What's New in This Release:

· New Features:
· In Metrics Window, pressing Ctrl/Cmd+Up or Down goes to the previous or next pair in the Metrics/Kerning List.
· Pressing Ctrl/Cmd when calling File / Print will use the previous settings of the dialog box.
· The Rename Glyph window now allows you to rename the glyphs in classes and in the OpenType Layout features code.
· The OpenType Features panel now displays glyph names that result from applying selected features.
· On Mac, the genuine Adobe Type 1 rasterizer is now used by default to produce bitmaps from PostScript outlines rather than the Apple ATSUI rasterizer. This vastly improves the quality of the Type 1 hinting preview and Type 1 suitcase bitmaps.
· Python handling was improved, some Python properties were added to the fl object (buildnumber, commonpath, usercommonpath, userpath).
· Updated glyphname-to-Unicode mapping tables (.nam files). FontLab Studio 5.0.2 incorporates Adobe Systems’ recent changes to their Adobe Glyph List for New Fonts: the mapping of the “problematic” characters Delta, Omega and mu was changed. The “AGLFN 1.4 (old) strict” table retains the previous mappings (to the "mathematical" codepoints), the “AGLFN 1.6 (new) strict” table includes only the current mappings (to the "Greek" codepoints), while the “Standard Table” now double-encodes the glyphs to map them into both the "mathematical" and the "Greek" slots. The “Standard without afiiXXXXX” table uses uniXXXX names instead of afiiXXXXX names – both sorts of names are valid. The “Standard with PUA” includes the old Adobe Corporate Use Area mappings and “AGL 2.0 (old)” is provided for reference purposes only.
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· Font Window:
· Font window scrolling is fixed.
· Changing encoding in the Names mode of the Font window updates cell template images properly if the installed font was choosen as a template.
· Font window cells are rendered properly after creating component glyphs by drag-dropping composites from another font.
· FLS doesn’t crash on removing a glyph in the Font window.
· The Edit>Deselect command now deselects all cells in the Font window.
· When Select All is used, the status line properly displays the number of selected glyphs.
· Glyph Repertoire:
· The Generate glyphs operation marks created glyphs with a black bar in the Font window cells.
· The generate glyphs mechanism is fixed a little.
· Some typos in the alias.dat file were fixed.
· Glyph Window and Drawing:
· Glyph Window doesn’t scroll to a random node on the same path after adding a node when zoomed in.
· FLS doesn’t crash after numerous clicking on the button showing/hiding the Meter toolbar.
· FLS doesn’t crash on closing if the Glyph Window toolbar floats.
· Pressing Spacebar changes the mouse cursor into ‘Hand’.
· Links and their sizes drawing is fixed.
· Zooming with Ctrl(Cmd)-Alt-Space and Ctrl(Cmd)-Space now works properly.
· The Parallel action now closes open contours if applied to more than one contour.
· The Simplify Path operation’s bahavior is fixed. It has now two directions.
· Pressing Cmd-Opt-Shift shows Meter tool cursor before mouse is pressed.
· Bitmaps are shown properly in the TT Hinting Preview panel.
· Measurement line doesn’t vanish under the baseline.
· Mask and Background:
· Tracing background bitmaps doesn’t create the unnecessary black border around the glyph.
· Background bitmaps are created without cropping.
· When Assigning font mask the Create new glyphs option now creates glyphs without contours (like “space”).
· When Assigning font mask created glyphs retain their Unicode indexes.
· Pasting a bitmap image from Photoshop into FontLab background layer pastes at normal resolution.
· Components:
· In the Glyph window, you can use the Cut (Cmd-X) command with Components.
· Components can be mirrored properly now.
· The commands Make First, HMirror and VMirror are available in the component context menu.
· Connection marks for starting node are fixed.
· Anchors:
· Anchor’s coordinate values are not covered by the cursor when an anchor is moved.
· The guidelines’ custom names are rendered correctly.
· Anchors panel: virtual composites are shown if you select a cell with an anchor in the Font window.
· Multiple Masters:
· When generating an instance from an MM font with anchors, the anchor positions are applied properly.
· Rendering of MM font is fixed in the Preview Anchors panel.
· It is possible to generate Mac Multiple Master fonts (Mac only).
· Metrics Window:
· The text cursor doesn’t disappear in the Text mode of the Metrics window.
· Typing "period" in the Text mode of the Metrics window doesn’t go to the next glyph.
· The text cursor size in the Text mode of the Metrics window fixed.
· Metrics window: input of glyphs after re-sorting glyphs by names is fixed.
· The limit for the size of the sample string in the Metrics window is increased.
· Classes and Kerning:
· Expanding and compressing kerning has been improved and the results are more consistent.
· Clean Up Classes command is fixed.
· FontLab Classes .flc files got their file type and creator.
· Glyphs do not jump to the end of the list when dragged in the Classes panel.
· FLS doesn’t crash now when expanding class kerning on generating OpenType font.
· File handling, Import and Export:
· Checking result of Save, font won’t close if save fails.
· FLS doesn’t crash when non-ASCII characters are typed in the Save As dialog.
· Mac Type 1 export: the unnecessary dialog asking for encoding doesn’t appear anymore.
· INF file export can be switched off in the Save metrics dialog.
· BlueScale values are rounded when Mac Type 1 font is exported.
· FLS now accepts data from BitFonter when the Export As Pixel Outline Font command is selected (Mac only).
· Default PFM character isn’t changed on re-import of the exported OpenType font.
· ‘dfont’ Mac TrueType export is now possible (Mac only).
· Imported BDF bitmaps won't invert anymore.
· TTFs with bad kerning do not hang FLS when imported.
· Interoperability of digital signatures export (DSIG) and CacheTT.exe has been improved (Win only).
· Improved Ikarus files import.
· OpenType Layout:
· Rebuilding the OT kern feature doesn’t crash FLS anymore.
· Vertical glyph positioning in the OpenType preview panel (pos exclam <0 240 0 0>) is fixed.
· Preferences:
· Codepage selector for first 256 glyphs in OpenType TT Encoding now works properly.
· Glyph window / Colors: Grid color can be changed now.
· Glyph window / Appearance: “Show arrow on closepath” now works properly.
· Customizable sample text string for the Open File dialog is now used for font preview.
· Font Info:
· Text pasted in Additional OT-Names field doesn’t have style or color.
· Correct axis extreme value is shown for MM fonts.
· Printing:
· FLS doesn’t crash while printing a Font Sample.
· Pressing Backspace in the system Print dialog does not delete glyphs in the Font window anymore.
· Other User Interface:
· Most tooltips now show keyboard shortcuts bound to them.
· The Return and Enter keys now work in the “Save changes?” dialog.
· The # symbol is available to UK keyboard users now when typed in the OpenType panel.
· Unicode-aware combo boxes and text fields do not disappear in Windows 98.
· Repetitive search of the string in the OpenType and Edit Macro panels is fixed.... [ read full changelog ]