What's new in FontCreator 15.0.0.2974
Apr 26, 2024
- Fixed normalization issue within shaping engine
- Improved Thin transform feature
- Several user interface updating issues
New in FontCreator 15.0.0.2970 (Apr 4, 2024)
- New Round transform feature
- Improved Bold transform feature
- Improved speed while editing large fonts
- Improved calculation of contour direction
- Improved Find dialog
- Updated vendor information
- Fixed Override Ranges transform features
- Fixed issue with exporting CFF (PostScript) fonts
- Fixed issue with adding a master
- Fixed multiple substitution issue
- Fixed issue with losing glyph names on exporting a large font
- Fixed clipboard issue
- Fixed missing scrollbar in Class Manager dialog
- Fixed several user interface glitches
- Fixed overrule/add codepoints with Paste Special
- Several minor improvements
New in FontCreator 15.0.0.2955 (Dec 14, 2023)
- Fixed crash on closing glyph panel
- Improved Bold and Thin features in Transform wizard
- Several minor improvements
New in FontCreator 15.0.0.2952 (Dec 1, 2023)
- Fixed issue with loosing hinting on exporting fonts
- Improved join and split contours in point mode
- Several minor improvements
New in FontCreator 15.0.0.2951 (Nov 22, 2023)
- Improved auto composite data behaviour
- Several minor improvements
New in FontCreator 15.0.0.2950 (Nov 20, 2023)
- Fixed composite data loading issue
- Added align actions to context menu in glyph panel
- Improved shaping engine
- Several minor improvements
New in FontCreator 15.0.0.2945 (Oct 23, 2023)
- Fixed issue with exporting specific control characters
- Several minor improvements
New in FontCreator 15.0.0.2943 (Oct 20, 2023)
- Fixed minor flaw in optimize contours feature
- Several minor improvements
New in FontCreator 15.0.0.2942 (Oct 18, 2023)
- Improved join contours (union, intersection, exclusion) feature
- Improved knife (cut through contours) feature
New in FontCreator 15.0.0.2941 (Oct 13, 2023)
- Improved .glyph import
- Improved copy and paste of raster-based images
- Improved optimize contour feature
- Improved generation of glyph names for release
- Improved opening variable fonts
- Improved export of Chinese fonts
- Fixed Hollow transformation feature
- Numerous minor improvements
New in FontCreator 15.0.0.2936 (Sep 21, 2023)
- Improved shaping engine; better bidirectional text preview
- Improved Transform panel; supporting operations on selected points
- Added support for Unicode 15.1
- Minor performance increase
New in FontCreator 15.0.0.2934 (Sep 13, 2023)
- Added Lock aspect ratio to Transform panel as well as support for expressions in X and Y position
- Fixed single stroke preview issue
- Fixed rare undo bug related to outline editing
New in FontCreator 15.0.0.2933 (Sep 13, 2023)
- Added Lock aspect ratio to Transform panel as well as support for expressions in X and Y position
- Fixed single stroke preview issue
- Fixed rare undo bug related to outline editing
New in FontCreator 15.0.0.2931 (Sep 6, 2023)
- Several minor improvements
New in FontCreator 15.0.0.2929 (Sep 6, 2023)
- Several minor improvements.
New in FontCreator 15.0.0.2928 (Sep 5, 2023)
- Several minor improvements.
