198.       <li>4-May-2003
    2199. 

  2199. 

  2200.         <ul>
    2201. 

  2201.           <li>Added code to determine better defaults for the
    2202. 

  2202.           script lang index</li>
    2203. 

  2203. 

  2204.           <li>The ligature state table in Apple Chancery has so
    2205. 

  2205.           many possible paths through it that FontForge bogs down
    2206. 

  2206.           when evaluating it. I presume it would finish in finite
    2207. 

  2207.           time, but it takes unacceptably long. So I've put in an
    2208. 

  2208.           abort.</li>
    2209. 

  2209. 

  2210.           <li>Add support for KernClasses (ie. they are no longer
    2211. 

  2211.           just converted into a large number of kernpairs, but will
    2212. 

  2212.           be stored internally as a set class and will be output as
    2213. 

  2213.           such). And they have their own dialogs to manage
    2214. 

  2214.           them.</li>
    2215. 

  2215. 

  2216.           <li>Add support for Apple's new version of the 'kern'
    2217. 

  2217.           table.</li>
    2218. 

  2218. 

  2219.           <li>Add support for the format 2 sub table of Apple's
    2220. 

  2220.           'kern' table (which is different from OpenType's format 2
    2221. 

  2221.           sub-table of the kern table), and is Apple's kerning
    2222. 

  2222.           class sub-table (note: <a href=
    2223. 

  2223.           "http://developer.apple.com/fonts/TTRefMan/RM06/Chap6kern.html">
    2224. 

  2224.           Apple's docs</a> are <span class=
    2225. 

  2225.           "c1"><small><strong>WRONG</strong></small></span>. they
    2226. 

  2226.           claim class data are stored in an array of uint8, but
    2227. 

  2227.           they really are in an array of uint16).</li>
    2228. 

  2228.         </ul>
    2229. 

  2229.       </li>
    2230. 

  2230. 

  2231.       <li>29-Apr-2003
    2232. 

  2232. 

  2233.         <ul>
    2234. 

  2234.           <li>Oops, one more fix to remove overlap</li>
    2235. 

  2235. 

  2236.           <li>Kanou points out that copy hasn't been working (for
    2237. 

  2237.           some time now) when a contour has be split into bits,
    2238. 

  2238.           only one of the bits is copied.</li>
    2239. 

  2239. 

  2240.           <li>Kanou points out that Paste reorders open
    2241. 

  2241.           contours</li>
    2242. 

  2242. 

  2243.           <li>Further work on Show ATT dlg</li>
    2244. 

  2244. 

  2245.           <li>Further work on multiple features.</li>
    2246. 

  2246.         </ul>
    2247. 

  2247.       </li>
    2248. 

  2248. 

  2249.       <li>28-Apr-2003
    2250. 

  2250. 

  2251.         <ul>
    2252. 

  2252.           <li>Yet more fixes for Remove overlap</li>
    2253. 

  2253. 

  2254.           <li>Added a mode to the ruler tool where it shows the
    2255. 

  2255.           exact position of the mouse cursor</li>
    2256. 

  2256. 

  2257.           <li>The Goto command had a strange bug: If a font had a
    2258. 

  2258.           glyph with a known name, but that glyph did not reside at
    2259. 

  2259.           the unicode slot assigned to that name, then goingto that
    2260. 

  2260.           name would go to the (empty) unicode slot, rather than to
    2261. 

  2261.           the actually character.</li>
    2262. 

  2262. 

  2263.           <li>Werner wants a <a href="showatt.html">dlg</a> which
    2264. 

  2264.           shows collects all the GPOS/GSUB (morx/kern) information
    2265. 

  2265.           in one place rather than scattering it around hundreds of
    2266. 

  2266.           dlgs.</li>
    2267. 

  2267. 

  2268.           <li>FontForge now stores the script/langs for kern
    2269. 

  2269.           pairs</li>
    2270. 

  2270. 

  2271.           <li>FontForge failed to read script/langs for GPOS
    2272. 

  2272.           properly.</li>
    2273. 

  2273. 

  2274.           <li>FontForge had problems generating an AFM file from a
    2275. 

  2275.           CID font with ligatures</li>
    2276. 

  2276. 

  2277.           <li>FontForge had problems getting script lang lists
    2278. 

  2278.           right when multiple features refered to the same
    2279. 

  2279.           lookup.</li>
    2280. 

  2280.         </ul>
    2281. 

  2281.       </li>
    2282. 

  2282. 

  2283.       <li>20-Apr-2003
    2284. 

  2284. 

  2285.         <ul>
    2286. 

  2286.           <li>One of FontForge's deficiencies is that it handles
    2287. 

  2287.           multiple encodings for the same glyph very badly (it does
    2288. 

  2288.           not have the multiple layers of indirection that fonts
    2289. 

  2289.           do). Rather than solve this properly I have added a new
    2290. 

  2290.           command that allows for this case. <a href=
    2291. 

  2291.           "editmenu.html#SameGlyphAs">SameGlyphAs</a>.</li>
    2292. 

  2292. 

  2293.           <li>Add some more synonyms for greek glyph names</li>
    2294. 

  2294. 

  2295.           <li>Failed to realize that U+1FED was an accent</li>
    2296. 

  2296. 

  2297.           <li>No longer tries to build greek accents out of latin
    2298. 

  2298.           ones when Build Accented is invoked. (but still will for
    2299. 

  2299.           Build Composite).</li>
    2300. 

  2300. 

  2301.           <li>When swapping character names, check for names like
    2302. 

  2302.           "uniXXXX" and instead of swapping it, rebuild it as
    2303. 

  2303.           appropriate for the other character.</li>
    2304. 

  2304. 

  2305.           <li>Font Info-&gt;Encoding failed to change the encoding
    2306. 

  2306.           properly when switching from "Compacted" to anything
    2307. 

  2307.           other than the original encoding.</li>
    2308. 

  2308. 

  2309.           <li>A couple of changes to the italian translation</li>
    2310. 

  2310. 

  2311.           <li>Added an "Original" encoding which gives you back the
    2312. 

  2312.           ordering of the glyphs in the ttf font. (this may be
    2313. 

  2313.           changed when you regenerate a ttf font)</li>
    2314. 

  2314. 

  2315.           <li>FontForge failed to read ttf instructions for
    2316. 

  2316.           composite glyphs.</li>
    2317. 

  2317. 

  2318.           <li>FontForge got confused if a ttf file had multiple
    2319. 

  2319.           glyphs named ".notdef" (which to me looks like a bug in
    2320. 

  2320.           the ttf font, but Times New Roman does this so I have to
    2321. 

  2321.           deal with it).</li>
    2322. 

  2322. 

  2323.           <li>Added a command to the popup menu in the charview to
    2324. 

  2324.           bring up a window looking at a reference.</li>
    2325. 

  2325. 

  2326.           <li>Add a check for when sfd files contain bad kerning
    2327. 

  2327.           info.</li>
    2328. 

  2328.         </ul>
    2329. 

  2329.       </li>
    2330. 

  2330. 

  2331.       <li>14-Apr-2003
    2332. 

  2332. 

  2333.         <ul>
    2334. 

  2334.           <li>Change a tab in Font Info from "PS General" to
    2335. 

  2335.           "General"</li>
    2336. 

  2336. 

  2337.           <li>When searching for encoding files, look for the
    2338. 

  2338.           extension ".enc" used by TeX for PostScript encoding
    2339. 

  2339.           files</li>
    2340. 

  2340. 

  2341.           <li>Fixed a crash when setting a character's name to a
    2342. 

  2342.           name already given to another character</li>
    2343. 

  2343. 

  2344.           <li>Added many new X resources for controlling colors in
    2345. 

  2345.           the outline character view.</li>
    2346. 

  2346.         </ul>
    2347. 

  2347.       </li>
    2348. 

  2348. 

  2349.       <li>7-Apr-2003
    2350. 

  2350. 

  2351.         <ul>
    2352. 

  2352.           <li>Program generated divide by zero errors when using
    2353. 

  2353.           Meta-Shift to move a control point which didn't
    2354. 

  2354.           exist.</li>
    2355. 

  2355. 

  2356.           <li>(cleaned up some syntax issues in non-English nomen
    2357. 

  2357.           files)</li>
    2358. 

  2358. 

  2359.           <li>Added new scripting commands ClearPrivateEntry,
    2360. 

  2360.           ChangePrivateEntry, GetPrivateEntry</li>
    2361. 

  2361. 

  2362.           <li>Added new scripting command: UnicodeFromName</li>
    2363. 

  2363. 

  2364.           <li>Added new script command: RemoveATT</li>
    2365. 

  2365. 

  2366.           <li>Vadim pointed out that loading "pala.ttf" and then
    2367. 

  2367.           generating it again (as ttf) produced bad results.
    2368. 

  2368.           FontForge was getting confused by the points which were
    2369. 

  2369.           used to control Anchors, getting its points list out of
    2370. 

  2370.           order and generally screwing up.</li>
    2371. 

  2371.         </ul>
    2372. 

  2372.       </li>
    2373. 

  2373. 

  2374.       <li>04-Apr-2003
    2375. 

  2375. 

  2376.         <ul>
    2377. 

  2377.           <li>autosave sometimes lost track of which font it should
    2378. 

  2378.           be applying changes to.t</li>
    2379. 

  2379. 

  2380.           <li>Add Extrema (or just adding a point in the middle of
    2381. 

  2381.           a spline) would generate incorrect splines if the spline
    2382. 

  2382.           were linear in one but not both of the two
    2383. 

  2383.           dimensions</li>
    2384. 

  2384. 

  2385.           <li>One more change to Merge/Simplify. Deal with the case
    2386. 

  2386.           of a curve point with no control point (use the control
    2387. 

  2387.           point in the opposite direction to get the slope).</li>
    2388. 

  2388. 

  2389.           <li>Typo in 2-Apr script/lang fix caused crashes.</li>
    2390. 

  2390. 

  2391.           <li>TeXBaseEncoding (T1) changed in Oct-2002. Updated my
    2392. 

  2392.           version (also updated the other TeX encodings I've got
    2393. 

  2393.           and included the cyrillic ones into Encodings.ps.gz)</li>
    2394. 

  2394. 

  2395.           <li>Sometimes we failed to remove the dot when creating a
    2396. 

  2396.           dotless i/j character.</li>
    2397. 

  2397. 

  2398.           <li>Merge/Simplify had conniptions when given a zero
    2399. 

  2399.           length spline.</li>
    2400. 

  2400. 

  2401.           <li>Added "DefaultATT" and "AddATT" scripting command to
    2402. 

  2402.           allow user to add Advanced Typography features to
    2403. 

  2403.           characters.</li>
    2404. 

  2404.         </ul>
    2405. 

  2405.       </li>
    2406. 

  2406. 

  2407.       <li>2-Apr-2003
    2408. 

  2408. 

  2409.         <ul>
    2410. 

  2410.           <li>Problems with script/lang when: Pasting or Merging
    2411. 

  2411.           ligatures and substitutions from one font to another</li>
    2412. 

  2412. 

  2413.           <li>FontForge could generate points (within a ttf simple
    2414. 

  2414.           glyph) in a different than the original glyph, meaning
    2415. 

  2415.           that the instructions would move the wrong point
    2416. 

  2416.           resulting in blots. I have fixed this (or at least the
    2417. 

  2417.           cases I found).</li>
    2418. 

  2418. 

  2419.           <li>FontForge would always give ASCII characters their
    2420. 

  2420.           standard names in a ttf post table. This was wrong if the
    2421. 

  2421.           character did not have its standard name.</li>
    2422. 

  2422. 

  2423.           <li>FontForge could go into an infinite loop on some
    2424. 

  2424.           simplifies.</li>
    2425. 

  2425.         </ul>
    2426. 

  2426.       </li>
    2427. 

  2427. 

  2428.       <li>1-Apr-2003 (April Fish!)
    2429. 

  2429. 

  2430.         <ul>
    2431. 

  2431.           <li>Fixed a crash in the Join command</li>
    2432. 

  2432. 

  2433.           <li>Fixed a crash when loading some truetype fonts (never
    2434. 

  2434.           bothered to figure which ones exactly)</li>
    2435. 

  2435. 

  2436.           <li>Fixed a similar crash when loading old sfd files
    2437. 

  2437.           (note some old fonts won't guess the script for
    2438. 

  2438.           ligatures, etc. properly)</li>
    2439. 

  2439. 

  2440.           <li>Added a new preference item: Stop At Join</li>
    2441. 

  2441. 

  2442.           <li>Changed the way control points are set when changing
    2443. 

  2443.           point type.</li>
    2444. 

  2444. 

  2445.           <li>The fill of the outline view sometimes lagged the
    2446. 

  2446.           change.</li>
    2447. 

  2447. 

  2448.           <li>Added another tag to CharInfo scripting command:
    2449. 

  2449.           GlyphIndex. It returns the glyph number in the ttf
    2450. 

  2450.           font.</li>
    2451. 

  2451. 

  2452.           <li>Werner suggests that instead of naming things
    2453. 

  2453.           "nounicode-%x" where %x is the encoding, use
    2454. 

  2454.           "nounicode-%d-%d-%x" where the two new arguments are the
    2455. 

  2455.           platform/specific pair used in the cmap we picked.</li>
    2456. 

  2456.         </ul>
    2457. 

  2457.       </li>
    2458. 

  2458. 

  2459.       <li>31-Mar-2003
    2460. 

  2460. 

  2461.         <ul>
    2462. 

  2462.           <li>FontForge was not reading pfb fonts properly if they
    2463. 

  2463.           had more than one binary section header.</li>
    2464. 

  2464. 

  2465.           <li>When FontForge removed a character it did not remove
    2466. 

  2466.           all the kernpairs that refered to that character.</li>
    2467. 

  2467. 

  2468.           <li>Fixed more leaks with valgrind.</li>
    2469. 

  2469. 

  2470.           <li>Added more synonyms for glyph names from Adobe Glyph
    2471. 

  2471.           List (I still rely on Glyph names for New Fonts as my
    2472. 

  2472.           basic set of names)</li>
    2473. 

  2473. 

  2474.           <li>FontForge had problems if the use selected 0 levels
    2475. 

  2475.           of undoes when the UI was active.</li>
    2476. 

  2476. 

  2477.           <li>Selecting the freehand tool in a quadratic font
    2478. 

  2478.           caused a crash. (The freehand tool doesn't work in
    2479. 

  2479.           quadratic fonts, but it shouldn't crash)</li>
    2480. 

    2481. 

  2481.           <li>Changed the way scripts are specified. I used to
    2482. 

  2482.           assign a script to every character. I realize that
    2483. 

  2483.           doesn't work. The digits are used in many scripts and the
    2484. 

  2484.           fraction ligatures based on them need to be seen in all
    2485. 

  2485.           those scripts, not just the one that the digit was
    2486. 

  2486.           assigned to. So...
    2487. 

  2487. 

  2488.             <ul>
    2489. 

  2489.               <li>Glyphs no longer have a script assigned to
    2490. 

  2490.               them</li>
    2491. 

  2491. 

  2492.               <li>Substitutions, Ligatures, Anchor Classes and
    2493. 

  2493.               other Advanced Typographic features now have a list
    2494. 

  2494.               of scripts (and languages) for which they are
    2495. 

  2495.               active.</li>
    2496. 

  2496. 

  2497.               <li>There is now an absurdly complex <a href=
    2498. 

  2498.               "charinfo.html#Feature-Tag">stream of dialogs</a>
    2499. 

  2499.               which may be used to set this list.</li>
    2500. 

  2500.             </ul>
    2501. 

  2501.           </li>
    2502. 

  2502. 

  2503.           <li>Added a new preference item to allow the user to
    2504. 

  2504.           specify a local help directory</li>
    2505. 

  2505. 

  2506.           <li>Added a new scripting command SelectIf which allows
    2507. 

  2507.           you to determine whether a character is in a font (Select
    2508. 

  2508.           signals an error if the character isn't there, SelectIf
    2509. 

  2509.           returns failure).</li>
    2510. 

  2510. 

  2511.           <li>Added a new scripting command to change a font's
    2512. 

  2512.           order (from quadratic to cubic)</li>
    2513. 

  2513. 

  2514.           <li>ScaleToEm scripting command will now accept a single
    2515. 

  2515.           argument, the em-size.</li>
    2516. 

  2516. 

  2517.           <li>Added a new scripting command to allow you to apply
    2518. 

  2518.           an otf substitution to the font</li>
    2519. 

  2519. 

  2520.           <li>Added a new scripting command to give control over
    2521. 

  2521.           which ligatures are output in an afm file
    2522. 

  2522. 

  2523.             <ul>
    2524. 

  2524.               <li>(it used to be that all ligatures were output in
    2525. 

  2525.               the afm file, no only 'liga' and 'rlig' that appear
    2526. 

  2526.               in a default language are output)</li>
    2527. 

  2527.             </ul>
    2528. 

  2528.           </li>
    2529. 

  2529. 

  2530.           <li>AFM files only support 2 character ligatures. So,
    2531. 

  2531.           when possible, generate a sort of closure on the
    2532. 

  2532.           ligatures. So if we are given the two ligs "ffi-&gt;f f
    2533. 

  2533.           i" and "ff-&gt;f f" then add the ligature "ffi-&gt;ff i".
    2534. 

  2534.           This means that the sequence f+f-&gt;ff+i-&gt;ffi will
    2535. 

  2535.           eventually reach the ligature we want.</li>
    2536. 

  2536. 

  2537.           <li>Changed so that an untitled anchor class is now
    2538. 

  2538.           called "Anchor-*" rather than "Untitled-*".</li>
    2539. 

  2539. 

  2540.           <li>Rewrote Merge &amp; Simplify commands. In my tests
    2541. 

  2541.           they now produce better results.</li>
    2542. 

  2542. 

  2543.           <li>Type2 font generation did not make use of hv/vh
    2544. 

  2544.           curveto commands in some cases</li>
    2545. 

  2545. 

  2546.           <li>When figuring out whether to synchronize the
    2547. 

  2547.           width/lbearing of a base character with the composites
    2548. 

  2548.           containing it, I only checked if the base character was
    2549. 

  2549.           alphabetic. But that doesn't work for hebrew where
    2550. 

  2550.           unicode says the marks are alphabetic. So add an
    2551. 

  2551.           additional check that it can't be a combining
    2552. 

  2552.           character.</li>
    2553. 

  2553. 

  2554.           <li>When pasting a composite character from one font to
    2555. 

  2555.           another, the saved width is not useful. Added a check
    2556. 

  2556.           that finds the correct width of the appropriate base
    2557. 

  2557.           character.</li>
    2558. 

  2558. 

  2559.           <li>When pasting a composite character from a font with
    2560. 

  2560.           one em-size to another with a different em-size try to
    2561. 

  2561.           scale the amount references are translated by an
    2562. 

  2562.           appropriate amount.</li>
    2563. 

  2563. 

  2564.           <li>CharInfo scripting command has been extended to allow
    2565. 

  2565.           users to test the presence of substitutions</li>
    2566. 

  2566. 

  2567.           <li>Some fonts (bsmi00lp.ttf for one) have bad cmap
    2568. 

  2568.           tables which map several glyphs to the same unicode code
    2569. 

  2569.           point. Put in a check for this and only map one glyph to
    2570. 

  2570.           that code point now.</li>
    2571. 

  2571.         </ul>
    2572. 

  2572.       </li>
    2573. 

  2573. 

  2574.       <li>13-Mar-2003
    2575. 

  2575. 

  2576.         <ul>
    2577. 

  2577.           <li>Add a preference item to control the number of undoes
    2578. 

  2578.           saved per character</li>
    2579. 

  2579. 

  2580.           <li>Turn off saving undoes when in a script started from
    2581. 

  2581.           the command line</li>
    2582. 

  2582. 

  2583.           <li>Added a preference item to control the undo depth
    2584. 

  2584.           from the UI.</li>
    2585. 

  2585. 

  2586.           <li>Try to do better about scaling my chunk allocator to
    2587. 

  2587.           machines with 8 byte pointers</li>
    2588. 

  2588. 

  2589.           <li>Was doing 32 bit arithmetic when reading GSUB simple
    2590. 

  2590.           substitution lookups when I should have done 16 bit.</li>
    2591. 

  2591. 

  2592.           <li>Tracked down a lot of memory leaks with valgrind (and
    2593. 

  2593.           some uninitialized variables too)</li>
    2594. 

  2594. 

  2595.           <li>Added access to a font's version from scripting</li>
    2596. 

    2597. 

  2597.           <li>Added PostNotice scripting command</li>
    2598. 

  2598. 

  2599.           <li>When reading a ttf/otf font with a GSUB table
    2600. 

  2600.           fontforge will try to guess reasonable names for unnamed
    2601. 

  2601.           glyphs by looking them up in the GSUB table. Thus an
    2602. 

  2602.           unnamed vertical variant for "A" might be named
    2603. 

  2603.           "A.vrt2".</li>
    2604. 

  2604. 

  2605.           <li>FontForge would crash when outputting ttf files with
    2606. 

  2606.           no 'cvt' table (bug introduced around 27-Feb)</li>
    2607. 

  2607. 

  2608.           <li>the configure script did not respect the argument
    2609. 

  2609.           --with-freetype-src as it should have.</li>
    2610. 

  2610.         </ul>
    2611. 

  2611.       </li>
    2612. 

  2612. 

  2613.       <li>10-Mar-2003
    2614. 

  2614. 

  2615.         <ul>
    2616. 

  2616.           <li>Added a TrueType instruction debugger (actually an
    2617. 

  2617.           interface to FreeType's truetype bytecode interpreter)
    2618. 

    2619. 

  2619.             <table border="1" cellpadding="6" width="50%" align=
    2620. 

  2620.             "center">
    2621. 

  2621.               <tr>
    2622. 

  2622.                 <td class="c3">
    2623. 

  2623.                   This command depend on your compiling freetype
    2624. 

  2624.                   with the byte code interpreter enabled. This is
    2625. 

  2625.                   disabled by default because it infringes on
    2626. 

  2626.                   certain <a href=
    2627. 

  2627.                   "http://freetype.sourceforge.net/patents.html">patents
    2628. 

  2628.                   granted to Apple</a>. If you have a license from
    2629. 

  2629.                   Apple then you may enable the interpreter by
    2630. 

  2630.                   setting the appropriate macro in
    2631. 

  2631.                   .../include/freetype/config/ftoption.h before you
    2632. 

  2632.                   build the library (see the README.UNX file on the
    2633. 

  2633.                   top level of the freetype distribution).
    2634. 

  2634. 

  2635.                   <p>FontForge needs to have the freetype source
    2636. 

  2636.                   directories available when it is built (there are
    2637. 

  2637.                   some include files there which it depends on)</p>
    2638. 

  2638.                 </td>
    2639. 

  2639.               </tr>
    2640. 

  2640.             </table>
    2641. 

  2641.           </li>
    2642. 

  2642. 

  2643.           <li>Added an Edit-&gt;Copy Grid Fit command (to put the
    2644. 

  2644.           grid fit splines into the clipboard)</li>
    2645. 

  2645. 

  2646.           <li>Added a warning if the freetype library doesn't have
    2647. 

  2647.           a byte code interpreter so that the user knows his/her
    2648. 

  2648.           splines have been autohinted (rather than had the
    2649. 

  2649.           bytecode instructions run).</li>
    2650. 

  2650. 

  2651.           <li>Improved Edit-&gt;Merge in some cases that don't fit
    2652. 

  2652.           its constraints</li>
    2653. 

  2653. 

  2654.           <li>KANOU found some more underscores in character
    2655. 

  2655.           names</li>
    2656. 

  2656. 

  2657.           <li>And provided a new japanese ui</li>
    2658. 

  2658. 

  2659.           <li>Round to Int had problems on quadratic splines</li>
    2660. 

  2660. 

  2661.           <li>Added support for runtime loading of dynamic
    2662. 

  2662.           libraries on the mac.</li>
    2663. 

  2663.         </ul>
    2664. 

  2664.       </li>
    2665. 

  2665. 

  2666.       <li>03-Mar-2003
    2667. 

  2667. 

  2668.         <ul>
    2669. 

  2669.           <li>Memory got screwed up when converting TTF splines to
    2670. 

  2670.           PS ones</li>
    2671. 

  2671. 

  2672.           <li>KANOU suggested some changes to the quadratic spline
    2673. 

  2673.           UI</li>
    2674. 

  2674. 

  2675.           <li>I had the wrong makefile at top level so builds
    2676. 

  2676.           didn't</li>
    2677. 

    2678. 

  2678.           <li>syntax error on systems without freetype</li>
    2679. 

  2679.         </ul>
    2680. 

  2680.       </li>
    2681. 

  2681. 

  2682.       <li>02-Mar-2003
    2683. 

  2683. 

  2684.         <ul>
    2685. 

  2685.           <li>Changed the Show Instructions command to be an Edit
    2686. 

  2686.           Instructions</li>
    2687. 

  2687. 

  2688.           <li>Bug saving 'prep' table</li>
    2689. 

  2689. 

  2690.           <li>Bug changing 'cvt ' table</li>
    2691. 

  2691. 

  2692.           <li>Added ability to look at gridfit splines in
    2693. 

  2693.           charview.</li>
    2694. 

  2694.         </ul>
    2695. 

  2695.       </li>
    2696. 

  2696. 

  2697.       <li>28-Feb-2003
    2698. 

  2698. 

  2699.         <ul>
    2700. 

  2700.           <li>New dialog in outline view to examine ttf
    2701. 

  2701.           instructions</li>
    2702. 

  2702. 

  2703.           <li>If an sfd file was created from a script then when it
    2704. 

  2704.           was next opened from the UI it would appear in a tiny
    2705. 

  2705.           window.</li>
    2706. 

  2706. 

  2707.           <li>The preference item refering to the []Hint check box
    2708. 

  2708.           in the generate dlg has been renamed.</li>
    2709. 

  2709. 

  2710.           <li>A checksum-like thing has been added to ui files so
    2711. 

  2711.           that in the future the application will refuse to use .ui
    2712. 

  2712.           files which do not match its expectations.</li>
    2713. 

  2713.         </ul>
    2714. 

  2714.       </li>
    2715. 

  2715. 

  2716.       <li>27-Feb-2003
    2717. 

  2717. 

  2718.         <ul>
    2719. 

  2719.           <li>Didn't get the SetLBearing change right
    2720. 

  2720.           yesterday.</li>
    2721. 

  2721. 

  2722.           <li>Changing to quadratic splines with Font Info could
    2723. 

  2723.           generate an invalid spline.</li>
    2724. 

  2724. 

  2725.           <li>We now preserve truetype instructions when reading in
    2726. 

  2726.           a truetype file (the fpgm and prep tables, the cvt table
    2727. 

  2727.           and any per character instructions)</li>
    2728. 

  2728. 

  2729.           <li>These instructions will be dumped out when generating
    2730. 

  2730.           truetype fonts</li>
    2731. 

  2731. 

  2732.           <li>Added a menu command AutoInstr to generate our own
    2733. 

  2733.           (bad) instructions for a character.</li>
    2734. 

  2734. 

  2735.           <li>Any significant change (ie. anything that reorders
    2736. 

  2736.           the points, or adds or removes points) will clear the
    2737. 

  2737.           instructions for that character.</li>
    2738. 

  2738. 

  2739.           <li>Changing to cubic splines (fontwide) will clear the
    2740. 

  2740.           instructions (and the fpgm and prep tables).</li>
    2741. 

  2741.         </ul>
    2742. 

  2742.       </li>
    2743. 

  2743. 

  2744.       <li>26-Feb-2003
    2745. 

  2745. 

  2746.         <ul>
    2747. 

  2747.           <li>configure scripts got confused in the freetype
    2748. 

  2748.           libraries were findable but the include files were not.
    2749. 

  2749.           Changed the scripts so that freetype is marked not
    2750. 

  2750.           present if the include files are missing.</li>
    2751. 

  2751. 

  2752.           <li>Table ordering was not read in properly from an sfd
    2753. 

  2753.           file</li>
    2754. 

  2754. 

  2755.           <li>Typos in SetCharName &amp; SetUnicodeValue prevented
    2756. 

  2756.           second argument from working</li>
    2757. 

  2757. 

  2758.           <li>Added a second argument to SetLBearing and friends to
    2759. 

  2759.           allow relative bearing settings (ie. to increment the
    2760. 

  2760.           bearing by some amount)</li>
    2761. 

  2761.         </ul>
    2762. 

  2762.       </li>
    2763. 

  2763. 

  2764.       <li>25-Feb-2003
    2765. 

  2765. 

  2766.         <ul>
    2767. 

  2767.           <li>Bad bug in GSUB generation introduced yesterday</li>
    2768. 

  2768. 

  2769.           <li>Font level round 2 int command now rounds hints
    2770. 

  2770.           too.</li>
    2771. 

  2771. 

  2772.           <li>Adobe lies when they say that a hint can't stretch
    2773. 

  2773.           from one bluezone to another, so be a bit more cautious
    2774. 

  2774.           in removing this case.</li>
    2775. 

  2775. 

  2776.           <li>Be a little better about getting the script from the
    2777. 

  2777.           GSUB/GPOS table.
    2778. 

  2778.             <hr />
    2779. 

  2779.           </li>
    2780. 

  2780. 

  2781.           <li>FontForge had problems generating mac cursive
    2782. 

  2782.           connection setting.</li>
    2783. 

  2783. 

  2784.           <li>FontForge had problems defaulting ligatures in cid
    2785. 

  2785.           keyed fonts (even if there were no ligature characters to
    2786. 

  2786.           be defaulted, the attempt would fail)</li>
    2787. 

  2787. 

  2788.           <li>I introduced memory problems yesterday. Fixed.</li>
    2789. 

  2789. 

  2790.           <li>Font level round 2 int will take hints into account
    2791. 

  2791.           when positioning points in order to maintain stem widths.
    2792. 

  2792.             <hr />
    2793. 

  2793.           </li>
    2794. 

  2794. 

  2795.           <li>When running a script from the command line FontForge
    2796. 

  2796.           failed to initialize the adobe standard encoding.</li>
    2797. 

  2797.         </ul>
    2798. 

  2798.       </li>
    2799. 

  2799. 

  2800.       <li>24-Feb-2003
    2801. 

  2801. 

  2802.         <ul>
    2803. 

  2803.           <li>Claudio Beccari has provided an Italian UI.</li>
    2804. 

  2804. 

  2805.           <li>(added Italian style translations to fontinfo)</li>
    2806. 

  2806. 

  2807.           <li>User now has the ability to control the conversion
    2808. 

  2808.           from mac feature/settings to otf features.</li>
    2809. 

  2809. 

  2810.           <li>FontForge now remembers the order features are to be
    2811. 

  2811.           applied in GSUB/GPOS/morx tables (and dumps features out
    2812. 

  2812.           in that order when it next saves them).</li>
    2813. 

  2813. 

  2814.           <li>FontForge allows you to reorder the GSUB/morx tables
    2815. 

  2815.           should you wish to do so. I am sufficiently ignorant that
    2816. 

  2816.           I don't believe it is necessary to reorder the GPOS
    2817. 

  2817.           table, so there is currently no UI for this. If I am
    2818. 

  2818.           wrong let me know and I will add that too.</li>
    2819. 

  2819. 

  2820.           <li>The 'kern' table was not being generated when it
    2821. 

  2821.           should have been. This error was introduced sometime in
    2822. 

  2822.           the last month due to the AAT changes.</li>
    2823. 

  2823. 

  2824.           <li>Scripts generating otf fonts would crash if the font
    2825. 

  2825.           had non-integral coordinates because of a bug in my
    2826. 

  2826.           PostNotice routine when running without X.</li>
    2827. 

  2827.         </ul>
    2828. 

  2828.       </li>
    2829. 

  2829. 

  2830.       <li>18-Feb-2003
    2831. 

  2831. 

  2832.         <ul>
    2833. 

  2833.           <li>Hmm. It looks as though apple uses the "ascending
    2834. 

  2834.           glyph" flag on the features of the 'mort'/'morx' tables
    2835. 

  2835.           to mean left to right text</li>
    2836. 

  2836. 

  2837.           <li>Fixed a crash on reading a GSUB table with a glyph
    2838. 

  2838.           out of range.</li>
    2839. 

  2839. 

  2840.           <li>Added support for a cursive connection (contextual
    2841. 

  2841.           glyph substitution subtable of) morx.</li>
    2842. 

  2842. 

  2843.           <li>Added an <a href="realindex.html">index</a> to this
    2844. 

  2844.           manual and put a link to it in FontForge's Help menu.
    2845. 

  2845.           Index is by no means complete yet.</li>
    2846. 

  2846.         </ul>
    2847. 

  2847.       </li>
    2848. 

  2848. 

  2849.       <li>12-Feb-2003
    2850. 

  2850. 

  2851.         <ul>
    2852. 

  2852.           <li>Support direct editing of quadratic (truetype)
    2853. 

  2853.           splines</li>
    2854. 

  2854.         </ul>
    2855. 

  2855.       </li>
    2856. 

  2856. 

  2857.       <li>11-Feb-2003
    2858. 

  2858. 

  2859.         <ul>
    2860. 

  2860.           <li>Change made on 8 Feb 2003 broke the code that read
    2861. 

  2861.           type1 flex hints</li>
    2862. 

  2862. 

  2863.           <li>Hide files beginning with "." (except for "..") in
    2864. 

  2864.           file chooser dlgs.</li>
    2865. 

  2865. 

  2866.           <li>Add protections in the afm file output to handle very
    2867. 

  2867.           long copyright notices.</li>
    2868. 

  2868.         </ul>
    2869. 

  2869.       </li>
    2870. 

  2870. 

  2871.       <li>08-Feb-2003
    2872. 

  2872. 

  2873.         <ul>
    2874. 

  2874.           <li>Support for Apple's 'opbd' (Optical Bounds)
    2875. 

  2875.           table</li>
    2876. 

  2876. 

  2877.           <li>Support for reading some features in non-contextual
    2878. 

  2878.           glyph and ligature sub-tables of the 'mort' or 'morx'
    2879. 

  2879.           tables.</li>
    2880. 

  2880. 

  2881.           <li>Support for writing those features in non-contextual
    2882. 

  2882.           glyph and ligature sub-tables of 'morx'.</li>
    2883. 

  2883. 

  2884.           <li>added char info to the fontview popup.</li>
    2885. 

  2885. 

  2886.           <li>the scripting command Generate (and GenerateFamily)
    2887. 

  2887.           would generate truetype .dfont files when asked to
    2888. 

  2888.           generate otf dfont files.</li>
    2889. 

  2889. 

  2890.           <li>Add ClearHints scripting command</li>
    2891. 

  2891. 

  2892.           <li>Add access to preference items from scripting (via:
    2893. 

  2893.           $&lt;prefname&gt;, GetPref("&lt;prefname&gt;"),
    2894. 

  2894.           SetPref("&lt;prefname&gt;",&lt;value&gt;)</li>
    2895. 

  2895.         </ul>
    2896. 

  2896.       </li>
    2897. 

  2897. 

  2898.       <li>01-Feb-2003
    2899. 

  2899. 

  2900.         <ul>
    2901. 

  2901.           <li>Add some support for Apple Advanced Typography tables
    2902. 

  2902.           ('prop', 'lcar')</li>
    2903. 

  2903. 

  2904.           <li>Popup menus in textfields failed to refresh the text
    2905. 

  2905.           field</li>
    2906. 

  2906. 

  2907.           <li>KANOU provides a patch for sfd files with long
    2908. 

  2908.           Alternate Subs</li>
    2909. 

  2909. 

  2910.           <li>FontView didn't deselect properly after doing a drag
    2911. 

  2911.           and drop.</li>
    2912. 

  2912. 

  2913.           <li>Should now deal with the case where (under cygwin)
    2914. 

  2914.           the user sets BROWSER to 'netscape' with no path
    2915. 

  2915.           spec.</li>
    2916. 

  2916. 

  2917.           <li>Ligature carets introduced a crash bug.</li>
    2918. 

  2918.         </ul>
    2919. 

  2919.       </li>
    2920. 

  2920. 

  2921.       <li>30-Jan-2003
    2922. 

  2922. 

  2923.         <ul>
    2924. 

  2924.           <li>Should figure out the default windows browser under
    2925. 

  2925.           cygwin now.</li>
    2926. 

  2926. 

  2927.           <li>Should handle the case where a user sets the BROWSER
    2928. 

  2928.           variable to something with a DOS pathspec</li>
    2929. 

  2929. 

  2930.           <li>Apply KANOU's patch to turn off more
    2931. 

  2931.           autohinting.</li>
    2932. 

  2932.         </ul>
    2933. 

  2933.       </li>
    2934. 

  2934. 

  2935.       <li>29-Jan-2003
    2936. 

  2936. 

  2937.         <ul>
    2938. 

  2938.           <li>Fix a crash introduced yesterday.</li>
    2939. 

  2939. 

  2940.           <li>scripting didn't work for $familyname fix from Alex
    2941. 

  2941.           Raftis</li>
    2942. 

  2942.         </ul>
    2943. 

  2943.       </li>
    2944. 

  2944. 

  2945.       <li>28-Jan-2003
    2946. 

  2946. 

  2947.         <ul>
    2948. 

  2948.           <li>The title of the Anchor Pair dialog was wrong (said
    2949. 

  2949.           Kern Pairs)</li>
    2950. 

  2950. 

  2951.           <li>Improved error messages for when a font file did not
    2952. 

  2952.           exist or was unreadable.</li>
    2953. 

  2953. 

  2954.           <li>Failed to generate a GSUB table when the ligatures
    2955. 

  2955.           came from a r2l ttf file.</li>
    2956. 

  2956. 

  2957.           <li>I was generating incorrect data for r2l GPOS kerning
    2958. 

  2958.           sub-tables.</li>
    2959. 

  2959. 

  2960.           <li>Failed to display r2l anchored attachments properly
    2961. 

  2961.           in the metricsview, anchor pair dlg, or when
    2962. 

  2962.           printing.</li>
    2963. 

  2963. 

  2964.           <li>Typo when loading libuninameslist dynamic library,
    2965. 

  2965.           introduced on the 24th.</li>
    2966. 

  2966. 

  2967.           <li>Now we generate a GDEF table too, containing
    2968. 

  2968.           (possibly) a glyph class def and (possibly) a ligature
    2969. 

  2969.           caret list</li>
    2970. 

  2970. 

  2971.           <li>Added code for editing horizontal ligature caret
    2972. 

  2972.           locations</li>
    2973. 

  2973.         </ul>
    2974. 

  2974.       </li>
    2975. 

  2975. 

  2976.       <li>25-Jan-2003
    2977. 

  2977. 

  2978.         <ul>
    2979. 

  2979.           <li>More cygwin fixes for invoking browsers.</li>
    2980. 

  2980.         </ul>
    2981. 

  2981.       </li>
    2982. 

  2982. 

  2983.       <li>24-Jan-2003
    2984. 

  2984. 

  2985.         <ul>
    2986. 

  2986.           <li>Added a preference item to control whether
    2987. 

  2987.           autohinting happens before a font is generated.</li>
    2988. 

  2988. 

  2989.           <li>When calling Internet Explorer or Netscape on cygwin
    2990. 

  2990.           we needed double backslashes</li>
    2991. 

  2991. 

  2992.           <li>moved hidden menu items (those invoked by Shift) into
    2993. 

  2993.           submenus</li>
    2994. 

  2994.         </ul>
    2995. 

  2995.       </li>
    2996. 

  2996. 

  2997.       <li>20-Jan-2003
    2998. 

  2998. 

  2999.         <ul>
    3000. 

  3000.           <li>Put in a number of errors and warnings related to a
    3001. 

  3001.           glyph not having a script.</li>
    3002. 

  3002. 

  3003.           <li>Fixed a crash bug when generating a popup for a glyph
    3004. 

  3004.           with no unicode encoding</li>
    3005. 

