* Add support for Adobe's feature file syntax.
* Add a popup menu to the lookups pane of font info.
* Change the name of File->Merge Kern Info to File->Merge Feature Info
* Remove the code to produce the old, broken, 'size' feature.
* An earlier patch, designed to make the tabset work in the charview even if the user changed the name, didn't work.
* Bug in the selection iterator.
* Accept contour += (1,2) rather than forcing people to say contour += fontforge.point(1,2)
* Crash when mistyping a glyph name in Glyph Info possub panes. Probably in the equivalent lookup dlgs too.
* If a glyph contained two copies of another glyph, and one of those copies was off by enough that ff didn't recognize it, the depending on how the contours were ordered, ff might fail to recognize the first glyph too, even though it did match.
* Add iterators to contours and layers. Python users seem to expect them even when they aren't documented to exist.
* layer += contour didn't work in python. I was examining a bit through the wrong data type.
* Provide a mechanism for copying lookup information from one glyph to another. (Edit->Copy Lookup Data)
* Loading kerning info from a mac 'FOND' resource was broken by the lookup change.
* Python scripting command font.createChar didn't. Partial patch from Max Rabkin.
* Adding a kerning pair from the metrics view would often add two or three pairs with the same character combination and different values.
* Another remove overlap bug. Introduced recently.
* Reinstate Apply Substitutions scripting command.
* Add some dutch styles.
* Make yet another attempt to correct for rounding errors when loading a postscript font.
* Add a way to get a font's filename to python.
* Werner points out that in scripting I use "break" in an example. It isn't documented to work and I don't implement it but I do show it. Oops. Ok, make it work.
* Display substitutions was broken.
* When generating default names for subtables, it is confusing to name them the same as the lookup.
* Change to using USC4 from UCS2 internally.
* Provide default names for lookups once the user sets the feature.
* Disambiguate some strings for the polish translation
* Revert glyph should not work for old sfd files.
* Initial Greek translation.
* Add a pane to the Preference dlg allowing user to control some of fontforge's
hint creation.
* Update my opentype scripts list (in particular include music).
* Due to a typo, ff thought pretty much everything outside unicode BMP was in
the hebrew script.
* Add a new command to the point menu which allows you to specify a spline and
one coordinate (either X or Y) on that spline. FF will calculate the other
coordinate and add a point there.
* CODE2000 contains an anchor class with only base glyphs (no mark glyphs) as
part of a set of anchor classes. FF crashed.
* More...
PKGLOCALEDIR and which install their locale files directly under
${PREFIX}/${PKGLOCALEDIR} and sort the PLIST file entries. From now
on, pkgsrc/mk/plist/plist-locale.awk will automatically handle
transforming the PLIST to refer to the correct locale directory.
* FF failed to output lookups in the right order for the GSUB table.
* FF would crash when attempting to generate a font which had no familyname
* FF could be built agains ft2.2 only if the debugger were being built.
Make it work always.
* Patch by Mike Frysinger from gentoo. Use the HOME environment variable in
preference to /etc/passwd.
* Write sfddiff as a fontforge script and put it back into the install process.
* Add code to font compare so it can do the old sfddiff --merge option.
* Someone wanted acorn2sfd! Make it compile again.
* Make configure look for libgif
* Extend to Unicode 4.1
* Context chain dlg had problems with empty patterns (no terminal NUL in empty string used to represent them)
* EditData button in contextual subs disabled at wrong times.
* Transforming by a negative scale factor screwed up the hints.
* Add move up/down buttons to the kerning class dlg (class lists area) Use the selection from the class lists to highlight offsets.
* Print sample did not handle kerning by classes.
* When we had: a glyph which contained refs where that glyph was itself used as a reference in another glyph and all glyphs (except the last) lived in subroutines then we got multiple declarations of hints and the middle glyph was translated from where it should have been.
* When changing lists they should not scroll back to the beginning.
* Various fixes regarding hints: changing hints should set the char changed flag changing a glyph should mark all glyphs that refer to it as having out of date hints display out of date hints in font view. hints weren't being preserved (and should have been) in charview in Paste and transform.
* Apply Substitutions was badly broken when ff compiled with multilayer.
* Kern Pair dlg looked at garbage memory when it closed (and crashed sometimes).
* ff decides whether to add a 'gasp' table to a font based on whether the font has instructions or not. ff's own ttf fonts contain instructions in .notdef but nowhere else, so ignore .notdef when making this check.
* One more attempt to rule out absurd results in simplify().
* if the lsb/rsb dlg was given a negative value it complained about negative widths. (whether the width would have been negative or not).
* $italicangle has been broken since I added reals to scripting.
* The kernclass dialog did not handle deleted classes properly.