New in FontCreator 15.0.0.2927 (Sep 3, 2023)
- Fixed rare issue concerning glyphs without layers
New in FontCreator 15.0.0.2926 (Sep 1, 2023)
- Elements -> supports outlines with both components and contours, so called hybrid outlines
- Redesigned Transform panel
- Support for the GlyphsApp .glyphs file format
- Improved shaping engine
- Improved detection and fixing of interpolation issues
- Improved auto attach
- Improved optimize contour feature
- Improved join (union, intersection, exclusion, and also cut/knife) contours feature; including support for cubic curves
- Improved support for UFO and DesignSpaces
- Improved subsetting variable fonts
- Order axes
- Made optional mark attachment class for lookups obsolete (instead use a mark filtering set)
- Cancel changes in edit field (ESC key)
- Fixed remove overlap issue
- New transform feature to round xy coordinates
- Increased stability and some speed gains
- Several other bug fixes and improvements
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2901 (Jan 6, 2023)
- Improved the validation features
- Improved curve selection
- Improved union, intersection, and exclusion of contours
- Added groups and kerning to the UFO export
- Anchors are now merged when compiling feature code
- Fixed issue with joining and splitting contours
- New line height option in Web Font test page
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2899 (Dec 20, 2022)
- Fixed optical metrics issue
- Fixed join contours issue
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2898 (Dec 15, 2022)
- Fixed an export issue related to .notdef
- Improved incorrect contour direction algorithm
- Fixed undo issue releated to font validation wizard
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2897 (Dec 8, 2022)
- Fixed an OpenType layout feature related export issue
- Improved algorithm for determining contour directions
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2896 (Nov 24, 2022)
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2892 (Nov 22, 2022)
- Fixed variable font interpolation issue
- Several minor improvements and bug fixes
- Updated Help and Manual
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2888 (Nov 1, 2022)
- Several minor improvements and bug fixes
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2886 (Oct 31, 2022)
- Improved smart point deletion.
- Several minor improvements and bug fixes.
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2883 (Oct 12, 2022)
- Fixed issue with undo after adding glyphs
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2882 (Oct 10, 2022)
- Improved OpenType layout features after deleting glyphs
- Fixed issue with subsetting variable fonts
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2881 (Oct 8, 2022)
- Fixed issue with exporting instances of a variable font
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2880 (Oct 7, 2022)
- New exporting subsets of variable fonts
- Support for DesignSpace version 5.0 (subsets including extrapolation and discrete axes)
- Support for UFO Meta
- Support for UFO Unicode Variation Sequences
- Fixed processing axis variations table
- Improvements to the OpenType Designer
- Ceased hinting support for legacy Symbol fonts
- Ceased support for exporting legacy kern table; use GPOS pair positioning
- Added option to flatten components on export
- Fixed stability issue
- Numerous other improvements and bug fixes
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2877 (Sep 8, 2022)
- Fixed import SVG bug
- Easy selection of contours with one or two points
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2876 (Sep 7, 2022)
- Easy selection of contours with one or two points
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2875 (Sep 6, 2022)
- Double stroke now always double
- Improved exporting fonts
- Several other improvements
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2874 (Sep 4, 2022)
- Improved cutting through contours
- Improved exporting variable fonts
- Several other improvements
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2872 (Aug 24, 2022)
- Fixed minor flaw while selecting different master
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2871 (Aug 24, 2022)
- Fixed issue related to exporting ligatures
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2870 (Aug 22, 2022)
- Improved export of OpenType layout features
- Improved detection of interpolation issues
- Several other improvements
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2862 (Jul 2, 2022)
- Fixed rare issue related to processing corrupt fonts
- Fixed generating single line color SVG fonts related to cubic beziers
- The fea compiler now also supports unicode code-points as glyph names, e.g. uni12AB and u12345
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2860 (Jul 1, 2022)
- Fixed bug related to editing variable fonts
- Improved import of SVG files
- Improved smart point removal (select points and press Backspace)
- New ability to add glyphs to multiple composite glyphs at once
- Numerous other improvements and bug fixes
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2853 (Jun 15, 2022)
- New option to optimize storage of OpenType layout features on export
- Fixed an export issue related to italic style
- Improved Italic transformation feature
- Fixed an export instances issue
- Improved import of SVG files
- Fixed pasting side-bearings
- Several improvements in the OpenType Designer
- Improvements to the shaping engine
- Copy an interpolated glyph outline
- On the Master tab you can type x / y and then press Enter. It will use that as run/rise for italic angle and caret slope!