  3005. 

  3006.           <li>Support for scroll wheels.</li>
    3007. 

  3007. 

  3008.           <li>I hope I've now fixed the problems related to the
    3009. 

  3009.           GSUB table and ttc files. Now does a pass through the
    3010. 

  3010.           GSUB table to see what glyphs can be introduced by it
    3011. 

  3011.           when it figures out what glyphs to read from the glyph
    3012. 

  3012.           table (ttc files have more than one font sharing the
    3013. 

  3013.           table, don't want to read all glyphs).</li>
    3014. 

    3015. 

  3015.           <li>Added support for extension subtables of
    3016. 

  3016.           GPOS/GSUB.</li>
    3017. 

  3017. 

  3018.           <li>Making a selection in the textfield of the Display
    3019. 

  3019.           dlg was broken when the selection was scrolled.</li>
    3020. 

  3020. 

  3021.           <li>Valek wants a Paste Into command.</li>
    3022. 

  3022. 

  3023.           <li>Uninitialized variable in GSUB output caused erratic
    3024. 

  3024.           ligature behavior</li>
    3025. 

  3025. 

  3026.           <li>I'm told that even though it makes logical sense for
    3027. 

  3027.           hebrew to have a 'fina' tag, it is not customary and I
    3028. 

  3028.           have been asked to remove it from Default ATT. Which I
    3029. 

  3029.           have done.
    3030. 

  3030.             <hr />
    3031. 

  3031.           </li>
    3032. 

  3032. 

  3033.           <li>FontForge now protects itself better against
    3034. 

  3034.           erroneous GSUB/GPOS tables.</li>
    3035. 

  3035. 

  3036.           <li>Valek points out there were display problems with the
    3037. 

  3037.           File-&gt;Display (and File-&gt;Print) menu options in
    3038. 

  3038.           Russian.</li>
    3039. 

  3039.         </ul>
    3040. 

  3040.       </li>
    3041. 

  3041. 

  3042.       <li>16-Jan-2003
    3043. 

  3043. 

  3044.         <ul>
    3045. 

  3045.           <li>Recent char info changes broke copy &amp; paste
    3046. 

  3046.           within text fields of the char info dlg.</li>
    3047. 

  3047. 

  3048.           <li>Problems reading GSUB table of a ttc files (problems
    3049. 

  3049.           remain, but we should no longer crash).</li>
    3050. 

  3050. 

  3051.           <li>Reorganized libraries. Now FontForge has an
    3052. 

  3052.           additional dependency:<br />
    3053. 

  3053.           <a href=
    3054. 

  3054.           "http://libuninameslist.sf.net">libuninameslist</a>.
    3055. 

  3055.           Please install this.</li>
    3056. 

  3056. 

  3057.           <li>With libuninameslist FontForge can display the
    3058. 

  3058.           Unicode annotation information.</li>
    3059. 

  3059.         </ul>
    3060. 

  3060.       </li>
    3061. 

  3061. 

  3062.       <li>14-Jan-2003
    3063. 

  3063. 

  3064.         <ul>
    3065. 

  3065.           <li>Fixed a couple of bugs loading pcf files with complex
    3066. 

  3066.           encodings</li>
    3067. 

  3067. 

  3068.           <li>Bug in pasting metadata when there was no glyph
    3069. 

  3069.           comment.</li>
    3070. 

  3070. 

  3071.           <li>Made SetCharColor scripting command set the color on
    3072. 

  3072.           any selected glyphs</li>
    3073. 

  3073. 

  3074.           <li>Cleaned up selection behavior in fontview. Drag &amp;
    3075. 

  3075.           drop made it difficult</li>
    3076. 

  3076. 

  3077.           <li>Oops. Was scaling round rect radius incorrectly in
    3078. 

  3078.           xfig conversion</li>
    3079. 

  3079. 

  3080.           <li>Oh yes, hebrew has final letters too. And greek. Add
    3081. 

  3081.           them in to the default for 'fina'.</li>
    3082. 

  3082. 

  3083.           <li>Fixed many problems with mac font generation</li>
    3084. 

  3084. 

  3085.           <li>Open VMS update from Jauk Jansen</li>
    3086. 

  3086.         </ul>
    3087. 

  3087.       </li>
    3088. 

  3088. 

  3089.       <li>12-Jan-2003
    3090. 

  3090. 

  3091.         <ul>
    3092. 

  3092.           <li>Support for xkb extension</li>
    3093. 

  3093. 

  3094.           <li>New Russian UI from Valek</li>
    3095. 

  3095. 

  3096.           <li>New Japanese UI from KANOU
    3097. 

  3097.             <hr />
    3098. 

  3098.           </li>
    3099. 

  3099. 

  3100.           <li>Saving a compacted font did not preserve the old
    3101. 

  3101.           encoding</li>
    3102. 

  3102. 

  3103.           <li>Added a preference item to control Edit-&gt;Join</li>
    3104. 

  3104. 

  3105.           <li>made Edit-&gt;Copy From-&gt;Copy Name (now Metadata)
    3106. 

  3106.           be a preference item too.</li>
    3107. 

  3107.         </ul>
    3108. 

  3108.       </li>
    3109. 

  3109. 

  3110.       <li>9-Jan-2003
    3111. 

  3111. 

  3112.         <ul>
    3113. 

  3113.           <li>Support for round rects in xfig files</li>
    3114. 

  3114. 

  3115.           <li>Added the glyph name to the title of the char info
    3116. 

  3116.           dlg</li>
    3117. 

  3117. 

  3118.           <li>Char info failed to deal with all the flags
    3119. 

  3119.           properly</li>
    3120. 

  3120. 

  3121.           <li>Fixed crash when creating GPOS sub-table 1 (simple
    3122. 

  3122.           positioning)</li>
    3123. 

  3123. 

  3124.           <li>GPOS/GSUB output now handles case where a feature has
    3125. 

  3125.           several different sets of flags.</li>
    3126. 

  3126.         </ul>
    3127. 

  3127.       </li>
    3128. 

  3128. 

  3129.       <li>8-Jan-2003
    3130. 

  3130. 

  3131.         <ul>
    3132. 

  3132.           <li>Update copyright notices</li>
    3133. 

  3133. 

  3134.           <li>Printing now handles anchored marks. (Display does
    3135. 

  3135.           not, just as display doesn't handle kerning-- because X
    3136. 

  3136.           doesn't).</li>
    3137. 

    3138. 

  3138.           <li>Support for cursive positioning.</li>
    3139. 

  3139. 

  3140.           <li>I've registered with Adobe, and they have assigned
    3141. 

  3141.           FontForge an XUID base number of 1021. Now when new users
    3142. 

  3142.           start fontforge for the first time they will be assigned
    3143. 

  3143.           an XUID base sequence of 1021 xxx nnn where xxx and nnn
    3144. 

  3144.           are two random numbers generated by fontforge. New fonts
    3145. 

  3145.           will get a fourth number for their full XUID.</li>
    3146. 

  3146. 

  3147.           <li>Kanou points out that glyph names should not contain
    3148. 

  3148.           underscores so redo the .cidmap files to change to
    3149. 

  3149.           dashes. Also change "japan1_%d" to "cid-%d" to make life
    3150. 

  3150.           easier for me.</li>
    3151. 

  3151. 

  3152.           <li>KANOU points out there were places where fontforge
    3153. 

  3153.           did not check psunicodenames_cnt. Once outside of BMP
    3154. 

  3154.           this causes a crash.</li>
    3155. 

  3155. 

  3156.           <li>New Japanese UI from KANOU.</li>
    3157. 

  3157. 

  3158.           <li>Support for many more GPOS/GSUB sub-tables.</li>
    3159. 

  3159. 

  3160.           <li>Keep track of the order in which characters are
    3161. 

  3161.           selected in the fontview and recreate that order when
    3162. 

  3162.           user asks to create a metricsview based on the fontview's
    3163. 

  3163.           selection</li>
    3164. 

  3164. 

  3165.           <li>Make it possible to drag&amp;drop characters from
    3166. 

  3166.           fontview into metricsview (again keeping track of
    3167. 

  3167.           selection order)</li>
    3168. 

  3168. 

  3169.           <li>Make it possible to drag&amp;drop characters from
    3170. 

  3170.           fontview into charview to create references</li>
    3171. 

  3171. 

  3172.           <li>Make it possible to drag&amp;drop characters from
    3173. 

  3173.           fontview into charinfo to create ligatures, etc.</li>
    3174. 

  3174. 

  3175.           <li>Command to set the default values for sub GSUB/GPOS
    3176. 

  3176.           features that are easy for FontForge to figure out.</li>
    3177. 

  3177. 

  3178.           <li>Ability to zoom metrics view.</li>
    3179. 

  3179. 

  3180.           <li>Metrics view displays anchor points and does the
    3181. 

  3181.           needed work to position the characters. It is also
    3182. 

  3182.           possible to move anchor points around in the metrics
    3183. 

  3183.           view.</li>
    3184. 

  3184. 

  3185.           <li>Metrics view now has a pop-up menu that allows you to
    3186. 

  3186.           see alternate metrics</li>
    3187. 

  3187. 

  3188.           <li>Metrics view now has a submenu (off of View) which
    3189. 

  3189.           allows you to change the current glyph to one of its
    3190. 

  3190.           alternates.</li>
    3191. 

  3191. 

  3192.           <li>Fixed uninitialized variable what would sometimes
    3193. 

  3193.           cause a crash when storing bitmaps in a TTF/OTF
    3194. 

  3194.           file.</li>
    3195. 

  3195. 

  3196.           <li>Fixed crash bug in 29-Dec when generating a truetype
    3197. 

  3197.           font without a GPOS table.</li>
    3198. 

  3198. 

  3199.           <li>Many changes to charinfo dlg. Made non-modal. Can
    3200. 

  3200.           Copy/Paste Position/Substitution data.</li>
    3201. 

  3201. 

  3202.           <li>Do a minimal amount of work toward supporting the
    3203. 

  3203.           alpha channel of a png file.</li>
    3204. 

  3204.         </ul>
    3205. 

  3205.       </li>
    3206. 

  3206. 

  3207.       <li>29-Dec-2002
    3208. 

  3208. 

  3209.         <ul>
    3210. 

  3210.           <li>FontForge now supports <a href=
    3211. 

  3211.           "overview.html#Anchors">anchor points</a> for mark to
    3212. 

  3212.           base (ligature and mark) positioning.</li>
    3213. 

  3213. 

  3214.           <li>FontForge was mistakenly treating NumLock on PC
    3215. 

  3215.           keyboards as if it were the command key on Mac
    3216. 

  3216.           keyboards.</li>
    3217. 

  3217. 

  3218.           <li>The font info dlg now remembers what tab was last
    3219. 

  3219.           pressed.</li>
    3220. 

  3220. 

  3221.           <li>The char info dlg has been restructured. It includes
    3222. 

  3222.           a script field, and associates a tag with the ligature
    3223. 

  3223.           (if any).</li>
    3224. 

  3224. 

  3225.           <li>I have decided to generate a 'GPOS' table rather than
    3226. 

  3226.           a 'kern' table in truetype output as well as in opentype
    3227. 

  3227.           output (unless applemode is set).</li>
    3228. 

  3228. 

  3229.           <li>I have changed the default names of items in adobe's
    3230. 

  3230.           private use area to match their new conventions. ie.
    3231. 

  3231.           names used to look like "Asmall" and now look like
    3232. 

  3232.           "a.sc".</li>
    3233. 

  3233. 

  3234.           <li>I have rewritten the way <a href="gposgsub.html">GPOS
    3235. 

  3235.           and GSUB</a> tables are output. I hope this will not have
    3236. 

  3236.           much effect on users, but it does mean that a few more
    3237. 

  3237.           sub-tables are now supported.</li>
    3238. 

  3238.         </ul>
    3239. 

  3239.       </li>
    3240. 

  3240. 

  3241.       <li>23-Dec-2002
    3242. 

  3242. 

  3243.         <ul>
    3244. 

  3244.           <li>Various improvements to cubic-&gt;quadratic
    3245. 

  3245.           (truetype) conversion.</li>
    3246. 

  3246. 

  3247.           <li>When switching from displaying a 12,8,6,4,3,2,1pt
    3248. 

  3248.           bitmap to a 24pt anti-aliased version, fontforge would
    3249. 

  3249.           fail to update the display.</li>
    3250. 

  3250. 

  3251.           <li>The bitmap dlg would come up with the labels for X
    3252. 

  3252.           showing when it should have shown those for Win/Mac.</li>
    3253. 

  3253. 

  3254.           <li>Inspired by KANOU's mentioning the mona font, I've
    3255. 

  3255.           made it possible to generate an ms bitmap only ttf font.
    3256. 

  3256.           This is done by creating dummy glyph and loca tables
    3257. 

  3257.           (full of space glyphs) and putting a bitmap scaling table
    3258. 

  3258.           which causes the most likely pixelsizes to be scaled from
    3259. 

  3259.           the strikes available.
    3260. 

  3260. 

  3261.             <p>You can generate this with: [No Outline Font] [In
    3262. 

  3262.             TTF]</p>
    3263. 

  3263.           </li>
    3264. 

  3264. 

  3265.           <li>Drat. Fix of 24-Nov was wrong. I still wasn't putting
    3266. 

  3266.           the UniqueID into the Private dict.</li>
    3267. 

  3267. 

  3268.           <li>I've been generating bad macbinary files since I
    3269. 

  3269.           started
    3270. 

  3270. 

  3271.             <ul>
    3272. 

  3272.               <li>I had not noticed that the resource and data fork
    3273. 

  3273.               must be padded to a multiple of 128 bytes.
    3274. 

  3274. 

  3275.                 <ul>
    3276. 

  3276.                   <li>This also meant that on rare occasions I
    3277. 

  3277.                   would read them incorrectly too.</li>
    3278. 

  3278.                 </ul>
    3279. 

  3279.               </li>
    3280. 

  3280. 

  3281.               <li>I was generating the crc incorrectly.</li>
    3282. 

  3282.             </ul>
    3283. 

  3283.           </li>
    3284. 

  3284. 

  3285.           <li>Be a bit more vigorous about displaying filter text
    3286. 

  3286.           in file choosers.</li>
    3287. 

  3287. 

  3288.           <li>Default buttons didn't respond to the keypad enter
    3289. 

  3289.           key.</li>
    3290. 

  3290. 

  3291.           <li>Pressing OK in the character info dlg would often
    3292. 

  3292.           destroy the font's encoding event when it should not
    3293. 

  3293.           have.</li>
    3294. 

  3294. 

  3295.           <li>Was generating bad kerning tables for mac FONDs.</li>
    3296. 

  3296. 

  3297.           <li>Jim Killock reminds me that there was no way for
    3298. 

  3298.           fontforge to read kerning data from a mac FOND.
    3299. 

  3299.           File-&gt;Merge Kern Data will now accept a mac resource
    3300. 

  3300.           file.</li>
    3301. 

  3301.         </ul>
    3302. 

  3302.       </li>
    3303. 

  3303. 

  3304.       <li>15-Dec-2002
    3305. 

  3305. 

  3306.         <ul>
    3307. 

  3307.           <li>Add support for Big5HKSCS</li>
    3308. 

  3308. 

  3309.           <li>Redo CJK encodings</li>
    3310. 

  3310. 

  3311.           <li>Update cidmap files.</li>
    3312. 

  3312.         </ul>
    3313. 

  3313.       </li>
    3314. 

  3314. 

  3315.       <li>14-Dec-2002
    3316. 

  3316. 

  3317.         <ul>
    3318. 

  3318.           <li>Add support for reading windows .FON and .FNT
    3319. 

  3319.           files.</li>
    3320. 

  3320. 

  3321.           <li>Add support for writing windows .FNT files. Sadly
    3322. 

  3322.           .FNT files aren't particularly useful. They need to be
    3323. 

  3323.           converted to .FON files with the resource editor
    3324. 

  3324.           somehow.</li>
    3325. 

  3325. 

  3326.           <li>Bug when reading postscript files that included
    3327. 

  3327.           complicated combinations of translate scale and concat
    3328. 

  3328.           commands.</li>
    3329. 

  3329. 

  3330.           <li>FontForge was a bit too cavalier about guessing how
    3331. 

  3331.           big serifs were. Caused problems when autokerning a
    3332. 

  3332.           fraktur font. (FontForge thought it had huge serifs when
    3333. 

  3333.           it had none).</li>
    3334. 

  3334. 

  3335.           <li>Direction (Clockwise, counterclockwise, correct) menu
    3336. 

  3336.           items are now greyed out if the selected path is
    3337. 

  3337.           open.</li>
    3338. 

  3338. 

  3339.           <li>New OpenVms patches from Jacob Jansen.</li>
    3340. 

  3340. 

  3341.           <li>Update unicode database to 3.2</li>
    3342. 

  3342.         </ul>
    3343. 

  3343.       </li>
    3344. 

  3344. 

  3345.       <li>13-Dec-2002
    3346. 

  3346. 

  3347.         <ul>
    3348. 

  3348.           <li>FontForge will now open a ttf/otf font that contains
    3349. 

  3349.           only bitmap strikes</li>
    3350. 

  3350. 

  3351.           <li>FontForge will now read NFNT resources (old mac
    3352. 

  3352.           bitmaps)</li>
    3353. 

  3353. 

  3354.           <li>FontForge will import NFNT resources</li>
    3355. 

  3355. 

  3356.           <li>Fixed a number of problems with loading and saving
    3357. 

  3357.           bdf files
    3358. 

  3358. 

  3359.             <ul>
    3360. 

  3360.               <li>Did not understand that the "ENCODING" keyword
    3361. 

  3361.               could take two values if the first were -1</li>
    3362. 

  3362. 

  3363.               <li>Added unencoded glyphs at the wrong encoding (I
    3364. 

  3364.               know that sounds like an oxymoron. I assign them an
    3365. 

  3365.               encoding, and I did it badly).</li>
    3366. 

  3366. 

  3367.               <li>If a font name were not one of the X Logical Font
    3368. 

  3368.               Names then fontforge might fail to give the font a
    3369. 

  3369.               familyname or a fontname. This caused more problems
    3370. 

  3370.               when generating a new bdf file.</li>
    3371. 

  3371.             </ul>
    3372. 

  3372.           </li>
    3373. 

  3373.         </ul>
    3374. 

  3374.       </li>
    3375. 

  3375. 

  3376.       <li>11-Dec-2002
    3377. 

  3377. 

  3378.         <ul>
    3379. 

  3379.           <li>Revert Glyph is now undoable</li>
    3380. 

  3380. 

  3381.           <li>Fixed a crash when pressing return in the font
    3382. 

  3382.           display of a bitmap font.</li>
    3383. 

  3383. 

  3384.           <li>Display the name of references near the top of the
    3385. 

  3385.           reference in the outline char view.</li>
    3386. 

  3386. 

  3387.           <li>Took the width display off the info line and did it
    3388. 

  3388.           as hints are displayed.</li>
    3389. 

  3389. 

  3390.           <li>Menus now respond to Home and End key events.</li>
    3391. 

  3391. 

  3392.           <li>I have changed the calling conventions for the
    3393. 

  3393.           ExpandStroke scripting command to reflect the height
    3394. 

  3394.           ratio value that is now needed.</li>
    3395. 

  3395. 

  3396.           <li>Holding down the Alt (Meta) key when using the
    3397. 

  3397.           freehand tool will now close the path.</li>
    3398. 

  3398. 

  3399.           <li>The Generate Fonts dlg will now display an
    3400. 

  3400.           appropriate bitmap fontname if "No Outline Font" is
    3401. 

  3401.           selected.</li>
    3402. 

  3402. 

  3403.           <li>I think I've got the wacom stuff working now.
    3404. 

  3404.           FreeHand tool now takes options.</li>
    3405. 

  3405.         </ul>
    3406. 

  3406.       </li>
    3407. 

  3407. 

  3408.       <li>08-Dec-2002
    3409. 

  3409. 

  3410.         <ul>
    3411. 

  3411.           <li>Oops. Can't use Alt-Shift for menus (it's treated as
    3412. 

  3412.           a mnemonic) use Alt-Ctl-Shift instead.</li>
    3413. 

  3413. 

  3414.           <li>Reorganized the prefs dlg.</li>
    3415. 

  3415. 

  3416.           <li>Made FontInfo non-modal.</li>
    3417. 

  3417. 

  3418.           <li>Added a default icon for all fontforge's windows
    3419. 

  3419.           &amp; dlgs.</li>
    3420. 

  3420.         </ul>
    3421. 

  3421.       </li>
    3422. 

  3422. 

  3423.       <li>06-Dec-2002
    3424. 

  3424. 

  3425.         <ul>
    3426. 

  3426.           <li>Fixed a problem where FontForge still picked bad
    3427. 

  3427.           fonts sometimes.</li>
    3428. 

  3428. 

  3429.           <li>Typo in format spec for character windows</li>
    3430. 

  3430. 

  3431.           <li>At Werner's suggestion:
    3432. 

    3433. 

  3433.             <ul>
    3434. 

  3434.               <li>The Transform dlg now preserves hints in the
    3435. 

  3435.               undo</li>
    3436. 

  3436. 

  3437.               <li>Added an indication of which layer was
    3438. 

  3438.               active</li>
    3439. 

  3439. 

  3440.               <li>Added an indication on the title bar that a
    3441. 

  3441.               character was changed</li>
    3442. 

  3442. 

  3443.               <li>Added a Revert Glyph command</li>
    3444. 

  3444. 

  3445.               <li>The location of the advance width pops up on the
    3446. 

  3446.               info line when the cursor moves over the advance
    3447. 

  3447.               width</li>
    3448. 

  3448. 

  3449.               <li>changed the Set Width command to get the right
    3450. 

  3450.               default value.</li>
    3451. 

  3451. 

  3452.               <li>There were some layout problems in the char info
    3453. 

  3453.               dlg.</li>
    3454. 

  3454.             </ul>
    3455. 

  3455.           </li>
    3456. 

  3456. 

  3457.           <li>Redid the configuration for mac os/x. I've just
    3458. 

  3458.           upgraded to the new developers' tools and that fixed a
    3459. 

  3459.           lot of problems.</li>
    3460. 

  3460.         </ul>
    3461. 

  3461.       </li>
    3462. 

  3462. 

  3463.       <li>05-Dec-2002
    3464. 

  3464. 

  3465.         <ul>
    3466. 

  3466.           <li>Fixed a crash in menus, if the cursor was moved from
    3467. 

  3467.           a submenu (a cascaded menu) to the menubar without
    3468. 

  3468.           passing through the main menu then a crash would
    3469. 

  3469.           happen.</li>
    3470. 

  3470. 

  3471.           <li>Clicking in a menu above the first line will dismiss
    3472. 

  3472.           the menu.</li>
    3473. 

  3473. 

  3474.           <li>Fixed a crash when generating postscript fonts.</li>
    3475. 

  3475. 

  3476.           <li>Oops. Bug in work of 2-Dec. The character named "u"
    3477. 

  3477.           was treated as uXXXX and given unicode U+0000 rather than
    3478. 

  3478.           U+0075.</li>
    3479. 

  3479. 

  3480.           <li>It is now possible to switch between editing layers
    3481. 

  3481.           in the outline character view by using the mnemonics
    3482. 

  3482.           displayed in the layers palette (even if the layers
    3483. 

  3483.           palette is hidden).
    3484. 

  3484. 

  3485.             <p>Or by using the popup menu invoked by the third
    3486. 

  3486.             mouse button.</p>
    3487. 

  3487.           </li>
    3488. 

  3488. 

  3489.           <li>Rewrote Expand Stroke so that the calligraphic pen is
    3490. 

  3490.           no longer treated as a line (it is now treated as a
    3491. 

  3491.           rectangle).</li>
    3492. 

  3492. 

  3493.           <li>Changed behavior of Next/Prev char so that they do
    3494. 

  3494.           not wrap in the outline character view. Also added the
    3495. 

  3495.           encoding to the title.</li>
    3496. 

  3496. 

  3497.           <li>In the outline view made a separate menu entry for
    3498. 

  3498.           Char Info and removed it from "Get Info". Made Ctl-Shft-I
    3499. 

  3499.           invoke Char Info in all views (Ctl-I will also invoke it
    3500. 

  3500.           everywhere but the outline view).</li>
    3501. 

  3501. 

  3502.           <li>Undo will now attempt to reset the modified bit on a
    3503. 

  3503.           character. It will not attempt to reset the modified bit
    3504. 

  3504.           on the font as a whole (there are too many things that
    3505. 

  3505.           can change without setting undo info).</li>
    3506. 

  3506.         </ul>
    3507. 

  3507.       </li>
    3508. 

  3508. 

  3509.       <li>2-Dec-2002
    3510. 

  3510. 

  3511.         <ul>
    3512. 

  3512.           <li>If the fontview were only one line high FontForge
    3513. 

  3513.           would not scroll to the selected character properly.</li>
    3514. 

  3514. 

  3515.           <li>Adobe has released a new version of their glyph
    3516. 

  3516.           naming conventions. In particular they provide names for
    3517. 

  3517.           code points outside of the bmp. Danilo Sagan points out
    3518. 

  3518.           that they also allow for alternate glyph names.
    3519. 

  3519.           (specified in the <a href=
    3520. 

  3520.           "http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/type/otfdk/">FDK</a>).</li>
    3521. 

  3521. 

  3522.           <li>Remove the PFAEDIT_PI1 environment variable.</li>
    3523. 

  3523. 

  3524.           <li>Cut and Paste bug fixed when clearing metadata.</li>
    3525. 

  3525.         </ul>
    3526. 

  3526.       </li>
    3527. 

  3527. 

  3528.       <li>25-Nov-2002
    3529. 

  3529. 

  3530.         <ul>
    3531. 

  3531.           <li>Harald Harders provides a patch to allow
    3532. 

  3532.           SetItalicAngle to deal with real numbers.</li>
    3533. 

  3533. 

  3534.           <li>Vadim Belman provides a patch to keep
    3535. 

  3535.           Element-&gt;MetaFont from crashing when applied to
    3536. 

  3536.           spaces.</li>
    3537. 

  3537. 

  3538.           <li>Bringing up the preference dlg would segfault if
    3539. 

  3539.           there were arguments specified for autotrace.</li>
    3540. 

  3540. 

  3541.           <li>Put in a hack so that the environment variable
    3542. 

  3542.           PFAEDIT_PI1 controls whether U+03D6 is named "pi1" (as
    3543. 

  3543.           Unicode suggests it ought to be) or "omega1" (as Adobe
    3544. 

  3544.           has said it should be).</li>
    3545. 

  3545. 

  3546.           <li>Follow riggle's suggestion and use the shell command
    3547. 

  3547.           "open" (on a Mac) to bring up a browser window.</li>
    3548. 

  3548.         </ul>
    3549. 

  3549.       </li>
    3550. 

  3550. 

  3551.       <li>24-Nov-2002
    3552. 

  3552. 

  3553.         <ul>
    3554. 

  3554.           <li>Harald Harders points out that UniqueID needs to be
    3555. 

  3555.           in both the font and the Private dictionaries in a
    3556. 

  3556.           PostScript font.</li>
    3557. 

  3557. 

  3558.           <li>And provides access to UniqueID from the scripting
    3559. 

  3559.           language.</li>
    3560. 

  3560. 

  3561.           <li>More fixes for TeX sfd files.</li>
    3562. 

  3562.         </ul>
    3563. 

  3563.       </li>
    3564. 

  3564. 

  3565.       <li>20-Nov-2002
    3566. 

  3566. 

  3567.         <ul>
    3568. 

  3568.           <li>Changed the Simplify More command to bring up a dlg
    3569. 

  3569.           giving the user control over what errors Simplify More is
    3570. 

  3570.           allowed to induce.</li>
    3571. 

  3571. 

  3572.           <li>Bug in import image with non-latin1 fontnames</li>
    3573. 

  3573. 

  3574.           <li>New Russian ui translation</li>
    3575. 

  3575. 

  3576.           <li>Merge fonts didn't work well with CID keyed
    3577. 

  3577.           fonts</li>
    3578. 

  3578. 

  3579.           <li>Fixed yet another problem with notdef
    3580. 

  3580.           generation.</li>
    3581. 

  3581. 

  3582.           <li>Fixed yet crash in sfddiff.</li>
    3583. 

  3583. 

  3584.           <li>Using Font Info to convert to SJIS didn't work.</li>
    3585. 

    3586. 

  3586.           <li>Merge fonts had problems when both fonts were CID
    3587. 

  3587.           keyed.</li>
    3588. 

  3588. 

  3589.           <li>Generate a unicode encoding subtable even when
    3590. 

  3590.           generating a CJK encoding subtable.</li>
    3591. 

  3591. 

  3592.           <li>Added a preference item to allow user to specify
    3593. 

  3593.           whether s/he would rather read in the unicode or the cjk
    3594. 

  3594.           encoding subtable.</li>
    3595. 

  3595.         </ul>
    3596. 

  3596.       </li>
    3597. 

  3597. 

  3598.       <li>13-Nov-2002
    3599. 

  3599. 

  3600.         <ul>
    3601. 

  3601.           <li>Two new tools in the outline character view.
    3602. 

  3602. 

  3603.             <ul>
    3604. 

  3604.               <li>A hand tool -- for scrolling around</li>
    3605. 

  3605. 

  3606.               <li>A freehand tool -- for having fontforge try to
    3607. 

  3607.               fit splines to a hand drawn curve</li>
    3608. 

  3608.             </ul>
    3609. 

  3609.           </li>
    3610. 

  3610. 

  3611.           <li>MergeFonts was broken from scripts.</li>
    3612. 

  3612. 

  3613.           <li>New Russian UI from Valek.</li>
    3614. 

  3614. 

  3615.           <li>Another remove overlap fix from KANOU.</li>
    3616. 

  3616. 

  3617.           <li>Added code to invoke Internet Explorer (or an Mac
    3618. 

  3618.           App) on the Mac (so pressing F1 should actually load some
    3619. 

  3619.           help on the mac now).</li>
    3620. 

  3620. 

  3621.           <li>Fixed random crash in font generation dialog</li>
    3622. 

  3622. 

  3623.           <li>PS-&gt;TTF conversion tried to force splines in cases
    3624. 

  3624.           where it could not.</li>
    3625. 

  3625.         </ul>
    3626. 

  3626.       </li>
    3627. 

  3627. 

  3628.       <li>05-Nov-2002
    3629. 

  3629. 

  3630.         <ul>
    3631. 

  3631.           <li>Improved behavior of Remove Overlap. Fix inspired by
    3632. 

  3632.           Kanou.</li>
    3633. 

  3633. 

  3634.           <li>Added a "Find Intersections" command, a variant of
    3635. 

  3635.           remove overlap that stops after it finds the
    3636. 

  3636.           intersections. I think this half of the job has no major
    3637. 

  3637.           bugs.</li>
    3638. 

  3638. 

  3639.           <li>If a single point is in the clipboard, then FontForge
    3640. 

  3640.           will also export the clipboard as STRING, giving the
    3641. 

  3641.           coordinates of the point. This is to make it easier to
    3642. 

  3642.           refer to the point.</li>
    3643. 

  3643.         </ul>
    3644. 

  3644.       </li>
    3645. 

  3645. 

  3646.       <li>04-Nov-2002
    3647. 

  3647. 

  3648.         <ul>
    3649. 

  3649.           <li>KDE has the lovely habit of losing some resize events
    3650. 

  3650.           when in continuous resize mode. So I've tweaked the
    3651. 

  3651.           fontview resize code so that it is less dependent on
    3652. 

  3652.           individual events.</li>
    3653. 

  3653. 

  3654.           <li>Added a mode where the user can choose between
    3655. 

  3655.           whether the font shown in the fontview should be scaled
    3656. 

  3656.           so that the em fits in the space provided (this is the
    3657. 

  3657.           old behavior) or so that the bounding box does.</li>
    3658. 

  3658. 

  3659.           <li>Rewrote the knife tool so that it cuts at the end
    3660. 

  3660.           rather than as it goes along. I think this is easier to
    3661. 

  3661.           use.</li>
    3662. 

  3662. 

  3663.           <li>Bug in the generation of format=2 truetype encoding
    3664. 

  3664.           tables (used for CJK fonts).</li>
    3665. 

  3665.         </ul>
    3666. 

  3666.       </li>
    3667. 

  3667. 

  3668.       <li>02-Nov-2002
    3669. 

  3669. 

  3670.         <ul>
    3671. 

  3671.           <li>Png reading failed on greyscale images with an alpha
    3672. 

  3672.           channel</li>
    3673. 

  3673. 

  3674.           <li>Png now reads mono images as mono.</li>
    3675. 

  3675. 

  3676.           <li>make install (via libtool) didn't work if "." weren't
    3677. 

  3677.           in the PATH.</li>
    3678. 

  3678.         </ul>
    3679. 

  3679.       </li>
    3680. 

  3680. 

  3681.       <li>30-Oct-2002
    3682. 

  3682. 

  3683.         <ul>
    3684. 

  3684.           <li>GenerateFamily() scripting command had a number of
    3685. 

  3685.           problems.</li>
    3686. 

  3686.         </ul>
    3687. 

  3687.       </li>
    3688. 

  3688. 

  3689.       <li>26-Oct-2002
    3690. 

  3690. 

  3691.         <ul>
    3692. 

  3692.           <li>The "Apple" checkbox was sometimes (incorrectly)
    3693. 

  3693.           invisible in the Generate Font/Family dialogs</li>
    3694. 

  3694. 

  3695.           <li>Minor improvements to the "Insert Character" dialog
    3696. 

  3696.           (to match <a href="http://umap.sf.net/">umap</a>)</li>
    3697. 

  3697. 

  3698.           <li>Minor tweak to text fields</li>
    3699. 

  3699. 

  3700.           <li>More configuration changes</li>
    3701. 

  3701.         </ul>
    3702. 

  3702.       </li>
    3703. 

  3703. 

  3704.       <li>25-Oct-2002
    3705. 

  3705. 

  3706.         <ul>
    3707. 

  3707.           <li>Problems when reading an sfd with references to
    3708. 

  3708.           cleaned up characters.</li>
    3709. 

  3709. 

  3710.           <li>Removed code from ttf generation that check for
    3711. 

  3711.           points of inflection (but fixed a couple of bugs in it
    3712. 

  3712.           before doing that).</li>
    3713. 

  3713. 

  3714.           <li>Change the way scripting GenerateFamily behaves. One
    3715. 

  3715.           person has already been unable to figure out how to use
    3716. 

  3716.           it, and I agree that it didn't make much sense the way I
    3717. 

  3717.           had it.</li>
    3718. 

  3718.         </ul>
    3719. 

  3719.       </li>
    3720. 

  3720. 

  3721.       <li>24-Oct-2002
    3722. 

  3722. 

  3723.         <ul>
    3724. 

  3724.           <li>Change the default configuration process to use
    3725. 

  3725.           dynamic libaries
    3726. 

  3726. 

  3727.             <ul>
    3728. 

  3728.               <li>Added "configure.static" which will configure for
    3729. 

  3729.               static libaries (On Mac OS/X the compiler gets
    3730. 

  3730.               internal compiler errors if asked to generate pic
    3731. 

  3731.               code)</li>
    3732. 

  3732.             </ul>
    3733. 

  3733.           </li>
    3734. 

  3734. 

  3735.           <li>Enable reading a straight ttf file out of a .bin or
    3736. 

  3736.           .hqx wrapper (ie. doesn't need to be in a resource
    3737. 

  3737.           fork)</li>
    3738. 

  3738. 

  3739.           <li>The Kern Pairs dlg did not show Hebrew/Arabic right
    3740. 

  3740.           to left. Fixed</li>
    3741. 

  3741. 

  3742.           <li>Added a popup menu to Kern Pairs which will allow you
    3743. 

  3743.           to reset a kern pair</li>
    3744. 

  3744. 

  3745.           <li>Added a way to configure the font family used for
    3746. 

  3746.           info messages in the outline and bitmap character
    3747. 

  3747.           views.</li>
    3748. 

  3748. 

  3749.           <li>New man pages which use the macros supported by Sun.
    3750. 

  3750.           Thanks to R. P. Channing Rodgers.</li>
    3751. 

  3751.         </ul>
    3752. 

  3752.       </li>
    3753. 

  3753. 

  3754.       <li>22-Oct-2002
    3755. 

  3755. 

  3756.         <ul>
    3757. 

  3757.           <li>Initial version of Mac Family (FOND) generation</li>
    3758. 

  3758. 

  3759.           <li>Fix old sfds so that their bad pngs will become
    3760. 

  3760.           bitmaps</li>
    3761. 

  3761. 

  3762.           <li>optimize the fix to draw magnified.</li>
    3763. 

  3763.         </ul>
    3764. 

  3764.       </li>
    3765. 

  3765. 

  3766.       <li>21-Oct-2002
    3767. 

  3767. 

  3768.         <ul>
    3769. 

  3769.           <li>Verbose addition to scripting broke loops</li>
    3770. 

  3770. 

  3771.           <li>Various changes to make utf8/ucs2 selections work
    3772. 

  3772.           properly with other programs</li>
    3773. 

  3773. 

  3774.           <li>Hebrew/Arabic drag and drop could cause crashes</li>
    3775. 

  3775. 

  3776.           <li>The Increment right side bearing command
    3777. 

  3777.           (Metrics-&gt;Set RBearing) set the width to the value
    3778. 

  3778.           rather than incrementing by that value.</li>
    3779. 

  3779. 

  3780.           <li>Fixes for the local encoding being utf8</li>
    3781. 

  3781. 

  3782.           <li>Imported bitmap pngs still were seen as indexed</li>
    3783. 

  3783. 

  3784.           <li>Problems drawing magnified images when the scale
    3785. 

  3785.           factor was 100%</li>
    3786. 

  3786.         </ul>
    3787. 

  3787.       </li>
    3788. 

  3788. 

  3789.       <li>20-Oct-2002
    3790. 

  3790. 

  3791.         <ul>
    3792. 

  3792.           <li>Updated French and Japanese UI translations</li>
    3793. 

  3793. 

  3794.           <li>Use LC_CTYPE (rather than LC_MESSAGES) to determine
    3795. 

  3795.           the current local encoding</li>
    3796. 

  3796. 

  3797.           <li>If the width line were selected then FontForge would
    3798. 

  3798.           sometimes snap cursor movements to an arbitrary x-value
    3799. 

  3799.           (often the axis)</li>
    3800. 

  3800. 

  3801.           <li>KANOU provided a patch which fixes some remove
    3802. 

  3802.           overlap problems.</li>
    3803. 

  3803. 

  3804.           <li>I had broken the generation of pure bitmap sfnts from
    3805. 

  3805.           scripts (7-Sept)</li>
    3806. 

  3806. 

  3807.           <li>Added a verbose mode to scripts (prints script to
    3808. 

  3808.           stdout as it is executed).</li>
    3809. 

  3809.         </ul>
    3810. 

  3810.       </li>
    3811. 

  3811. 

  3812.       <li>18-Oct-2002
    3813. 

  3813. 

  3814.         <ul>
    3815. 

  3815.           <li>Tweaked metrics view so that null kerning now
    3816. 

  3816.           displays as an empty string rather than "0"</li>
    3817. 

  3817. 

  3818.           <li>If a font contained a kerning pair to a character
    3819. 

  3819.           that was omitted when saving the sfd file, then loading
    3820. 

  3820.           that font would leave it in a bad state and eventually
    3821. 

  3821.           cause a crash. Fixed on both ends (don't generate bad
    3822. 

  3822.           sfds any more, and can deal with them properly when
    3823. 

  3823.           found)</li>
    3824. 

  3824. 

  3825.           <li>Improved the "Insert Character" dialog a bit.</li>
    3826. 

  3826.         </ul>
    3827. 

  3827.       </li>
    3828. 

  3828. 

  3829.       <li>17-Oct-2002
    3830. 