* Add ability to undo hints.
* Once again starting a browser on windows is broken.
* We didn't do a bounds check when indexing into the names array of an encoding (when building a character from scratch). If the index was huge the result was garbage, generally leading to a crash sometime thereafter.
* An open path consisting of a single point caused replace with reference to crash.
* Generating a postscript resource font on the mac from a script did not work.
* Werner points out that afm files generated by FontForge still claim to have been made by pfaedit. Oops.
* Didn't parse user defined encodings properly and often omitted the first glyph.
Several changes are involved since they are all interrelated. These
changes affect about 1000 files.
The first major change is rewriting bsd.builtin.mk as well as all of
the builtin.mk files to follow the new example in bsd.builtin.mk.
The loop to include all of the builtin.mk files needed by the package
is moved from bsd.builtin.mk and into bsd.buildlink3.mk. bsd.builtin.mk
is now included by each of the individual builtin.mk files and provides
some common logic for all of the builtin.mk files. Currently, this
includes the computation for whether the native or pkgsrc version of
the package is preferred. This causes USE_BUILTIN.* to be correctly
set when one builtin.mk file includes another.
The second major change is teach the builtin.mk files to consider
files under ${LOCALBASE} to be from pkgsrc-controlled packages. Most
of the builtin.mk files test for the presence of built-in software by
checking for the existence of certain files, e.g. <pthread.h>, and we
now assume that if that file is under ${LOCALBASE}, then it must be
from pkgsrc. This modification is a nod toward LOCALBASE=/usr. The
exceptions to this new check are the X11 distribution packages, which
are handled specially as noted below.
The third major change is providing builtin.mk and version.mk files
for each of the X11 distribution packages in pkgsrc. The builtin.mk
file can detect whether the native X11 distribution is the same as
the one provided by pkgsrc, and the version.mk file computes the
version of the X11 distribution package, whether it's built-in or not.
The fourth major change is that the buildlink3.mk files for X11 packages
that install parts which are part of X11 distribution packages, e.g.
Xpm, Xcursor, etc., now use imake to query the X11 distribution for
whether the software is already provided by the X11 distribution.
This is more accurate than grepping for a symbol name in the imake
config files. Using imake required sprinkling various builtin-imake.mk
helper files into pkgsrc directories. These files are used as input
to imake since imake can't use stdin for that purpose.
The fifth major change is in how packages note that they use X11.
Instead of setting USE_X11, package Makefiles should now include
x11.buildlink3.mk instead. This causes the X11 package buildlink3
and builtin logic to be executed at the correct place for buildlink3.mk
and builtin.mk files that previously set USE_X11, and fixes packages
that relied on buildlink3.mk files to implicitly note that X11 is
needed. Package buildlink3.mk should also include x11.buildlink3.mk
when linking against the package libraries requires also linking
against the X11 libraries. Where it was obvious, redundant inclusions
of x11.buildlink3.mk have been removed.
* Deleting a glyph class within a kerning by classes object caused a crash
* Added some support for palm bitmap fonts
* Replace with reference only replaced the first instance.
* The Options dlg behaved oddly with respect to Apple & OpenType modes
* When given a glyph with conflicting hints for which the first contour
contained no hints, then in type2 output the glyph was drawn at a strange
offset from its correct position.
* When generating an opentype font from a script, and specifying flags,
the round coordinates flag was ignored
* When generating a font from a script using the default flag setting,
we would always generate afm/tfm/pfm files
* KANOU pointed out that the stroked font import glyph command only worked
if multilayer set.
* Added a preview bitmap to eps files.
* In a bitmap only font the font metrics menu items behaved in unexpected ways
(as if they referred to a postscript font rather than the bitmap fonts)
* Various fixes to make importing stroked eps files into stroked fonts work
better.
* KANOU requests a preference item to turn off use of freetype in font view.
* Fix more rounding errors in remove overlap.
* Fix some problems in the routine which finds roots of an arbetrary quartic.
* The remove bump option of simplify could screw up memory.
* Remove overlap got unhappy about control points which caused a very tiny
overlap between adjacent splines
* Redo from the fontview usually caused a crash.
* KANOU provides a MakeLine scripting command
* If TYPE3 (multilayer) was not enabled, there was a flow of control through
a function which did not return anything.
* Recovery files did not contain multilayer marks which lead to strange
behaviour and crashes
* Converting a font to multilayer caused a crash if there were outline glyph
windows open.
* Make the encoding for scripts be utf8 consistently
* Allow the scripting Export command to take a format spec
* Add support for reals to the scripting language
* NearlyHv{Cps,Lines} scripting commands erroneously complained about
too many args
* ff had a bug when outputting otf contextual ligatures
* Fix various crashes and infinite loops involved in parsing bad font files.
