What's new in MacType 1.2022.801.0 Preview
Aug 1, 2022
- Fixed the broken x64 support of vistuner.
- Vistuner is now HiDPI ready.
New in MacType 1.2022.729.0 Test (Jul 29, 2022)
- Fixed a serious bug where individual font settings are not applied in the previous test build. (#874)
- Added support of x64 application for vistuner.
- Make vistuner operations easier to understand.
New in MacType 1.2022.720.2 Test (Jul 21, 2022)
- This test build fixed the faulty harmony LCD rendering. Now it works as intended.
- This new version should have a very close look to the classic Cleartype style one.
New in MacType 2018.1 Beta 5 (Dec 6, 2018)
- New Installer - Important:
- The new installer will uninstall any old MacType packages, and clean up MacType-Patch and other test versions. This includes profiles, so please backup your profiles!
- Bug fixes/new features since beta4:
- Includes changes from the DirectWrite test version See Note 1
- Simpler version numbering
- Unicode plane bug fixed and other painting bugs fixed
- Will no longer crash Microsoft Edge
- Improved detection of Registry Mode in MacTray
- Brings back svchost.exe hooking so that UWP in Windows 10 with service mode and tray mode are supported
- Per-group configuration is back
- Color fonts in Chrome are way better (very close to the real color) See Note 2
- New useful profiles: Clean Sharp, Clean Soft, mufunyo, and extratype
New in MacType 1.2018.1019.0 Beta 4 (Oct 23, 2018)
- Fixed minor problem with installer warning messages
New in MacType 1.2018.1019.0 Beta (Oct 22, 2018)
- Bug fixes/new features:
- Update FreeType to git commit 0c4feb72cf976f63d4bf62436bc48f190d0e0c28 (this fixes issue #446)
- Support color fonts (e.g. emoji fonts... see options below)
- Dropped support for 16bit graphics to fix issues related to the Touhou series (issue #440)
- Fixed compatibility with Qt WebKit (issue #195)
- Fixed a bug with malformed ExtTextout
- Updated tray app to better fit multiple screen scenarios (issue #161)
- Tray app can intercept explorer in service mode now
- A little tweak for diacritics
- Fixed deadlock bug in tray app
- Fixed environment error in tuner app
- Fixed translation bug in tuner app (issues #445, #444)
- Brand new robust installer (resolves #443)
- Using decimal characters (',' or '.') in ini files should work correctly (issue #358)
- New experimental feature:
- Color font support:
New in MacType 1.2018.908.0 Beta (Sep 18, 2018)
- Updated to the latest FreeType 2.9.1
- Merged some assemblers from the latest EasyHook
- Better compatible with Windows 10 (in theory. I've never encountered any incompatibility before)
- Better process capture with WMI process capture, MacTray should now capture newly created process in less than 1s and no snapshot poll is required. So there should be no CPU use peak every 5s anymore
- Won't terminate processes if unsupported fonts with vert table are found
- Won't crash process when the specific glyph cannot be found in FreeType when Windows font linking is used
- Does not include Infinality as this is still experimental
New in MacType 1.2017.628.0 (Oct 5, 2017)
- Fixed the compatible issue with Chrome, firefox and etc.
- Possible to disable hinting in Win7
- Traditional Chinese translation got improved.
- Better multi-lang system.
New in MacType 1.2017.614.0 (Oct 5, 2017)
- Win10 compatible.
- FreeType 2.8.0 included.
- Bug fixes.
New in MacType 1.2016.904.0 (Oct 5, 2017)
- The crash bug related to chrome has been solved.
- added a new param: GammaValueDW, only used in DW tweak. If left unset, it behaviors the same as previous release.
- Installer improved, no more file not found error. (You will still see this error when you upgrade from last release, but won't see it anymore in the future. 'cause this bug is caused by the uninstaller, not installer)
New in MacType 1.2016.902.1 (Oct 5, 2017)
- Fixed the problem that will cause windows stucking for a very long time during boot.
- Fixed a problem that prevent clipboxfix from taking effect
New in MacType 1.2016.901.0 (Oct 5, 2017)
- fixed a serious bug that causes windows7 stuck at boot
- fixed a issue that causes edge to crash and lag
- allow you to disable clipbox fix by add [[email protected]] clipboxfix=0 to your profile.
New in MacType 1.2016.830.0 (Oct 5, 2017)
- Windows 8/8.1/10 ready
- Directwrite tweak re-enabled. (Great thanks to silight-jp, please visit: http://silight.hatenablog.jp/entry/MacTypePatch and give him a thumb up). Enable this tweak by adding DirectWrite=1 to general section. No other parameter available.
- Upgraded freetype to 2.6.5, note that this version brings to you a different rendering result.
- HiDPI ready for MacTuner and MacTray
- Folder support for mactype wizard in profile thumbnail view.
- Multi-lang switch effect optimized.
- Chrome compatibility improved, no letter missing or rendering chaos anymore (I hope).
- Injecting to metro is possible in all loading modes. (Mactype has to be install to program files folder and installing to system folder option should be checked).
- Vertical layout in firefox and some other programs has been fixed (Special thanks to silight-jp)
- Clipbox parameter is no longer required, it has been fixed for all programs. (thanks to silight-jp again, you are such a great developer)
- Mactray can identify more os versions now.