  3830. 

  3831.         <ul>
    3832. 

  3832.           <li>More work on Ik format files</li>
    3833. 

  3833. 

  3834.           <li>Redid UI for Auto Width/Kern to make it easier for
    3835. 

  3835.           cyrillic/greek users to kern their alphabets.</li>
    3836. 

  3836. 

  3837.           <li>Changed so that CJK encodings will attempt to map
    3838. 

  3838.           directly to a CJK font (rather than going through
    3839. 

  3839.           unicode) when displaying in the fontview.</li>
    3840. 

  3840. 

  3841.           <li>Added a command to join paths</li>
    3842. 

  3842. 

  3843.           <li>KANOU points out that support for mimetype cut/paste
    3844. 

  3844.           (11-Sept) broke cut/paste in scripting.</li>
    3845. 

  3845. 

  3846.           <li>KANOU supplied a patch for the knife tool.</li>
    3847. 

  3847. 

  3848.           <li>KANOU points out that IsVisible didn't work properly
    3849. 

  3849.           if passed a NULL point (it should never be passed a NULL
    3850. 

  3850.           pointer, but if it is no reason not to work
    3851. 

  3851.           correctly).</li>
    3852. 

  3852. 

  3853.           <li>KANOU points out that the UniqueID for ttf files used
    3854. 

  3854.           a bad date.</li>
    3855. 

  3855. 

  3856.           <li>Had the wrong MS language ID for hungarian</li>
    3857. 

  3857. 

  3858.           <li>Some of Luc Devroye's fonts contain a "div" in the
    3859. 

  3859.           FontMatrix. ATM doesn't support this, but it is easy
    3860. 

  3860.           enough to accept. Still don't support a full expression
    3861. 

  3861.           there, just a div.</li>
    3862. 

  3862. 

  3863.           <li>If we read in a gsf font and then generated
    3864. 

  3864.           postscript from that, we weren't able to read in the
    3865. 

  3865.           result.</li>
    3866. 

  3866. 

  3867.           <li>Added an empty glyph-encoding sub-table to mac
    3868. 

  3868.           FONDs</li>
    3869. 

  3869. 

  3870.           <li>Save multiple postscript did not save the first
    3871. 

  3871.           sub-font</li>
    3872. 

  3872. 

  3873.           <li>The second count in BeginChars could be wrong in an
    3874. 

  3874.           sfd file (FontForge doesn't care, but I suppose some
    3875. 

  3875.           program might).</li>
    3876. 

  3876. 

  3877.           <li>Add support for local encoding being UTF-8. Prefs now
    3878. 

  3878.           has an option to try and figure out the encoding from the
    3879. 

  3879.           locale</li>
    3880. 

  3880. 

  3881.           <li>Display filenames in the local encoding.</li>
    3882. 

  3882. 

  3883.           <li>There was an erroneous test in simplify which caused
    3884. 

  3884.           FontForge to complain about an internal error when in
    3885. 

  3885.           truth all was well.</li>
    3886. 

  3886. 

  3887.           <li>There was a bad test in dumpbdf</li>
    3888. 

  3888. 

  3889.           <li>Export will now allow the user to generate png files
    3890. 

  3890.           (if s/he's got the png libraries)</li>
    3891. 

    3892. 

  3892.           <li>It is possible to invoke Export from a script</li>
    3893. 

  3893.         </ul>
    3894. 

  3894.       </li>
    3895. 

  3895. 

  3896.       <li>11-Sept-2002
    3897. 

  3897. 

  3898.         <ul>
    3899. 

  3899.           <li>Added a menu in textfields (right mouse button)</li>
    3900. 

  3900. 

  3901.           <li>Added support for STRING_UTF8 selections</li>
    3902. 

  3902. 

  3903.           <li>Added support for "image/png", "image/bmp",
    3904. 

  3904.           "image/eps", "text/plain;charset=ISO-10646-UCS-2",
    3905. 

  3905.           "text/plain;charset=UTF-8"
    3906. 

  3906. 

  3907.             <ul>
    3908. 

  3908.               <li>(two image format)</li>
    3909. 

  3909. 

  3910.               <li>(one format for reading spline data)</li>
    3911. 

  3911. 

  3912.               <li>(two more ways of expressing unicode text
    3913. 

  3913.               data)</li>
    3914. 

  3914.             </ul>
    3915. 

  3915.           </li>
    3916. 

  3916.         </ul>
    3917. 

  3917.       </li>
    3918. 

  3918. 

  3919.       <li>10-Sept-2002
    3920. 

  3920. 

  3921.         <ul>
    3922. 

  3922.           <li>Added support for UTF8 in display/print dlg
    3923. 

  3923.           imports.</li>
    3924. 

  3924.         </ul>
    3925. 

  3925.       </li>
    3926. 

  3926. 

  3927.       <li>9-Sept-2002
    3928. 

  3928. 

  3929.         <ul>
    3930. 

  3930.           <li>Added support for loading Ikarus .IK font files</li>
    3931. 

  3931. 

  3932.           <li>Fixed a divide by zero problem when generating
    3933. 

  3933.           ttfs</li>
    3934. 

  3934. 

  3935.           <li>If you type into the Kern Pairs dlg, it will now
    3936. 

  3936.           scroll to the pairs associated with the character you
    3937. 

  3937.           typed.</li>
    3938. 

  3938.         </ul>
    3939. 

  3939.       </li>
    3940. 

  3940. 

  3941.       <li>8-Sept-2002
    3942. 

  3942. 

  3943.         <ul>
    3944. 

  3944.           <li>Display crashed on systems without freetype</li>
    3945. 

  3945. 

  3946.           <li>my xfig reader didn't handle arcs</li>
    3947. 

    3948. 

  3948.           <li>Merge fonts and Interpolate fonts didn't
    3949. 

  3949.           merge/interpolate kerning pairs</li>
    3950. 

  3950.         </ul>
    3951. 

  3951.       </li>
    3952. 

  3952. 

  3953.       <li>7-Sept-2002
    3954. 

  3954. 

  3955.         <ul>
    3956. 

  3956.           <li>The ruler tool will give the length of a spline if
    3957. 

  3957.           applied between the spline's endpoints</li>
    3958. 

    3959. 

  3959.           <li>Made FontForge a little smarter about when to change
    3960. 

  3960.           the xuid field. <!--
    3961. 

  3961.           <LI>
    3962. 

  3962.           Added the tile path command.
    3963. 

  3963.           --></li>
    3964. 

  3964. 

  3965.           <li>Added a dlg to <a href="display.html">display
    3966. 

  3966.           fonts</a> using freetype.</li>
    3967. 

  3967. 

  3968.           <li>Added support for the obsolete _XFREE86_GLYPH_RANGES
    3969. 

  3969.           property and then turned it off by default.</li>
    3970. 

  3970. 

  3971.           <li>Improvements to type2 output.</li>
    3972. 

  3972. 

  3973.           <li>Changed greek accents to use 0x384 rather than 0x30d
    3974. 

  3974.           when substituting for 0x301</li>
    3975. 

  3975. 

  3976.           <li>I've found another case where Apple and MS/Adobe
    3977. 

  3977.           disagree on the format of ttf/otf files. So there's now a
    3978. 

  3978.           check box in the Generate dlg which allows you to select
    3979. 

  3979.           between the two defns. I've removed the two different
    3980. 

  3980.           kinds of bitmaps for ttf files, these are now controlled
    3981. 

  3981.           by this new checkbox too.</li>
    3982. 

  3982. 

  3983.           <li>FontForge would sometimes in otf files generate
    3984. 

  3984.           curves which should have been done as lines.</li>
    3985. 

  3985. 

  3986.           <li>macbinary resource output broke when I fixed straight
    3987. 

  3987.           resource output the other day.</li>
    3988. 

  3988. 

  3989.           <li>When a grid line was a line but expressed with
    3990. 

  3990.           control points, then fontforge would get very confused
    3991. 

  3991.           about how to snap to it.</li>
    3992. 

  3992. 

  3993.           <li>Fixed a bug in the generation of ttf/otf fonts with
    3994. 

  3994.           big5/sjis/wansung encodings.</li>
    3995. 

  3995. 

  3996.           <li>The ligature dlg had a bad habit of crashing.</li>
    3997. 

  3997. 

  3998.           <li>On the Mac, Obliqued fonts are stored in a weird
    3999. 

  3999.           postscript format. Try to support them</li>
    4000. 

  4000.         </ul>
    4001. 

  4001.       </li>
    4002. 

  4002. 

  4003.       <li>2-Sept-2002
    4004. 

  4004. 

  4005.         <ul>
    4006. 

  4006.           <li>When in no-x mode, fontforge did not notice any
    4007. 

  4007.           arguments (except -script). It will now notice -version,
    4008. 

  4008.           -usage and -help.</li>
    4009. 

  4009. 

  4010.           <li>The PS Names check box would be visible when
    4011. 

  4011.           generating otf fonts. It should not have been.</li>
    4012. 

  4012. 

  4013.           <li>If a font contained multiple encodings for the same
    4014. 

  4014.           character, then generating an otf font from it would
    4015. 

  4015.           crash fontforge.</li>
    4016. 

  4016. 

  4017.           <li>There is now a proper french translation of the ui
    4018. 

  4018.           (Merci Pierre Hanser!)</li>
    4019. 

  4019. 

  4020.           <li>Under cygwin, FontForge would fail to find internet
    4021. 

  4021.           explorer/netscape (because not in user's path) and if it
    4022. 

  4022.           did find them would try to invoke them with a cygwin
    4023. 

  4023.           style name (ie.
    4024. 

  4024.           /usr/local/share/doc/fontforge/overview.html rather than
    4025. 

  4025.           c:\cygwin\usr/local/share/doc/fontforge/overview.html
    4026. 

  4026.           )</li>
    4027. 

  4027. 

  4028.           <li>Added a preference item to allow you to control
    4029. 

  4029.           whether a mapping file from glyph ids to character names
    4030. 

  4030.           is produced along with ttf and otf fonts.</li>
    4031. 

  4031.         </ul>
    4032. 

  4032.       </li>
    4033. 

  4033. 

  4034.       <li>1-Sept-2002
    4035. 

  4035. 

  4036.         <ul>
    4037. 

  4037.           <li>Added an #ifdef to an include file to make it work
    4038. 

  4038.           when built without X11</li>
    4039. 

  4039.         </ul>
    4040. 

  4040.       </li>
    4041. 

  4041. 

  4042.       <li>31-August-2002
    4043. 

  4043. 

  4044.         <ul>
    4045. 

  4045.           <li>Making a font be a cid-keyed font might screw up all
    4046. 

  4046.           other fontviews and lead to crashes.</li>
    4047. 

  4047. 

  4048.           <li>type1 cid keyed fonts got the wrong fontmatrix if the
    4049. 

  4049.           em-size was something other than 1000. Doesn't seem to
    4050. 

  4050.           make a difference though, we still get bad output for
    4051. 

  4051.           emsize!=1000</li>
    4052. 

  4052. 

  4053.           <li>got maxp.numGlyphs wrong for otf cid-keyed fonts
    4054. 

  4054.           which lacked a .notdef character</li>
    4055. 

  4055. 

  4056.           <li>Added a check to make sure fontnames are less than 63
    4057. 

  4057.           characters. Needed for ATM.</li>
    4058. 

  4058. 

  4059.           <li>format 2 Coverage tables (used by GPOS and GSUB
    4060. 

  4060.           tables (kerning &amp; ligatures for otf)) were being
    4061. 

  4061.           generated incorrectly. This meant that windows would
    4062. 

  4062.           refuse to read my otf files which had complex kerning.
    4063. 

  4063.           (presumably complex ligs, but I had no test cases). The
    4064. 

  4064.           mac printer driver has also had problems with my otf
    4065. 

  4065.           files. This may be why.</li>
    4066. 

  4066. 

  4067.           <li>Added a popup to the kern pair dlg to tell user how
    4068. 

  4068.           many kern pairs there are, and how many characters start
    4069. 

  4069.           kern pairs.</li>
    4070. 

  4070.         </ul>
    4071. 

  4071.       </li>
    4072. 

  4072. 

  4073.       <li>29-August-2002
    4074. 

  4074. 

  4075.         <ul>
    4076. 

  4076.           <li>Merge and Elide were backwards
    4077. 

  4077. 

  4078.             <ul>
    4079. 

  4079.               <li>And merge (simplify) had problems when a desired
    4080. 

  4080.               spline at the same slope at the start and end (or
    4081. 

  4081.               something like that).</li>
    4082. 

  4082.             </ul>
    4083. 

  4083.           </li>
    4084. 

  4084. 

  4085.           <li>Added a field to Review Hints showing the total
    4086. 

  4086.           number of hints, flag for h/vstem3, ability to move
    4087. 

  4087.           points associated with hint when moving hint. also added
    4088. 

  4088.           a hot key for it.</li>
    4089. 

  4089. 

  4090.           <li>Added a Find Problem to detect things which are
    4091. 

  4091.           almost but not quite h/vstem3</li>
    4092. 

  4092. 

  4093.           <li>AutoHint wasn't finding all the ghost hints it should
    4094. 

  4094.           have.</li>
    4095. 

  4095. 

  4096.           <li>Put in (what I hope is) a better way of detecting
    4097. 

  4097.           extraneous hints (the hypen case. At first sight the
    4098. 

  4098.           hstem and vstem appear equally valid) remove hints which
    4099. 

  4099.           are wider than they are long.</li>
    4100. 

  4100. 

  4101.           <li>More fixes from KANOU for cid fonts</li>
    4102. 

  4102. 

  4103.           <li>The scale to em checkbox only (sort of) worked if the
    4104. 

  4104.           emsize increased. Fix from KANOU</li>
    4105. 

  4105. 

  4106.           <li>Autohint could go into an infinite loop on characters
    4107. 

  4107.           containing a 0-length spline.</li>
    4108. 

  4108. 

  4109.           <li>Problem with cff name table fix of 27-Aug</li>
    4110. 

  4110. 

  4111.           <li>bdf fonts were loaded into background by default</li>
    4112. 

  4112. 

  4113.           <li>Scripting problem loading bitmap fonts into
    4114. 

  4114.           background.</li>
    4115. 

  4115.         </ul>
    4116. 

  4116.       </li>
    4117. 

  4117. 

  4118.       <li>27-August-2002
    4119. 

  4119. 

  4120.         <ul>
    4121. 

  4121.           <li>Further attempts to fix the fact that FontForge in
    4122. 

  4122.           some ways does not believe that monospaced ttf files are
    4123. 

  4123.           monospaced.</li>
    4124. 

  4124. 

  4125.           <li>Problems with endif</li>
    4126. 

  4126. 

  4127.           <li>Redid the Find Problems dialog by adding tabs so that
    4128. 

  4128.           related problems are grouped together.</li>
    4129. 

  4129. 

  4130.           <li>Added a problem which will report advance widths
    4131. 

  4131.           which do not match some standard value.</li>
    4132. 

  4132. 

  4133.           <li>CID keyed generation was broken again by the (failed)
    4134. 

  4134.           attempt to make things work with FontLab (18-Aug)</li>
    4135. 

  4135. 

  4136.           <li>cff name table could be off by 1 if there were a real
    4137. 

  4137.           notdef character</li>
    4138. 

  4138. 

  4139.           <li>Added ability to display blue zones in outline
    4140. 

  4140.           view.</li>
    4141. 

  4141.         </ul>
    4142. 

  4142.       </li>
    4143. 

  4143. 

  4144.       <li>21-August-2002
    4145. 

  4145. 

  4146.         <ul>
    4147. 

  4147.           <li>Broke cid-keyed otf generation on 27 July when I
    4148. 

  4148.           enabled the [Stop] button. Fix by KANOU.</li>
    4149. 

  4149. 

  4150.           <li>Bringing up progress indicator early (20 August)
    4151. 

  4151.           broke scripting without X11.</li>
    4152. 

  4152. 

  4153.           <li>Added ability to load a font protected by fstype=2 to
    4154. 

  4154.           a scripting (extra argument to open).</li>
    4155. 

  4155. 

  4156.           <li>Enhanced print abilities.</li>
    4157. 

  4157. 

  4158.           <li>Added ability to Print to scripting.</li>
    4159. 

  4159. 

  4160.           <li>Attempt to fix the fact that windows doesn't
    4161. 

  4161.           recognize my monospaced ttf fonts as monospace.</li>
    4162. 

  4162. 

  4163.           <li>FontForge could be confused by strange values of
    4164. 

  4164.           Ascent in the hhea table</li>
    4165. 

  4165. 

  4166.           <li>Added a Round to Int option to the transform
    4167. 

  4167.           dialogs</li>
    4168. 

  4168. 

  4169.           <li>Added ability to change the em-size (and rescale the
    4170. 

  4170.           font) to fontinfo</li>
    4171. 

  4171.         </ul>
    4172. 

  4172.       </li>
    4173. 

  4173. 

  4174.       <li>20-August-2002
    4175. 

  4175. 

  4176.         <ul>
    4177. 

  4177.           <li>Under KDE my tools palettes are made too wide and
    4178. 

  4178.           without borders. That's ok until they get reparented
    4179. 

  4179.           (docked). Added code in the docking routines to fix these
    4180. 

  4180.           problems.</li>
    4181. 

  4181. 

  4182.           <li>May have fixed a race condition problem due to
    4183. 

  4183.           reparented windows under freebsd.</li>
    4184. 

  4184. 

  4185.           <li>TeX sfd files are a little more complicated than I
    4186. 

  4186.           had originally thought, the parser is now more
    4187. 

  4187.           general.</li>
    4188. 

  4188. 

  4189.           <li>FontForge sometimes thought some X fonts had
    4190. 

  4190.           iso8859-1 encoding when they did not.</li>
    4191. 

  4191. 

  4192.           <li>cleaned up some problems with encodings</li>
    4193. 

  4193. 

  4194.           <li>Added support for TeX (actually MetaFont) gf
    4195. 

  4195.           files</li>
    4196. 

  4196. 

  4197.           <li>RLE background images sometimes showed up inverted
    4198. 

  4198.           (with background color as foreground &amp; vice
    4199. 

  4199.           versa)</li>
    4200. 

  4200. 

  4201.           <li>The Fit in window command should now take docked
    4202. 

  4202.           palettes into consideration.</li>
    4203. 

  4203. 

  4204.           <li>Added a Japanese translation of the UI, courtesy of
    4205. 

  4205.           KANOU Hiroki.</li>
    4206. 

  4206. 

  4207.           <li>Added the ability to run <code>mf</code> on a .mf
    4208. 

  4208.           font, generate a gf file, autotrace the gf file, and
    4209. 

  4209.           leave you with a font based on an mf file.</li>
    4210. 

  4210. 

  4211.           <li>Menus now do pointer grabs.</li>
    4212. 

  4212. 

  4213.           <li>Fixed a bug in generating PostScript resource file
    4214. 

  4214.           fonts on Mac OS/X</li>
    4215. 

  4215.         </ul>
    4216. 

  4216.       </li>
    4217. 

  4217. 

  4218.       <li>18-August-2002
    4219. 

  4219. 

  4220.         <ul>
    4221. 

  4221.           <li>Added a dlg to show all kern pairs (and another to
    4222. 

  4222.           show all ligatures)</li>
    4223. 

  4223. 

  4224.           <li>Added a "Find Problems" item to check for missing
    4225. 

  4225.           bitmaps.</li>
    4226. 

  4226. 

  4227.           <li>Put in some warnings to the ttf parser for bad cmap
    4228. 

  4228.           and glyf tables</li>
    4229. 

  4229. 

  4230.           <li>FontForge was still having trouble about loading
    4231. 

  4231.           space bitmaps (that had been generated with
    4232. 

  4232.           freetype).</li>
    4233. 

  4233. 

  4234.           <li>FontForge did not set the flag indicating manual
    4235. 

  4235.           hinting after changes by Review Hints or Create Hint.
    4236. 

  4236.           Should be set now.</li>
    4237. 

  4237. 

  4238.           <li>Various small tweaks to the pfa/pfb output because
    4239. 

  4239.           FontLab doesn't like what we currently do. Probably none
    4240. 

  4240.           will make much difference.</li>
    4241. 

  4241. 

  4242.           <li>The Print command would attempt to print characters
    4243. 

  4243.           outside the encoding of type1 fonts. This did not work
    4244. 

  4244.           well.</li>
    4245. 

  4245. 

  4246.           <li>The autowidth command got very confused when given a
    4247. 

  4247.           sans-serif script to autowidth when the Latin characters
    4248. 

  4248.           in the font were serifed.</li>
    4249. 

  4249. 

  4250.           <li>The Print sample text is now ordered so that the
    4251. 

  4251.           language specified in the LANG environment variable comes
    4252. 

  4252.           first in the list.</li>
    4253. 

  4253. 

  4254.           <li>Added $version</li>
    4255. 

  4255. 

  4256.           <li>FontForge will now read scripts from stdin if you
    4257. 

  4257.           follow the "-script" argument with "-".</li>
    4258. 

  4258. 

  4259.           <li>Valek points out the using CharInfo to change a
    4260. 

  4260.           character's color did not change it until the fontview
    4261. 

  4261.           was refreshed</li>
    4262. 

  4262. 

  4263.           <li>Expand Stroke had problems when intersections bent
    4264. 

  4264.           the wrong way.</li>
    4265. 

  4265.         </ul>
    4266. 

  4266.       </li>
    4267. 

  4267. 

  4268.       <li>9-August-2002
    4269. 

  4269. 

  4270.         <ul>
    4271. 

  4271.           <li>I've decided to encourage use of the <a href=
    4272. 

  4272.           "index.html#Mail">mailing lists</a> for reporting bugs. A
    4273. 

  4273.           feeble attempt to cut down on the spam I get by removing
    4274. 

  4274.           my e-mail address from the site.</li>
    4275. 

  4275. 

  4276.           <li>Bug in the dlg asking for the resolution of a bdf
    4277. 

  4277.           font. The second (and subsequent) time(s) it came up it
    4278. 

  4278.           would have a good chance of never going away again, and
    4279. 

  4279.           potentially crashing FontForge into the bargain. (number
    4280. 

  4280.           of other bugs here too)</li>
    4281. 

  4281. 

  4282.           <li>If the postscript "FontName" contained a hyphen then
    4283. 

  4283.           any generated BDF fonts would have invalid X fontnames
    4284. 

  4284.           (they hyphen would be included which would throw the name
    4285. 

  4285.           parsing off by one hyphen).</li>
    4286. 

  4286. 

  4287.           <li>Greg Ford points out that generating a bdf font and
    4288. 

  4288.           then loading it back in will often change the fontname.
    4289. 

  4289.           This is because the fontname is not actually stored in
    4290. 

  4290.           bdf files. I've added a FONT_NAME property to the bdf
    4291. 

  4291.           fonts I generate.</li>
    4292. 

  4292. 

  4293.           <li>FontForge would sometimes forget about the first
    4294. 

  4294.           bitmap character in each bitmap font stored in an sfd
    4295. 

  4295.           file. <span class="c1"><strong><big>Please check any sfd
    4296. 

  4296.           files to see if they are missing bitmaps of space,
    4297. 

  4297.           exclamation point, etc.</big></strong></span> Probably
    4298. 

  4298.           introduced 11-June.</li>
    4299. 

  4299.         </ul>
    4300. 

  4300.       </li>
    4301. 

  4301. 

  4302.       <li>8-Aug-2002
    4303. 

  4303. 

  4304.         <ul>
    4305. 

  4305.           <li>After yesterday's fix textfields ignored
    4306. 

  4306.           backspaces</li>
    4307. 

  4307. 

  4308.           <li>More work on the metrics lines. There's now a dlg to
    4309. 

  4309.           control which ones get drawn.</li>
    4310. 

  4310. 

  4311.           <li>FontInfo would sometimes crash after adding ttf
    4312. 

  4312.           names.</li>
    4313. 

  4313. 

  4314.           <li>Added minimal ability to dock palettes into their
    4315. 

  4315.           respective views.</li>
    4316. 

  4316. 

  4317.           <li>Added a way of looking at the fontview where there
    4318. 

  4318.           are now holes in the font (ie. a compacted view where
    4319. 

  4319.           every cell contains a glyph). This is just another
    4320. 

  4320.           encoding, but people have been asking for it and it is
    4321. 

  4321.           slightly easier to get to than normal reencoding of a
    4322. 

  4322.           font. Note: It has no defined relationship to the glyph
    4323. 

  4323.           array in a ttf file.</li>
    4324. 

  4324.         </ul>
    4325. 

  4325.       </li>
    4326. 

  4326. 

  4327.       <li>7-Aug-2002
    4328. 

  4328. 

  4329.         <ul>
    4330. 

  4330.           <li>The 21-July autowidth/kern change broke
    4331. 

  4331.           autowidth/kern scripting.</li>
    4332. 

  4332. 

  4333.           <li>And the serif detection failed if the character I did
    4334. 

  4334.           not reach the baseline.</li>
    4335. 

  4335. 

  4336.           <li>FontForge read RGB png files incorrectly.</li>
    4337. 

  4337. 

  4338.           <li>FontForge used to bring up most dialogs underneath
    4339. 

  4339.           the cursor. Now it only does that if the focus is set to
    4340. 

  4340.           FocusFollowsMouse, and otherwise centers dlgs.</li>
    4341. 

  4341. 

  4342.           <li>FontForge now will draw metrics lines in the fontview
    4343. 

  4343.           if you want it to.</li>
    4344. 

  4344. 

  4345.           <li>FontForge remembers what outline character views were
    4346. 

  4346.           open when a font was saved (as an sfd file) and will
    4347. 

  4347.           automagically reopen them when you next load that
    4348. 

  4348.           font.</li>
    4349. 

  4349. 

  4350.           <li>Added <code>View-&gt;Find In Font View</code> command
    4351. 

  4351.           to the outline character view. Will scroll the fontview
    4352. 

  4352.           to display the current character.</li>
    4353. 

  4353. 

  4354.           <li>Textfields within FontForge ignored the numeric
    4355. 

  4355.           keypad</li>
    4356. 

  4356.         </ul>
    4357. 

  4357.       </li>
    4358. 

  4358. 

  4359.       <li>4-Aug-2002
    4360. 

  4360. 

  4361.         <ul>
    4362. 

  4362.           <li>Yesterday's resize fix didn't quite work</li>
    4363. 

  4363. 

  4364.           <li>Try to improve conversion of cubic to quadratic
    4365. 

  4365.           spline (actually, we make the conversion worse, but it
    4366. 

  4366.           probably helps rasterizers not to have points quite so
    4367. 

  4367.           close together).</li>
    4368. 

  4368. 

  4369.           <li>Some more work on the TTF style name</li>
    4370. 

  4370.         </ul>
    4371. 

  4371.       </li>
    4372. 

  4372. 

  4373.       <li>3-Aug-2002
    4374. 

  4374. 

  4375.         <ul>
    4376. 

  4376.           <li>Failed to read ttf fontnames properly for some dfonts
    4377. 

  4377.           (probably some ttc files as well)</li>
    4378. 

  4378. 

  4379.           <li>Didn't position references by point matching properly
    4380. 

  4380.           (when loading from ttf)</li>
    4381. 

  4381. 

  4382.           <li>removed some debugging code inadvertently left in
    4383. 

  4383.           after the rle fix.</li>
    4384. 

  4384. 

  4385.           <li>Added support for <a href="xim.html">X Input
    4386. 

  4386.           Methods</a> (to do CJK character input properly)<br />
    4387. 

  4387.           This only works if X_HAVE_UTF8_STRING is defined -- an
    4388. 

  4388.           XFree 4.0.2 extension (ie. not on solaris)</li>
    4389. 

  4389. 

  4390.           <li>Added a possible fix to a resizing problem for some
    4391. 

  4391.           window managers.</li>
    4392. 

  4392. 

  4393.           <li>Added CIDFlattenByCMap function to scripting.</li>
    4394. 

  4394.         </ul>
    4395. 

  4395.       </li>
    4396. 

  4396. 

  4397.       <li>30-July-2002
    4398. 

  4398. 

  4399.         <ul>
    4400. 

  4400.           <li>Fixed a couple of problems found by <a href=
    4401. 

  4401.           "http://developer.kde.org/~sewardj/">valgrind</a></li>
    4402. 

  4402. 

  4403.           <li>Applied a patch from KANOU Hiroki. PasteInto did not
    4404. 

  4404.           work.</li>
    4405. 

  4405. 

  4406.           <li>Added run length encoding compression to sfd files
    4407. 

  4407.           (for background images). Bitmap image sizes are much
    4408. 

  4408.           smaller now.</li>
    4409. 

  4409. 

  4410.           <li>FontForge failed to recognize that a PNG black and
    4411. 

  4411.           white image was monochrome.</li>
    4412. 

  4412. 

  4413.           <li>Now FontForge will immediately put up the progress
    4414. 

  4414.           indicator when loading the first font (so the user has
    4415. 

  4415.           something to look at)</li>
    4416. 

  4416. 

  4417.           <li>A little more work on generate multiple.</li>
    4418. 

  4418. 

  4419.           <li>Removed a confusing message about autohinting a font
    4420. 

  4420.           for which no autohinting was actually done (it was just
    4421. 

  4421.           checking to see if it needed to).</li>
    4422. 

  4422. 

  4423.           <li>Oops. Windows won't accept a ttf file if there is no
    4424. 

  4424.           name table entry with the same platform/specific entries
    4425. 

  4425.           as those in the cmap.</li>
    4426. 

  4426. 

  4427.           <li>If a character contained a reference to a blank
    4428. 

  4428.           character that FontForge decided wasn't worth outputting,
    4429. 

  4429.           then the truetype composite for it would not work.</li>
    4430. 

  4430. 

  4431.           <li>The standard format for the ttf "version" name is
    4432. 

  4432.           different from the equivalent postscript name. Added code
    4433. 

  4433.           to interconvert between the two rather than expecting
    4434. 

  4434.           them to be the same.</li>
    4435. 

  4435. 

  4436.           <li>Added a gasp table for when there was no
    4437. 

  4437.           hinting.</li>
    4438. 

  4438.         </ul>
    4439. 

  4439.       </li>
    4440. 

  4440. 

  4441.       <li>28-July-2002
    4442. 

  4442. 

  4443.         <ul>
    4444. 

  4444.           <li>Pressing the [Filter] button on a blank field will
    4445. 

  4445.           show the current filter text (holding the mouse over the
    4446. 

  4446.           [Filter] button will cause a popup to appear with the
    4447. 

  4447.           same info).</li>
    4448. 

  4448. 

  4449.           <li>If there were know selection the pressing an arrow
    4450. 

  4450.           key would presume that the selection was at encoding -1,
    4451. 

  4451.           which caused strange behavior. Now we will pretend that
    4452. 

  4452.           the selection is visible and halfway down the
    4453. 

  4453.           screen.</li>
    4454. 

  4454. 

  4455.           <li>Oops. CMap files allow for multiple encodings for the
    4456. 

  4456.           same glyph. Now prepared to put in refs.</li>
    4457. 

  4457. 

  4458.           <li>Oops. Generate multiple had several problems
    4459. 

  4459.           (couldn't handle encodings above 0x80000000, was
    4460. 

  4460.           surprised by empty font numbers, etc.)</li>
    4461. 

  4461. 

  4462.           <li>If a family name contained a space then only the
    4463. 

  4463.           first word in it would be read out of an sfd file</li>
    4464. 

  4464.         </ul>
    4465. 

  4465.       </li>
    4466. 

  4466. 

  4467.       <li>27-July-2002
    4468. 

  4468. 

  4469.         <ul>
    4470. 

  4470.           <li>Oops. I was calling TeX sfd files Sub Font
    4471. 

  4471.           Directories and their proper name was Sub Font
    4472. 

  4472.           Definition.</li>
    4473. 

  4473. 

  4474.           <li>Enabled the [Stop] button in the progress dlg when
    4475. 

  4475.           saving a font.</li>
    4476. 

  4476. 

  4477.           <li>FontForge would go into an infinite loop when reading
    4478. 

  4478.           one of its sfd files when it was expecting a TeX sfd
    4479. 

  4479.           file. Fixed, and put in guards so that won't happen
    4480. 

  4480.           anyway.</li>
    4481. 

  4481. 

  4482.           <li>Added two new menu commands "Flatten to CMap" and
    4483. 

  4483.           "Convert By CMap". These will use one of Adobe's CMap
    4484. 

  4484.           files to guide the Flattening/Converting process (rather
    4485. 

  4485.           than one of my cidmap files)</li>
    4486. 

  4486. 

  4487.           <li>Added support for some really large encodings if they
    4488. 

  4488.           have almost equally large gaps in them (use adobe's
    4489. 

  4489.           "coderange" data to manage a sparce array).</li>
    4490. 

  4490. 

  4491.           <li>If we could not find any style modifiers in a
    4492. 

  4492.           fontname, then we used to claim that the style was
    4493. 

  4493.           "Regular". I think it is better if we claim that it is
    4494. 

  4494.           /Width (ie. whatever is in the FontInfo /Width entry) and
    4495. 

  4495.           if that isn't set then return "Regular")</li>
    4496. 

  4496.         </ul>
    4497. 

  4497.       </li>
    4498. 

  4498. 

  4499.       <li>26-July-2002
    4500. 

  4500. 

  4501.         <ul>
    4502. 

  4502.           <li>Added support for Werner's (TeX's) Sub Font
    4503. 

  4503.           Definition files which provide a way of splitting up a 2
    4504. 

  4504.           byte encoding into lots of little pfb fonts with 256
    4505. 

  4505.           characters in each.</li>
    4506. 

  4506. 

  4507.           <li>Normally in a ttf font, FontForge generates a 'post'
    4508. 

  4508.           table with the names of all the characters in it. I've
    4509. 

  4509.           just added a way to make it generate a short 'post' table
    4510. 

  4510.           with no character names.</li>
    4511. 

  4511. 

  4512.           <li>FontForge generates bad truetype hints. There is now
    4513. 

  4513.           a way to turn these off in the Generate Font dlg.</li>
    4514. 

  4514.         </ul>
    4515. 

  4515.       </li>
    4516. 

  4516. 

  4517.       <li>24-July-2002
    4518. 

  4518. 

  4519.         <ul>
    4520. 

  4520.           <li>Code for finding the style still not working as it
    4521. 

  4521.           should.</li>
    4522. 

  4522. 

  4523.           <li>Oops, the postscript parser was over-zealous about
    4524. 

  4524.           generating warnings.</li>
    4525. 

  4525. 

  4526.           <li>Oops, the code which interprets results from
    4527. 

  4527.           autotrace was over-zealous on getting rid of contours in
    4528. 

  4528.           small images.
    4529. 

  4529.             <hr />
    4530. 

  4530.           </li>
    4531. 

  4531. 

  4532.           <li>SetUnicodeValue did not behave as it should
    4533. 

  4533.           have.</li>
    4534. 

  4534. 

  4535.           <li>Made acorn2sfd a little sturdier.
    4536. 

  4536.             <hr />
    4537. 

  4537.           </li>
    4538. 

  4538. 

  4539.           <li>Bitmap copies didn't work from the font view
    4540. 

  4540.           (probably broke when I added anti-aliased support)</li>
    4541. 

  4541.         </ul>
    4542. 

  4542.       </li>
    4543. 

  4543. 

  4544.       <li>23-July-2002
    4545. 

  4545. 

  4546.         <ul>
    4547. 

  4547.           <li>Crash bug introduced yesterday by the duplicate name
    4548. 

  4548.           work.</li>
    4549. 

  4549. 

  4550.           <li>Initial version of <i><a href=
    4551. 

  4551.           "acorn2sfd.html">acorn2sfd</a></i> -- a program to
    4552. 

  4552.           convert Acorn RISC/OS font directories into sfd
    4553. 

  4553.           files.</li>
    4554. 

  4554. 

  4555.           <li>If a font is loaded from a ttf file, then it will
    4556. 

  4556.           have both postscript and ttf versions of certain names
    4557. 

  4557.           stored (family, copyright, version, etc.). The postscript
    4558. 

  4558.           names are obviously displayed, but changing them would
    4559. 

  4559.           not change the ttf versions. So generating a ttf font and
    4560. 

  4560.           then looking at it would still show the old setting of
    4561. 

  4561.           the name. The two should be better synchronized now.</li>
    4562. 

  4562.         </ul>
    4563. 

  4563.       </li>
    4564. 

  4564. 

  4565.       <li>22-July-2002
    4566. 

  4566. 

  4567.         <ul>
    4568. 

  4568.           <li>Introduced a crash yesterday if a postscript font
    4569. 

  4569.           contained an name in an encoding vector which was not
    4570. 

  4570.           defined in the font.
    4571. 

  4571.             <hr />
    4572. 

  4572.           </li>
    4573. 

  4573. 

  4574.           <li>More work on duplicate names. I no longer append a
    4575. 

  4575.           ".&lt;number&gt;" to the end of duplicate entries and
    4576. 

  4576.           when generating fonts I remove them and generate an
    4577. 

  4577.           encoding with has multiple references to the base glyph.
    4578. 

  4578.           Which is what I should have been doing.</li>
    4579. 

  4579. 

  4580.           <li>Small improvements to the style name detector.</li>
    4581. 

  4581. 

  4582.           <li>If the Width field was a null string, then reading it
    4583. 

  4583.           from an sfd file caused us to thing the next keyword was
    4584. 

  4584.           the width.</li>
    4585. 

  4585. 

  4586.           <li>Fixed a bug in the display of menus.</li>
    4587. 

  4587.         </ul>
    4588. 

  4588.       </li>
    4589. 

  4589. 

  4590.       <li>21-July-2002
    4591. 

  4591. 

  4592.         <ul>
    4593. 

  4593.           <li>Various small bugs in build accented characters</li>
    4594. 

  4594. 

  4595.           <li>On the mac the filenames for mac resource fonts are
    4596. 

  4596.           different from same fonts elsewhere (elsewhere they have
    4597. 

  4597.           an additional ".bin"). Made either extension work from a
    4598. 

  4598.           script file (so they can work cross platform).</li>
    4599. 

  4599. 

  4600.           <li>Expand Stroke had problems with curved splines where
    4601. 

  4601.           the slope at one of the end-points was 0/0. Since this
    4602. 

  4602.           will happen by default when joining a corner point to a
    4603. 

  4603.           curved point this should have been a frequent
    4604. 

  4604.           occurrence.</li>
    4605. 

  4605. 

  4606.           <li>Bug in generating 'post' table if glyph 0 existed but
    4607. 

  4607.           was not .notdef.</li>
    4608. 

  4608. 

  4609.           <li>PostScript fonts with one glyph going to multiple
    4610. 

  4610.           encodings cause problems.</li>
    4611. 

  4611. 

  4612.           <li>Now both PS and TTF load will have consistent names
    4613. 

  4613.           in the above case.</li>
    4614. 

  4614. 

  4615.           <li>My presumption of how symbol encodings were stored
    4616. 

  4616.           under MicroSoft was wrong. It is not a one byte encoding,
    4617. 

  4617.           it is a map into the private/corporate use area of
    4618. 

  4618.           unicode. 0xf000-0xf0ff. Changed to deal with that.</li>
    4619. 

  4619. 

  4620.           <li>Loading a font with mac roman encoding often
    4621. 

  4621.           generated a font of 65536 characters (rather than 256+a
    4622. 

  4622.           few extras). Fixed.</li>
    4623. 

  4623. 

  4624.           <li>New version of autowidth/kern. I don't think it kerns
    4625. 

  4625.           serifed fonts well, might do ok for sans.</li>
    4626. 

  4626. 

  4627.           <li>Ability to provide autokern with a list of potential
    4628. 

  4628.           kern pairs and have it just check them.
    4629. 

  4629.             <hr />
    4630. 

  4630.           </li>
    4631. 

  4631. 

  4632.           <li>Scripting support for kernpair files</li>
    4633. 

  4633. 