* ff had problems with user defined encodings.
* Made ff work if the psuedo-type "real" was defined to be a double.
* the string += concattonation operator in scripting screwed up memory
* Problems with -c <arg> syntax
* The font type detector could fail to notice an svg file as such
if it began with a byte order character.
* Ord didn't do proper type checking on its second argument
* Use freetype's FT_Outline_Get_Bitmap to make freetype rasterize from our internal data structures. Use freetype by default for the fontview and metricsview (except in some cases).
* The bitmap dlg didn't work for multilayered fonts when told to use freetype to rasterize.
* If we had a contour nested inside another, and did an Overlap Exclude with the nested contour selected, then that contour was not excluded.
* The []Correct Direction check box when importing PostScript, didn't do anything. (or rather it did, but got overrulled later)
* In bitmap only fonts, bitmaps created without moving the width line would get lost.
* Added a scripting command "SelectByColor"
* Don't apply transformations to glyphs which aren't worth outputting
* Moving control points with the get point info command had problems in quadratic splines.
* When adding type42 support I broke multiple master support.
* Werner provided a patch to add a trailing newline to my type1 fonts.
* Support for PaintType==2 and stroked fonts.
* Various problems with the clustering command
* Oops, somehow a patch reverted and things didn't work on systems without iconv
* worked on a couple of other configuration problems for the mac
* Some people install libraries without headers. Be prepared.
* Uniscribe (MS unicode text layout routines) may ignore either the GPOS or the GSUB table depending on the script, and may even refuse to use the font at all if it doesn't have the right stuff in GPOS/GSUB. A Hebrew font must have both a GPOS and a GSUB. If it doesn't the font is not used. A latin font need not have either, but if it doesn't have GSUB then GPOS won't be used.
* CapsLock now makes the arrow keys scroll in the outline view
* We lost count of hints when generating type2 fonts in glyphs with references
to something containing hints which did not overlap. If we were unlucky,
<new-cnt+7>/8 was different than <real-cnt+7>/8 and we ended up with garbage
in the charstring.
* Add a TeX table to contain TeX metrics.
* TFM output was wrong. the TFtoPL doc says "reencoding with original encoding
could create a glyph table one too small resulting in writing/reading garbage
and an eventual crash.
* KANOU fixed a couple of problems in reading glyph names from bdf fonts.
* KANOU needed to disambiguate between "Point" a unit of measurement and
"Point" a geometric object.
* Ah, windows pfm files expect the metrics to be output in win latin encoding
order, not in the encoding defined by the pfb file. (Actually there are other
posibilities for encoding, but as none is documented, I must ignore them).
* ReplaceWithReference broke at some point
* Add an argument-pair to the ReplaceWithReference() scripting command to allow
the user to specify the amount of error that will be accepted.
* When generating a Type1 font, if a glyph had a single reference to a glyph not
in adobe encoding, and that glyph itself had a single reference (in adobe enc)
and some splines, then ff would make a reference to the ref in adobe enc and
ignore the splines.
* Upgrade to Adobe-Japan1-6
* Various fixes to svg output
* Ghost hints could get outside a glyphs bounding box in a type2 font.
* The generated truetype unique id string had an off by one error in the month
* Add support for dashed lines in multilayered mode
* In Full Page Glyph printing, the glyph was offset slightly from where it
should have been.
* Pasting a reference into a multi-layered font produced a very odd layer
* ff didn't update the metrics view if the user pasted the selection with the
middle mouse button.
* if a character were not in the current encoding then ff would not display it
in the metrics view (even if it were in the font)
* Make the behavior of control points at the ends of open paths more reasonable
* The Point->Curve command did not adust control points correctly
* The View->Display Substitutions had numerous problems
* Fix several problems from unicode unification of accents. Many characters
which are said to be based on cedilla actually use a comma, other characters
said to be carons also use comma. Make the n-with-apostrophe character be
treated as an accented letter.
* Werner points out that straight lines should generally not be simplified (as
they will no longer be straight afterwards). Add this knowledge to the
simplify command.
Changes 20041115:
* If ff started without a prefs file, then creating a new font would crash
* If a copyright string contained a newline then ff would generate bad
postscript
* If user added a comment to an empty glyph then the comment wasn't saved in
the sfd file.
* If ff saved a utf7 string to an sfd file (ttf names, etc.) and that string
contained a hyphen that followed immediately after something that needed to
be encoded in base64, then the hyphen would be lost.
* new french UI
* ff was (usually) setting the ascent/descent fields of the 'hhea' table to 0.
When the font was drawn on the mac it was clipped to nothing.