- Support for base() for lsb and rsb on opening fonts and when using anchor based complete composites
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2850 (Jun 14, 2022)
- New option to optimize storage of OpenType layout features on export
- Fixed an export instances issue
- Improved import of SVG files
- Fixed pasting side-bearings
- Several improvements in the OpenType Designer
- Improvements to the shaping engine
- Copy an interpolated glyph outline
- On the Master tab you can type x / y (run/rise) for italic angle and caret slope
- Support for base() for lsb and rsb on opening fonts and when using anchor based complete composites
- Numerous other improvements and bug fixes
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2843 (May 31, 2022)
- Several improvements and bug fixes
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2840 (May 27, 2022)
- Fixed issue with Italic font style
- Fixed several issues related to undo and redo
- Fixed an Auto Attach issue
- Fixed Insert Glyphs issue
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2836 (May 13, 2022)
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2834 (May 12, 2022)
- Fixed avar axis mapping issue
- Improved Web font export
- Added anchors and suffixes categories
- Added new master from current location
- New side-bearings function base() to be used with precomposed characters (composites)
- Several other improvements and bug fixes
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2830 (Apr 30, 2022)
- Fixed avar axis mapping issue
- Improved Web font export
- Added anchors and suffixes categories
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2828 (Apr 27, 2022)
- Fixed complete composites
- Added support for Unicode 14
- Updated OpenType layout tags
- Fixed an expression issue related to rsb
- Fixed issue with insert contour feature with open contours
- Fixed import VOLT issue
- Fixed Add outline layer issue related to Cursive attachment
- Fixed setting WWS bit in Font selection flags
- Fixed rare issue related to corrupt exported font
- Fixed codepoint issue within Insert Glyphs
- Fixed axis mappings issue
- Comes with ttfautohint version 1.8.4
- Improved Web font export
- Added edit in class manager option for mark and contextual lookups
- Several minor changes and improvements
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2825 (Apr 14, 2022)
- Fixed complete composites
- Added support for Unicode 14
- [on hold] Enabled optimized storage of OpenType data structures
- Updated OpenType layout tags
- Fixed an expression issue related to rsb
- Fixed issue with insert contour feature with open contours
- Fixed import VOLT issue
- Fixed Add outline layer issue related to Cursive attachment
- Fixed setting WWS bit in Font selection flags
- Fixed rare issue related to corrupt exported font
- Fixed codepoint issue within Insert Glyphs
- Fixed axis mappings issue
- Comes with ttfautohint version 1.8.4
- Improved Web font export
- Added edit in class manager option for mark and contextual lookups
- Several minor changes and improvements
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2816 (Mar 21, 2022)
- Added support for Unicode 14
- Updated OpenType layout tags
- Fixed an expression issue related to rsb
- Fixed issue with insert contour feature with open contours
- Fixed import VOLT issue
- Several minor changes and improvements
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2814 (Aug 14, 2021)
- Improved name generation on exporting a font
- Fixed background image color issue in Dark Theme
- Fixed issue with storing color members in font projects
- Fixed a Search glyphs by name bug
- Several minor changes and improvements
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2808 (Jul 16, 2021)
- New Apply Everywhere (transparent outline fill)
- Edit Across Layers (delete glyph members, contours, points will keep layers compatible)
- Improved snap to grid functionality
- Fixed rare issue with mark-to-ligature
- Improved exporting instances
- Several improvements to the shaping engine
- Improved support for fea feature syntax
- Fixed issue with existing hinting
- Interpolation improvements
- Improved export
- Fixed a side-bearing issue
- Performance improvements
- Numerous other enhancements and bug fixes