  4634.           <li>AutoWidth/Kern now does a little better on serifed
    4635. 

  4635.           fonts</li>
    4636. 

  4636.         </ul>
    4637. 

  4637.       </li>
    4638. 

  4638. 

  4639.       <li>15-July-2002
    4640. 

  4640. 

  4641.         <ul>
    4642. 

  4642.           <li>Correct Direction should now only set the changed bit
    4643. 

  4643.           when it actually changes a character.</li>
    4644. 

  4644. 

  4645.           <li>Correct Direction will now warn about flipped
    4646. 

  4646.           references, and offer you the chance to unlink them
    4647. 

  4647.           (after which it will be able to correct their
    4648. 

  4648.           direction)</li>
    4649. 

  4649. 

  4650.           <li>Added ability to scripting to check if a character
    4651. 

  4651.           has changed, and to get a font's filename.</li>
    4652. 

    4653. 

  4653.           <li>Cleaned up build accented chars a bit.</li>
    4654. 

  4654. 

  4655.           <li>Another attempt to keep X from crashing on
    4656. 

  4656.           disappearing progress dlgs.</li>
    4657. 

  4657. 

  4658.           <li>Maximizing the fontview could make it bigger than the
    4659. 

  4659.           screen so that the scroll bar was unusable.</li>
    4660. 

  4660.         </ul>
    4661. 

  4661.       </li>
    4662. 

  4662. 

  4663.       <li>14-July-2002
    4664. 

  4664. 

  4665.         <ul>
    4666. 

  4666.           <li>Valek points out that bitmaps generated by freetype
    4667. 

  4667.           were one pixel too high.</li>
    4668. 

  4668. 

  4669.           <li>Changed the get info dlg for references so that the
    4670. 

  4670.           user could change the transformation matrix.</li>
    4671. 

  4671. 

  4672.           <li>Font Info-&gt;PS Private got the wrong value when
    4673. 

  4673.           guessing the vertical stem snaps</li>
    4674. 

  4674. 

  4675.           <li>FontForge did not find ghost hints for things at the
    4676. 

  4676.           numeric height.</li>
    4677. 

  4677. 

  4678.           <li>FontForge got non-integer values for some hints where
    4679. 

  4679.           it should have found integer values.</li>
    4680. 

  4680. 

  4681.           <li>Bug when auto-hinting references fixed.</li>
    4682. 

  4682. 

  4683.           <li>FontForge would find hints for things that don't need
    4684. 

  4684.           to be hinted (finding a vertical stem for the top of "E"
    4685. 

  4685.           for instance. There is a vertical stem there, but it is
    4686. 

  4686.           deemed irrelevant). It now finds fewer of these hints. I
    4687. 

  4687.           hope it still finds all the legitimate ones.</li>
    4688. 

  4688.         </ul>
    4689. 

  4689.       </li>
    4690. 

  4690. 

  4691.       <li>13-July-2002
    4692. 

  4692. 

  4693.         <ul>
    4694. 

  4694.           <li>I think I've finally worked out Apple's scaled offset
    4695. 

  4695.           <a href="Composites/index.html">composite</a> glyphs (and
    4696. 

  4696.           they do not behave as Apple documents)</li>
    4697. 

  4697. 

  4698.           <li>FontForge was not setting the maxCompositePoints and
    4699. 

  4699.           maxCompositeContours fields of the maxp table of truetype
    4700. 

  4700.           fonts. This meant that in some cases rasterizers would
    4701. 

  4701.           crash when trying to deal with characters containing many
    4702. 

  4702.           components.</li>
    4703. 

  4703. 

  4704.           <li>The translation tables between unicode and johab were
    4705. 

  4705.           wrong.</li>
    4706. 

  4706. 

  4707.           <li>FontForge failed to generate ttf fonts with
    4708. 

  4708.           big5/sjis/wansung cmaps.</li>
    4709. 

  4709. 

  4710.           <li>Changed so that reading sjis/wansung encoded ttf
    4711. 

  4711.           files would use a sjis/wansung encoding in fontforge
    4712. 

  4712.           (rather than the 94x94 encoding that no one but me seems
    4713. 

  4713.           to understand).</li>
    4714. 

  4714.         </ul>
    4715. 

  4715.       </li>
    4716. 

  4716. 

  4717.       <li>9-July-2002
    4718. 

  4718. 

  4719.         <ul>
    4720. 

  4720.           <li>Bug in generating ttf fonts with embedded
    4721. 

  4721.           bitmaps.</li>
    4722. 

  4722. 

  4723.           <li>Open Font dlg will now try again if it can't load a
    4724. 

  4724.           valid font.</li>
    4725. 

  4725. 

  4726.           <li>Started working on a <a href=
    4727. 

  4727.           "http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.cgi/fontforge/fontforge/test/">
    4728. 

  4728.             minimal testsuite</a>, and what do you know? I found
    4729. 

  4729.             some bugs...
    4730. 

  4730. 

  4731.             <ul>
    4732. 

  4732.               <li>Scripting had problems when user preference was
    4733. 

  4733.               set to ask for bdf resolution.</li>
    4734. 

  4734. 

  4735.               <li>Generate() scripting built in now takes an
    4736. 

  4736.               optional resolution argument</li>
    4737. 

  4737. 

  4738.               <li>Problems generating the vertical metrics tables
    4739. 

  4739.               in cid keyed otf fonts</li>
    4740. 

  4740. 

  4741.               <li>Problems working with cid-keyed fonts in scripts
    4742. 

  4742.               if fontforge could not find the requisite cidmap file
    4743. 

  4743.                 <hr />
    4744. 

  4744.               </li>
    4745. 

  4745.             </ul>
    4746. 

  4746.           </li>
    4747. 

  4747. 

  4748.           <li>Fixed various problems with parsing EPS files, and
    4749. 

  4749.           extended the vocabulary a little.</li>
    4750. 

  4750. 

  4751.           <li>If the ".notdef" character was whitespace (as it is
    4752. 

  4752.           for most postscript fonts) then generating a ttf font
    4753. 

  4753.           would produce an entry for glyph 0 that both flint and NT
    4754. 

  4754.           consider to be erroneous, while freetype and windows
    4755. 

  4755.           think it's fine. Fixed so that Flint no longer
    4756. 

  4756.           complains.</li>
    4757. 

  4757. 

  4758.           <li>the fontview could get confused about matching short
    4759. 

  4759.           names with periods in them against the standard
    4760. 

  4760.           postscript unicode names, so it could think that "b.0"
    4761. 

  4761.           matched "bracketleft". This caused some confusion in the
    4762. 

  4762.           display.</li>
    4763. 

  4763.         </ul>
    4764. 

  4764.       </li>
    4765. 

  4765. 

  4766.       <li>27-June-2002
    4767. 

  4767. 

  4768.         <ul>
    4769. 

  4769.           <li>A couple more vms patches</li>
    4770. 

  4770.         </ul>
    4771. 

  4771.       </li>
    4772. 

  4772. 

  4773.       <li>26-June-2002
    4774. 

  4774. 

  4775.         <ul>
    4776. 

  4776.           <li>Merged in Jouk Jansen changes for OpenVMS</li>
    4777. 

  4777.         </ul>
    4778. 

  4778.       </li>
    4779. 

  4779. 

  4780.       <li>23-June-2002
    4781. 

  4781. 

  4782.         <ul>
    4783. 

  4783.           <li>Valek wanted to be able to add comments to characters
    4784. 

  4784.           and to flag characters with some visible mark. The
    4785. 

  4785.           <a href="charinfo.html#Character">Char Info</a> dlg has
    4786. 

  4786.           been extended to do this. The scripting language has been
    4787. 

  4787.           extended to allow scripts to set and test these too.</li>
    4788. 

  4788. 

  4789.           <li>Added a "foreach selected character in the font"
    4790. 

  4790.           loop.</li>
    4791. 

  4791. 

  4792.           <li>Added $selection variable to return the current
    4793. 

  4793.           selection as an array</li>
    4794. 

  4794. 

  4795.           <li>Extended the Select() and SelectMore() commands to
    4796. 

  4796.           accept an array as an argument (and set the selection to
    4797. 

  4797.           the array).</li>
    4798. 

  4798.         </ul>
    4799. 

  4799.       </li>
    4800. 

  4800. 

  4801.       <li>22-June-2002
    4802. 

  4802. 

  4803.         <ul>
    4804. 

  4804.           <li>Yesterday's unicode sprintf change introduced another
    4805. 

  4805.           bug. Fixed</li>
    4806. 

  4806. 

  4807.           <li>Valek points out that if you have a bitmap only font
    4808. 

  4808.           and you attempt simultaneously to scale it and delete all
    4809. 

  4809.           the bitmaps, then FontForge would crash. (Same thing
    4810. 

  4810.           would happen if you just removed all the bitmaps).</li>
    4811. 

  4811. 

  4812.           <li>Valek provided some additional russian
    4813. 

  4813.           translations.</li>
    4814. 

  4814.         </ul>
    4815. 

  4815.       </li>
    4816. 

  4816. 

  4817.       <li>21-June-2002
    4818. 

  4818. 

  4819.         <ul>
    4820. 

  4820.           <li>Ttf fonts seem to be unhappy if they contain a glyph
    4821. 

  4821.           with a single contour and a single point on that contour.
    4822. 

  4822.           I don't know why. Output all such as spaces.</li>
    4823. 

    4824. 

  4824.           <li>Added ability to set the resolution of a bdf
    4825. 

  4825.           font.</li>
    4826. 

  4826. 

  4827.           <li>Rearranged preferences.</li>
    4828. 

  4828. 

  4829.           <li>Added scripting access to Force-Encoding</li>
    4830. 

  4830. 

  4831.           <li>FontForge memory allocation optimizations didn't work
    4832. 

  4832.           if sizeof(int *)==8</li>
    4833. 

  4833. 

  4834.           <li>Bug in unicode sprintf routine when
    4835. 

  4835.           sizeof(long)==8</li>
    4836. 

  4836. 

  4837.           <li>In some cases when reading a ttf font with a
    4838. 

  4838.           (unicode) cmap which assigned one glyph to two encodings,
    4839. 

  4839.           and if that glyph happened to be in the
    4840. 

  4840.           AdobeStandardEncoding, then when converting to Type1
    4841. 

  4841.           FontForge would create a dictionary which recursively
    4842. 

  4842.           seac-ed (invoked) itself. This caused an infinite loop in
    4843. 

  4843.           GhostView, and crashed some printers.</li>
    4844. 

  4844.         </ul>
    4845. 

  4845.       </li>
    4846. 

  4846. 

  4847.       <li>11-June-2002
    4848. 

  4848. 

  4849.         <ul>
    4850. 

  4850.           <li>CID fix on 3 June was wrong, it broke all non-CID
    4851. 

  4851.           keyed postscript fonts (it did work for CID fonts). Both
    4852. 

  4852.           should work now.</li>
    4853. 

  4853. 

  4854.           <li>Added better support for bdf foundries and for bdf
    4855. 

  4855.           copyrights.</li>
    4856. 

  4856. 

  4857.           <li>Added a preference item to specify the ttf VendorID
    4858. 

  4858.           (foundry). Used to truncate the bdf foundry to 4
    4859. 

  4859.           characters.</li>
    4860. 

  4860. 

  4861.           <li>Small bug fix in print</li>
    4862. 

  4862. 

  4863.           <li>Cleaned up bug in scripting ($bitmaps)</li>
    4864. 

  4864.         </ul>
    4865. 

  4865.       </li>
    4866. 

  4866. 

  4867.       <li>7-June-2002
    4868. 

  4868. 

  4869.         <ul>
    4870. 

  4870.           <li>Fixed some more CID font problems</li>
    4871. 

  4871. 

  4872.           <li>Tweaked behavior of FamilyName/FullName in
    4873. 

  4873.           GetFontInfo dlg.</li>
    4874. 

  4874.         </ul>
    4875. 

  4875.       </li>
    4876. 

  4876. 

  4877.       <li>6-June-2002
    4878. 

  4878. 

  4879.         <ul>
    4880. 

  4880.           <li>FontForge now supports greymap strikes in truetype
    4881. 

  4881.           files</li>
    4882. 

  4882. 

  4883.           <li>The bitmap editor has been extended to handle greymap
    4884. 

  4884.           (anti-aliased) fonts</li>
    4885. 

  4885. 

  4886.           <li>There is no longer a separate mechanism for
    4887. 

  4887.           generating greymap files from the Generate Font dlg,
    4888. 

  4888.           instead they may be added to the font database file with
    4889. 

  4889.           the bitmap dlg.</li>
    4890. 

  4890. 

  4891.           <li>Added support for vertical metrics in bdf files.</li>
    4892. 

  4892. 

  4893.           <li>Fixed some problems in moving the vwidth line in
    4894. 

  4894.           outline character views</li>
    4895. 

  4895. 

  4896.           <li>Added some default window positioning code.</li>
    4897. 

  4897.         </ul>
    4898. 

  4898.       </li>
    4899. 

  4899. 

  4900.       <li>4-June-2002
    4901. 

  4901. 

  4902.         <ul>
    4903. 

  4903.           <li>Oops, more bug fixes for the new greymap format.</li>
    4904. 

  4904. 

  4905.           <li>One more attempt to solve the X Server bug where
    4906. 

  4906.           destroying/unmapping a window before its map notify event
    4907. 

  4907.           gets processed causes the X server to crash.</li>
    4908. 

  4908.         </ul>
    4909. 

  4909.       </li>
    4910. 

  4910. 

  4911.       <li>3-June-2002
    4912. 

  4912. 

  4913.         <ul>
    4914. 

  4914.           <li>Stopped using my extension to bdf to make it support
    4915. 

  4915.           greymaps and started using that supported by freetype
    4916. 

  4916.           (removed the BITSPERPIXEL keyword and added an extra
    4917. 

  4917.           argument to the SIZE keyword).</li>
    4918. 

  4918. 

  4919.           <li>More fixes for cid fonts</li>
    4920. 

  4920.         </ul>
    4921. 

  4921.       </li>
    4922. 

  4922. 

  4923.       <li>18-May-2002
    4924. 

  4924. 

  4925.         <ul>
    4926. 

  4926.           <li>Font Info will prompt user about changing the
    4927. 

  4927.           UniqueID/XUID if the font name is changed without
    4928. 

  4928.           changing them.</li>
    4929. 

  4929. 

  4930.           <li>Fixed some Mac configuration problems.</li>
    4931. 

  4931.         </ul>
    4932. 

  4932.       </li>
    4933. 

  4933. 

  4934.       <li>16-May-2002
    4935. 

  4935. 

  4936.         <ul>
    4937. 

  4937.           <li>FontForge would not compile when trying to used
    4938. 

  4938.           libjpeg as a static library (as on Mac OS/X)</li>
    4939. 

  4939. 

  4940.           <li>Use psili rather than koronis where appropriate</li>
    4941. 

  4941. 

  4942.           <li>It was not possible to select the ellipse/star tool
    4943. 

  4943.           from the tools palette.</li>
    4944. 

  4944.         </ul>
    4945. 

  4945.       </li>
    4946. 

  4946. 

  4947.       <li>14-May-2002
    4948. 

  4948. 

  4949.         <ul>
    4950. 

  4950.           <li>Made fontforge work without X (ie. the scripting
    4951. 

  4951.           engine can be linked without requiring that X be present.
    4952. 

  4952.           Possibly useful for Mac OS/X, Cygwin)
    4953. 

  4953.             <hr />
    4954. 

  4954.           </li>
    4955. 

  4955. 

  4956.           <li>When showing what a greek accented character will be
    4957. 

  4957.           built from, the character info dlg will now show the
    4958. 

  4958.           non-unicode alternate whether or not the characters
    4959. 

  4959.           needed exist in the font.</li>
    4960. 

  4960. 

  4961.           <li>The Reference Info dlg will now include the unicode
    4962. 

  4962.           value of the referenced character</li>
    4963. 

  4963. 

  4964.           <li>The positioning of ypogegrammeni with respect to eta
    4965. 

  4965.           was broken (again)</li>
    4966. 

  4966. 

  4967.           <li>Some more greek fixes.</li>
    4968. 

  4968.         </ul>
    4969. 

  4969.       </li>
    4970. 

  4970. 

  4971.       <li>13-May-2002
    4972. 

  4972. 

  4973.         <ul>
    4974. 

  4974.           <li>Various fixes for greek accented characters</li>
    4975. 

  4975.         </ul>
    4976. 

  4976.       </li>
    4977. 

  4977. 

  4978.       <li>7-May-2002
    4979. 

  4979. 

  4980.         <ul>
    4981. 

  4981.           <li>FontForge would crash when attempting to Flatten a
    4982. 

  4982.           CID keyed font (introduced 16-Apr with the multiple
    4983. 

  4983.           fontview support)</li>
    4984. 

  4984. 

  4985.           <li>FontForge did not process panose information
    4986. 

  4986.           correctly (broken 21-Jan, comment change)</li>
    4987. 

  4987. 

  4988.           <li>FontForge did not create new ttf names properly when
    4989. 

  4989.           they were for a language which had not been used before
    4990. 

  4990.           in the font.</li>
    4991. 

  4991.         </ul>
    4992. 

  4992.       </li>
    4993. 

  4993. 

  4994.       <li>6-May-2002
    4995. 

  4995. 

  4996.         <ul>
    4997. 

  4997.           <li>Oops. Adobe describes two naming conventions for
    4998. 

  4998.           ligatures and I only supported one of them. I should
    4999. 

  4999.           support the other one now.</li>
    5000. 

  5000. 

  5001.           <li>Fixed a number of bugs caused by custom
    5002. 

  5002.           encodings.</li>
    5003. 

  5003. 

  5004.           <li>If the selection in the font view contained either
    5005. 

  5005.           "dotlessi" or "dotlessj" and the Element menu was pulled
    5006. 

  5006.           down then the dotless characters would be created from
    5007. 

  5007.           their dotted variants (you didn't even have to select
    5008. 

  5008.           anything from the menu) (broken 24-Feb-2002)</li>
    5009. 

  5009. 

  5010.           <li>FontForge had trouble reading non-empty ttf glyphs
    5011. 

  5011.           with 0 contours.</li>
    5012. 

  5012. 

  5013.           <li>FontForge failed to read images from an sfd file
    5014. 

  5014.           without a transparent colour</li>
    5015. 

  5015. 

  5016.           <li>Allow parens in familyname in the fontinfo dlg.</li>
    5017. 

  5017. 

  5018.           <li>When the width was selected, depressing a mouse
    5019. 

  5019.           button would snap the logical pointer location to a
    5020. 

  5020.           random x coordinate (often 0).</li>
    5021. 

  5021. 

  5022.           <li>When generating a ttf file from a subfont of a CID
    5023. 

  5023.           keyed font fontforge would crash. This has been
    5024. 

  5024.           fixed.</li>
    5025. 

  5025. 

  5026.           <li>When exiting with multiple font views looking at one
    5027. 

  5027.           (changed) font, there would be no prompt to save the
    5028. 

  5028.           font.</li>
    5029. 

  5029. 

  5030.           <li>Added a <a href="search.html">Find/Replace</a>
    5031. 

  5031.           feature</li>
    5032. 

  5032.         </ul>
    5033. 

  5033.       </li>
    5034. 

  5034. 

  5035.       <li>16-Apr-2002
    5036. 

  5036. 

  5037.         <ul>
    5038. 

  5038.           <li>BDF fonts did not mark the missing (.notdef,
    5039. 

  5039.           undefined, etc.) character properly.</li>
    5040. 

  5040. 

  5041.           <li>otf fonts had the default and normative widths
    5042. 

  5042.           reversed on output</li>
    5043. 

  5043. 

  5044.           <li>Added marginally better support for non-latin
    5045. 

  5045.           ligatures in GPOS/GSUB tables.</li>
    5046. 

  5046. 

  5047.           <li>Added support for arabic forms in the GSUB table (ie.
    5048. 

  5048.           we now produce 'init', 'medi', 'fina', and 'isol'
    5049. 

  5049.           features)</li>
    5050. 

  5050. 

  5051.           <li>Build composite should now note whether arabic
    5052. 

  5052.           ligatures are &lt;initial&gt;, &lt;final&gt;,
    5053. 

  5053.           &lt;medial&gt; or &lt;isolated&gt;</li>
    5054. 

  5054. 

  5055.           <li>It is now possible to have multiple font views
    5056. 

  5056.           looking at one font. I expect this will be a rich source
    5057. 

  5057.           of bugs, especially for CID keyed fonts.</li>
    5058. 

  5058.         </ul>
    5059. 

  5059.       </li>
    5060. 

  5060. 

  5061.       <li>9-Apr-2002
    5062. 

  5062. 

  5063.         <ul>
    5064. 

  5064.           <li>Under KDE we could get two textfields flashing
    5065. 

  5065.           cursors (thinking they had focus) should be fixed.</li>
    5066. 

  5066. 

  5067.           <li>Added Undo/Redo to metricsview</li>
    5068. 

  5068. 

  5069.           <li>Added Undo/Redo to fontview</li>
    5070. 

  5070. 

  5071.           <li>Added Element menu to metricsview</li>
    5072. 

  5072. 

  5073.           <li>Added [Fix] button to (some of) Find Problems</li>
    5074. 

  5074.         </ul>
    5075. 

  5075.       </li>
    5076. 

  5076. 

  5077.       <li>5-Apr-2002
    5078. 

  5078. 

  5079.         <ul>
    5080. 

  5080.           <li>Applied various patches from KANOU Hiroki</li>
    5081. 

  5081. 

  5082.           <li>Changes to metricsview
    5083. 

  5083. 

  5084.             <ul>
    5085. 

  5085.               <li>Fixed some minor bugs</li>
    5086. 

  5086. 

  5087.               <li>Double clicking on a character will open that
    5088. 

  5088.               character</li>
    5089. 

  5089. 

  5090.               <li>Enabled Copy/(CopyRef/CopyWidth/)Paste but not
    5091. 

  5091.               Cut</li>
    5092. 

  5092.             </ul>
    5093. 

  5093.           </li>
    5094. 

  5094. 

  5095.           <li>FontForge had problems when there were exactly two X
    5096. 

  5096.           resources.</li>
    5097. 

  5097. 

  5098.           <li>Made the Point Info dlg wider.</li>
    5099. 

  5099. 

  5100.           <li>Improved printing text samples at large point
    5101. 

  5101.           sizes.</li>
    5102. 

  5102. 

  5103.           <li>I was generating flex hints incorrectly.</li>
    5104. 

  5104. 

  5105.           <li>Extended postscript interpreter slightly to recognize
    5106. 

  5106.           the eps files (called "art") produced by
    5107. 

  5107.           fontographer</li>
    5108. 

  5108. 

  5109.           <li>Additions to the scripting language
    5110. 

  5110. 

  5111.             <ul>
    5112. 

  5112.               <li>CenterInWidth</li>
    5113. 

  5113. 

  5114.               <li>AutoWidth (from Andreas Påhlsson)</li>
    5115. 

  5115. 

  5116.               <li>AutoKern</li>
    5117. 

  5117.             </ul>
    5118. 

  5118.           </li>
    5119. 

  5119. 

  5120.           <li>The Expand Stroke fix for 4-Mar-2001 was too
    5121. 

  5121.           extreme.</li>
    5122. 

  5122. 

  5123.           <li>Added a field to Char Info that shows the components
    5124. 

  5124.           out of which this character (accented, ligature, hangul
    5125. 

  5125.           syllable, etc.) may be built.</li>
    5126. 

  5126.         </ul>
    5127. 

  5127.       </li>
    5128. 

  5128. 

  5129.       <li>3-Apr-2002
    5130. 

  5130. 

  5131.         <ul>
    5132. 

  5132.           <li>Various scrollbar enhancements
    5133. 

  5133. 

  5134.             <ul>
    5135. 

  5135.               <li>thumb now has a bigger minimum size</li>
    5136. 

  5136. 

  5137.               <li>fontview/charview both respond to page up and
    5138. 

  5138.               page down requests</li>
    5139. 

  5139. 

  5140.               <li>right mouse button may be used to position
    5141. 

  5141.               thumb</li>
    5142. 

  5142.             </ul>
    5143. 

  5143.           </li>
    5144. 

  5144. 

  5145.           <li>Installed James A. Crippen makefile patch so that
    5146. 

  5146.           distclean reports success even if there are no files to
    5147. 

  5147.           clean.</li>
    5148. 

  5148. 

  5149.           <li>FontForge had problems guessing default ligatures for
    5150. 

  5150.           characters outside of BMP.</li>
    5151. 

  5151. 

  5152.           <li>In the outline character view, double clicking with
    5153. 

  5153.           one of the point tools (curve, corner, tangent, pen) will
    5154. 

  5154.           add a point and then bring up a <a href=
    5155. 

  5155.           "getinfo.html">Point Info</a> dialog</li>
    5156. 

  5156. 

  5157.           <li>If you edit in a textfield (so that the mouse pointer
    5158. 

  5158.           vanishes) and then tabbed into another text field the
    5159. 

  5159.           mouse pointer would never reappear.</li>
    5160. 

  5160. 

  5161.           <li>Merge Fonts left memory in a bad state and would
    5162. 

  5162.           often cause a crash.</li>
    5163. 

  5163. 

  5164.           <li>Merge Fonts used a string for a title which was ascii
    5165. 

  5165.           when unicode was expected. This could cause strange
    5166. 

  5166.           characters to be displayed.</li>
    5167. 

  5167. 

  5168.           <li>More fixes for build accented characters (for
    5169. 

  5169.           inverted breve and Oslash).</li>
    5170. 

  5170.         </ul>
    5171. 

  5171.       </li>
    5172. 

  5172. 

  5173.       <li>14-Mar-2002
    5174. 

  5174. 

  5175.         <ul>
    5176. 

  5176.           <li>Nifty. The modifier keys auto-repeat under cygwin (if
    5177. 

  5177.           Control is down one gets a series of Press/Release,
    5178. 

  5178.           Press/Release... while normal X just gives one Press.)
    5179. 

  5179.           This meant we'd keep refreshing the tools palette, which
    5180. 

  5180.           meant an annoying flicker and slowed things down.</li>
    5181. 

  5181. 

  5182.           <li>Raise the palettes after a resize</li>
    5183. 

  5183. 

  5184.           <li>FontForge didn't handle 8bit colormaps well. I've
    5185. 

  5185.           improved the behavior, and added an x resource to give
    5186. 

  5186.           the user some control over behavior.</li>
    5187. 

  5187.         </ul>
    5188. 

  5188.       </li>
    5189. 

  5189. 

  5190.       <li>10-Mar-2002
    5191. 

  5191. 

  5192.         <ul>
    5193. 

  5193.           <li>Oops. I broke CID-keyed postscript input (ie.
    5194. 

  5194.           none-otf) when I added the 6-Mar fix for type1utils</li>
    5195. 

  5195. 

  5196.           <li>Applied another patch from KANOU Hiroki, on otf cid
    5197. 

  5197.           support</li>
    5198. 

  5198.         </ul>
    5199. 

  5199.       </li>
    5200. 

  5200. 

  5201.       <li>9-Mar-2002
    5202. 

  5202. 

  5203.         <ul>
    5204. 

  5204.           <li>added docs for sfddiff.</li>
    5205. 

  5205.         </ul>
    5206. 

  5206.       </li>
    5207. 

  5207. 

  5208.       <li>8-Mar-2002
    5209. 

  5209. 

  5210.         <ul>
    5211. 

  5211.           <li>Added a new program, <a href=
    5212. 

  5212.           "sfddiff.html">sfddiff</a>, to compare fonts and show
    5213. 

  5213.           their differences.</li>
    5214. 

  5214.         </ul>
    5215. 

  5215.       </li>
    5216. 

  5216. 

  5217.       <li>6-Mar-2002
    5218. 

  5218. 

  5219.         <ul>
    5220. 

  5220.           <li>Small change to the format of cidmap files (to bring
    5221. 

  5221.           names into conformance with adobe's spec on modified
    5222. 

  5222.           unicode names), and corresponding changes to a few
    5223. 

  5223.           routines.</li>
    5224. 

  5224. 

  5225.           <li>Add support for the type1 format produced by GNU
    5226. 

  5226.           type1utils. Which is vaguely like that used by
    5227. 

  5227.           ghostview.</li>
    5228. 

  5228.         </ul>
    5229. 

  5229.       </li>
    5230. 

  5230. 

  5231.       <li>4-Mar-2002
    5232. 

  5232. 

  5233.         <ul>
    5234. 

  5234.           <li>Fixed more problems with reading eps files (these
    5235. 

  5235.           were mostly within Expand Stroke, so presumably also
    5236. 

  5236.           problems with Element-&gt;Expand Stroke)</li>
    5237. 

  5237. 

  5238.           <li>And one more problem with the file chooser.</li>
    5239. 

  5239. 

  5240.           <li>Scripting additions:
    5241. 

  5241. 

  5242.             <ul>
    5243. 

  5243.               <li>Ability to generate a pfm file from script</li>
    5244. 

  5244. 

  5245.               <li>Ability to Merge Kerning Info from a script</li>
    5246. 

  5246. 

  5247.               <li>Ability to Remove All Kerning info from a
    5248. 

  5248.               script</li>
    5249. 

  5249.             </ul>
    5250. 

  5250.           </li>
    5251. 

  5251. 

  5252.           <li>
    5253. 

  5253.             <hr />
    5254. 

  5254.             Will now display something useful for rotated and
    5255. 

  5255.             italic cids
    5256. 

  5256.           </li>
    5257. 

  5257.         </ul>
    5258. 

  5258.       </li>
    5259. 

  5259. 

  5260.       <li>3-Mar-2002
    5261. 

  5261. 

  5262.         <ul>
    5263. 

  5263.           <li>Fixed a number of problems involved in reading in eps
    5264. 

  5264.           files.</li>
    5265. 

  5265. 

  5266.           <li>28-Feb Mac work introduced a bug in the file picker
    5267. 

  5267.           dlg (in wildcarding).</li>
    5268. 

  5268.         </ul>
    5269. 

  5269.       </li>
    5270. 

  5270. 

  5271.       <li>2-Mar-2002
    5272. 

  5272. 

  5273.         <ul>
    5274. 

  5274.           <li>Rounding errors could accumulate when generating
    5275. 

  5275.           Type1 fonts.</li>
    5276. 

  5276. 

  5277.           <li>Fix for some overlap problems due to KANOU
    5278. 

  5278.           Hiroki</li>
    5279. 

  5279. 

  5280.           <li>If FontForge crashed (or was interrupted) after
    5281. 

  5281.           making some (unsaved) changes to a font, and that font
    5282. 

  5282.           was subsequently deleted, the FontForge's autorecovery
    5283. 

  5283.           would complain about a missing file each time it was
    5284. 

  5284.           started. Now it will notice the problem and ask whether
    5285. 

  5285.           it should delete the recovery file (whereupon it will
    5286. 

  5286.           stop complaining).</li>
    5287. 

  5287. 

  5288.           <li>Enabled a fix from Greg Ford so that FontForge set
    5289. 

  5289.           the mac style bits appropriately.</li>
    5290. 

  5290.         </ul>
    5291. 

  5291.       </li>
    5292. 

  5292. 

  5293.       <li>28-Feb-2002
    5294. 

  5294. 

  5295.         <ul>
    5296. 

  5296.           <li>When running under Mac OS/X FontForge is now able to
    5297. 

  5297.           open/create mac resource forks</li>
    5298. 

  5298. 

  5299.           <li>I may have fixed a bug displaying images on solaris
    5300. 

  5300.           screens with bit depth 8</li>
    5301. 

  5301. 

  5302.           <li>Cleaned up a problem with the postscript name table
    5303. 

  5303.           (in a ttf file) when there was a .notdef character</li>
    5304. 

  5304. 

  5305.           <li>Fixed some problems with references when reading in
    5306. 

  5306.           truetype.</li>
    5307. 

  5307.         </ul>
    5308. 

  5308.       </li>
    5309. 

  5309. 

  5310.       <li>24-Feb-2002
    5311. 

  5311. 

  5312.         <ul>
    5313. 

  5313.           <li>Substr() did not work when given three arguments</li>
    5314. 

  5314. 

  5315.           <li>Added
    5316. 

  5316. 

  5317.             <ul>
    5318. 

  5318.               <li>$bitmaps (returns an array of all bitmap sizes
    5319. 

  5319.               rasterized for the current font)</li>
    5320. 

  5320. 

  5321.               <li>BitmapsAvail()</li>
    5322. 

  5322. 

  5323.               <li>BitmapsRegen()</li>
    5324. 

  5324.             </ul>
    5325. 

  5325.           </li>
    5326. 

  5326. 

  5327.           <li>Changed the FontInfo dlg to give direct access to the
    5328. 

  5328.           postscript names rather than trying to build the fontname
    5329. 

  5329.           out of family and modifiers.</li>
    5330. 

  5330. 

  5331.           <li>Added the ability to create an encoding which is any
    5332. 

  5332.           given plane of unicode (ie BMP is plane 0, SMP is plane
    5333. 

  5333.           1, SIP is plane 2...)</li>
    5334. 

  5334. 

  5335.           <li>Fixed a bug in Revert</li>
    5336. 

  5336. 

  5337.           <li>More work on hints.
    5338. 

  5338.             <hr />
    5339. 

  5339.           </li>
    5340. 

  5340. 

  5341.           <li>Build Composite will now build a dotlessi from an "i"
    5342. 

  5342.           (and same for dotlessj)</li>
    5343. 

  5343.         </ul>
    5344. 

  5344.       </li>
    5345. 

  5345. 

  5346.       <li>20-Feb-2002
    5347. 

  5347. 

  5348.         <ul>
    5349. 

  5349.           <li>Made Shift-Arrow keys move along italic axis.</li>
    5350. 

  5350. 

  5351.           <li>$argv didn't work in scripting. (broken when I added
    5352. 

  5352.           arrays)</li>
    5353. 

  5353.         </ul>
    5354. 

  5354.       </li>
    5355. 

  5355. 

  5356.       <li>19-Feb-2002
    5357. 

  5357. 

  5358.         <ul>
    5359. 

  5359.           <li>Bugs in the generation of MacRoman encoding tables in
    5360. 

  5360.           ttf output (introduced 14-Feb)</li>
    5361. 

  5361. 

  5362.           <li>The Goto Dlg sometimes didn't notice Returns (ie. OK
    5363. 

  5363.           button wasn't always invoked)</li>
    5364. 

    5365. 

  5365.           <li>Some linear splines were not noticed as such.</li>
    5366. 

  5366.         </ul>
    5367. 

  5367.       </li>
    5368. 

  5368. 

  5369.       <li>18-Feb-2002
    5370. 

  5370. 

  5371.         <ul>
    5372. 

  5372.           <li>Cancelling the Point Info dlg would leave minimum
    5373. 

  5373.           distance hints in a bad state.</li>
    5374. 

  5374. 

  5375.           <li>Using Undo also left the MD hints wonky</li>
    5376. 

  5376. 

  5377.           <li>added $fontchanged to scripting</li>
    5378. 

  5378. 

  5379.           <li>Added SaveAll menu item in font view.</li>
    5380. 

  5380. 

  5381.           <li>Sometimes the underlines for accelerators didn't
    5382. 

  5382.           print in the menu (depended on what FontForge thought the
    5383. 

  5383.           screen resolution was).</li>
    5384. 

  5384. 

  5385.           <li>Added a new minimum distance hint for serifs of
    5386. 

  5386.           diagonal stems.</li>
    5387. 

  5387. 

  5388.           <li>Fixed a bug where some extra serif stems were
    5389. 

  5389.           hinted.</li>
    5390. 

  5390.         </ul>
    5391. 

  5391.       </li>
    5392. 

  5392. 

  5393.       <li>16-Feb-2002
    5394. 

  5394. 

  5395.         <ul>
    5396. 

  5396.           <li>Created a "Select" submenu of the edit menu in the
    5397. 

  5397.           outline view. Moved Edit-&gt;Select All, View-&gt;Next
    5398. 

  5398.           Point, View-&gt;Prev Point into it.</li>
    5399. 

  5399. 

  5400.           <li>Added Deselect All, Select Next Control Point, Select
    5401. 

  5401.           Prev Control Point, Select First Point, Select Width,
    5402. 

  5402.           Select VWidth</li>
    5403. 

  5403. 

  5404.           <li>It is now possible to select the width (right
    5405. 

  5405.           bearing) line and move it with the arrow keys or
    5406. 

  5406.           transform dlg (or to move points and the width line
    5407. 

  5407.           concurrently). VWidth too.</li>
    5408. 

  5408. 

  5409.           <li>Added variables with global and font scope to
    5410. 

  5410.           Scripting.</li>
    5411. 

  5411. 

  5412.           <li>Yet another bug in the new simplify/merge code</li>
    5413. 

  5413. 

  5414.           <li>Cleaned up unicode range names a bit more.
    5415. 

  5415.             <hr />
    5416. 

  5416.           </li>
    5417. 

  5417. 

  5418.           <li>Changed the Goto Character dialog so that it will now
    5419. 

  5419.           (for two/four byte encodings) display a list of unicode
    5420. 

  5420.           ranges which are in the font and allow you to go to a
    5421. 

  5421.           range by name.</li>
    5422. 

  5422. 

  5423.           <li>Made it possible to copy and paste the left and right
    5424. 

  5424.           side bearings (from menus and scripts)</li>
    5425. 

  5425.         </ul>
    5426. 

  5426.       </li>
    5427. 

  5427. 

  5428.       <li>14-Feb-2002
    5429. 

  5429. 

  5430.         <ul>
    5431. 

  5431.           <li>My TrueType parser will now read cmap subtable
    5432. 

  5432.           formats 8,10 and 12 (the 4 byte encoding tables) and will
    5433. 

  5433.           produce format 12 subtables for full unicode fonts.</li>
    5434. 

  5434. 

  5435.           <li>Cleaned up various encoding problems.</li>
    5436. 

  5436. 

  5437.           <li>Fixed display of SJIS.</li>
    5438. 

  5438. 

  5439.           <li>Added better commentary on unicode outside of
    5440. 

  5440.           BMP</li>
    5441. 

  5441. 

  5442.           <li>Cleaned up the spec file</li>
    5443. 

  5443. 

  5444.           <li>In pfb files subroutines for references didn't work
    5445. 

  5445.           if the first thing called was untranslated.</li>
    5446. 

  5446. 

  5447.           <li>The arrow keys can be used to move a control
    5448. 

  5448.           point.</li>
    5449. 

  5449.         </ul>
    5450. 

  5450.       </li>
    5451. 

  5451. 

  5452.       <li>12-Feb-2002
    5453. 

  5453. 

  5454.         <ul>
    5455. 

  5455.           <li>Added sjis and Wansung encodings</li>
    5456. 

  5456. 

  5457.           <li>Used freetype for a couple of other things
    5458. 

  5458.           (generating gdf files and exporting bitmaps)</li>
    5459. 

  5459. 

  5460.           <li>Textfields didn't respond to middle button clicks (to
    5461. 

  5461.           paste the primary selection).</li>
    5462. 

  5462. 

  5463.           <li>FontForge would sometimes fail to exit properly if
    5464. 

  5464.           you brought up a script dlg.</li>
    5465. 

  5465. 

  5466.           <li>Added a --version command line option.</li>
    5467. 

  5467. 

  5468.           <li>Fixed another bug in generating postscript.</li>
    5469. 

  5469. 

  5470.           <li>Added a user defined print command option to the
    5471. 

  5471.           print dlg.</li>
    5472. 

  5472. 

  5473.           <li>Fixed a bug in Simplify/Merge</li>
    5474. 

  5474. 

  5475.           <li>Fixed a bug in loading integer resources</li>
    5476. 

  5476. 

  5477.           <li>Cleaned up the help command line option.</li>
    5478. 

  5478.         </ul>
    5479. 

  5479.       </li>
    5480. 

  5480. 

  5481.       <li>9-Feb-2002
    5482. 

  5482. 

  5483.         <ul>
    5484. 

  5484.           <li>FontForge will now use freetype (if available) to
    5485. 

  5485.           generate bitmaps for the fonts (results are much
    5486. 

  5486.           better).<br />
    5487. 

  5487.           It still does its own rasterizing for the fontview
    5488. 

  5488.           (there's a lot of overhead involved with freetype, and
    5489. 

  5489.           this needs to be fastish)</li>
    5490. 

  5490. 

  5491.           <li>Made the Generate Font dlg settings sticky across
    5492. 

  5492.           invocations of fontforge.</li>
    5493. 

  5493.         </ul>
    5494. 

  5494.       </li>
    5495. 

  5495. 

  5496.       <li>8-Feb-2002
    5497. 

  5497. 

  5498.         <ul>
    5499. 

  5499.           <li>FontForge would crash when generating a PostScript
    5500. 

  5500.           font from ARIAL.TTF.</li>
    5501. 

  5501. 

  5502.           <li>Changed the bitmap dlgs so that they allow you to
    5503. 

  5503.           specify some control over interesting screen resolutions.
    5504. 

  5504.           (before just support X standard res. of 75 and 100, now
    5505. 

  5505.           support MS 96&amp;120 and Mac 72).</li>
    5506. 

  5506. 

  5507.           <li>Oops, Apple now documents that the bdat and bloc
    5508. 

  5508.           tables should have version number 0x20000. But when I
    5509. 

  5509.           last looked it said 0x10000 and that didn't work.</li>
    5510. 

    5511. 

  5511.           <li>Put the docs in their own rpm file.</li>
    5512. 

  5512.         </ul>
    5513. 

  5513.       </li>
    5514. 

  5514. 

  5515.       <li>7-Feb-2002
    5516. 

  5516. 

  5517.         <ul>
    5518. 

  5518.           <li>I think I've figured out how Apple does asian bitmaps
    5519. 

  5519.           now. They don't use NFNTs at all (or they do, but those
    5520. 

  5520.           NFNT are tiny stubs with no real data in them). All the
    5521. 

  5521.           data are in the sfnt. I should produce them properly
    5522. 

  5522.           now.<br />
    5523. 

  5523.           -- Except I don't.</li>
    5524. 

    5525. 

  5525.           <li>I've also added the ability to create bitmap only
    5526. 

  5526.           sfnts for the mac.<br />
    5527. 

  5527.           -- Which also isn't recognized by the mac.</li>
    5528. 

    5529. 

  5529.           <li>Made it possible for scripts to generate bitmaps
    5530. 

  5530.           without generating an outline font</li>
    5531. 

  5531. 

  5532.           <li>Fixed some problems loading bitmaps from ttf
    5533. 

  5533.           files.</li>
    5534. 

  5534. 

  5535.           <li>Fixed some problems loading bitmaps from
    5536. 

  5536.           anything...</li>
    5537. 

  5537. 

  5538.           <li>Allowed importation of eps files from the font view
    5539. 

  5539.           (to the extent that I can parse eps files, that is)</li>
    5540. 

  5540. 

  5541.           <li>Oops, scripting didn't support importation of pcf
    5542. 

  5542.           files.</li>
    5543. 

  5543.         </ul>
    5544. 

  5544.       </li>
    5545. 

  5545. 

  5546.       <li>5-Feb-2002
    5547. 

  5547. 

  5548.         <ul>
    5549. 

  5549.           <li>Sometimes popup windows (tool tips) would show up
    5550. 

  5550.           with nothing in them. That should be fixed now.</li>
    5551. 

  5551. 

  5552.           <li>Added icons for pcf files</li>
    5553. 

  5553. 

  5554.           <li>Started work on 32 bit unicode.</li>
    5555. 

  5555. 

  5556.           <li>Oops. Scripting handled the calligraphic pen angle
    5557. 

  5557.           incorrectly.</li>
    5558. 

  5558. 

  5559.           <li>Put something into the about box.</li>
    5560. 

  5560.         </ul>
    5561. 

  5561.       </li>
    5562. 

  5562. 

  5563.       <li>4-Feb-2002
    5564. 

  5564. 

  5565.         <ul>
    5566. 

  5566.           <li>Oops. FontForge was misusing the type1 "seac" command
    5567. 

  5567.           in some cases. I had not realized that the character
    5568. 

  5568.           being built needed to have the same width as the base
    5569. 

  5569.           (non-accent) character. This has been fixed.</li>
    5570. 

  5570. 

  5571.           <li>When using the charinfo dlg to change the name of a
    5572. 

  5572.           char, and that name was in use, and you cancelled the dlg
    5573. 

  5573.           after being warned about it then FontForge would crash
    5574. 

  5574.           (it would muck up memory).</li>
    5575. 

  5575. 

  5576.           <li>FontForge wasn't always calling subroutines (in
    5577. 

  5577.           postscript) when a character was in a subr.</li>
    5578. 

  5578. 

  5579.           <li>FontForge will now read in X11 pcf font files (they
    5580. 

  5580.           can be compressed, if so FontForge will decompress them
    5581. 

  5581.           first).</li>
    5582. 

  5582. 

  5583.           <li>Bug in wildcard processing for file chooser
    5584. 

  5584.           window.</li>
    5585. 

  5585.         </ul>
    5586. 

  5586.       </li>
    5587. 

  5587. 

  5588.       <li>1-Feb-2002
    5589. 

  5589. 

  5590.         <ul>
    5591. 

  5591.           <li>Nifty! SUSE ships some greek (bitmap) fonts with
    5592. 

  5592.           iso8859-1 encodings rather than iso8859-7. FontForge is
    5593. 

  5593.           now alert and when it sees a bitmap font with foundary
    5594. 

  5594.           "greek" and encoding "iso8859-1" it will pretend it has
    5595. 

  5595.           encoding "iso8859-7".</li>
    5596. 

  5596. 

  5597.           <li>FontForge got confused by some fonts produced by
    5598. 

  5598.           type1fix.pl. Should be fixed.</li>
    5599. 

  5599. 

  5600.           <li>Build Composite Characters will now check the user
    5601. 

  5601.           defined ligature string to see what characters to use to
    5602. 

  5602.           build a ligature.</li>
    5603. 

  5603.         </ul>
    5604. 

  5604.       </li>
    5605. 

  5605. 

  5606.       <li>31-Jan-2002
    5607. 

  5607. 

  5608.         <ul>
    5609. 

  5609.           <li>Conversion tables between JIS0201 (Katakana) and
    5610. 

  5610.           Unicode were wrong. KANOU Hiroki provided correct
    5611. 

  5611.           ones.</li>
    5612. 

  5612.         </ul>
    5613. 

  5613.       </li>
    5614. 

  5614. 

  5615.       <li>30-Jan-2002
    5616. 

  5616. 

  5617.         <ul>
    5618. 

  5618.           <li>Oops. I'd left diagonal stems enabled in ttf
    5619. 

  5619.           generation. Caused problems. Disabled now.</li>
    5620. 

  5620. 

  5621.           <li>More work on accented characters.</li>
    5622. 

  5622.         </ul>
    5623. 

  5623.       </li>
    5624. 

  5624. 

  5625.       <li>29-Jan-2002
    5626. 

  5626. 

  5627.         <ul>
    5628. 

  5628.           <li>Sped up background image drawing (finally)</li>
    5629. 

  5629.         </ul>
    5630. 

  5630.       </li>
    5631. 

  5631. 

  5632.       <li>28-Jan-2002
    5633. 

  5633. 

  5634.         <ul>
    5635. 

  5635.           <li>Added
    5636. 

  5636. 

  5637.             <ul>
    5638. 

  5638.               <li>Strtol</li>
    5639. 

  5639. 

  5640.               <li>Strskipint</li>
    5641. 

  5641. 

  5642.               <li>AskUser</li>
    5643. 

  5643. 

  5644.               <li>Error</li>
    5645. 

  5645.             </ul>
    5646. 

  5646.           </li>
    5647. 

  5647. 

  5648.           <li>Added a menu of commonly used scripts which the user
    5649. 

  5649.           can specify with the preference dlg.</li>
    5650. 

  5650.         </ul>
    5651. 

  5651.       </li>
    5652. 

  5652. 

  5653.       <li>25-Jan-2002
    5654. 

  5654. 

  5655.         <ul>
    5656. 

  5656.           <li>Oops. Generate command in scripting language only
    5657. 

  5657.           generated pfb fonts</li>
    5658. 

  5658. 

  5659.           <li>FontForge would get confused if it loaded a font from
    5660. 

  5660.           a script when running with windows. Eventually it would
    5661. 

  5661.           crash, but perhaps not until you exited.</li>
    5662. 

  5662. 

  5663.           <li>Added
    5664. 

  5664. 

  5665.             <ul>
    5666. 

  5666.               <li>$italicangle</li>
    5667. 

  5667. 

  5668.               <li>$cidfontname, $cidfamilyname, $cidfullname</li>
    5669. 

  5669. 

  5670.               <li>$weight, $copyright</li>
    5671. 

  5671. 

  5672.               <li>$cidweight, $cidcopyright</li>
    5673. 

  5673. 

  5674.               <li>SetItalicAngle</li>
    5675. 

  5675.             </ul>
    5676. 

  5676.           </li>
    5677. 

  5677. 

  5678.           <li>Removed $cidname (replaced with $cidfontname)</li>
    5679. 

  5679. 

  5680.           <li>Added a Call... button to the execute script dlg to
    5681. 

  5681.           allow you to insert a call to a script file easily</li>
    5682. 

  5682.         </ul>
    5683. 

  5683.       </li>
    5684. 

  5684. 

  5685.       <li>24-Jan-2002
    5686. 

  5686. 

  5687.         <ul>
    5688. 

  5688.           <li>Added a way to scale dlgs in different
    5689. 

  5689.           languages.</li>
    5690. 

  5690.         </ul>
    5691. 

  5691.       </li>
    5692. 

  5692. 

  5693.       <li>23-Jan-2002
    5694. 

  5694. 

  5695.         <ul>
    5696. 

  5696.           <li>Fixed a crash in merge (caused by selecting all
    5697. 

  5697.           points on a path and merging it (to remove the
    5698. 

  5698.           path))</li>
    5699. 

  5699. 

  5700.           <li>Improved positioning of ogonek and cedilla accents in
    5701. 

  5701.           Build Accented Character</li>
    5702. 

  5702.         </ul>
    5703. 

  5703.       </li>
    5704. 

  5704. 

  5705.       <li>22-Jan-2002
    5706. 

  5706. 

  5707.         <ul>
    5708. 

  5708.           <li>Added:
    5709. 

  5709. 

  5710.             <ul>
    5711. 

  5711.               <li>SetCharCnt</li>
    5712. 

  5712. 

  5713.               <li>SetCharName</li>
    5714. 

  5714. 

  5715.               <li>SetUnicodeValue</li>
    5716. 

  5716. 

  5717.               <li>CIDChangeSubFont</li>
    5718. 

  5718. 

  5719.               <li>SetFontNames</li>
    5720. 

  5720. 

  5721.               <li>CIDSetFontNames</li>
    5722. 

  5722. 

  5723.               <li>$curcid, $nextcid, $firstcid, $cidname</li>
    5724. 

  5724.             </ul>
    5725. 

  5725.           </li>
    5726. 

  5726. 

  5727.           <li>Cleaned up ligature handling in char info dlg</li>
    5728. 

  5728. 

  5729.           <li>Cleaned up array freeing in scripting.</li>
    5730. 

  5730. 

  5731.           <li>Fixed a crash in FontInfo introduced yesterday</li>
    5732. 

  5732.         </ul>
    5733. 

  5733.       </li>
    5734. 

  5734. 

  5735.       <li>21-Jan-2002
    5736. 

  5736. 

  5737.         <ul>
    5738. 

  5738.           <li>Import will now allow you to import background images
    5739. 

  5739.           from the font view<br />
    5740. 

  5740.           (and the default setting of "Background" for "pk" files
    5741. 

  5741.           has been set to true)</li>
    5742. 

  5742. 

  5743.           <li>Added a scripting command to access
    5744. 

  5744. 

  5745.             <ul>
    5746. 

  5746.               <li>Import</li>
    5747. 

  5747. 

  5748.               <li>strlen</li>
    5749. 

  5749. 

  5750.               <li>strstr</li>
    5751. 

  5751. 

  5752.               <li>strcasecmp</li>
    5753. 

  5753. 

  5754.               <li>strsub</li>
    5755. 

  5755. 

  5756.               <li>arrays</li>
    5757. 

  5757. 

  5758.               <li>access to the postscript names of the font</li>
    5759. 

  5759. 

  5760.               <li>access to information about individual
    5761. 

  5761.               characters</li>
    5762. 

  5762.             </ul>
    5763. 

  5763.           </li>
    5764. 

  5764. 

  5765.           <li>Cleaned up some display oddities in the
    5766. 

  5766.           fontview.</li>
    5767. 

  5767. 

  5768.           <li>Added a Set Width command to the bitmap view IF there
    5769. 

  5769.           is no outline font.</li>
    5770. 

  5770. 

  5771.           <li>Added a menu item to invoke a script</li>
    5772. 

  5772. 

  5773.           <li>Added a "Comment" field to FontInfo. This does not
    5774. 

  5774.           correspond to any postscript or truetype entity. It is to
    5775. 

  5775.           be used for a changelog within the sfd file (or something
    5776. 

  5776.           similar).</li>
    5777. 

  5777.         </ul>
    5778. 

  5778.       </li>
    5779. 

  5779. 

  5780.       <li>19-Jan-2002
    5781. 

  5781. 

  5782.         <ul>
    5783. 

  5783.           <li>Initial version of <a href=
    5784. 

  5784.           "scripting.html">scripting</a>.</li>
    5785. 

  5785. 

  5786.           <li>Optimizer caused rounding errors which caused test
    5787. 

  5787.           for divide by zero to fail leading to errors in Simplify
    5788. 

  5788.           and Merge commands.</li>
    5789. 

  5789. 

  5790.           <li>bdf fonts with an encoding which did not itself
    5791. 

  5791.           include "-1" (or similar) failed to get the implied "-0"
    5792. 

  5792.           added.</li>
    5793. 

  5793.         </ul>
    5794. 

  5794.       </li>
    5795. 

  5795. 

  5796.       <li>17-Jan-2002
    5797. 

  5797. 

  5798.         <ul>
    5799. 

  5799.           <li>FontForge used to crash (sometimes anyway) if a list
    5800. 

  5800.           popup were active when a window was destroyed.</li>
    5801. 

  5801. 

  5802.           <li>TextFields within tabsets (like Font Info) responded
    5803. 

  5803.           to some events twice.</li>
    5804. 

  5804. 

  5805.           <li>Bug in the new TTF hinting routines could cause a
    5806. 

  5806.           crash (and did cause glyph programs which were
    5807. 

  5807.           erroneous)</li>
    5808. 

  5808. 

  5809.           <li>Crash caused by long names in /etc/passwd when
    5810. 

  5810.           creating a new font</li>
    5811. 

  5811. 

  5812.           <li>Redid fontname handling in Font Info dlg to allow URW
    5813. 

  5813.           names to pass through unscathed
    5814. 

  5814. 

  5815.             <ul>
    5816. 

  5816.               <li>Recognize "Regu" as meaning "Regular"</li>
    5817. 

  5817. 

  5818.               <li>Only updates the fullname (human readable name)
    5819. 

  5819.               if it were previously in sync</li>
    5820. 

  5820. 

  5821.               <li>Recognize "-" as starting the modifiers rather
    5822. 

  5822.               than trying to find the end of the family name</li>
    5823. 

  5823. 

  5824.               <li>If you don't change the family or the modifiers
    5825. 

  5825.               then fontforge will now leave the fontname
    5826. 

  5826.               untouched</li>
    5827. 

  5827.             </ul>
    5828. 

  5828.           </li>
    5829. 

  5829.         </ul>
    5830. 

  5830.       </li>
    5831. 

  5831. 

  5832.       <li>14 Jan 2002
    5833. 

  5833. 

  5834.         <ul>
    5835. 

  5835.           <li>The 9 Jan metrics view fix caused crashes when
    5836. 

  5836.           changing the last character displayed.</li>
    5837. 

  5837. 

  5838.           <li>The outline view now will display points at extrema
    5839. 

  5839.           in a different color from other points if you want
    5840. 

  5840.           that.</li>
    5841. 

  5841. 

  5842.           <li>Added a command to the font view to clear out the
    5843. 

  5843.           backgrounds of all selected characters.</li>
    5844. 

  5844. 

  5845.           <li>Fixed one more image freeing problem (see
    5846. 

  5846.           29-Dec-2001)
    5847. 

  5847.             <hr />
    5848. 

  5848.           </li>
    5849. 

  5849. 

  5850.           <li>bdf fixes of 9&amp;11 Jan did not work on bdf files
    5851. 

  5851.           with character encodings of "-1"</li>
    5852. 

  5852. 

  5853.           <li>Fixed several bugs with ttf bitmap tables.</li>
    5854. 

  5854. 

  5855.           <li>Added a mechanism for specifying a font inside a
    5856. 

  5856.           truetype collection from the command line:<br />
    5857. 

  5857.           <code>&nbsp; &nbsp; $ fontforge
    5858. 

  5858.           "gulim.ttc(GulimChe)"</code><br />
    5859. 

  5859.           will load the GulimChe font within the collection
    5860. 

  5860.           file.</li>
    5861. 

  5861.         </ul>
    5862. 

  5862.       </li>
    5863. 

  5863. 

  5864.       <li>12 Jan 2002
    5865. 

  5865. 

  5866.         <ul>
    5867. 

  5867.           <li>Russian ui had an unexpected space in it which
    5868. 

  5868.           confused makenomenh. Have fixed both (makenomenh &amp;
    5869. 

  5869.           nomen.ru)</li>
    5870. 

  5870. 

  5871.           <li>Last fix to Merge made most merges return straight
    5872. 

  5872.           lines</li>
    5873. 

  5873. 

  5874.           <li>Added an elide command which allows the slopes of the
    5875. 

  5875.           endpoints to change</li>
    5876. 

  5876. 

  5877.           <li>Releasing the control or super key when in one of the
    5878. 

  5878.           palettes did not update the tool cursor.</li>
    5879. 

  5879. 

  5880.           <li>The point info dlg now comes up beside (rather than
    5881. 

  5881.           on top of) the selected point.</li>
    5882. 

  5882.         </ul>
    5883. 

  5883.       </li>
    5884. 

  5884. 

  5885.       <li>11 Jan 2002
    5886. 

  5886. 

  5887.         <ul>
    5888. 

  5888.           <li>bdf "fix" of 9 Jan. lost the encoding of the
    5889. 

  5889.           font.</li>
    5890. 

  5890. 

  5891.           <li>FontForge source included "ushort" in a couple of
    5892. 

  5892.           places. Linux must define this but some systems don't. It
    5893. 

  5893.           has been changed to uint16 which I define.</li>
    5894. 

  5894. 

  5895.           <li>Worked around some imaging bugs of the X server under
    5896. 

  5896.           cygwin (FontForge seems to work under cygwin now)</li>
    5897. 

  5897. 

  5898.           <li>Using the arrow keys to scroll only worked if
    5899. 

  5899.           something were selected. should always work now.</li>
    5900. 

  5900. 

  5901.           <li>The fontview now contains an indication of which
    5902. 

  5902.           characters have backgrounds</li>
    5903. 

  5903. 

  5904.           <li>Minor improvements to merge when given an impossible
    5905. 

  5905.           problem.</li>
    5906. 

  5906.         </ul>
    5907. 

  5907.       </li>
    5908. 

  5908. 

  5909.       <li>9 Jan 2002
    5910. 

  5910. 

  5911.         <ul>
    5912. 

  5912.           <li>destroy window fix on 2 Jan was not enough, it popped
    5913. 

  5913.           up again. Hope I've killed it this time</li>
    5914. 

    5915. 

  5915.           <li>FontForge had trouble reading bdf fonts that
    5916. 

  5916. 

  5917.             <ul>
    5918. 

  5918.               <li>did not have standard X font names
    5919. 

  5919.               (-vendor-family-weight-italic-...)</li>
    5920. 

  5920. 

  5921.               <li>had the same name used for different
    5922. 

  5922.               characters</li>
    5923. 

  5923.             </ul>
    5924. 

  5924.           </li>
    5925. 

  5925. 

  5926.           <li>The metrics view got confused by characters with
    5927. 

  5927.           negative lbearings.</li>
    5928. 

  5928. 

  5929.           <li>Added some Japanese (Kanji) text samples.</li>
    5930. 

  5930.         </ul>
    5931. 

  5931.       </li>
    5932. 

  5932. 

  5933.       <li>8 Jan 2002
    5934. 

  5934. 

  5935.         <ul>
    5936. 

  5936.           <li>Fixed a bug in gdf output</li>
    5937. 

  5937.         </ul>
    5938. 

  5938.       </li>
    5939. 

  5939. 

  5940.       <li>7 Jan 2002
    5941. 

  5941. 

  5942.         <ul>
    5943. 

  5943.           <li>Added a traditional chinese sample</li>
    5944. 

  5944. 

  5945.           <li>In the metrics view, the kerning offset was not
    5946. 

  5946.           rescaled when the size of the window changed.</li>
    5947. 

  5947. 

  5948.           <li>Added a preference item to control the amount by
    5949. 

  5949.           which the arrow keys move selected points</li>
    5950. 

  5950. 

  5951.           <li>Changed the behavior of the grid layer so that now
    5952. 

  5952.           points will snap to any spline in the grid layer, not
    5953. 

  5953.           just horizontal and vertical splines</li>
    5954. 

  5954. 

  5955.           <li>Added a preference item to control this snap
    5956. 

  5956.           distance.</li>
    5957. 

  5957. 

  5958.           <li>Added a couple new outline display sizes to the
    5959. 

  5959.           fontview</li>
    5960. 

  5960. 

  5961.           <li>Use the "super" modifer to simulate a mouses middle
    5962. 

  5962.           button. If the super key (the one with a windows flag on
    5963. 

  5963.           it on pc keyboards) is depressed then any mouse click
    5964. 

  5964.           will be treated as if it were mouse button 2 that was
    5965. 

  5965.           used.</li>
    5966. 

  5966. 

  5967.           <li>Minor improvements in truetype hinting</li>
    5968. 

  5968.         </ul>
    5969. 

  5969.       </li>
    5970. 

  5970. 

  5971.       <li>4 Jan 2002
    5972. 

  5972. 

  5973.         <ul>
    5974. 

  5974.           <li>if a dfont (or other mac resource file) contains
    5975. 

  5975.           multiple truetype fonts, fontforge will let you pick one
    5976. 

  5976.           (before it would read in the first and ignore the
    5977. 

  5977.           others)</li>
    5978. 

  5978. 

  5979.           <li>The tools palette now shows the mouse bindings.</li>
    5980. 

  5980. 

  5981.           <li>Next/Prev control points are drawn in different
    5982. 

  5982.           colors now, and those colors are reflected in the point
    5983. 

  5983.           get info dlg.</li>
    5984. 

  5984. 

  5985.           <li>Merge and Simplify will now retain the slope of curve
    5986. 

  5986.           points.</li>
    5987. 

  5987. 

  5988.           <li>Simplify will no longer remove points at the extrema
    5989. 

  5989.           of their curves (PostScript fonts are supposed to have
    5990. 

  5990.           points at the extrema)</li>
    5991. 

  5991. 

  5992.           <li>New command in Element menu to <a href=
    5993. 

  5993.           "elementmenu.html#Add-Extrema">add points at extrema</a>
    5994. 

  5994.           to a spline or set of splines.</li>
    5995. 

  5995. 

  5996.           <li>Next/Prev Point commands will shift the screen so the
    5997. 

  5997.           newly selected point is visible.</li>
    5998. 

  5998. 

  5999.           <li>Metrics View now allows for anti aliased character
    6000. 

  6000.           display.</li>
    6001. 

  6001. 

  6002.           <li>Metrics View View menu was broken and was missing
    6003. 

  6003.           half its entries.</li>
    6004. 

  6004. 

  6005.           <li>Revert Font would leave fontforge in a state where
    6006. 

  6006.           some commands would cause a crash. Should be fixed
    6007. 

  6007.           now.</li>
    6008. 

  6008. 

  6009.           <li>TextFields did not scroll properly with the arrow
    6010. 

  6010.           keys.</li>
    6011. 

  6011. 

  6012.           <li>The outline and bitmap views may be scrolled with the
    6013. 

  6013.           arrow keys by holding down either the control or meta
    6014. 

  6014.           key.</li>
    6015. 

  6015. 

  6016.           <li>When reading a ttf file with an encoding fontforge
    6017. 

  6017.           doesn't recognize which has some glyphs which are refered
    6018. 

  6018.           to from multiple code points, then fontforge used to
    6019. 

  6019.           crash.</li>
    6020. 

  6020. 

  6021.           <li>Support Menu key on windows keyboard</li>
    6022. 

  6022. 

  6023.           <li>Use the Windows "flag" key as a modifier to indicate
    6024. 

  6024.           mouse button 2 (so if that key is depressed, and a mouse
    6025. 

  6025.           button is pressed/released pretend it was button2)</li>
    6026. 

  6026.         </ul>
    6027. 

  6027.       </li>
    6028. 

  6028. 

  6029.       <li>2 Jan 2002
    6030. 

  6030. 

  6031.         <ul>
    6032. 

  6032.           <li>Copy From has been made global and sticky (each font
    6033. 

  6033.           used to have a separate value and it got lost on exit.
    6034. 

  6034.           Now there is one global value and it is saved in the
    6035. 

  6035.           prefs file).</li>
    6036. 

  6036. 

  6037.           <li>Copy From now allows you to control whether a
    6038. 

  6038.           character's name should be copied along with the glyph
    6039. 

  6039.           data (only in font view).</li>
    6040. 

  6040. 

  6041.           <li>View-&gt;Fill should now show the current
    6042. 

  6042.           setting.</li>
    6043. 

  6043. 

  6044.           <li>If there were background images in a glyph then
    6045. 

  6045.           changing the Show/Hide rulers made the display wrong</li>
    6046. 

  6046. 

  6047.           <li>In the Outline view, the character's popup box would
    6048. 

  6048.           appear if the mouse were over the menubar. Werner thought
    6049. 

  6049.           that inappropriate.</li>
    6050. 

  6050. 

  6051.           <li>If import bitmaps needed to expand the number of
    6052. 

  6052.           characters in a font (to provide slots for all the
    6053. 

  6053.           bitmaps) it would fail to do so properly. Resulting in a
    6054. 

  6054.           crash.</li>
    6055. 

  6055. 

  6056.           <li>Hmm. There appears to be a race condition inside the
    6057. 

  6057.           XServer on my machine and if I map a window but destroy
    6058. 

  6058.           it before I read the MapNotify (or possibly Expose) event
    6059. 

  6059.           on the queue, then the server will calmly crash. This can
    6060. 

  6060.           happen if a progress indicator is ended just after we
    6061. 

  6061.           decide to display it. I've tried to work around it, but
    6062. 

  6062.           there may still be holes.</li>
    6063. 

  6063. 

  6064.           <li>Added an "About..." menu entry to display the splash
    6065. 

  6065.           screen again</li>
    6066. 

  6066. 

  6067.           <li>Gleep! type1 cid font generation had a couple of
    6068. 

  6068.           problems</li>
    6069. 

  6069. 

  6070.           <li>Print Sample is now available for cid fonts.</li>
    6071. 

  6071. 

  6072.           <li>View-AntiAlias didn't work (characters were always
    6073. 

  6073.           displayed as antialiased)</li>
    6074. 

  6074. 

  6075.           <li>Menus made more responsive to key presses.</li>
    6076. 

  6076. 

  6077.           <li>The Zoom In and Out commands are now centered around
    6078. 

  6078.           the selection (if there is one, if not they continue to
    6079. 

  6079.           use center of the window)</li>
    6080. 

  6080. 

  6081.           <li>Changed the order of entries in the Point Info dlg so
    6082. 

  6082.           that Prev is above Next</li>
    6083. 

  6083. 

  6084.           <li>The Escape key can be used to deselect</li>
    6085. 

  6085. 

  6086.           <li>New copyright notices.</li>
    6087. 

  6087.         </ul>
    6088. 

  6088.       </li>
    6089. 

  6089. 

  6090.       <li>29-Dec-2001
    6091. 

  6091. 

  6092.         <ul>
    6093. 

  6093.           <li>TextFields had numerous display problems. Should have
    6094. 

  6094.           fewer now.</li>
    6095. 

  6095. 

  6096.           <li>The 15 Dec image crash fix was not complete, turns
    6097. 

  6097.           out there were two memory problems (well, two so
    6098. 

  6098.           far)</li>
    6099. 

  6099. 

  6100.           <li>Some dialogs could show up half off the right edge of
    6101. 

  6101.           the screen. Should not do so now.</li>
    6102. 

  6102. 

  6103.           <li>Added a few more language samples for printing.</li>
    6104. 

  6104. 

  6105.           <li>Bidi display didn't work when there were lots of
    6106. 

  6106.           combining letters around</li>
    6107. 

  6107. 

  6108.           <li>Bidi printing didn't work when there was more than
    6109. 

  6109.           one line of right to left text</li>
    6110. 

  6110. 

  6111.           <li>Typing control characters to the fontview will no
    6112. 

  6112.           longer move to that character.
    6113. 

  6113. 

  6114.             <ul>
    6115. 

  6115.               <li>Typing [Return] opens selected characters</li>
    6116. 

  6116. 

  6117.               <li>Typing [Tab] moves to next character with
    6118. 

  6118.               something in it.</li>
    6119. 

  6119.             </ul>
    6120. 

  6120.           </li>
    6121. 

  6121. 

  6122.           <li>Depressing the right mouse button invokes a popup
    6123. 

  6123.           menu in the fontview now.</li>
    6124. 

  6124. 

  6125.           <li>Trying to move a control point with the mouse while
    6126. 

  6126.           simultaneously moving the point itself with the arrow
    6127. 

  6127.           keys used to cause a crash</li>
    6128. 

  6128. 

  6129.           <li>Selecting a bdf font which was in a bad format as a
    6130. 

  6130.           background caused a crash.</li>
    6131. 

  6131.         </ul>
    6132. 

  6132.       </li>
    6133. 

  6133. 

  6134.       <li>19-Dec-2001
    6135. 

  6135. 

  6136.         <ul>
    6137. 

  6137.           <li>The german ui file should be in better german</li>
    6138. 

  6138. 

  6139.           <li>fontforge would not notice that an iso10646 bdf file
    6140. 

  6140.           was unicode</li>
    6141. 

  6141. 

  6142.           <li>Support for conversion to and from some 2 byte
    6143. 

  6143.           encodings (LocalCharset preference item)</li>
    6144. 

  6144. 

  6145.           <li>sfd files store the font's encoding as a string
    6146. 

  6146.           rather than a number now so if we add more standard
    6147. 

  6147.           encodings things won't get screwed up as they were when
    6148. 

  6148.           we added johab.</li>
    6149. 

  6149.         </ul>
    6150. 

  6150.       </li>
    6151. 

  6151. 

  6152.       <li>18-Dec-2001
    6153. 

  6153. 

  6154.         <ul>
    6155. 

  6155.           <li><span class="c1"><strong>TrueType hints were
    6156. 

  6156.           terrible</strong></span>. I fixed one huge bug. There are
    6157. 

  6157.           still problems with diagonals and the results are not as
    6158. 

  6158.           nice as Fontographer's, but they are better.</li>
    6159. 

    6160. 

  6160.           <li>Some more greek fixes.</li>
    6161. 

  6161. 

  6162.           <li>Metrics window did not handle the transition from a
    6163. 

  6163.           left -&gt; right view to a right-&gt;left one properly
    6164. 

  6164.           (mostly this means if you had a blank metrics view and
    6165. 

  6165.           you put a hebrew/arabic character into it then that
    6166. 

  6166.           character was displayed left to right).</li>
    6167. 

  6167. 

  6168.           <li>The transform dialog in the fontview now has a
    6169. 

  6169.           checkbox which allows you to control whether you want the
    6170. 

  6170.           background transformed in sync with the foreground.</li>
    6171. 

  6171.         </ul>
    6172. 

  6172.       </li>
    6173. 

  6173. 

  6174.       <li>17-Dec-2001
    6175. 

  6175. 

  6176.         <ul>
    6177. 

  6177.           <li>Fixed another bug with cid fonts, this one when
    6178. 

  6178.           attempting to create such a font in the absence of cidmap
    6179. 

  6179.           files</li>
    6180. 

  6180. 

  6181.           <li>Fixed a bug when outputting otf cid files (bug
    6182. 

  6182.           appeared when I added vertical metrics)</li>
    6183. 

  6183. 

  6184.           <li>When loading a cid font FontForge could get caught up
    6185. 

  6185.           in an semi-infinite loop asking for cidmap files. Should
    6186. 

  6186.           be fixed now.</li>
    6187. 

  6187. 

  6188.           <li>Finally got rid of the annoying warning about
    6189. 

  6189.           tempnam() when linking.</li>
    6190. 

  6190.         </ul>
    6191. 

  6191.       </li>
    6192. 

  6192. 

  6193.       <li>16-Dec-2001
    6194. 

  6194. 

  6195.         <ul>
    6196. 

  6196.           <li>Scrollbars didn't always update in big
    6197. 

  6197.           textfields</li>
    6198. 

  6198. 

  6199.           <li>Missed the hot key for unlink reference in the font
    6200. 

  6200.           view.</li>
    6201. 

  6201. 

  6202.           <li>Fixed crash when clearing empty character cells</li>
    6203. 

  6203. 

  6204.           <li>More greek accent fixes</li>
    6205. 

  6205. 

  6206.           <li>changed character popups slightly.</li>
    6207. 

  6207. 

  6208.           <li>Added another problem to find problems. Will now
    6209. 

  6209.           check for flipped references (=&gt;counter-clockwise
    6210. 

  6210.           paths most of the time)</li>
    6211. 

  6211. 

  6212.           <li>Interesting. The EuroFont uses the endchar opcode in
    6213. 

  6213.           way that both the type1 and type2 docs claim to be
    6214. 

  6214.           illegal (it is not the last thing in the subroutine, it
    6215. 

  6215.           is followed by a return). Since EuroFont is from adobe, I
    6216. 

  6216.           presume the docs are wrong, so I ignore this error now.
    6217. 

  6217.           (The Adobe people insist that the docs are right, just
    6218. 

  6218.           misleading. That the endchar is the last thing in the
    6219. 

  6219.           subr because nothing after it gets executed. Hmm, I
    6220. 

  6220.           continue to be misled)</li>
    6221. 

  6221. 

  6222.           <li>FontForge will be better able to figure out where
    6223. 

  6223.           hints should be active when it reads in a postscript
    6224. 

  6224.           font.</li>
    6225. 

  6225. 

  6226.           <li>Autohint will no longer find some erroneous
    6227. 

  6227.           hints.</li>
    6228. 

  6228. 

  6229.           <li>Autohint will now find the serifs in Nimbus
    6230. 

  6230.           Roman</li>
    6231. 

  6231.         </ul>
    6232. 

  6232.       </li>
    6233. 

  6233. 

  6234.       <li>15-Dec-2001
    6235. 

  6235. 

  6236.         <ul>
    6237. 

  6237.           <li>Copying a background image caused a crash at some
    6238. 

  6238.           indeterminate future time</li>
    6239. 

  6239. 

  6240.           <li>Made the Help browser configurable</li>
    6241. 

  6241. 

  6242.           <li>Changed greek accent processing so that it uses more
    6243. 

  6243.           of the greek accents. For reasons known best to
    6244. 

  6244.           themselves, unicode tends to map greek varia to grave,
    6245. 

  6245.           oxia to acute, etc.</li>
    6246. 

  6246. 

  6247.           <li>More work to make sure the screen fonts are
    6248. 

  6248.           readable</li>
    6249. 

  6249. 

  6250.           <li>tabbing into a text field selects all of it.</li>
    6251. 

  6251. 

  6252.           <li>autotrace 2.8 has changed its argument conventions.
    6253. 

  6253.           new versions of fontforge will no longer work with
    6254. 

  6254.           autotrace2.7.</li>
    6255. 

  6255. 

  6256.           <li>If a menu doesn't fit in its window there is now a
    6257. 

  6257.           way to get at the menu items which are offscreen</li>
    6258. 

  6258. 

  6259.           <li>Cleaned up the panose (fontinfo) window</li>
    6260. 

  6260. 

  6261.           <li>Added names to the private use area of unicode for
    6262. 

  6262.           greek small caps (starting at 0xf500)</li>
    6263. 

  6263. 

  6264.           <li>Fixed a couple of autohint problems</li>
    6265. 

  6265. 

  6266.           <li>Manual hint addition might refuse to add a hint if it
    6267. 

  6267.           didn't like it. It should now realize that the user is in
    6268. 

  6268.           charge...</li>
    6269. 

  6269.         </ul>
    6270. 

  6270.       </li>
    6271. 

  6271. 

  6272.       <li>14-Dec-2001
    6273. 

  6273. 

  6274.         <ul>
    6275. 

  6275.           <li>Oops Edward Lee points out that I was missing some
    6276. 

  6276.           colons in my eps file generation.</li>
    6277. 

  6277. 

  6278.           <li>Hot key added for Unlink Reference</li>
    6279. 

  6279. 

  6280.           <li>Werner found two more bugs when reading in cid keyed
    6281. 

  6281.           fonts without a corresponding cidmap file.</li>
    6282. 

  6282.         </ul>
    6283. 

  6283.       </li>
    6284. 

  6284. 

  6285.       <li>11-Dec-2001
    6286. 

  6286. 

  6287.         <ul>
    6288. 

  6288.           <li>Fixed a crash if there were no .cidmap files and
    6289. 

  6289.           FontForge was not installed in a directory named
    6290. 

  6290.           bin.</li>
    6291. 

  6291. 

  6292.           <li>Cleaned up the distribution a bit per Werner's
    6293. 

  6293.           requests</li>
    6294. 

  6294. 

  6295.           <li>Added a ScreenWidthCentimeters resource</li>
    6296. 

  6296. 

  6297.           <li>FontForge will no longer ask the X (Font) Server to
    6298. 

  6298.           scale bitmap fonts. It will only used unscaled bitmaps or
    6299. 

  6299.           outline fonts.</li>
    6300. 

  6300.         </ul>
    6301. 

  6301.       </li>
    6302. 

  6302. 

  6303.       <li>10-Dec-2001
    6304. 

  6304. 

  6305.         <ul>
    6306. 

  6306.           <li>Fixed a crash when adding (manually) a minimum
    6307. 

  6307.           distance hint to the width.</li>
    6308. 

  6308. 

  6309.           <li>Fixed a bug in the configure script which caused it
    6310. 

  6310.           to fail on solaris</li>
    6311. 

  6311.         </ul>
    6312. 

  6312.       </li>
    6313. 

  6313. 

  6314.       <li>9-Dec-2001
    6315. 

  6315. 

  6316.         <ul>
    6317. 

  6317.           <li>Added proper names for Hangul Syllables</li>
    6318. 

  6318. 

  6319.           <li>The Greek fixup wasn't working as it should
    6320. 

  6320.           (sometimes would generate two characters named "Delta" in
    6321. 

  6321.           pfb files). Should be fixed. Should also be controllable
    6322. 

  6322.           by Preference item (ie. you can turn it off if you want
    6323. 

  6323.           to)</li>
    6324. 

  6324. 

  6325.           <li>The metrics view did not display changes</li>
    6326. 

  6326. 

  6327.           <li>The metrics view's cursor sometimes got stuck in the
    6328. 

  6328.           wrong shape</li>
    6329. 

  6329.         </ul>
    6330. 

  6330.       </li>
    6331. 