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2794 (Jun 29, 2021)
- Fixed load and save project issue
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2793 (Jun 27, 2021)
- Fixed import svg issue
- Fixed intersection and exclusion issue
- Fixed theme background color issue on Find panel
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2792 (Jun 26, 2021)
- Fixed export issue (CFF format reverted to TFF)
- Fixed minor shaping engine issue
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2791 (Jun 25, 2021)
- Fixed shaping engine issue that caused incorrect positioning
- Correct Windows edition in about box
- Fixed import svg issue
- Fixed issue with opening outdated font projects
New in FontCreator 14.0.0.2789 (Jun 23, 2021)
- New variable font support
- New dockable panels
- New masks
- New anchor cloud
- Improved auto attach
- Improved shaping engine
- Improved interactive proofing of OpenType layout features
- Improved AFDKO fea syntax support, including variable font support
- Support for design spaces
- Improved import and export of Unified Font Object (UFO) based fonts
- Improved import of vector-based images
- Improved high DPI support
- Improved font data compression on export
- Updated vendor information
- Numerous enhancements and improvements
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2681 (Jul 21, 2020)
- Fixed rare mark filtering sets issue
- Added support for mark filtering sets to VOLT import and export
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2680 (Jul 21, 2020)
- New duplicate class
- New open substituation lookup from contextual lookups in code editor
- Several minor improvements and bug fixes
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2678 (Jul 8, 2020)
- Load and save color palettes
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2675 (Jul 6, 2020)
- Optional slanted grid for italic fonts
- Improved paste contours into glyph overview window
- Improved OpenType Explorer
- Several minor improvements
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2672 (Jun 29, 2020)
- Improved Shaping Engine
- New: Edit and export OpenType layout features in VOLT syntax
- Added resize option to preview area in html test
- Updated vendor information
- New toggle (z) in Glyph Edit window
- Added tag color to tabs
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2670 (Jun 29, 2020)
- Use SHIFT-H in Glyph Edit window to only show glyph outline
- In Glyph Edit window press ";" to set default bearings
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2668 (Jun 21, 2020)
- Fixed rare anchr issue
- Imprved validatin f cdepint ranges
- Fixed minr aut-attach glitch (afterwards all glyphs where inadvertently selected)
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2663 (Jun 18, 2020)
- Added PairPosFormat1 option
- Improved resizing of contours
- New resizing selection of points
- Added No Tag category
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2662 (Jun 17, 2020)
- Added PairPosFormat1 option
- Improved resizing of contours
- New resizing selection of points
- Added No Tag category
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2656 (Jun 11, 2020)
- Added VOLT import support for ligature carets
- Fixed import VOLT issue
- Improved unused glyphs algortihm
- OpenType Explorer supports both glyphs and glyph classes
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2655 (Jun 10, 2020)
- Export font as UFO
- Better parser validation for class based kerning
- New OpenType Explorer
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2648 (Jun 5, 2020)
- Improved Open Installed Fonts dialog
- Fixed cut and paste glyphs bug
- Improved AutoMetrics Preview of figures (digits)
- Search box above single and pair pos also supports a single character
- Glyph name completion in Insert Glyphs window
- Glyph name completion in feature code editor
- Added sample text validation
- Added glyph hint to Select Class Members dialog
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2645 (May 29, 2020)
- Improved empty pair positioning compiler check
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2644 (May 29, 2020)
- Fixed rare mark filtering set bug
- New: drag and drop support for lookups in OpenType Designer