  6331. 

  6332.       <li>3-Dec-2001
    6333. 

  6333. 

  6334.         <ul>
    6335. 

  6335.           <li>Merge Kern Info dlg crashed if you cancelled it.</li>
    6336. 

  6336. 

  6337.           <li>The encoding tables in the cmap are supposed to be
    6338. 

  6338.           ordered by platform and mine were not.</li>
    6339. 

  6339. 

  6340.           <li>FontForge would crash when writing out very large
    6341. 

  6341.           copyright notices
    6342. 

  6342. 

  6343.             <ul>
    6344. 

  6344.               <li>I lifted the 2000 character restriction on
    6345. 

  6345.               copyright strings.</li>
    6346. 

  6346.             </ul>
    6347. 

  6347.           </li>
    6348. 

  6348. 

  6349.           <li>If there were more than 2 lines of tabs in a TabSet
    6350. 

  6350.           then clicking on a tab would often cause the wrong pane
    6351. 

  6351.           to appear.</li>
    6352. 

  6352. 

  6353.           <li>Cleaned up Font Info a bit so it looks better with
    6354. 

  6354.           the Russian translations.</li>
    6355. 

  6355. 

  6356.           <li>Fixed a memory leak when generating a truetype font
    6357. 

  6357.           with an encoding other than unicode.</li>
    6358. 

  6358. 

  6359.           <li>Fixed a crash when generating a truetype font which
    6360. 

  6360.           referenced characters with encodings bigger than
    6361. 

  6361.           65535.</li>
    6362. 

  6362. 

  6363.           <li>Added a patch from Ulrich, FontForge now reads class
    6364. 

  6364.           based kerning from the GPOS table.</li>
    6365. 

  6365.         </ul>
    6366. 

  6366.       </li>
    6367. 

  6367. 

  6368.       <li>1-Dec-2001
    6369. 

  6369. 

  6370.         <ul>
    6371. 

  6371.           <li>Figured out the format of mac .dfont files</li>
    6372. 

  6372. 

  6373.           <li>The mac Command (Apple, Cloverleaf) modifier key is
    6374. 

  6374.           now treated as if it were the Control key (So users may
    6375. 

  6375.           exit FontForge with Command-Q as they expect).</li>
    6376. 

  6376. 

  6377.           <li>Another bug reading in flex hints from OTF. Fixed by
    6378. 

  6378.           Ulrich Klauer.</li>
    6379. 

  6379. 

  6380.           <li>FontForge had problems with drawing images when there
    6381. 

  6381.           was an endian mismatch between the X server and the
    6382. 

  6382.           machine running fontforge.</li>
    6383. 

  6383.         </ul>
    6384. 

  6384.       </li>
    6385. 

  6385. 

  6386.       <li>27-Nov-2001
    6387. 

  6387. 

  6388.         <ul>
    6389. 

  6389.           <li>Build Accented Character failed to update bitmaps in
    6390. 

  6390.           CID keyed fonts</li>
    6391. 

  6391. 

  6392.           <li>Build Accented Character will generate rotated
    6393. 

  6393.           characters when appropriate for CID keyed fonts
    6394. 

  6394. 

  6395.             <ul>
    6396. 

  6396.               <li>If a character's name is "vertcid_&lt;cid&gt;"
    6397. 

  6397.               where &lt;cid&gt; should be replaced by a number,
    6398. 

  6398.               then that character will be replaced by a rotated
    6399. 

  6399.               version of &lt;cid&gt;</li>
    6400. 

  6400. 

  6401.               <li>If a character's name is "vertuni&lt;uni&gt;"
    6402. 

  6402.               where &lt;uni&gt; should be replaced by a 4 hex-digit
    6403. 

  6403.               number, then that character will be replaced by a
    6404. 

  6404.               rotated version of the unicode character
    6405. 

  6405.               &lt;uni&gt;.</li>
    6406. 

  6406.             </ul>
    6407. 

  6407.           </li>
    6408. 

  6408. 

  6409.           <li>When saving a font with rotated characters FontForge
    6410. 

  6410.           will now generate a vrt2 feature in the GSUB table (this
    6411. 

  6411.           lets the font's users find out about the rotated
    6412. 

  6412.           glyphs.</li>
    6413. 

  6413. 

  6414.           <li>Before this FontForge would only read entries in the
    6415. 

  6415.           'name' table which were in unicode (or macroman).
    6416. 

  6416.           FontForge is a bit more general now and will read the
    6417. 

  6417.           other encodings it knows about.</li>
    6418. 

  6418. 

  6419.           <li>Oops. Another screw up reading in open type.</li>
    6420. 

  6420. 

  6421.           <li>If the character at encoding 0 was not .notdef then
    6422. 

  6422.           FontForge would omit it when generating a
    6423. 

  6423.           postscript/opentype font.</li>
    6424. 

  6424.         </ul>
    6425. 

  6425.       </li>
    6426. 

  6426. 

  6427.       <li>26-Nov-2001
    6428. 

  6428. 

  6429.         <ul>
    6430. 

  6430.           <li>Adobe has upgraded their cid version for traditional
    6431. 

  6431.           chinese, so I generated a new cidmap to reflect that.
    6432. 

  6432.           I've also cleaned up most of the others.</li>
    6433. 

    6434. 

  6434.           <li>Initial version of vertical metric support.
    6435. 

  6435. 

  6436.             <ul>
    6437. 

  6437.               <li>(only in true/open type fonts)</li>
    6438. 

  6438. 

  6439.               <li>Added ability to set the vertical advance of each
    6440. 

  6440.               character</li>
    6441. 

  6441. 

  6442.               <li>Added ability to set the vertical origin (as an
    6443. 

  6443.               offset from the origin in the design coordinate
    6444. 

  6444.               system (which happens to be the origin for horizontal
    6445. 

  6445.               metrics)).</li>
    6446. 

  6446. 

  6447.               <li>Added ability to set the line gap (er, column
    6448. 

  6448.               gap?)</li>
    6449. 

  6449. 

  6450.               <li>What else do I need?</li>
    6451. 

  6451.             </ul>
    6452. 

  6452.           </li>
    6453. 

  6453.         </ul>
    6454. 

  6454.       </li>
    6455. 

  6455. 

  6456.       <li>24-Nov-2001
    6457. 

  6457. 

  6458.         <ul>
    6459. 

  6459.           <li>Oops. Urich Klauer found a bug in my parsing of
    6460. 

  6460.           ttf/otf tables (introduced by the linegap change on 8
    6461. 

  6461.           Nov) and sent a patch.</li>
    6462. 

  6462. 

  6463.           <li>FontForge was erroneously complaining that all ttf
    6464. 

  6464.           composite glyphs were too big (when reading them in,
    6465. 

  6465.           introduced 15 Nov).</li>
    6466. 

  6466. 

  6467.           <li>FontForge stored StdHW and StdVW in the wrong format
    6468. 

  6468.           when reading opentype fonts and any .pfa/b fonts
    6469. 

  6469.           generated from that db caused ghostview problems.</li>
    6470. 

  6470.         </ul>
    6471. 

  6471.       </li>
    6472. 

  6472. 

  6473.       <li>23-Nov-2001
    6474. 

  6474. 

  6475.         <ul>
    6476. 

  6476.           <li>Fixed a potential crash from popups in the
    6477. 

  6477.           fontview.</li>
    6478. 

  6478. 

  6479.           <li>Fixed three crashes in remove overlap (there are more
    6480. 

  6480.           problems)</li>
    6481. 

  6481. 

  6482.           <li>Added support for reading/writing mixed 8/16 bit
    6483. 

  6483.           encodings. (used in some CJK fonts)</li>
    6484. 

  6484. 

  6485.           <li>Added support for big5, johab (johab is untested,
    6486. 

  6486.           big5 minimally)</li>
    6487. 

  6487. 

  6488.           <li>Improved treatment of ttf encodings we don't
    6489. 

  6489.           understand.</li>
    6490. 

  6490. 

  6491.           <li>Added a command to move to the next defined character
    6492. 

  6492.           (useful in CJK encodings with great holes in the middle.
    6493. 

  6493.           Unicode too I suppose)</li>
    6494. 

  6494. 

  6495.           <li>Added a resource (<a href=
    6496. 

  6496.           "xres.html">fontforge.FontView.FontFamily</a>) to control
    6497. 

  6497.           the font for the character labels that appear above every
    6498. 

  6498.           user defined character.</li>
    6499. 

  6499. 

  6500.           <li>FontForge now supports multi-line copyright notices
    6501. 

  6501.           (must be less that 2000 ascii characters though).</li>
    6502. 

  6502.         </ul>
    6503. 

  6503.       </li>
    6504. 

  6504. 

  6505.       <li>17-Nov-2001
    6506. 

  6506. 

  6507.         <ul>
    6508. 

  6508.           <li>Changed the configure script to deal with Mac OS/X
    6509. 

  6509.           properly (I hope)</li>
    6510. 

  6510.         </ul>
    6511. 

  6511.       </li>
    6512. 

  6512. 

  6513.       <li>15-Nov-2001
    6514. 

  6514. 

  6515.         <ul>
    6516. 

  6516.           <li>FontForge had a bug when loading some ttc files which
    6517. 

  6517.           caused it to crash.</li>
    6518. 

  6518. 

  6519.           <li>FontForge wasn't prepared for the erroneous truetype
    6520. 

  6520.           found in wcl-02.ttf, this caused a crash. FontForge
    6521. 

  6521.           should do better now.</li>
    6522. 

  6522. 

  6523.           <li>FontForge's scrollbars didn't work very well. Should
    6524. 

  6524.           be much improved now.</li>
    6525. 

  6525. 

  6526.           <li>FontForge used to generate an entire antialiased
    6527. 

  6527.           bitmap font to display in the fontview window. Now it
    6528. 

  6528.           only generates the images when it needs them. This speeds
    6529. 

  6529.           up the loading of large fonts and reduces their memory
    6530. 

  6530.           requirements.</li>
    6531. 

  6531.         </ul>
    6532. 

  6532.       </li>
    6533. 

  6533. 

  6534.       <li>12-Nov-2001
    6535. 

  6535. 

  6536.         <ul>
    6537. 

  6537.           <li>Some nearly horizontal (but non-linear) splines could
    6538. 

  6538.           not be selected.</li>
    6539. 

  6539. 

  6540.           <li>Changed the point info dlg so that users could set
    6541. 

  6541.           points back to have default control points.</li>
    6542. 

  6542. 

  6543.           <li>There was a pathway whereby points could be marked as
    6544. 

  6544.           having default control points even when they didn't. That
    6545. 

  6545.           one is plugged.</li>
    6546. 

  6546. 

  6547.           <li>The chinese font, kaui contains some interesting bugs
    6548. 

  6548.           which we've had to work around:
    6549. 

    6550. 

  6550.             <ul>
    6551. 

  6551.               <li>Glyph 257 contains a contour consisting of one
    6552. 

  6552.               off-curve point.</li>
    6553. 

  6553. 

  6554.               <li>The encoding cmap refers to non-existent
    6555. 

  6555.               glyphs</li>
    6556. 

  6556. 

  6557.               <li>The fpgm attempts to move points around (it isn't
    6558. 

  6558.               allowed to do that according to the docs)</li>
    6559. 

  6559.             </ul>
    6560. 

  6560.           </li>
    6561. 

  6561.         </ul>
    6562. 

  6562.       </li>
    6563. 

  6563. 

  6564.       <li>11-Nov-2001
    6565. 

  6565. 

  6566.         <ul>
    6567. 

  6567.           <li>Added support for macintosh resource fonts (by
    6568. 

  6568.           reading them from and writing them to macbinary wrapped
    6569. 

  6569.           files)</li>
    6570. 

  6570. 

  6571.           <li>Fixed a bug in metricsview where pasting with more
    6572. 

  6572.           than one character caused a crash.</li>
    6573. 

  6573.         </ul>
    6574. 

  6574.       </li>
    6575. 

  6575. 

  6576.       <li>8-Nov-2001
    6577. 

  6577. 

  6578.         <ul>
    6579. 

  6579.           <li>FontForge will now save ligature information in the
    6580. 

  6580.           GSUB table when creating an opentype font.</li>
    6581. 

  6581. 

  6582.           <li>When double clicking on a previously unused
    6583. 

  6583.           character, FontForge would not set the default ligature
    6584. 

  6584.           properly.</li>
    6585. 

  6585. 

  6586.           <li>FontForge would crash if you merged a font containing
    6587. 

  6587.           ligature information into another one (or diagonal stems
    6588. 

  6588.           or minimum distances).</li>
    6589. 

  6589. 

  6590.           <li>When opening some bdf files, fontforge would display
    6591. 

  6591.           nothing until you resized the window.</li>
    6592. 

  6592. 

  6593.           <li>Added the ability to set the TTF linegap fields.
    6594. 

  6594.           There are two of them (one in OS/2 and one in hhea). I
    6595. 

  6595.           don't understand the distinction between them, so I set
    6596. 

  6596.           both to the same value.</li>
    6597. 

  6597. 

  6598.           <li>When merging fonts, characters which did not fit in
    6599. 

  6599.           the current encoding would be placed immediately after
    6600. 

  6600.           the last character with something in it. The intent was
    6601. 

  6601.           that they should go to an unused slot outside of the
    6602. 

  6602.           encoding rather than within. This has been fixed.</li>
    6603. 

  6603. 

  6604.           <li>I've added a preference item allowing you to
    6605. 

  6605.           configure the separation between the base character and
    6606. 

  6606.           the accent in the Build Accented Character command. I've
    6607. 

  6607.           also changed it so that if the character is close to the
    6608. 

  6608.           x-height or the cap height, the accent is positioned as
    6609. 

  6609.           if the character were at the x-height (or cap height),
    6610. 

  6610.           this means the accents will be at a consistent level
    6611. 

  6611.           rather than slightly ragged.</li>
    6612. 

  6612. 

  6613.           <li>I moved the Make First command to the Point
    6614. 

  6614.           menu.</li>
    6615. 

  6615. 

  6616.           <li>Added a command to copy the splines in the foreground
    6617. 

  6617.           layer into the background layer.</li>
    6618. 

  6618.         </ul>
    6619. 

  6619.       </li>
    6620. 

  6620. 

  6621.       <li>2-Nov-2001
    6622. 

  6622. 

  6623.         <ul>
    6624. 

  6624.           <li>FontForge would not notice certain disk errors when
    6625. 

  6625.           generating truetype fonts. It should do better now.</li>
    6626. 

  6626. 

  6627.           <li>FontForge could crash when generating postscript from
    6628. 

  6628.           a unicode font that did not contain all the greek
    6629. 

  6629.           letters.</li>
    6630. 

  6630. 

  6631.           <li>Fixed a display bug in the metrics view.</li>
    6632. 

  6632. 

  6633.           <li>FontForge should not be able to read in an opentype
    6634. 

  6634.           GPOS table and extract kerning information from it.</li>
    6635. 

  6635. 

  6636.           <li>FontForge will now put kerning info into the GPOS
    6637. 

  6637.           table when saving an opentype font. TrueType fonts will
    6638. 

  6638.           still put kerning info into the kern table.</li>
    6639. 

  6639.         </ul>
    6640. 

  6640.       </li>
    6641. 

  6641. 

  6642.       <li>31-Oct-2001
    6643. 

  6643. 

  6644.         <ul>
    6645. 

  6645.           <li>Added a command to remove width MDs &amp; changed ttf
    6646. 

  6646.           generation to check if there were any width MDs before
    6647. 

  6647.           setting the "metrics depend on pointsize" flag in the
    6648. 

  6648.           head table.</li>
    6649. 

  6649. 

  6650.           <li>Improved (I hope) placement of palettes under default
    6651. 

  6651.           gnome.</li>
    6652. 

  6652. 

  6653.           <li>There was a bug in my otf read in of 'hflex1'
    6654. 

  6654.           instructions which warped some otf fonts badly.</li>
    6655. 

  6655.         </ul>
    6656. 

  6656.       </li>
    6657. 

  6657. 

  6658.       <li>29-Oct-2001
    6659. 

  6659. 

  6660.         <ul>
    6661. 

  6661.           <li>Change type1 encoding vectors so that they start with
    6662. 

  6662.           a for loop setting everything to notdef. older versions
    6663. 

  6663.           of dvipdfm assume it's there</li>
    6664. 

    6665. 

  6665.           <li>Added two new concepts to hinting which only apply to
    6666. 

  6666.           truetype:
    6667. 

  6667. 

  6668.             <ul>
    6669. 

  6669.               <li>You can specify that a certain point should be
    6670. 

  6670.               rounded to the grid in x or y<br />
    6671. 

  6671.               (note: points on hints don't need this, they'll
    6672. 

  6672.               always be rounded)</li>
    6673. 

  6673. 

  6674.               <li>You can specify that the x or y distance between
    6675. 

  6675.               two points should never vanish (this is called
    6676. 

  6676.               Minimum Distance)<br />
    6677. 

  6677.               (note: each hint implies one of these going from one
    6678. 

  6678.               side of the hint to the other, also there is an
    6679. 

  6679.               implied one of these between any two non-overlapping
    6680. 

  6680.               hints)<br />
    6681. 

  6681.               You can also specify that the distance between a
    6682. 

  6682.               point and the width should never vanish. This means
    6683. 

  6683.               that there will always be at least one pixel between
    6684. 

  6684.               that point and the advance width of the
    6685. 

  6685.               character.</li>
    6686. 

  6686.             </ul>
    6687. 

  6687.           </li>
    6688. 

  6688. 

  6689.           <li>I removed the serif checker from the ttf instruction
    6690. 

  6690.           generator and moved it to the autohinter (with some
    6691. 

  6691.           changes of course) and it now generates minimum
    6692. 

  6692.           distances.</li>
    6693. 

  6693. 

  6694.           <li>I added a minimum distance between the last stem of a
    6695. 

  6695.           character and the width.</li>
    6696. 

  6696. 

  6697.           <li>I added a user interface to display and control
    6698. 

  6698.           these</li>
    6699. 

  6699. 

  6700.           <li>I realized I was misinterpreting the ttf docs (again)
    6701. 

  6701.           and that IUP worked better than I thought, and so I
    6702. 

  6702.           removed my own interpolation code (thank you freetype! it
    6703. 

  6703.           is so good to see what the instructions do.)</li>
    6704. 

  6704. 

  6705.           <li>Cleaned up some rather technical issues in the
    6706. 

  6706.           truetype instruction generation occasioned by
    6707. 

  6707.           non-overlapping and non-intersecting hints.</li>
    6708. 

  6708. 

  6709.           <li>FontForge will now read (but not produce) '.gsf'
    6710. 

  6710.           files. These are yet another postscript format, like a
    6711. 

  6711.           pfa but without the eexec encoding. Ghostscript uses them
    6712. 

  6712.           (others may, I think Wadalab did...).</li>
    6713. 

  6713. 

  6714.           <li>Oops. In encodings containing characters with no
    6715. 

  6715.           defined postscript unicode names, then the name generated
    6716. 

  6716.           for an unused character was wrong.</li>
    6717. 

  6717. 

  6718.           <li>Oops. FontForge thought all user defined encodings
    6719. 

  6719.           were two byte encodings and produced a warning message
    6720. 

  6720.           for them when generating type1 fonts.</li>
    6721. 

  6721. 

  6722.           <li>Added a force encoding flag to the Font Info dlg.
    6723. 

  6723.           This is for those cases where FontForge reads in a font
    6724. 

  6724.           but can't figure out what the proper encoding is, then
    6725. 

  6725.           doing a force encoding will simply rename all the
    6726. 

  6726.           characters to match what they should be in the chosen
    6727. 

  6727.           encoding.</li>
    6728. 

  6728. 

  6729.           <li>Oops, neither afm nor bdf files were correctly
    6730. 

  6730.           normalized for fonts whose em size wasn't 1000.</li>
    6731. 

    6732. 

  6732.           <li>Improved bdf "CHARSET_COLLECTIONS" output.</li>
    6733. 

  6733. 

  6734.           <li>Added a command to make two lines parallel</li>
    6735. 

  6735.         </ul>
    6736. 

  6736.       </li>
    6737. 

  6737. 

  6738.       <li>21-Oct-2001
    6739. 

  6739. 

  6740.         <ul>
    6741. 

  6741.           <li>FontForge could crash when autohinting a diagonal
    6742. 

  6742.           hint.</li>
    6743. 

  6743.         </ul>
    6744. 

  6744.       </li>
    6745. 

  6745. 

  6746.       <li>20-Oct-2001
    6747. 

  6747. 

  6748.         <ul>
    6749. 

  6749.           <li>FontForge generated awful instructions (hints) for
    6750. 

  6750.           truetype characters. I've fixed some of the more
    6751. 

  6751.           egregious problems (I hope).<br />
    6752. 

  6752.             In particular:
    6753. 

  6753. 

  6754.             <ul>
    6755. 

  6755.               <li>Diagonal hints were completely broken</li>
    6756. 

  6756. 

  6757.               <li>Overlapping hints didn't work either</li>
    6758. 

    6759. 

  6759.               <li>Normal hints with more than one point on them
    6760. 

  6760.               sometimes had the second (third, fourth...) point
    6761. 

  6761.               moved by the wrong amount.</li>
    6762. 

  6762. 

  6763.               <li>Points that weren't on any hints were often not
    6764. 

  6764.               interpolated properly.</li>
    6765. 

  6765. 

  6766.               <li>The serif code picked up on things which weren't
    6767. 

  6767.               serifs and tried to hint them as though they
    6768. 

  6768.               were.</li>
    6769. 

  6769.             </ul>
    6770. 

  6770.           </li>
    6771. 

  6771. 

  6772.           <li>I've written a <a href=
    6773. 

  6773.           "http://mensis.sf.net/">tool</a> which will allow you to
    6774. 

  6774.           look at what the instructions are and what they do.</li>
    6775. 

  6775. 

  6776.           <li>TTF spline approximation (cubic-&gt;quadratic) should
    6777. 

  6777.           be twice as fast.</li>
    6778. 

  6778. 

  6779.           <li>Clearing/Cutting a character with references from the
    6780. 

  6780.           font view corrupted FontForge's internal state. If this
    6781. 

  6781.           were followed by a reduction in the number of characters
    6782. 

  6782.           in the font (Element-&gt;Font Info-&gt;Encoding) a crash
    6783. 

  6783.           could occur.</li>
    6784. 

  6784. 

  6785.           <li>Clearing/Cutting a character with dependents from the
    6786. 

  6786.           font view now gives the user the option of instanciating
    6787. 

  6787.           the character in all its dependents.</li>
    6788. 

  6788.         </ul>
    6789. 

  6789.       </li>
    6790. 

  6790. 

  6791.       <li>11-Oct-2001
    6792. 

  6792. 

  6793.         <ul>
    6794. 

  6794.           <li>Hmm. Apple has some very strange things to say about
    6795. 

  6795.           how offsets and scaling factors overlap in compound ttf
    6796. 

  6796.           glyphs. It is not well enough described (at least when it
    6797. 

  6797.           applies to rotations) for me to implement it. Microsoft
    6798. 

  6798.           doesn't do this. Great. OpenType gives a pair of bits to
    6799. 

  6799.           control this behavior (bit 11 set do it apple's way, bit
    6800. 

  6800.           12 set do it MS way, neither set flip a coin and guess,
    6801. 

  6801.           both set die in horrible agony). But still no description
    6802. 

  6802.           of exactly what Apple does. So I've changed my ttf output
    6803. 

  6803.           routine always to set bit 12 in the composite flags. And
    6804. 

  6804.           the read in does something if it gets the apple bit.
    6805. 

  6805.           Probably not the right thing though.</li>
    6806. 

  6806. 

  6807.           <li>Fixed a potential problem clipping splines in the
    6808. 

  6808.           outline character display.</li>
    6809. 

  6809. 

  6810.           <li>Added a warning when attempting to save a font with a
    6811. 

  6811.           two byte encoding into a format that only supports one
    6812. 

  6812.           byte encodings (ie. unicode to pfb)</li>
    6813. 

  6813. 

  6814.           <li>FontForge crashed when loading a bare bdf with more
    6815. 

  6815.           than 256 characters</li>
    6816. 

  6816. 

  6817.           <li>FontForge used out of date versions of config.guess
    6818. 

  6818.           and config.sub. These should be updated now.</li>
    6819. 

  6819.         </ul>
    6820. 

  6820.       </li>
    6821. 

  6821. 

  6822.       <li>3-Oct-2001
    6823. 

  6823. 

  6824.         <ul>
    6825. 

  6825.           <li>Added support for saving bitmaps into ttf files. I
    6826. 

  6826.           don't know that I've got it right. Windows Me ignores the
    6827. 

  6827.           bitmaps I put in. Windows may ignore all bitmaps, or I
    6828. 

  6828.           may have done something wrong... There are so few files
    6829. 

  6829.           to test bitmaps on though...</li>
    6830. 

  6830. 

  6831.           <li>Some older systems have problems taking the cubed
    6832. 

  6832.           root of 0. This can pop up in the Cubic Solution code now
    6833. 

  6833.           (when doing simplify for example). There should be a
    6834. 

  6834.           work-around in place now.</li>
    6835. 

  6835. 

  6836.           <li>On monospaced fonts FontForge generated a .notdef
    6837. 

  6837.           character whose width was the em-square rather than the
    6838. 

  6838.           size of the rest of the font.</li>
    6839. 

  6839.         </ul>
    6840. 

  6840.       </li>
    6841. 

  6841. 

  6842.       <li>1-Oct-2001
    6843. 

  6843. 

  6844.         <ul>
    6845. 

  6845.           <li>makefile wouldn't build ui files if "." wasn't in
    6846. 

  6846.           PATH environment variable. Should be fixed.</li>
    6847. 

  6847. 

  6848.           <li>Holding down the Shift key when invoking
    6849. 

  6849.           Element-&gt;AutoTrace will cause it to prompt for command
    6850. 

  6850.           line arguments to the autotrace program (you have to
    6851. 

  6851.           figure these arguments out yourself).</li>
    6852. 

  6852.         </ul>
    6853. 

  6853.       </li>
    6854. 

  6854. 

  6855.       <li>30-Sept-2001/1-Oct-2001
    6856. 

  6856. 

  6857.         <ul>
    6858. 

  6858.           <li>Improved importing background bitmap fonts (scaling
    6859. 

  6859.           factor set more accurately, pk characters whose bitmap
    6860. 

  6860.           width was a factor of 8 had problems).</li>
    6861. 

  6861. 

  6862.           <li>Import width from background bitmap fonts if the
    6863. 

  6863.           outline character is empty.</li>
    6864. 

  6864. 

  6865.           <li>Merge Fonts was disabled except under bizarre
    6866. 

  6866.           circumstances, should be fixed.</li>
    6867. 

  6867. 

  6868.           <li>Makefiles should create the *.ui files now.</li>
    6869. 

  6869. 

  6870.           <li>Mac encoding table should include the Euro character
    6871. 

  6871.           now (I was using an old version which had the currency
    6872. 

  6872.           symbol instead).</li>
    6873. 

  6873.         </ul>
    6874. 

  6874.       </li>
    6875. 

  6875. 

  6876.       <li>24-Sept-2001
    6877. 

  6877. 

  6878.         <ul>
    6879. 

  6879.           <li><a href="Problems-MacOSX.html">Mac OS/X port</a> done
    6880. 

  6880.           (or at least a semi-working version has been
    6881. 

  6881.           produced)</li>
    6882. 

  6882. 

  6883.           <li>Localization didn't work if there was no preference
    6884. 

  6884.           file.
    6885. 

  6885.             <hr />
    6886. 

  6886.           </li>
    6887. 

  6887. 

  6888.           <li>Can now read metafont pk files as bitmap fonts
    6889. 

  6889.           (Warning: No encoding on these files, you've got to guess
    6890. 

  6890.           at the encoding before loading them).</li>
    6891. 

  6891. 

  6892.           <li>Can now read kerning information from TeX .tfm files
    6893. 

  6893.           (Again, there's no encoding in these guys, I just assume
    6894. 

  6894.           the font's encoding matches the tfm)</li>
    6895. 

  6895.         </ul>
    6896. 

  6896.       </li>
    6897. 

  6897. 

  6898.       <li>22-Sept-2001
    6899. 

  6899. 

  6900.         <ul>
    6901. 

  6901.           <li>Can now read bitmap fonts out of a truetype EBDT (or
    6902. 

  6902.           bdat) table</li>
    6903. 

  6903. 

  6904.           <li>Can import a bitmap and put it into the background of
    6905. 

  6905.           a font.</li>
    6906. 

  6906. 

  6907.           <li>FontForge would sometimes get character widths wrong
    6908. 

  6908.           when reading a ttc file.</li>
    6909. 

  6909.         </ul>
    6910. 

  6910.       </li>
    6911. 

  6911. 

  6912.       <li>19-Sept-2001
    6913. 

  6913. 

  6914.         <ul>
    6915. 

  6915.           <li>Major rewrite of Remove Overlap.</li>
    6916. 

  6916. 

  6917.           <li>Fixed potential crash in autohint</li>
    6918. 

  6918. 

  6919.           <li>I now find the intersection of a (cubic) spline and a
    6920. 

  6920.           line by the cubic algorithm rather than by
    6921. 

  6921.           iteration.</li>
    6922. 

  6922.         </ul>
    6923. 

  6923.       </li>
    6924. 

  6924. 

  6925.       <li>15-Sept-2001
    6926. 

  6926. 

  6927.         <ul>
    6928. 

  6928.           <li>Fixed more remove overlap/merge/simplify problems
    6929. 

  6929.           related to having many points at the same location.</li>
    6930. 

  6930. 

  6931.           <li>Fixed a bug in Point Info.</li>
    6932. 

  6932.         </ul>
    6933. 

  6933.       </li>
    6934. 

  6934. 

  6935.       <li>14-Sept-2001
    6936. 

  6936. 

  6937.         <ul>
    6938. 

  6938.           <li>Fixed a couple more memory problems (caused by the
    6939. 

  6939.           chunk allocation), one in remove overlap, one in
    6940. 

  6940.           autotrace</li>
    6941. 

  6941. 

  6942.           <li>I'm told that yesterday's executable upload didn't
    6943. 

  6943.           work. Hope today's does better</li>
    6944. 

  6944.         </ul>
    6945. 

  6945.       </li>
    6946. 

  6946. 

  6947.       <li>13-Sept-2001
    6948. 

  6948. 

  6949.         <ul>
    6950. 

  6950.           <li>Fixed a crash when joining two paths</li>
    6951. 

  6951. 

  6952.           <li>More tweaking of search path for ui files.</li>
    6953. 

  6953.         </ul>
    6954. 

  6954.       </li>
    6955. 

  6955. 

  6956.       <li>11-Sept-2001
    6957. 

  6957. 

  6958.         <ul>
    6959. 

  6959.           <li>more configuration fixes</li>
    6960. 

  6960. 

  6961.           <li>Fixed many simplify bugs</li>
    6962. 

  6962. 

  6963.           <li>otf output would crash if given an open path.
    6964. 

  6964.           Fixed</li>
    6965. 

  6965.         </ul>
    6966. 

  6966.       </li>
    6967. 

  6967. 

  6968.       <li>8-Sept-2001
    6969. 

  6969. 

  6970.         <ul>
    6971. 

  6971.           <li>Font View Paste has changed slightly. If the copy
    6972. 

  6972.           buffer contains more than one character, and the
    6973. 

  6973.           selection is exactly one character, then the selection
    6974. 

  6974.           will be changed so that it will exactly fit the copy
    6975. 

  6975.           buffer.</li>
    6976. 

  6976. 

  6977.           <li>Also Font View Copy will copy the hints of the
    6978. 

  6978.           character.</li>
    6979. 

  6979. 

  6980.           <li>Fixed a bug with reading CID keyed Type1 fonts</li>
    6981. 

  6981. 

  6982.           <li>cleaned up some compilation problems on older systems
    6983. 

  6983.           (I hope)</li>
    6984. 

  6984. 

  6985.           <li>Inserted Olaf's bug fix in gresource.c</li>
    6986. 

    6987. 

  6987.           <li>Cleaned up behavior on zero-length splines</li>
    6988. 

  6988.         </ul>
    6989. 

  6989.       </li>
    6990. 

  6990. 

  6991.       <li>5-Sept-2001
    6992. 

  6992. 

  6993.         <ul>
    6994. 

  6994.           <li>Ug. yesterday's install changes weren't complete. I
    6995. 

  6995.           forgot to remove the old files from /usr/local/bin so
    6996. 

  6996.           fontforge used out of data translation tables and things
    6997. 

  6997.           looked confused for non-English users. Also libgunicode
    6998. 

  6998.           had an old version of some header files so there were
    6999. 

  6999.           compilation problems if this was tar x'ed last (the other
    7000. 

  7000.           packages had the correct headers).</li>
    7001. 

  7001. 

  7002.           <li>Also I posted a bad libgdraw source.</li>
    7003. 

  7003. 

  7004.           <li>And got the dates wrong.</li>
    7005. 

  7005. 

  7006.           <li>Added a tiny bit of German to the ui (hope it's
    7007. 

  7007.           right)</li>
    7008. 

  7008.         </ul>
    7009. 

  7009.       </li>
    7010. 

  7010. 

  7011.       <li>4-Sept-2001 (but posted as 5-Sept-2001)
    7012. 

  7012. 

  7013.         <ul>
    7014. 

  7014.           <li>Menubar should be redrawn properly after a resize
    7015. 

  7015.           now.</li>
    7016. 

  7016. 

  7017.           <li>File chooser should be smarter about retaining
    7018. 

  7018.           filenames after changing directories.</li>
    7019. 

  7019. 

  7020.           <li>Various fixes to support URW's odd habit of
    7021. 

  7021.           abbreviating everything to 4 characters (ie. recognize
    7022. 

  7022.           "obli" for "oblique", and "medi" for "medium")</li>
    7023. 

  7023. 

  7024.           <li>Fixed a crash bug in postscript generation when
    7025. 

  7025.           character 0 was deemed worth outputting</li>
    7026. 

  7026. 

  7027.           <li>Tweaked XHeight calculation to look for
    7028. 

  7028.           greek/cyrillic "x"</li>
    7029. 

  7029. 

  7030.           <li>Changed install process to put user-interface files
    7031. 

  7031.           into /usr/share/fontforge instead of into the bin
    7032. 

  7032.           directory.</li>
    7033. 

  7033.         </ul>
    7034. 

  7034.       </li>
    7035. 

  7035. 

  7036.       <li>1-Sept-2001
    7037. 

  7037. 

  7038.         <ul>
    7039. 

  7039.           <li>Small fixes to (my implementation of) Adobe Standard
    7040. 

  7040.           Encoding.</li>
    7041. 

  7041. 

  7042.           <li>Small tweaks to get things to compile on solaris
    7043. 

  7043.           again.</li>
    7044. 

  7044.         </ul>
    7045. 

  7045.       </li>
    7046. 

  7046. 

  7047.       <li>31-August-2001
    7048. 

  7048. 

  7049.         <ul>
    7050. 

  7050.           <li>If you dragged on a new spline, and then translated
    7051. 

  7051.           one or both of its end-points the spline reverted to its
    7052. 

  7052.           default configuration</li>
    7053. 

  7053. 

  7054.           <li>TTF files encoded in Wansung/SJIS will be read into a
    7055. 

  7055.           font encoded with either KSC5601 or JIS208.</li>
    7056. 

  7056.         </ul>
    7057. 

  7057.       </li>
    7058. 

  7058. 

  7059.       <li>30-August-2001
    7060. 

  7060. 

  7061.         <ul>
    7062. 

  7062.           <li>Fixed some bugs in otf output:
    7063. 

  7063. 

  7064.             <ul>
    7065. 

  7065.               <li>hintmasks were being output incorrectly, omitting
    7066. 

  7066.               bytes of data. This could cause horrendous errors. If
    7067. 

  7067.               FontForge read in one of these fonts it would often
    7068. 

  7068.               report "stack underflow".</li>
    7069. 

  7069. 

  7070.               <li>Another hintmask problem caused characters to be
    7071. 

  7071.               offset from where they should be.</li>
    7072. 

  7072. 

  7073.               <li>Placing a hintmask between multiple [rhv]lineto s
    7074. 

  7074.               caused us to skip a line segment</li>
    7075. 

  7075. 

  7076.               <li>cleaned up generation of subroutines (used to be
    7077. 

  7077.               extraneous rmovetos)</li>
    7078. 

  7078. 

  7079.               <li>If the user gave bad input to certain Private
    7080. 

  7080.               values (BlueValues for instance), FontForge could go
    7081. 

  7081.               into an infinite loop.</li>
    7082. 

  7082.             </ul>
    7083. 

  7083.           </li>
    7084. 

  7084. 

  7085.           <li>Non-CID otf fonts did not get their encodings
    7086. 

  7086.           read</li>
    7087. 

  7087. 

  7088.           <li>Improved parsing of hints in a type1 font with hint
    7089. 

  7089.           substitution</li>
    7090. 

  7090. 

  7091.           <li>Fixed a crash bug in Inserting a font (or a blank
    7092. 

  7092.           font) into a CID font</li>
    7093. 

  7093. 

  7094.           <li>Generate font dialog would sometimes default to
    7095. 

  7095.           producing a CID keyed font when it was not
    7096. 

  7096.           appropriate.</li>
    7097. 

  7097. 

  7098.           <li>I got the ulCodePageRange bits wrong of the CJK
    7099. 

  7099.           codepages (which meant that windows thought the wrong
    7100. 

  7100.           characters were in the font)</li>
    7101. 

  7101. 

  7102.           <li>I generated a bad cmap (ttf encoding) table for CID
    7103. 

  7103.           keyed otf fonts.</li>
    7104. 

  7104. 

  7105.           <li>If a TTF/OTF font is encoded with KSC5601 or JIS208
    7106. 

  7106.           then I will give it a Wansung / SJIS encoding in the cmap
    7107. 

  7107.           (if a unicode encoding is desired then reencode as
    7108. 

  7108.           unicode).</li>
    7109. 

  7109. 

  7110.           <li>Found format for afm files of CID fonts. Can now
    7111. 

  7111.           produce such for CID font output.</li>
    7112. 

  7112. 

  7113.           <li>Improved reference handling in type1s. If a reference
    7114. 

  7114.           doesn't fit into a "seac" then try to use subroutines.
    7115. 

  7115.           Subroutines are possible if:
    7116. 

  7116. 

  7117.             <ul>
    7118. 

  7118.               <li>None of the references in the character use hint
    7119. 

  7119.               substitution (or flex hints)<br />
    7120. 

  7120.               &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; - or -</li>
    7121. 

  7121. 

  7122.               <li>Only one of the references uses hint substitution
    7123. 

  7123.               and it isn't translated (not moved)</li>
    7124. 

  7124.             </ul>
    7125. 

  7125.           </li>
    7126. 

  7126. 

  7127.           <li>Improved reference handling in type2s (opentype).
    7128. 

  7128.           Allow a reference to a character with hint substitutions
    7129. 

  7129.           to go into a subroutine if none of the other referenced
    7130. 

  7130.           characters use any hints at all, and the character with
    7131. 

  7131.           hint substitutions is not translated.</li>
    7132. 

  7132. 

  7133.           <li>Get Info was broken inside outline characters</li>
    7134. 

  7134. 

  7135.           <li>Made an attempt to speed up handling of larger fonts.
    7136. 

  7136.           Only noticeable difference I've seen is that it speeds up
    7137. 

  7137.           freeing the font.</li>
    7138. 

  7138. 

  7139.           <li>Added a dialog to show what characters refer to the
    7140. 

  7140.           current character</li>
    7141. 

  7141. 

  7142.           <li>Made a feeble attempt to sort out the confusion
    7143. 

  7143.           engendered by adobe's naming conventions for greek
    7144. 

  7144.           letters.
    7145. 

  7145. 

  7146.             <ul>
    7147. 

  7147.               <li>if a font contains either the of the characters
    7148. 

  7148.               U+00B5 or U+03BC then when saving the font FontForge
    7149. 

  7149.               ensures that characters with the names: "mu",
    7150. 

  7150.               "uni00B5" and "uni03BC" are all present. Similarly
    7151. 

  7151.               for Delta, uni0394 uni2206 and Omega, uni03A9
    7152. 

  7152.               uni2126</li>
    7153. 

  7153.             </ul>
    7154. 

  7154.           </li>
    7155. 

  7155. 

  7156.           <li>Added support for command line arguments which begin
    7157. 

  7157.           with "--".</li>
    7158. 

  7158. 

  7159.           <li>Added -usage and -help arguments</li>
    7160. 

  7160. 

  7161.           <li>Added -recover={none,auto,clean} to give you control
    7162. 

  7162.           over the autorecovery process.
    7163. 

  7163. 

  7164.             <ul>
    7165. 

  7165.               <li>-recover=none means that the current run will not
    7166. 

  7166.               perform auto recovery but will leave things so that
    7167. 

  7167.               the next run will do so. (Note: If you change a font
    7168. 

  7168.               that will be recovered later, the results are
    7169. 

  7169.               indeterminate).</li>
    7170. 

  7170. 

  7171.               <li>-recover=auto default behavior</li>
    7172. 

  7172. 

  7173.               <li>-recover=clean cleans out the autorecovery
    7174. 

  7174.               directory</li>
    7175. 

  7175.             </ul>
    7176. 

  7176.           </li>
    7177. 

  7177. 

  7178.           <li>extension guessing would do the wrong thing if we
    7179. 

  7179.           actually wanted to open a font with no extension.</li>
    7180. 

  7180.         </ul>
    7181. 

  7181.       </li>
    7182. 

  7182. 

  7183.       <li>8-August-2001
    7184. 

  7184. 

  7185.         <ul>
    7186. 

  7186.           <li>Some minor fixes to gchardlg.c</li>
    7187. 

  7187. 

  7188.           <li>Try to upgrade the CJK translation tables to Unicode
    7189. 

  7189.           3</li>
    7190. 

  7190. 

  7191.           <li>Improve processing of ttc files (I can actually read
    7192. 

  7192.           one no)</li>
    7193. 

  7193. 

  7194.           <li>chooser icon for cid-keyed fonts</li>
    7195. 

  7195.         </ul>
    7196. 

  7196.       </li>
    7197. 

  7197. 

  7198.       <li>6-August-2001
    7199. 

  7199. 

  7200.         <ul>
    7201. 

  7201.           <li>KSC5601-1987 was still wrong.</li>
    7202. 

  7202. 

  7203.           <li>Fixed a crash in FontInfo on CID fonts.</li>
    7204. 

  7204.         </ul>
    7205. 

  7205.       </li>
    7206. 

  7206. 

  7207.       <li>4-August-2001
    7208. 

  7208. 

  7209.         <ul>
    7210. 

  7210.           <li>Eek. FontInfo-&gt;Panose,TTF Values never got stored
    7211. 

  7211.           into the font.</li>
    7212. 

  7212. 

  7213.           <li>Also added access to Version, and UniqueID</li>
    7214. 

  7214. 

  7215.           <li>Was given a TTf font with no fontname. This caused a
    7216. 

  7216.           crash. FontForge now assigns a fontname if the font
    7217. 

  7217.           doesn't provide one.</li>
    7218. 

    7219. 

  7219.           <li>Added support (well ability to read) for SJIS, Big5
    7220. 

  7220.           and Wansung TTF encodings (platform=3,
    7221. 

  7221.           specific=2,3,5)</li>
    7222. 

  7222. 

  7223.           <li>After playing with large asian fonts I am now making
    7224. 

  7224.           (minimal) attempts to conserve memory and have changed
    7225. 

  7225.           all my doubles to floats (it's configurable of course,
    7226. 

  7226.           but default is float).</li>
    7227. 

  7227. 

  7228.           <li>Fixed a number of bugs in open type output</li>
    7229. 

  7229. 

  7230.           <li>Was using out of date Korean-&gt;Unicode conversion.
    7231. 

  7231.           Should be fixed now.</li>
    7232. 

  7232. 

  7233.           <li>Initial support for <a href="cidmenu.html">CID keyed
    7234. 

  7234.           fonts</a>.</li>
    7235. 

  7235.         </ul>
    7236. 

  7236.       </li>
    7237. 

  7237. 

  7238.       <li>26-July-2001
    7239. 

  7239. 

  7240.         <ul>
    7241. 

  7241.           <li>Added a constrain points command to align a
    7242. 

  7242.           collection of points, or to space points evenly on a
    7243. 

  7243.           line.</li>
    7244. 

  7244.         </ul>
    7245. 

  7245.       </li>
    7246. 

  7246. 

  7247.       <li>25-July-2001
    7248. 

  7248. 

  7249.         <ul>
    7250. 

  7250.           <li>Fixed a rare crash from closing the outline (or
    7251. 

  7251.           bitmap) view</li>
    7252. 

  7252. 

  7253.           <li>Added a new problem to find problems</li>
    7254. 

  7254. 

  7255.           <li>Fixed some small bugs in find problems</li>
    7256. 

  7256. 

  7257.           <li>Oops. TrueType names came out in the wrong
    7258. 

  7258.           endianness.</li>
    7259. 

  7259.         </ul>
    7260. 

  7260.       </li>
    7261. 

  7261. 

  7262.       <li>24-July-2001
    7263. 

  7263. 

  7264.         <ul>
    7265. 

  7265.           <li>Although the family name accepted spaces, it then
    7266. 

  7266.           silently removed them. No longer. (I hope)</li>
    7267. 

  7267. 

  7268.           <li>FontForge is now more careful when you attempt to
    7269. 

  7269.           clear a character from the font view which has dependents
    7270. 

  7270.           (at least one of which is not being cleared itself). It
    7271. 

  7271.           will warn you and allow you not to clear that
    7272. 

  7272.           character.</li>
    7273. 

  7273. 

  7274.           <li>FontForge is also more careful when you attempt to
    7275. 

  7275.           paste a reference to a character that does not exist in
    7276. 

  7276.           the current font. Before it silently ignored it. Now it
    7277. 

  7277.           will warn you and give you the option of pasting the
    7278. 

  7278.           outlines of the original character being refered to (if
    7279. 

  7279.           it can find that character).</li>
    7280. 

  7280. 

  7281.           <li>Fixed an uninitialized variable in print that could
    7282. 

  7282.           cause things to go into an infinite loop.</li>
    7283. 

  7283. 

  7284.           <li>Fixed a rounding error problem in ttf generation that
    7285. 

  7285.           could cause an infinite loop.</li>
    7286. 

  7286. 

  7287.           <li>Small bitmap fonts will be magnified in the font
    7288. 

  7288.           view</li>
    7289. 

  7289. 

  7290.           <li>Expand Stroke didn't work on counter-clockwise
    7291. 

  7291.           triangles (presumably other shapes, but I didn't check).
    7292. 

  7292.           It also would randomly leave paths counter-clockwise when
    7293. 

  7293.           they should have been clockwise.</li>
    7294. 

  7294. 

  7295.           <li>Finally!<br />
    7296. 

  7296.           Often when joining two paths (or closing one path) the
    7297. 

  7297.           point would jump when you released the mouse. I finally
    7298. 

  7298.           figured out why.</li>
    7299. 

  7299.         </ul>
    7300. 

  7300.       </li>
    7301. 

  7301. 

  7302.       <li>22-July-2001
    7303. 

  7303. 

  7304.         <ul>
    7305. 

  7305.           <li>wrote a unicode printf which is now used by most of
    7306. 

  7306.           the error routines. Should be no visible difference to
    7307. 

  7307.           users.</li>
    7308. 

  7308. 

  7309.           <li>cleaned up the truetype names aspect of the font info
    7310. 

  7310.           dlg.</li>
    7311. 

  7311. 

  7312.           <li>Added a Translate Styles button to the above aspect
    7313. 

  7313.           if the string is Style and the language is American
    7314. 

  7314.           English. (Sorry about the linguistic chauvinism)</li>
    7315. 

  7315. 

  7316.           <li>Allowed spaces in the PostScript family name
    7317. 

  7317.           again</li>
    7318. 

  7318. 

  7319.           <li>Fixed a bug where the "lpr" radio button would
    7320. 

  7320.           sometimes be disabled.</li>
    7321. 

  7321. 

  7322.           <li>Various other small improvements to "Print".</li>
    7323. 

  7323. 

  7324.           <li>The "Clockwise" detector failed on some paths. I've
    7325. 

  7325.           rewritten it, it should work better now.</li>
    7326. 

  7326. 

  7327.           <li>The clockwise detector in find problems also needed
    7328. 

  7328.           to be rewritten.</li>
    7329. 

  7329. 

  7330.           <li>Added a Find Problems detector for almost
    7331. 

  7331.           horizontal/vertical control points.</li>
    7332. 

  7332. 

  7333.           <li>Some improvements to metafont (well, a few characters
    7334. 

  7334.           look better anyway, I hope it's an improvement). It still
    7335. 

  7335.           doesn't work of course.</li>
    7336. 

  7336.         </ul>
    7337. 

  7337.       </li>
    7338. 

  7338. 

  7339.       <li>17-July-2001
    7340. 

  7340. 

  7341.         <ul>
    7342. 

  7342.           <li>Using almost any stringized error routine would munch
    7343. 

  7343.           memory. Many inexplicable errors resulted. I hope it is
    7344. 

  7344.           now fixed and that FontForge is stable again.</li>
    7345. 

  7345. 

  7346.           <li>Valek's improvements to Find Problems</li>
    7347. 

    7348. 

  7348.           <li>Valek's russian version of "A quick brown
    7349. 

  7349.           fox..."</li>
    7350. 

    7351. 

  7351.           <li>use textarea gadget for Font's copyright notice.</li>
    7352. 

  7352.         </ul>
    7353. 

  7353.       </li>
    7354. 

  7354. 

  7355.       <li>16-July-2001
    7356. 

  7356. 

  7357.         <ul>
    7358. 

  7358.           <li>FontForge did not do a very good job of guessing at
    7359. 

  7359.           where hints should be active when they were supplied by
    7360. 

  7360.           the user. Should do better now.</li>
    7361. 

  7361. 

  7362.           <li>More tuneups for autohint.</li>
    7363. 

  7363. 

  7364.           <li>Added a command to the outline view to allow you to
    7365. 

  7365.           set the "First Point" of each spline set. This is
    7366. 

  7366.           important for Interpolate font.</li>
    7367. 

  7367. 

  7368.           <li>Fixed a bug in Font Reencoding having to do with
    7369. 

  7369.           references.</li>
    7370. 

  7370. 

  7371.           <li>Added direction detection to Find Problems (to make
    7372. 

  7372.           sure outer paths are clockwise)</li>
    7373. 

  7373. 

  7374.           <li>Cleared selections between explanations on Find
    7375. 

  7375.           Problems</li>
    7376. 

  7376. 

  7377.           <li>Gave some indication of how near horizontal/vertical
    7378. 

  7378.           lines are wrong in find problems</li>
    7379. 

  7379. 

  7380.           <li>Fixed a crash in MetaFont</li>
    7381. 

  7381. 

  7382.           <li>Added a progress indicator to MetaFont</li>
    7383. 

  7383. 

  7384.           <li>Added some more to the print sample text (bulgarian,
    7385. 

  7385.           macedonian, welsh, czech, lithuanian, polish,
    7386. 

  7386.           slovene)</li>
    7387. 

  7387. 

  7388.           <li>Stringized some more files</li>
    7389. 

  7389.         </ul>
    7390. 

  7390.       </li>
    7391. 

  7391. 

  7392.       <li>15-July-2001
    7393. 

  7393. 

  7394.         <ul>
    7395. 

  7395.           <li>FontForge should now be able to read truetype
    7396. 

  7396.           collection files and do something reasonable --<br />
    7397. 

  7397.           At least in theory. I don't have any truetype collection
    7398. 

  7398.           files to test on.</li>
    7399. 

  7399. 

  7400.           <li>Oh dear. The rasterizer was looking at vertical hints
    7401. 

  7401.           when it should have looked at horizontal ones, looking at
    7402. 

  7402.           no hints when it should have looked at vertical ones. The
    7403. 

  7403.           result was that vertical edges weren't found.</li>
    7404. 

    7405. 

  7405.           <li>FontForge had problems reading in lone bdf fonts with
    7406. 

  7406.           strange encodings.</li>
    7407. 

  7407. 

  7408.           <li>Cleaned up print behavior slightly on systems without
    7409. 

  7409.           ghostview</li>
    7410. 

  7410. 

  7411.           <li>Find Problems would not always stop immediately after
    7412. 

  7412.           pressing the stop button.</li>
    7413. 

  7413. 

  7414.           <li>more files stringized</li>
    7415. 

  7415.         </ul>
    7416. 

  7416.       </li>
    7417. 

  7417. 

  7418.       <li>11-July-2001
    7419. 

  7419. 

  7420.         <ul>
    7421. 

  7421.           <li>Eek! Memory problem in metrics view (writing beyond
    7422. 

  7422.           what was allocated). Fixed now.</li>
    7423. 

  7423. 

  7424.           <li>There is scrollbar in the metricsview again. This
    7425. 

  7425.           time it actually does something.</li>
    7426. 

  7426.         </ul>
    7427. 

  7427.       </li>
    7428. 

  7428. 

  7429.       <li>10-July-2001
    7430. 

  7430. 

  7431.         <ul>
    7432. 

  7432.           <li>Did significant improvement to arabic ligature
    7433. 

  7433.           creation (at least it's done right to left now and the
    7434. 

  7434.           proper forms will be picked).</li>
    7435. 

  7435. 

  7436.           <li>Improved the character icons of Anti-Aliased
    7437. 

  7437.           fonts.</li>
    7438. 

  7438. 

  7439.           <li>Oops. FontInfo would mistakenly complain about
    7440. 

  7440.           modifiers like "-Bold". Fixed.</li>
    7441. 

  7441. 

  7442.           <li>There's the start of a <a href=
    7443. 

  7443.           "MetaFont.html">command to change the weight of a
    7444. 

  7444.           font</a>. It doesn't work very well yet. It probably
    7445. 

  7445.           never will work perfectly, but I hope it may eventually
    7446. 

  7446.           be useful.</li>
    7447. 

  7447.         </ul>
    7448. 

  7448.       </li>
    7449. 

  7449. 

  7450.       <li>7-July-2001
    7451. 

  7451. 

  7452.         <ul>
    7453. 

  7453.           <li>Fixed a crash when referring to a character whose
    7454. 

  7454.           encoding was bigger than 65535</li>
    7455. 

  7455. 

  7456.           <li>Rewrote the <a href="fontinfo.html">Font Info</a>
    7457. 

  7457.           dlg.
    7458. 

  7458. 

  7459.             <ul>
    7460. 

  7460.               <li>Made the dialog controlled by tabs instead of
    7461. 

  7461.               trying to show everything at once.</li>
    7462. 

  7462. 

  7463.               <li>Merged the private info dlg into it</li>
    7464. 

  7464. 

  7465.               <li>Provided access to some ttf settings which were
    7466. 

  7466.               previously hidden</li>
    7467. 

  7467. 

  7468.               <li>Provided access to the ttf name table (which
    7469. 

  7469.               allows you to give the font and its styles different
    7470. 

  7470.               names on different languages. So CaslonItalic could
    7471. 

  7471.               be CaslonItalique in French and CaslonKursive in
    7472. 

  7472.               German.</li>
    7473. 

  7473.             </ul>
    7474. 

  7474.           </li>
    7475. 

  7475.         </ul>
    7476. 

  7476.       </li>
    7477. 

  7477. 

  7478.       <li>30-June-2001
    7479. 

  7479. 

  7480.         <ul>
    7481. 

  7481.           <li>Fixed another crash from putting strings in
    7482. 

  7482.           resources.</li>
    7483. 

  7483. 

  7484.           <li>Added a snap-to feature on horizontal/vertical lines
    7485. 

  7485.           in the grid (guide) layer.</li>
    7486. 

  7486. 

  7487.           <li>Missing a few files in the distribution of the
    7488. 

  7488.           28th.</li>
    7489. 

  7489.         </ul>
    7490. 

  7490.       </li>
    7491. 

  7491. 

  7492.       <li>28-June-2001
    7493. 

  7493. 

  7494.         <ul>
    7495. 

  7495.           <li>Oops. Now all empty characters are nameless, not just
    7496. 

  7496.           controls.</li>
    7497. 

  7497. 

  7498.           <li>Many improvements to <a href="problems.html">find
    7499. 

  7499.           problems</a>.</li>
    7500. 

  7500. 

  7501.           <li>Added some new shortcuts to the menus.</li>
    7502. 

  7502.         </ul>
    7503. 

  7503.       </li>
    7504. 

  7504. 

  7505.       <li>27-June-2001
    7506. 

  7506. 

  7507.         <ul>
    7508. 

  7508.           <li>When generating truetype (or opentype) fonts,
    7509. 

  7509.           FontForge failed to set the ulCodePageRange for encodings
    7510. 

  7510.           other than latin1/latin2. Should do a better job
    7511. 

  7511.           now.</li>
    7512. 

  7512. 

  7513.           <li>Fixed a crash introduced by decompress.</li>
    7514. 

  7514. 

  7515.           <li>Fixed a crash when trying to merge two paths (by
    7516. 

  7516.           moving them with the mouse) when the stationary "path"
    7517. 

  7517.           consisted of exactly one point.</li>
    7518. 

  7518. 

  7519.           <li>Sometimes control characters would be named "uni0001"
    7520. 

  7520.           (etc.) rather than ".notdef". Appropriate, but
    7521. 

  7521.           inconsistent. They should now always be called ".notdef"
    7522. 

  7522.           (unless explicitly renamed).</li>
    7523. 

  7523.         </ul>
    7524. 

  7524.       </li>
    7525. 

  7525. 

  7526.       <li>24-June-2001
    7527. 

  7527. 

  7528.         <ul>
    7529. 

  7529.           <li>Change configure script to work on solaris</li>
    7530. 

  7530.         </ul>
    7531. 

  7531.       </li>
    7532. 

  7532. 

  7533.       <li>23-June-2001
    7534. 

  7534. 

  7535.         <ul>
    7536. 

  7536.           <li>Make giofile.c compile on solaris</li>
    7537. 

  7537. 

  7538.           <li>Fix crash in autohint</li>
    7539. 

  7539. 

  7540.           <li>Decompress compressed font files automagically before
    7541. 

  7541.           loading them</li>
    7542. 

  7542. 

  7543.           <li>Update russian version.</li>
    7544. 

  7544.         </ul>
    7545. 

  7545.       </li>
    7546. 

  7546. 

  7547.       <li>21-June-2001
    7548. 

  7548. 

  7549.         <ul>
    7550. 

  7550.           <li>Copy Width did not work from the font view</li>
    7551. 

  7551. 

  7552.           <li>made the info display in the outline view more
    7553. 

  7553.           legible if the locale used "," as decimal point.</li>
    7554. 

  7554. 

  7555.           <li>One more attempt to get palettes right. They would
    7556. 

  7556.           disappear if you went to a non-outline view window and
    7557. 

  7557.           then returned to that same window.</li>
    7558. 

  7558. 

  7559.           <li>Some useful information will now be displayed in the
    7560. 

  7560.           outline view as you add points to a path.</li>
    7561. 

  7561. 

  7562.           <li>And during rectangle, ellipse, polygon and star
    7563. 

  7563.           generation.</li>
    7564. 

  7564. 

  7565.           <li>Build Composite Char will now create the characters
    7566. 

  7566.           0x2000-0x2015 (spaces and rules) if you ask it to.</li>
    7567. 

  7567. 

  7568.           <li>Fixed several bugs caused by the resource string
    7569. 

  7569.           changed.
    7570. 

  7570. 

  7571.             <ul>
    7572. 

  7572.               <li>This one showed up in font info when removing
    7573. 

  7573.               characters.</li>
    7574. 

  7574. 

  7575.               <li>And this on adding an encoding (to font
    7576. 

  7576.               info).</li>
    7577. 

  7577. 

  7578.               <li>Any simple request for a string got two OK
    7579. 

  7579.               buttons (ie. no Cancel)</li>
    7580. 

  7580.             </ul>
    7581. 

  7581.           </li>
    7582. 

  7582. 

  7583.           <li>Added some more strings.</li>
    7584. 

  7584. 

  7585.           <li>Cleaned up the hint translation code to work with the
    7586. 

  7586.           new (ie. hint substitution, diagonal)</li>
    7587. 

  7587. 

  7588.           <li>Improved UI for metrics view as per Valik's
    7589. 

  7589.           suggestions
    7590. 

  7590. 

  7591.             <ul>
    7592. 

  7592.               <li>Before it would wait until you depressed the
    7593. 

  7593.               mouse before changing the cursor, now it changes the
    7594. 

  7594.               cursor as you move.</li>
    7595. 

  7595. 

  7596.               <li>Better cursors (separate cursors for kerning,
    7597. 

  7597.               setting rbearing (== width), setting lbearing)</li>
    7598. 

  7598. 

  7599.               <li>Selected character is drawn in a different
    7600. 

  7600.               color.</li>
    7601. 

  7601.             </ul>
    7602. 

  7602.           </li>
    7603. 

  7603. 

  7604.           <li>Implement ghost/edge hints. (Oops)</li>
    7605. 

  7605.         </ul>
    7606. 

  7606.       </li>
    7607. 

  7607. 

  7608.       <li>19-June-2001
    7609. 

  7609. 

  7610.         <ul>
    7611. 

  7611.           <li>Initial version of russian menus</li>
    7612. 

  7612. 

  7613.           <li>Recently AutoHint would remove control points from
    7614. 

  7614.           splines which traced out a line (ie. if the control
    7615. 

  7615.           points were on the line segment between the two end
    7616. 

  7616.           points). AutoHint shouldn't muck with things like that.
    7617. 

  7617.           And anyway it got it wrong in several cases.</li>
    7618. 

  7618. 

  7619.           <li>The simplify command will now remove collinear
    7620. 

  7620.           control points from a spline. And if you hold down the
    7621. 

  7621.           shift key when invoking the menu the simplify command
    7622. 

  7622.           will only do this (and will change its name to
    7623. 

  7623.           cleanup).</li>
    7624. 

  7624.         </ul>
    7625. 

  7625.       </li>
    7626. 

  7626. 

  7627.       <li>18-June-2001
    7628. 

  7628. 

  7629.         <ul>
    7630. 

  7630.           <li>Oops. FontForge looked in the current directory, not
    7631. 

  7631.           the executable's directory for the ui files. Should be
    7632. 

  7632.           looking in the executable's dir.</li>
    7633. 

    7634. 

  7634.           <li>Oops. The "font has changed" dialog caused a
    7635. 

  7635.           crash.</li>
    7636. 

  7636. 

  7637.           <li>The simplify command will remove control points if
    7638. 

  7638.           the spline traces out a line.</li>
    7639. 

  7639. 

  7640.           <li>Cleaned up diagonal hints</li>
    7641. 

  7641. 

  7642.           <li>Made a change to menus which might fix Valek's menu
    7643. 

  7643.           crash. Or might not.</li>
    7644. 

  7644. 

  7645.           <li>Added some more strings to the ui files (yesterday
    7646. 

  7646.           files can't be used any more)</li>
    7647. 

    7648. 

  7648.           <li>Cleaned up some problems with the metrics view.</li>
    7649. 

  7649.         </ul>
    7650. 

  7650.       </li>
    7651. 

  7651. 

  7652.       <li>17-June-2001
    7653. 

  7653. 

  7654.         <ul>
    7655. 

  7655.           <li>Added a minimal help menu</li>
    7656. 

  7656. 

  7657.           <li>If the Hint menu was invoked when there were not
    7658. 

  7658.           exactly two points selected, then fontforge would crash.
    7659. 

  7659.           Fixed</li>
    7660. 

  7660. 

  7661.           <li>Created a superstructure to allow localization of the
    7662. 

  7662.           UI. Created a small (incomplete, probably wrong in many
    7663. 

  7663.           places) french ui.</li>
    7664. 

  7664.         </ul>
    7665. 

  7665.       </li>
    7666. 

  7666. 

  7667.       <li>13-June-2001
    7668. 

  7668. 

  7669.         <ul>
    7670. 

  7670.           <li>Palettes would vanish when the first outline
    7671. 

  7671.           character view was closed. That should be fixed.</li>
    7672. 

  7672. 

  7673.           <li>Palettes should (I hope) do a better job of tracking
    7674. 

  7674.           windows.</li>
    7675. 

  7675. 

  7676.           <li>Fixed another clipping problem</li>
    7677. 

  7677. 

  7678.           <li>Added support for diagonal stems (for truetype
    7679. 

  7679.           instructioning. Not supported by postscript hints)
    7680. 

  7680. 

  7681.             <ul>
    7682. 

  7682.               <li>AutoHint finds them</li>
    7683. 

  7683. 

  7684.               <li>There's a Clear DStem command, and an Add
    7685. 

  7685.               DStem</li>
    7686. 

  7686. 

  7687.               <li>Review Hints does not display them (they can't be
    7688. 

  7688.               described the same way as H and V stems).</li>
    7689. 

  7689.             </ul>
    7690. 

  7690.           </li>
    7691. 

  7691. 

  7692.           <li>Changed the background color to be dark green so it
    7693. 

  7693.           will stand out against a filled character</li>
    7694. 

  7694. 

  7695.           <li>Previously if FontForge were given a corrupted font
    7696. 

  7696.           with no font name it would crash. That should be
    7697. 

  7697.           fixed.</li>
    7698. 

  7698.         </ul>
    7699. 

  7699.       </li>
    7700. 

  7700. 

  7701.       <li>11-June-2001
    7702. 

  7702. 

  7703.         <ul>
    7704. 

  7704.           <li>Added ability to create a pfm file (for ATM under
    7705. 

  7705.           windows)</li>
    7706. 

  7706. 

  7707.           <li>Extended Font Info to allow you to set the FullName
    7708. 

  7708.           (the human readable font name) from FontInfo</li>
    7709. 

  7709. 

  7710.           <li>Two bugs with hint substitution code:
    7711. 

  7711. 

  7712.             <ol>
    7713. 

  7713.               <li>It would occasionally generate one subr
    7714. 

  7714.               containing overlapping hints</li>
    7715. 

  7715. 

  7716.               <li>It would create a Subrs array much bigger than
    7717. 

  7717.               needed. For some reason xfs had conniptions over the
    7718. 

  7718.               blank (but unused) entries</li>
    7719. 

  7719.             </ol>
    7720. 

  7720.           </li>
    7721. 

  7721.         </ul>
    7722. 

  7722.       </li>
    7723. 

  7723. 

  7724.       <li>6-June-2001
    7725. 

  7725. 

  7726.         <ul>
    7727. 

  7727.           <li>Cleaned up Exit, close and fontinfo commands to avoid
    7728. 

  7728.           possible race conditions.</li>
    7729. 

  7729.         </ul>
    7730. 

  7730.       </li>
    7731. 

  7731. 

  7732.       <li>5-June-2001
    7733. 

  7733. 

  7734.         <ul>
    7735. 

  7735.           <li>Added a command to look for common problems</li>
    7736. 

  7736. 

  7737.           <li>Fixed a crash caused by removing character slots from
    7738. 

  7738.           a font (using Number of Characters in Font Info)</li>
    7739. 

  7739. 

  7740.           <li>Fixed a crash caused by reading in a ttf file where
    7741. 

  7741.           the kerning info specified a non-existent glyph</li>
    7742. 

  7742. 

  7743.           <li>Fixed a crash caused by reading in a pf* file where
    7744. 

  7744.           the encoding was specified in a slightly different format
    7745. 

  7745.           from the one we expect</li>
    7746. 

  7746. 

  7747.           <li>Palettes should be controllable again.</li>
    7748. 

  7748. 

  7749.           <li>Menu shortcuts should be available from palettes</li>
    7750. 

  7750.         </ul>
    7751. 

  7751.       </li>
    7752. 

  7752. 

  7753.       <li>12-May-2001
    7754. 

  7754. 

  7755.         <ul>
    7756. 

  7756.           <li>That was a stupid idea (yesterday's). I've backed it
    7757. 

  7757.           out. Instead I've done what Val asked for -- all windows
    7758. 

  7758.           share common palettes.</li>
    7759. 

  7759.         </ul>
    7760. 

  7760.       </li>
    7761. 

  7761. 

  7762.       <li>11-May-2001
    7763. 

  7763. 

  7764.         <ul>
    7765. 

  7765.           <li>Made a preference item so that palettes could live
    7766. 

  7766.           within the outline view. It's sort of a temporary hack
    7767. 

  7767.           until I get palettes working (if ever) so it isn't really
    7768. 

  7768.           well integrated with things...</li>
    7769. 

  7769.         </ul>
    7770. 

  7770.       </li>
    7771. 

  7771. 

  7772.       <li>10-May-2001
    7773. 

  7773. 

  7774.         <ul>
    7775. 

  7775.           <li>Fixed a crash bug which occurred when doing
    7776. 

  7776.           Transformations with the origin set to Center of
    7777. 

  7777.           Selection (default) in a character with an unclosed
    7778. 

  7778.           path.</li>
    7779. 

  7779. 

  7780.           <li>Fixed a similar crash when generating
    7781. 

  7781.           postscript.</li>
    7782. 

  7782. 

  7783.           <li>And another when updating control points.</li>
    7784. 

  7784. 

  7785.           <li>Added much to printing, should be done for now.</li>
    7786. 

  7786. 

  7787.           <li>Valrk Filippov suggested that things should be
    7788. 

  7788.           constrainable to angles other than horizontal, vertical
    7789. 

  7789.           and 45. In particular constraining to the ItalicAngle of
    7790. 

  7790.           an Italic/Oblique font is very useful. So we do that now.
    7791. 

  7791.           Thanks Val!</li>
    7792. 

  7792.         </ul>
    7793. 

  7793.       </li>
    7794. 

  7794. 

  7795.       <li>7 May 2001
    7796. 

  7796. 

  7797.         <ul>
    7798. 

  7798.           <li>Fixed more locale problems (I hope)</li>
    7799. 

  7799. 

  7800.           <li>Info line should show the location of a point moved
    7801. 

  7801.           with the arrows.</li>
    7802. 

  7802. 

  7803.           <li>Added Next/Prev Point commands</li>
    7804. 

  7804. 

  7805.           <li>Added a Print to file command that displays the
    7806. 

  7806.           entire font, or fills a page with the current character.
    7807. 

  7807.           More options to follow.</li>
    7808. 

  7808. 

  7809.           <li>Fixed a bug in seac output</li>
    7810. 

  7810. 

  7811.           <li>Fixed an introduced crash bug in hint output</li>
    7812. 

  7812. 

  7813.           <li>Fixed a crash bug caused by increasing the number of
    7814. 

  7814.           characters allowed in the font with FontInfo.</li>
    7815. 

  7815.         </ul>
    7816. 

  7816.       </li>
    7817. 

  7817. 

  7818.       <li>6 May 2001
    7819. 

  7819. 

  7820.         <ul>
    7821. 

  7821.           <li>Redid <a href="hinting.html">hinting</a> to support
    7822. 

  7822.           hint substitution and counter hinting in PostScript
    7823. 

  7823.           (&amp; opentype)
    7824. 

  7824. 

  7825.             <ul>
    7826. 

  7826.               <li>Hints now have an extent in both dimensions,
    7827. 

  7827.               indicating over what parts of a character they should
    7828. 

  7828.               be active.</li>
    7829. 

  7829. 

  7830.               <li>Dotted lines are used to show the extent of a
    7831. 

  7831.               hint in the primary dimension</li>
    7832. 

  7832. 

  7833.               <li>I draw horizontal hints and vertical hints in
    7834. 

  7834.               different colors now, otherwise it was too confusing
    7835. 

  7835.               guessing which was which.</li>
    7836. 

  7836. 

  7837.               <li>If a hint conflicts with another its dotted lines
    7838. 

  7838.               are shown in cyan (rather than light blue/green)</li>
    7839. 

  7839. 

  7840.               <li>When the Review hints dlg is active the current
    7841. 

  7841.               hint is shown in dark blue/green.</li>
    7842. 

  7842. 

  7843.               <li>The Review hints dlg shows whether a hint
    7844. 

  7844.               overlaps (conflicts with) another.</li>
    7845. 

  7845. 

  7846.               <li>Auto Hinting will generate a list of all
    7847. 

  7847.               horizontal and vertical stems, and then use some
    7848. 

  7848.               heuristics to remove some of the more annoying and
    7849. 

  7849.               less useful stems from the Hint list. If you don't
    7850. 

  7850.               want this automatic pruning then holding the Shift
    7851. 

  7851.               key down when you invoke AutoHint from the menu will
    7852. 

  7852.               leave you with the full stem list.</li>
    7853. 

  7853. 

  7854.               <li>Minor changes to truetype output to deal with the
    7855. 

  7855.               new hint list.</li>
    7856. 

  7856. 

  7857.               <li>Major changes to PostScript output to deal with
    7858. 

  7858.               counters and hint substitution</li>
    7859. 

  7859. 

  7860.               <li><span class="c1"><strong>No longer saves Type1
    7861. 

  7861.               charstrings when loading a type1
    7862. 

  7862.               font</strong></span></li>
    7863. 

  7863.             </ul>
    7864. 

  7864.           </li>
    7865. 

  7865. 

  7866.           <li>The icon for outline character windows was
    7867. 

  7867.           <em>still</em> wrong for anti-alias fonts if there were
    7868. 

  7868.           no bitmap fonts installed. Sigh.</li>
    7869. 

  7869. 

  7870.           <li>Added a Correct Direction command to the font
    7871. 

  7871.           view.</li>
    7872. 

  7872. 

  7873.           <li>Fixed many bugs with Correct Direction</li>
    7874. 

  7874. 

  7875.           <li>Improved accent placement when we have serifs (I
    7876. 

  7876.           hope), don't want to center on top serif of "i" for
    7877. 

  7877.           example.</li>
    7878. 

  7878. 

  7879.           <li>Slight improvements when pasting bitmaps.</li>
    7880. 

  7880. 

  7881.           <li>Oops. 0x2d should be "hyphen" in the Adobe Standard
    7882. 

  7882.           Encoding rather than "minus" as I had it.</li>
    7883. 

  7883.         </ul>
    7884. 

  7884.       </li>
    7885. 

  7885. 

  7886.       <li>3 May 2001
    7887. 

  7887. 

  7888.         <ul>
    7889. 

  7889.           <li>Opps. Generating postscript could crash if there were
    7890. 

  7890.           many blank characters.</li>
    7891. 

  7891. 

  7892.           <li><span class="c1"><strong>This is the last version
    7893. 

  7893.           which will allow you to make small modifications to fonts
    7894. 

  7894.           while retaining the original hint
    7895. 

  7895.           substitution</strong></span></li>
    7896. 

  7896.         </ul>
    7897. 

  7897.       </li>
    7898. 

  7898. 

  7899.       <li>28 Apr 2001
    7900. 

  7900. 

  7901.         <ul>
    7902. 

  7902.           <li>Transform from the font view will (for some
    7903. 

  7903.           transformations and if <a href="editmenu.html#From">Copy
    7904. 

  7904.           From</a> is set to All Fonts) transform the bitmap
    7905. 

  7905.           associated bitmap characters as well as the outline
    7906. 

  7906.           characters.</li>
    7907. 

  7907. 

  7908.           <li>Cleaned up Build Accented character so that it
    7909. 

  7909.           behaves consistently between font/outline views, works
    7910. 

  7910.           with Copy From. The two different aspects of the command
    7911. 

  7911.           (Accented vs. Composite) are now controlled by whether
    7912. 

  7912.           the Shift key is down when the menu is invoked.</li>
    7913. 

  7913. 

  7914.           <li>Some more locale tweaking for reading in/writing out
    7915. 

  7915.           postscript.</li>
    7916. 

  7916. 

  7917.           <li>The Preference encoding for new fonts didn't work if
    7918. 

  7918.           set to a user defined encoding. Should be fixed now.</li>
    7919. 

  7919.         </ul>
    7920. 

  7920.       </li>
    7921. 

  7921. 

  7922.       <li>27 Apr 2001
    7923. 

  7923. 

  7924.         <ul>
    7925. 

  7925.           <li>Tangent points should display a little better
    7926. 

  7926.           now.</li>
    7927. 

  7927. 

  7928.           <li>If a font is a 94x94 CJK font then the LanguageGroup
    7929. 

  7929.           field of the Private dictionary will be set to 1.</li>
    7930. 

  7930. 

  7931.           <li>Fixed a recently introduced crash bug that happens on
    7932. 

  7932.           non-unicode fonts with accented characters.</li>
    7933. 

  7933. 

  7934.           <li>If a character contained a reference and that
    7935. 

  7935.           character could not be converted into a seac then there
    7936. 

  7936.           would be no hints for the reference. That should be fixed
    7937. 

  7937.           now.</li>
    7938. 

  7938. 

  7939.           <li>Accented bitmaps should be positioned better
    7940. 

  7940.           now.</li>
    7941. 

  7941. 

  7942.           <li>Added a couple of progress indicators to font level
    7943. 

  7943.           operations (transform, paste, etc.)</li>
    7944. 

  7944. 

  7945.           <li>Expand stroke didn't work from the font view.</li>
    7946. 

  7946.         </ul>
    7947. 

  7947.       </li>
    7948. 

  7948. 

  7949.       <li>23 Apr 2001
    7950. 

  7950. 

  7951.         <ul>
    7952. 

  7952.           <li>Fixed a clipping problem</li>
    7953. 

  7953. 

  7954.           <li>Redid a change from yesterday. It should now work for
    7955. 

  7955.           the stuff that used to work (as well as for what I fixed
    7956. 

  7956.           yesterday)</li>
    7957. 

  7957. 

  7958.           <li>(moved to <a href="http://sourceforge.net"><img src=
    7959. 

  7959.           "http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=25752&amp;type=1"
    7960. 

  7960.           width="88" height="31" border="0" alt=
    7961. 

  7961.           "SourceForge Logo" /></a>)</li>
    7962. 

  7962.         </ul>
    7963. 

  7963.       </li>
    7964. 

  7964. 

  7965.       <li>22 Apr 2001
    7966. 

  7966. 

  7967.         <ul>
    7968. 

  7968.           <li>Added code to allow users to select more than one
    7969. 

  7969.           bitmap font at a time to be imported into an sfd.</li>
    7970. 

  7970. 

  7971.           <li>Cleaned up opening a bdf file.</li>
    7972. 

  7972. 

  7973.           <li>Fixed various crash bugs dealing with missing bitmap
    7974. 

  7974.           characters where there were outline characters.</li>
    7975. 

  7975. 

  7976.           <li>Fixed various problems with building greek accented
    7977. 

  7977.           characters (Unicode 3's decompositions are no longer
    7978. 

  7978.           helpful)</li>
    7979. 

  7979. 

  7980.           <li>Added some support for <a href=
    7981. 

  7981.           "http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/type/type/corporateuse.txt">
    7982. 

  7982.           Adobe's documented corporate use</a> characters (Small
    7983. 

  7983.           Caps, Old Style numbers...)</li>
    7984. 

  7984. 

  7985.           <li>Cleaned up the outline character's icon (got broken
    7986. 

  7986.           when I added anti-aliasing)</li>
    7987. 

  7987. 

  7988.           <li>em space character kept vanishing. Fixed that.</li>
    7989. 

  7989. 

  7990.           <li>Fixed many other small bugs.</li>
    7991. 

  7991.         </ul>
    7992. 

  7992.       </li>
    7993. 

  7993. 

  7994.       <li>20 Apr 2001
    7995. 