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2643 (May 29, 2020)
- Several AFDKO FEA feature improvements
- Added on export exclude legacy cmap option
- New context menu item to duplicate a lookup
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2642 (May 16, 2020)
- Minor improvements to decompiling AFDKO FEA feature definitions
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2640 (May 15, 2020)
- New: Sort glyphs by glyph names from UFO lib.plist file
- Improved .fea syntax support
- GDEF ligature carets
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2638 (May 15, 2020)
- New: Sort glyphs by glyph names from UFO lib.plist file
- Improved .fea syntax support
- GDEF ligature carets
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2637 (May 8, 2020)
- New: Sort glyphs by glyph names from file
- Support for editing individual lookup with fea syntax
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2636 (May 7, 2020)
- New: open Unified Font Object fonts
- New: OpenType feature script editor now also support AFDKO fea syntax
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2630 (Apr 15, 2020)
- Fixed rare export bug
- Several minor improvements
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2627 (Apr 10, 2020)
- Minor proofing improvements
- Improved shaping engine
- Improved Web Font Test page
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2620 (Apr 3, 2020)
- Further improved Auto Attach
- Several anchor related improvements
- Minor proofing improvements
- Fixed a cursive attachment issue
- Fixed issues with Reverse Chaining Contextual Single Substitution Subtable
- New: Copy and paste composites in same font
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2613 (Mar 20, 2020)
- Improved Insert Glyphs by Name
- Improved Auto Attach
- Proofing improvements
- Fixed an issue with Check for Updates
New in FontCreator 13.0.0.2610 (Mar 19, 2020)
- Interactive proofing of OpenType layout features
- Support for OpenType SVG color fonts
- Improved Color Export options
- Enhanced Anchor Manager
- Fixed issues with anchors
- Improved Auto Attach
- New range is now optional in Insert Glyphs dialog
- Improved Shaping Engine
- Improved high DPI support
- Added preferred outline format to Options dialog -> Exchange tab
- Numerous enhancements and improvements
New in FontCreator 12.0.0.2566 (Mar 11, 2020)
- OpenType layout improvements
- Unicode 13 support
New in FontCreator 12.0.0.2565 (Mar 6, 2020)
- Improved layout engine
- Supporting Anchor NULL
- Improvements to the Web Font test page
- Some bug fixes
New in FontCreator 12.0.0.2563 (Feb 21, 2020)
- Fixed link to user manual in Welcome dialog
- Reduced error reporting in case the font editor raises an exception or crashes
New in FontCreator 12.0.0.2562 (Feb 21, 2020)
- Fixed link to user manual in Welcome dialog
- Reduced error reporting in case the font editor raises an exception or crashes
New in FontCreator 12.0.0.2561 (Feb 21, 2020)
- Reduced error reporting in case the font editor raises an exception or crashes
New in FontCreator 12.0.0.2560 (Feb 18, 2020)
- Fixed color font export issue
- Improved font preview for complex scripts
- Improved high DPI support
- Some tweaks and improvements
New in FontCreator 12.0.0.2555 (Jan 24, 2020)
- Fixed CFF based font export failure
New in FontCreator 12.0.0.2554 (Jan 23, 2020)
- Fixed font export issue
- Improved high DPI support
- Improved check for updates
New in FontCreator 12.0.0.2550 (Jan 14, 2020)
- Fixed trial outdated issue
- Some minor improvements
New in FontCreator 12.0.0.2547 (Sep 12, 2019)
- Fixed issue with PDF import
- Fixed issue with drawing outlines (TCanvasD2D)
- Improved font templates
New in FontCreator 12.0.0.2546 (Aug 24, 2019)
- Fixed issue with 30-day trial period
New in FontCreator 12.0.0.2543 (Jul 10, 2019)
- The 30-day trial period allows you to use all features, but generated fonts will contain watermarks
- Compile OpenType layout feature code will now merge anchors
- Within the glyph edit window, hold down the Alt key and click one of the “comparison glyphs” to make it the current glyph
- Fixed a bug that failed to correctly export symbol fonts
- Updated CompositeData.xml
- Updated Unmapped Subscripts for Fractions.xml