  7995. 

  7996.         <ul>
    7997. 

  7997.           <li>Addition improvements to the handling of format0
    7998. 

  7998.           (1byte) encodings</li>
    7999. 

  7999. 

  8000.           <li>Put a Symbol encoding into the FontInfo encoding
    8001. 

  8001.           list.</li>
    8002. 

  8002. 

  8003.           <li>Oops. Ligature's had their semi-colons in the wrong
    8004. 

  8004.           place in afm files.</li>
    8005. 

  8005.         </ul>
    8006. 

  8006.       </li>
    8007. 

  8007. 

  8008.       <li>19 Apr 2001
    8009. 

  8009. 

  8010.         <ul>
    8011. 

  8011.           <li>Yesterday's builds were transferred as ASCII not
    8012. 

  8012.           BINARY and are totally useless.</li>
    8013. 

  8013. 

  8014.           <li>Added a macintosh encoding to ttf output</li>
    8015. 

  8015. 

  8016.           <li>Slight improvement to ttf output (I hope)</li>
    8017. 

  8017.         </ul>
    8018. 

  8018.       </li>
    8019. 

  8019. 

  8020.       <li>18 Apr 2001
    8021. 

  8021. 

  8022.         <ul>
    8023. 

  8023.           <li>Crash when reading a ttf font fixed (introduced by
    8024. 

  8024.           ligature code).</li>
    8025. 

  8025. 

  8026.           <li>Crash when generating almost any postscript Type1
    8027. 

  8027.           font (recently introduced)</li>
    8028. 

  8028. 

  8029.           <li>Added code to read ligature information from the
    8030. 

  8030.           TTF/OTF GSUB table.</li>
    8031. 

  8031. 

  8032.           <li>List buttons near the bottom of the screen would
    8033. 

  8033.           popup their list in inappropriate places.</li>
    8034. 

  8034. 

  8035.           <li>Fixed two bugs in cubic-&gt;quadratic spline
    8036. 

  8036.           conversion.</li>
    8037. 

  8037. 

  8038.           <li>Added support for TrueType Symbol encodings</li>
    8039. 

  8039.         </ul>
    8040. 

  8040.       </li>
    8041. 

  8041. 

  8042.       <li>17 Apr 2001
    8043. 

  8043. 

  8044.         <ul>
    8045. 

  8045.           <li>Menus would go into an infinite loop if you:
    8046. 

  8046.           depressed the mouse on the menu bar (and pulled down a
    8047. 

  8047.           menu) and then moved the mouse so that it was above the
    8048. 

  8048.           menubar when the menu was below it. Should be fixed.</li>
    8049. 

  8049.         </ul>
    8050. 

  8050.       </li>
    8051. 

  8051. 

  8052.       <li>12 Apr 2001
    8053. 

  8053. 

  8054.         <ul>
    8055. 

  8055.           <li>Added a submenu of recent files and a pull down list
    8056. 

  8056.           in the open dlg.</li>
    8057. 

  8057. 

  8058.           <li>Added stuff to put ligature info into an afm file
    8059. 

  8059.           (But not the GSUB table of ttf/otf)</li>
    8060. 

  8060.         </ul>
    8061. 

  8061.       </li>
    8062. 

  8062. 

  8063.       <li>10 Apr 2001
    8064. 

  8064. 

  8065.         <ul>
    8066. 

  8066.           <li>Fixed a crash bug when making an encoding from a font
    8067. 

  8067.           with a non-unicode character in it.</li>
    8068. 

  8068. 

  8069.           <li>Reencoding a font got confused if the new encoding
    8070. 

  8070.           contained more than one instance of the same glyph
    8071. 

  8071.           (common example is to have both 0x20 and 0xA0 point to
    8072. 

  8072.           space) or if it contained a non-unicode character. This
    8073. 

  8073.           should be fixed now.</li>
    8074. 

  8074. 

  8075.           <li>Fixed a couple of problems with reading otf
    8076. 

  8076.           files</li>
    8077. 

  8077. 

  8078.           <li>Added ability to save an Open Type font</li>
    8079. 

  8079. 

  8080.           <li>Added a "Round to Int" command</li>
    8081. 

  8081. 

  8082.           <li>.sfd files contain decimal points. This means they
    8083. 

  8083.           are locale specific. Changed the input routines so that
    8084. 

  8084.           it would accept either "." or "," as a decimal
    8085. 

  8085.           point.</li>
    8086. 

  8086.         </ul>
    8087. 

  8087.       </li>
    8088. 

  8088. 

  8089.       <li>2 Apr 2001
    8090. 

  8090. 

  8091.         <ul>
    8092. 

  8092.           <li>FontForge provides some support for XUIDs</li>
    8093. 

  8093. 

  8094.           <li>FontForge now has a button in the font info dialog
    8095. 

  8095.           which may be able to guess the italic angle for the
    8096. 

  8096.           font.</li>
    8097. 

  8097. 

  8098.           <li>AutoWidth/Kern didn't work well when the font was
    8099. 

  8099.           missing "A"</li>
    8100. 

  8100. 

  8101.           <li>AutoWidth/Kern didn't work well when the font was
    8102. 

  8102.           italic/oblique</li>
    8103. 

  8103. 

  8104.           <li>Build Accented Character didn't work too well when
    8105. 

  8105.           the font was italic/oblique</li>
    8106. 

  8106. 

  8107.           <li>Previously opening a Type1 font failed to read
    8108. 

  8108.           /OtherSubrs correctly</li>
    8109. 

  8109. 

  8110.           <li>Oops. In the Open Font Dialog, typing a wildcard
    8111. 

  8111.           changed the default button to [New] rather than [Filter].
    8112. 

  8112.           And pressing on [Filter] caused a crash.</li>
    8113. 

  8113. 

  8114.           <li>Added ability to open an Open Type font (PostScript
    8115. 

  8115.           Type2 in a TrueType wrapper)</li>
    8116. 

  8116.         </ul>
    8117. 

  8117.       </li>
    8118. 

  8118. 

  8119.       <li>29 Mar 2001
    8120. 

  8120. 

  8121.         <ul>
    8122. 

  8122.           <li>It is now possible to edit bdf fonts directly
    8123. 

  8123.           (without first creating a dummy postscript font to
    8124. 

  8124.           contain them)</li>
    8125. 

  8125. 

  8126.           <li>Fixed crash bug under kde</li>
    8127. 

  8127.         </ul>
    8128. 

  8128.       </li>
    8129. 

  8129. 

  8130.       <li>28 Mar 2001
    8131. 

  8131. 

  8132.         <ul>
    8133. 

  8133.           <li>Made it possible to for the user to new
    8134. 

  8134.           encodings</li>
    8135. 

  8135. 

  8136.           <li>(added TeX base encoding)</li>
    8137. 

  8137. 

  8138.           <li>slight improvements to the palette code</li>
    8139. 

  8139.         </ul>
    8140. 

  8140.       </li>
    8141. 

  8141. 

  8142.       <li>26 Mar 2001
    8143. 

  8143. 

  8144.         <ul>
    8145. 

  8145.           <li>Fixed a clipping problem in the Metricsview</li>
    8146. 

  8146. 

  8147.           <li>Fixed various other display problems in Metrics</li>
    8148. 

  8148. 

  8149.           <li>Fixed various display problems in the fontview</li>
    8150. 

  8150. 

  8151.           <li>Added "Remove All Kern Pairs" menu item</li>
    8152. 

  8152. 

  8153.           <li>Fixed Auto Kern yet again</li>
    8154. 

  8154. 

  8155.           <li>Added a preference item to control the foundry name
    8156. 

  8156.           for generated bdf fonts.</li>
    8157. 

  8157.         </ul>
    8158. 

  8158.       </li>
    8159. 

  8159. 

  8160.       <li>25 Mar 2001
    8161. 

  8161. 

  8162.         <ul>
    8163. 

  8163.           <li>Oops. Fixed a typo in auto-kerning code. It should
    8164. 

  8164.           work now...</li>
    8165. 

  8165. 

  8166.           <li>From the outline view, exporting to a bmp file allows
    8167. 

  8167.           you to save an anti-aliased character as well as a
    8168. 

  8168.           bitmap.</li>
    8169. 

  8169. 

  8170.           <li>The Generate Fonts command allows you to save
    8171. 

  8171.           anti-aliased greymap fonts. The format they are saved in
    8172. 

  8172.           was invented by me an hour ago so it's totally useless
    8173. 

  8173.           (it's exactly the same as bdf except there's one extra
    8174. 

  8174.           header "BITSPERPIXEL" which may be 1, 2, 4 or 8 (1 would
    8175. 

  8175.           be the same as bdf), and the number of pixels packed into
    8176. 

  8176.           a byte is 8/BITSPERPIXEL (so 8, 4, 2 or 1
    8177. 

  8177.           respectively).</li>
    8178. 

  8178. 

  8179.           <li>If you selected "No Outline font" in the Generate
    8180. 

  8180.           fonts dialog, it would generate a postscript font anyway.
    8181. 

  8181.           This has been fixed.</li>
    8182. 

  8182.         </ul>
    8183. 

  8183.       </li>
    8184. 

  8184. 

  8185.       <li>24 Mar 2001
    8186. 

  8186. 

  8187.         <ul>
    8188. 

  8188.           <li>AutoKerning now lets you specify the number of
    8189. 

  8189.           kerning pairs the font may have.</li>
    8190. 

  8190. 

  8191.           <li>I'm told that ttf fonts can only have 2048 kerning
    8192. 

  8192.           pairs, so if a font has more, the ttf generator will only
    8193. 

  8193.           save the 2048 ones with the biggest (absolute) kerning
    8194. 

  8194.           offset.</li>
    8195. 

  8195. 

  8196.           <li>Fixed a bug in autowidth (would make some characters
    8197. 

  8197.           far too wide).</li>
    8198. 

  8198. 

  8199.           <li>Fixed a bug in autokern which caused it to kern
    8200. 

  8200.           things too closely together. This also reduced the number
    8201. 

  8201.           of kern pairs generated.</li>
    8202. 

  8202. 

  8203.           <li>Fixed a crash when loading a truetype font (if a
    8204. 

  8204.           glyph's start point and end point were both off-curve
    8205. 

  8205.           points then the point between them was interpolated
    8206. 

  8206.           incorrectly).</li>
    8207. 

  8207. 

  8208.           <li>FontForge should now work with XFree 4.0.* before it
    8209. 

  8209.           would crash after putting up the splash screen.</li>
    8210. 

  8210.         </ul>
    8211. 

  8211.       </li>
    8212. 

  8212. 

  8213.       <li>21 Mar 2001
    8214. 

  8214. 

  8215.         <ul>
    8216. 

  8216.           <li>Fixed yet another remove overlap bug.</li>
    8217. 

  8217.         </ul>
    8218. 

  8218.       </li>
    8219. 

  8219. 

  8220.       <li>12 Mar 2001
    8221. 

  8221. 

  8222.         <ul>
    8223. 

  8223.           <li>a number of small improvements</li>
    8224. 

  8224. 

  8225.           <li>fixed a crash bug (occurred when holding down the alt
    8226. 

  8226.           key, using the pointer tool, and no reference was
    8227. 

  8227.           selected)</li>
    8228. 

  8228.         </ul>
    8229. 

  8229.       </li>
    8230. 

  8230. 

  8231.       <li>9 Mar 2001
    8232. 

  8232. 

  8233.         <ul>
    8234. 

  8234.           <li>Fixed a small bug in the hinting of glyph 0 (the
    8235. 

  8235.           unknown character)</li>
    8236. 

  8236. 

  8237.           <li>Added "rulers" to the character outline view</li>
    8238. 

  8238. 

  8239.           <li>Expanded the abilities of the postscript
    8240. 

  8240.           importer</li>
    8241. 

  8241. 

  8242.           <li>Fixed yet another clipping bug.</li>
    8243. 

  8243. 

  8244.           <li>Fixed a problem displaying tangent points when the
    8245. 

  8245.           control point was less than 1 unit away</li>
    8246. 

  8246. 

  8247.           <li>Provides an interface to the autotrace program to
    8248. 

  8248.           autotrace background images</li>
    8249. 

  8249. 

  8250.           <li>Fixed a crash when drawing large images.</li>
    8251. 

  8251. 

  8252.           <li>Fixed a problem with detecting clockwise paths.</li>
    8253. 

  8253. 

  8254.           <li>Fixed a bug with reading in Type3 fonts</li>
    8255. 

  8255.         </ul>
    8256. 

  8256.       </li>
    8257. 

  8257. 

  8258.       <li>5 Mar 2001
    8259. 

  8259. 

  8260.         <ul>
    8261. 

  8261.           <li>Minimal truetype instructing (hinting) is now in
    8262. 

  8262.           place.
    8263. 

  8263. 

  8264.             <table cellpadding="2" border="1">
    8265. 

  8265.               <tr>
    8266. 

  8266.                 <td>
    8267. 

  8267.                   <p class="c4"><img src="HI.nohints.png" width=
    8268. 

  8268.                   "44" height="28" /><br />
    8269. 

  8269.                   no hints</p>
    8270. 

  8270.                 </td>
    8271. 

  8271. 

  8272.                 <td>
    8273. 

  8273.                   <p class="c4"><img src="HI.hints.png" width="44"
    8274. 

  8274.                   height="28" /><br />
    8275. 

  8275.                   hints</p>
    8276. 

  8276.                 </td>
    8277. 

  8277.               </tr>
    8278. 

  8278.             </table>
    8279. 

  8279.           </li>
    8280. 

  8280. 

  8281.           <li>This includes applying instructions to all points
    8282. 

  8282.           that lie on the Hints generated for PostScript, a certain
    8283. 

  8283.           amount of extra effort to detect serifs, and application
    8284. 

  8284.           of the PostScript BlueValues to the TrueType cvt.</li>
    8285. 

  8285. 

  8286.           <li>AutoHint has been improved for some characters
    8287. 

  8287.           again.</li>
    8288. 

  8288.         </ul>
    8289. 

  8289.       </li>
    8290. 

  8290. 

  8291.       <li>4 Mar 2001
    8292. 

  8292. 

  8293.         <ul>
    8294. 

  8294.           <li>When Get Info is applied to a single selected
    8295. 

  8295.           reference character the dialog now has a button which
    8296. 

  8296.           will bring up a window displaying the character refered
    8297. 

  8297.           to.</li>
    8298. 

  8298. 

  8299.           <li>The Font View now displays info on the current
    8300. 

  8300.           character</li>
    8301. 

  8301. 

  8302.           <li>Selecting by dragging out a rectangle in the
    8303. 

  8303.           character outline view would sometimes miss points. I
    8304. 

  8304.           think that's fixed.</li>
    8305. 

    8306. 

  8306.           <li>Doing a multi-character copy in the fontview would
    8307. 

  8307.           remove non-existent characters from the copy set. They
    8308. 

  8308.           are no longer removed.</li>
    8309. 

  8309. 

  8310.           <li>Build Accented character would always use a dotlessi
    8311. 

  8311.           when building an character based on an "i". This behavior
    8312. 

  8312.           is only correct if the accent added is above the letter.
    8313. 

  8313.           Adding an ogonek for example should retain the dot. This
    8314. 

  8314.           is now fixed. (In theory the same problem could occur for
    8315. 

  8315.           j, but I don't think there are any cases where it
    8316. 

  8316.           does).</li>
    8317. 

  8317. 

  8318.           <li>When generating a type1 font FontForge will detect
    8319. 

  8319.           whether Flex hints can be used and use them if
    8320. 

  8320.           appropriate.</li>
    8321. 

  8321. 

  8322.           <li>There was a bug in the routine that read in flex
    8323. 

  8323.           hints. It would leave behind 6 extra points not on any
    8324. 

  8324.           path in most characters with a flex hint. These points
    8325. 

  8325.           were not harmful, but they should not have been
    8326. 

  8326.           there.</li>
    8327. 

  8327. 

  8328.           <li>I found some cases where autohint picked the wrong
    8329. 

  8329.           hints. I cleaned them up. I hope I haven't broken
    8330. 

  8330.           others...</li>
    8331. 

  8331. 

  8332.           <li>Fixed another clipping problem.</li>
    8333. 

  8333. 

  8334.           <li>(Various experiments with instructing truetype have
    8335. 

  8335.           yielded no display improvement)</li>
    8336. 

  8336.         </ul>
    8337. 

  8337.       </li>
    8338. 

  8338. 

  8339.       <li>25 Feb 2001
    8340. 

  8340. 

  8341.         <ul>
    8342. 

  8342.           <li>FontForge no longer crashes on high-end systems where
    8343. 

  8343.           the default visual has a smaller depth than the maximum
    8344. 

  8344.           the screen supports.</li>
    8345. 

  8345. 

  8346.           <li>FontForge no longer crashes on systems with no bitmap
    8347. 

  8347.           unicode fonts installed.</li>
    8348. 

  8348. 

  8349.           <li>When FontForge reads in a Type1 font it will preserve
    8350. 

  8350.           the original character strings (the type1 strings that
    8351. 

  8351.           define the glyph shape) and will write them out again
    8352. 

  8352.           when you save the font. If you modify a character (even
    8353. 

  8353.           something innocuous like setting the width) the string
    8354. 

  8354.           for that character will be lost. This means that any
    8355. 

  8355.           characters you do not modify will retain flex hints and
    8356. 

  8356.           hint substitution. (the Subrs and OtherSubrs arrays are
    8357. 

  8357.           also preserved).</li>
    8358. 

  8358. 

  8359.           <li>There is now a way to edit the entries in the Private
    8360. 

  8360.           dictionary (well most of them. No way to edit the Subrs
    8361. 

  8361.           entry). The program will guess at good values for some
    8362. 

  8362.           entries (like StdHW or BlueValues). If there is no
    8363. 

  8363.           BlueValues entry present when a type1 font is generated
    8364. 

  8364.           then the program will guess at good values (and will also
    8365. 

  8365.           guess at values for OtherBlues), otherwise it will use
    8366. 

  8366.           the one supplied. Similarly for StdHW and StdVW (if StdHW
    8367. 

  8367.           is absent then the program will guess at SnapStemH too,
    8368. 

  8368.           similarly for SnapStemV). If UniqueID is present in the
    8369. 

  8369.           Private dictionary then that value will be used in the
    8370. 

  8370.           font dictionary, if no UniqueID is present then the
    8371. 

  8371.           program will generate a random number in the allowed
    8372. 

  8372.           range.
    8373. 

  8373.             <hr />
    8374. 

  8374.           </li>
    8375. 

  8375. 

  8376.           <li>Removed a number of warnings from the code</li>
    8377. 

  8377. 

  8378.           <li>Made arrow keys functional in the fontview</li>
    8379. 

  8379. 

  8380.           <li>Changed type0 unicode generation so that if the font
    8381. 

  8381.           does not contain U+2700-U+27FF the printer's own
    8382. 

  8382.           ZapfDingbats (if present) will be mapped there.</li>
    8383. 

  8383. 

  8384.           <li>Added Adobe Standard to the Font Info Encoding
    8385. 

  8385.           list.</li>
    8386. 

  8386.         </ul>
    8387. 

  8387.       </li>
    8388. 

  8388. 

  8389.       <li>20 Feb 2001
    8390. 

  8390. 

  8391.         <ul>
    8392. 

  8392.           <li>Fixed some problems in saving both Type1s and
    8393. 

  8393.           TrueType fonts.</li>
    8394. 

  8394. 

  8395.           <li>Added clipping code to the outline character view.
    8396. 

  8396.           (Before at magnifications around 100 or so we'd run into
    8397. 

  8397.           overflow problems)</li>
    8398. 

  8398. 

  8399.           <li>Added progress widget to font generation (and font
    8400. 

  8400.           database saving)</li>
    8401. 

  8401.         </ul>
    8402. 

  8402.       </li>
    8403. 

  8403. 

  8404.       <li>13 Feb 2001
    8405. 

  8405. 

  8406.         <ul>
    8407. 

  8407.           <li>Fixed some problems with the configure script
    8408. 

  8408.           (handles libraries now)</li>
    8409. 

  8409. 

  8410.           <li>Added a progress widget to show how things are going
    8411. 

  8411.           on long operations (currently only font opens)</li>
    8412. 

  8412. 

  8413.           <li>Fixed numerous small annoyances</li>
    8414. 

  8414. 

  8415.           <li>Fixed a crash I introduced into build accented
    8416. 

  8416.           characters.</li>
    8417. 

  8417. 

  8418.           <li>Fixed a couple of bugs in truetype generation</li>
    8419. 

  8419.         </ul>
    8420. 

  8420.       </li>
    8421. 

  8421. 

  8422.       <li>11 Feb 2001
    8423. 

  8423. 

  8424.         <ul>
    8425. 

  8425.           <li>Added a configure script</li>
    8426. 

  8426. 

  8427.           <li>Rearranged (simplified) the directory structure</li>
    8428. 

  8428. 

  8429.           <li>Improved the build accented character function</li>
    8430. 

  8430. 

  8431.           <li>(similar improvements to display of unicode text (in
    8432. 

  8432.           text fields, etc.) with composing characters)</li>
    8433. 

  8433. 

  8434.           <li>BiDi text was previously confused by composed
    8435. 

  8435.           characters and would put them on the wrong letter.
    8436. 

  8436.           Fixed.</li>
    8437. 

  8437.         </ul>
    8438. 

  8438.       </li>
    8439. 

  8439. 

  8440.       <li>9 Feb 2001
    8441. 

  8441. 

  8442.         <ul>
    8443. 

  8443.           <li>Tweaked some include files so fontforge might compile
    8444. 

  8444.           under Irix</li>
    8445. 

  8445. 

  8446.           <li>Added anti-aliasing code to the font view.</li>
    8447. 

  8447. 

  8448.           <li>Fixed bugs where server has 24bit depth but 32bit
    8449. 

  8449.           pixel size</li>
    8450. 

  8450. 

  8451.           <li>Added a resource which turn palettes off (so they
    8452. 

  8452.           stop trying to steal focus and stop trying to track the
    8453. 

  8453.           main window)</li>
    8454. 

  8454.         </ul>
    8455. 

  8455.       </li>
    8456. 

  8456. 

  8457.       <li>7 Feb 2001
    8458. 

  8458. 

  8459.         <ul>
    8460. 

  8460.           <li>Some improvement in processing of postscript names in
    8461. 

  8461.           true type fonts (will make truetype output marginally
    8462. 

  8462.           smaller in most cases)</li>
    8463. 

  8463. 

  8464.           <li>Fixed a bug with popup menus.</li>
    8465. 

  8465. 

  8466.           <li>Holding down the meta key allows you to drag (rather
    8467. 

  8467.           than resize) references which fill the bounding box.</li>
    8468. 

  8468. 

  8469.           <li>Improved saving of both postscript and truetype fonts
    8470. 

  8470.           when there are composite characters referring to other
    8471. 

  8471.           composites.</li>
    8472. 

  8472. 

  8473.           <li>Fixed bug in file chooser where typing into the
    8474. 

  8474.           listbox (to select a file) made it think (sometimes) that
    8475. 

  8475.           it had a directory.</li>
    8476. 

  8476. 

  8477.           <li>Fixed bug in Goto Char code where it would refuse to
    8478. 

  8478.           go to a character's location (sometimes) if the character
    8479. 

  8479.           had not been created yet.</li>
    8480. 

  8480. 

  8481.           <li>Improved drawing of palettes on indexed displays</li>
    8482. 

  8482. 

  8483.           <li>Improved accent processing in build accented
    8484. 

  8484.           characters</li>
    8485. 

  8485.         </ul>
    8486. 

  8486.       </li>
    8487. 

  8487. 

  8488.       <li>26 Jan 2001
    8489. 

  8489. 

  8490.         <ul>
    8491. 

  8491.           <li>Fixed a bug that kept the file chooser (the open file
    8492. 

  8492.           dlg, etc.) from browsing the root directory.</li>
    8493. 

  8493. 

  8494.           <li>Realized that libgif is just a symbolic link to
    8495. 

  8495.           libungif. Made the readgif routine use either one</li>
    8496. 

  8496. 

  8497.           <li>A typo in writepng caused it to require libpng at
    8498. 

  8498.           link time, this has been fixed, it should now only need
    8499. 

  8499.           libpng if someone actually loads a png file.</li>
    8500. 

  8500.         </ul>
    8501. 

  8501.       </li>
    8502. 

  8502. 

  8503.       <li>21 Jan 2001
    8504. 

  8504. 

  8505.         <ul>
    8506. 

  8506.           <li>Added a preference dlg. Not much in it as yet.</li>
    8507. 

  8507. 

  8508.           <li>fixed a number of bugs
    8509. 

  8509. 

  8510.             <ul>
    8511. 

  8511.               <li>Timers sometimes failed to go off -&gt; splash
    8512. 

  8512.               screen might not vanish, popups might not pop,
    8513. 

  8513.               autosave might not happen...</li>
    8514. 

  8514. 

  8515.               <li>Vertical lines might cause divide by 0 errors on
    8516. 

  8516.               some systems when reading in a font</li>
    8517. 

  8517. 

  8518.               <li>Some fonts were thought not to have characters
    8519. 

  8519.               they actually had.</li>
    8520. 

  8520. 

  8521.               <li>94x94 fonts were encoded as 92x94 (losing 188
    8522. 

  8522.               characters)</li>
    8523. 

  8523. 

  8524.               <li>Fixed problems with kuten decoding</li>
    8525. 

  8525. 

  8526.               <li>Fixed various crashes involving selecting and
    8527. 

  8527.               deselecting non-existent characters</li>
    8528. 

  8528.             </ul>
    8529. 

  8529.           </li>
    8530. 

  8530.         </ul>
    8531. 

  8531.       </li>
    8532. 

  8532. 

  8533.       <li>9 Jan 2001
    8534. 

  8534. 

  8535.         <ul>
    8536. 

  8536.           <li>Added Tom Harvey's man page to the distribution
    8537. 

  8537.           (Thanks Tom!)</li>
    8538. 

  8538. 

  8539.           <li>Fixed a bug where radio buttons, etc. sometimes got
    8540. 

  8540.           left highlit</li>
    8541. 

  8541. 

  8542.           <li>Added an interpreter for (some) postscript type 3
    8543. 

  8543.           fonts</li>
    8544. 

  8544. 

  8545.           <li>made libgdraw and friends into one shared
    8546. 

  8546.           library</li>
    8547. 

  8547.         </ul>
    8548. 

  8548.       </li>
    8549. 

  8549. 

  8550.       <li>6 Jan 2001
    8551. 

  8551. 

  8552.         <ul>
    8553. 

  8553.           <li>More distribution bug fixes</li>
    8554. 

  8554. 

  8555.           <li>Fixed bugs in Overlap &amp; AutoWidth</li>
    8556. 

  8556. 

  8557.           <li>Added new command to Metrics menu (Thirds in
    8558. 

  8558.           Width)</li>
    8559. 

  8559.         </ul>
    8560. 

  8560.       </li>
    8561. 

  8561. 

  8562.       <li>4 Jan 2001
    8563. 

  8563. 

  8564.         <ul>
    8565. 

  8565.           <li>Fixed a distribution bug</li>
    8566. 

  8566. 

  8567.           <li>Fixed some problems with build accented
    8568. 

  8568.           character</li>
    8569. 

  8569.         </ul>
    8570. 

  8570.       </li>
    8571. 

  8571. 

  8572.       <li>2 Jan 2001
    8573. 

  8573. 

  8574.         <ul>
    8575. 

  8575.           <li>Many small improvements and bug fixes.</li>
    8576. 

  8576. 

  8577.           <li>More remove overlap corrections</li>
    8578. 

  8578.         </ul>
    8579. 

  8579.       </li>
    8580. 

  8580. 

  8581.       <li>21 Dec 2000
    8582. 

  8582. 

  8583.         <ul>
    8584. 

  8584.           <li>I think I'm reading xfig splines properly now. The
    8585. 

  8585.           conversion to postscript still leaves something to be
    8586. 

  8586.           desired, but it's as good as I'm likely to make it.</li>
    8587. 

  8587.         </ul>
    8588. 

  8588.       </li>
    8589. 

  8589. 

  8590.       <li>20 Dec 2000
    8591. 

  8591. 

  8592.         <ul>
    8593. 

  8593.           <li>Generate Fonts can produce TrueType</li>
    8594. 

  8594.         </ul>
    8595. 

  8595.       </li>
    8596. 

  8596. 

  8597.       <li>17 Dec 2000
    8598. 

  8598. 

  8599.         <ul>
    8600. 

  8600.           <li>TrueType reader now gets (horizontal) kerning
    8601. 

  8601.           info</li>
    8602. 

  8602. 

  8603.           <li>Added code that automagically preserves changes if
    8604. 

  8604.           the program should crash (but does not save on the source
    8605. 

  8605.           file unless you ask it to).</li>
    8606. 

  8606. 

  8607.           <li>Added a Revert File command.</li>
    8608. 

  8608.         </ul>
    8609. 

  8609.       </li>
    8610. 

  8610. 

  8611.       <li>16 Dec 2000
    8612. 

  8612. 

  8613.         <ul>
    8614. 

  8614.           <li>FontForge will now read in a TrueType font
    8615. 

  8615. 

  8616.             <ul>
    8617. 

  8617.               <li>(it doesn't read hints from the font)</li>
    8618. 

    8619. 

  8619.               <li>(it doesn't read bitmaps from the font)</li>
    8620. 

  8620.             </ul>
    8621. 

  8621.           </li>
    8622. 

  8622.         </ul>
    8623. 

  8623.       </li>
    8624. 

  8624. 

  8625.       <li>14 Dec 2000
    8626. 

  8626. 

  8627.         <ul>
    8628. 

  8628.           <li>Got FontForge to build on a netbsd alpha box</li>
    8629. 

  8629. 

  8630.           <li>Added Auto Width &amp; Auto Kern commands</li>
    8631. 

  8631. 

  8632.           <li>If you do a translation which is of the entire
    8633. 

  8633.           outline character and is only in the x-direction, then
    8634. 

  8634.           all the character's hints will be translated too, and if
    8635. 

  8635.           the character is a letter then in any characters which
    8636. 

  8636.           depend on this one, the other things in the character
    8637. 

  8637.           will also be translated.</li>
    8638. 

  8638.         </ul>
    8639. 

  8639.       </li>
    8640. 

  8640. 

  8641.       <li>12 Dec 2000
    8642. 

  8642. 

  8643.         <ul>
    8644. 

  8644.           <li>Added a skew command to the bitmap view</li>
    8645. 

  8645. 

  8646.           <li>Added Interpolate Fonts</li>
    8647. 

  8647.         </ul>
    8648. 

  8648.       </li>
    8649. 

  8649. 

  8650.       <li>11 Dec 2000
    8651. 

  8651. 

  8652.         <ul>
    8653. 

  8653.           <li>fixed more remove overlap bugs (don't know of any
    8654. 

  8654.           left)</li>
    8655. 

  8655. 

  8656.           <li>Added Merge Font command</li>
    8657. 

  8657.         </ul>
    8658. 

  8658.       </li>
    8659. 

  8659. 

  8660.       <li>10 Dec 2000
    8661. 

  8661. 

  8662.         <ul>
    8663. 

  8663.           <li>fixed many small bugs with constrained movements</li>
    8664. 

  8664. 

  8665.           <li>fixed many autohinting bugs</li>
    8666. 

  8666. 

  8667.           <li>Fixed some remove overlap bugs</li>
    8668. 

  8668. 

  8669.           <li>Added backup files when saving sfd files</li>
    8670. 

  8670.         </ul>
    8671. 

  8671.       </li>
    8672. 

  8672. 

  8673.       <li>5 Dec 2000
    8674. 

  8674. 

  8675.         <ul>
    8676. 

  8676.           <li>Added a command that automagically builds an accented
    8677. 

  8677.           (or general composite) character. (<a href=
    8678. 

  8678.           "elementmenu.html#Accented">see below</a>)</li>
    8679. 

  8679. 

  8680.           <li>Added support for various CJK encodings (JIS 208, JIS
    8681. 

  8681.           212, old KSC 5601, GB 2302, all 94x94)</li>
    8682. 

  8682. 

  8683.           <li>Implemented a fairly poor importer/exporter of xfig
    8684. 

  8684.           files. (I don't know how to convert XSplines to Bézier
    8685. 

  8685.           Splines reasonably).</li>
    8686. 

  8686. 

  8687.           <li>Implemented a metrics window, added support for
    8688. 

  8688.           kerning (kern info only lives in the afm file, not in the
    8689. 

  8689.           font itself)</li>
    8690. 

  8690. 

  8691.           <li>Metrics window will also display text from bitmap
    8692. 

  8692.           fonts (but you mayn't change a bitmap's metrics)</li>
    8693. 

  8693. 

  8694.           <li>Reexamined palette code with transient windows. It
    8695. 

  8695.           seems to work on kde now.</li>
    8696. 

  8696. 

  8697.           <li>Fixed blinking cursor on 8&amp;16 bit-depth
    8698. 

  8698.           displays</li>
    8699. 

  8699.         </ul>
    8700. 

  8700.       </li>
    8701. 

  8701. 

  8702.       <li>1 Dec 2000
    8703. 

  8703. 

  8704.         <ul>
    8705. 

  8705.           <li>Generate &amp; save bitmaps</li>
    8706. 

  8706. 

  8707.           <li>Bitmap editor (added a couple of tools like flipping
    8708. 

  8708.           and corner turning, circle drawing, etc. that aren't in
    8709. 

  8709.           fontographer)</li>
    8710. 

  8710. 

  8711.           <li>fontview can display a bitmap, if it does then double
    8712. 

  8712.           clicking on a char will display the bitmap</li>
    8713. 

  8713. 

  8714.           <li>Changing the width of a character (in outline view)
    8715. 

  8715.           will automatically change the width of all bitmaps of
    8716. 

  8716.           that character. Also if the character is a letter and
    8717. 

  8717.           there are accented characters which refer to it and the
    8718. 

  8718.           accented characters have the same with that the letter
    8719. 

  8719.           used to have, then the accented characters (and their
    8720. 

  8720.           bitmaps) will also have their width updated.</li>
    8721. 

  8721. 

  8722.           <li>Can import and export bitmap images into bitmap
    8723. 

  8723.           window</li>
    8724. 

  8724. 

  8725.           <li>Can import a bdf file</li>
    8726. 

  8726. 

  8727.           <li>Can copy and paste in the fontview (bitmaps can be
    8728. 

  8728.           affected as well as outlines)</li>
    8729. 

  8729.         </ul>
    8730. 

  8730.       </li>
    8731. 

  8731. 

  8732.       <li>28 Nov 2000
    8733. 

  8733. 

  8734.         <ul>
    8735. 

  8735.           <li>Improved star tool</li>
    8736. 

  8736. 

  8737.           <li>Added various metrics menu items</li>
    8738. 

  8738. 

  8739.           <li>Added a simplify command</li>
    8740. 

  8740. 

  8741.           <li>fixed bugs in the merge command</li>
    8742. 

  8742. 

  8743.           <li>Made font view functional, can apply to many outline
    8744. 

  8744.           characters at once
    8745. 

  8745. 

  8746.             <ul>
    8747. 

  8747.               <li>transform</li>
    8748. 

  8748. 

  8749.               <li>expand stroke</li>
    8750. 

  8750. 

  8751.               <li>remove overlap</li>
    8752. 

  8752. 

  8753.               <li>simplify</li>
    8754. 

  8754. 

  8755.               <li>metrics items above</li>
    8756. 

  8756. 

  8757.               <li>Char Info</li>
    8758. 

  8758.             </ul>
    8759. 

  8759.           </li>
    8760. 

  8760.         </ul>
    8761. 

  8761.       </li>
    8762. 

  8762. 

  8763.       <li>19 Nov 2000
    8764. 

  8764. 

  8765.         <ul>
    8766. 

  8766.           <li>Added Calligraphic expand stroke</li>
    8767. 

  8767. 

  8768.           <li>Added Get Info</li>
    8769. 

  8769. 

  8770.           <li>Added Correct Path Direction</li>
    8771. 

  8771. 

  8772.           <li>Added Remove Overlap (probably very buggy)</li>
    8773. 

  8773. 

  8774.           <li>Enhanced support for Unicode, added type0 font
    8775. 

  8775.           output.</li>
    8776. 

  8776. 

  8777.           <li>Added type3 output (not compressed type 3, can't open
    8778. 

  8778.           a type3 or type0)</li>
    8779. 

  8779. 

  8780.           <li>Sped up background image drawing.</li>
    8781. 

  8781. 

  8782.           <li>Implemented drag-resize of images and referenced
    8783. 

  8783.           characters</li>
    8784. 

  8784. 

  8785.           <li>Added Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon and Star
    8786. 

  8786.           tools.</li>
    8787. 

  8787.         </ul>
    8788. 

  8788.       </li>
    8789. 

  8789. 

  8790.       <li>14 Nov 2000
    8791. 

  8791. 

  8792.         <ul>
    8793. 

  8793.           <li>Added expand stroke</li>
    8794. 

  8794. 

  8795.           <li>Paths stored in .sfd files are now closed (bug
    8796. 

  8796.           fix)</li>
    8797. 

  8797.         </ul>
    8798. 

  8798.       </li>
    8799. 

  8799. 

  8800.       <li>13 Nov 2000
    8801. 

  8801. 

  8802.         <ul>
    8803. 

  8803.           <li>Added the equivalent of a .fog file (Spline Font
    8804. 

  8804.           Database, sfd files)</li>
    8805. 

  8805. 

  8806.           <li>Implemented transform tools</li>
    8807. 

  8807. 

  8808.           <li>continued fixing palettes</li>
    8809. 

  8809.         </ul>
    8810. 

  8810.       </li>
    8811. 

  8811. 

  8812.       <li>11 Nov 2000
    8813. 

  8813. 

  8814.         <ul>
    8815. 

  8815.           <li>Imports and exports simple eps files for
    8816. 

  8816.           characters</li>
    8817. 

  8817. 

  8818.           <li>Transform allows you to pick origin</li>
    8819. 

  8819. 

  8820.           <li>Bunch of menu items for manual hinting added. (I hope
    8821. 

  8821.           I'm done with hints now... at least till I look at
    8822. 

  8822.           truetype)</li>
    8823. 

  8823. 

  8824.           <li>Clockwise now agrees with Fontographer (and everyone
    8825. 

  8825.           else)</li>
    8826. 

  8826. 

  8827.           <li>Added "pen" , and a knife tools</li>
    8828. 

  8828. 

  8829.           <li>(Added many other tools pictures, but they aren't
    8830. 

  8830.           implemented yet)</li>
    8831. 

  8831. 

  8832.           <li>Fixed many palette problems. (including kde's not
    8833. 

  8833.           doing menu shortcuts)</li>
    8834. 

  8834. 

  8835.           <li>Put in menu items to show/hide palettes</li>
    8836. 

  8836.         </ul>
    8837. 

  8837.       </li>
    8838. 

  8838. 

  8839.       <li>9 Nov 2000
    8840. 

  8840. 

  8841.         <ul>
    8842. 

  8842.           <li>It can now calculate hints, font wide stem hints and
    8843. 

  8843.           character specific hints.</li>
    8844. 

  8844. 

  8845.           <li>Transform should do rotations right now.</li>
    8846. 

  8846. 

  8847.           <li>Metamorphosis file format bug should be fixed</li>
    8848. 

  8848.         </ul>
    8849. 

  8849.       </li>
    8850. 

  8850.     </ul>
    8851. 

  8851. 

  8852.     <p>FontForge (as PfaEdit) was initially made available (on the
    8853. 

  8853.     web) on 7 Nov 2000, and moved to sourceforge 21 Apr 2001. I
    8854. 

  8854.     started coding it in approximately Sept of 2000.</p>
    8855. 

  8855.   </div>
    8856. 

  8856. </body>
    8857. 

  8857. </html>
    8858. 

  8858.