- Updates to help and manual
- Some bug fixes and improvements
New in FontCreator 12.0.0.2539 (Jun 4, 2019)
- Updated the way Vertical Line Spacing values are calculated
- Some performance improvements
- Updates to help and manual
New in FontCreator 12.0.0.2535 (Jun 4, 2019)
- Added option to enter glyphs by code-point in preview text: /$40 or /64
- Updated Glyph Properties tool window
- Expressions for glyph metrics (left side-bearing, right side-bearing, and advance width)
- Included new transform script for Auto-attach
- Some bug fixes and improvements
New in FontCreator 12.0.0.2525 (May 10, 2019)
- Unicode 12.1 support
- Enhanced font overview categories panel (added Scripts)
- Fixed rare issue with formulas
- Updated CompositeData.xml
New in FontCreator 12.0.0.2522 (May 8, 2019)
- OpenType Designer remembers last Script and Language settings
- Fixed issue with storing preview text
New in FontCreator 12.0.0.2521 (May 8, 2019)
- Anchor based composites
- Extended generation of OpenType layout features (frac, liga, mark, mkmk, init, medi, fina, curs, salt, ssxx, cvxx, and many more)
- Custom and generic localized forms
- Improved generation of friendly glyph names
- New glyph sort (design mode)
- Unicode 12 support
- Comes with ttfautohint version 1.8.3
- Improved complete composites
- Full undo and redo support
- Enhancements to transform scripts
- Option to exclude glyphs on export
- Support for delete in multiple substitutions
- Support for glyph ranges in glyph transformer
- Extended Insert Glyphs dialog
- Smart glyph switching in Glyph Edit window
- Improved OpenType Designer
- Improved window tab bar
- Extended Reopen menu
- New insert glyphs by name
- New Option: Decompose composite glyphs with scaled components (Recommended)
- Snap to guidelines and grid on resizing a glyph orthogonally
- Snap to guidelines and grid for anchor movement
- Improved glyph names for release (on exporting a font)
- New: sort glyphs in class in class manager
- Updated font templates for new fonts
- _shaper now supports (basic) normalization
- Preview support for comparing same text with different features enabled
- View unknown tables
- Updated vendor information
- Insert Glyphs supports generation of composite from glyph name formula: ffi=f+f+i
- Auto Attach repositions glyph members based on anchors
- Several bug fixes
- Numerous enhancements and improvements
New in FontCreator 11.5.0.2430 (Dec 6, 2018)
- Fixed SVG import issue
- Fixed WOFF 1 export issue
- Fixed class0 in preview
- Added a generate button to smoothing
- Improvements to the user manual
- Several user interface improvements
New in FontCreator 11.5.0.2427 (Apr 17, 2018)
- Support for WOFF 2.0
- Fixed issue with exporting CFF based WOFF files
- Several user interface improvements
New in FontCreator 11.5.0.2425 (Apr 16, 2018)
- Support for WOFF 2.0
- Several user interface improvements
New in FontCreator 11.5.0.2422 (Mar 5, 2018)
- Several user interface improvements
New in FontCreator 11.5.0.2421 (Feb 22, 2018)
- Support for Unicode variation sequences
- Comes with ttfautohint version 1.8.1
- Open contours while designing fonts
- Export as single line font (Open contours are not allowed in fonts, so FontCreator will do some magic to make fonts look like single line fonts which can be used for engraving)
- Support for last resort fonts
New in FontCreator 11.0.0.2412 (Jan 22, 2018)
- Bug fix recognizing non-assigned code points
- Fixed visual glitch related to XPlacement value
- Allow Complete Category for all Unicode blocks
- Fixed display problem with Arabic fonts in Microsoft Word
New in FontCreator 11.0.0.2408 (Sep 29, 2017)
- Bug fix related to exporting CFF based fonts, which was introduced in v11.0.0.2407.
- Several other improvements
New in FontCreator 11.0.0.2407 (Sep 29, 2017)
- Fixed glyph name issue with exported CFF based fonts
- Several other improvements
New in FontCreator 11.0.0.2403 (Sep 29, 2017)
- Improved OpenType layout feature preview
- Improved AutoKern and Optical Metrics
New in FontCreator 11.0.0.2400 (Sep 29, 2017)
- Unicode 10 support
- Improved OpenType layout feature preview
- New context menu option in Preview to copy input as text to clipboard
- Improved AutoKern and Optical Metrics
- Fixed duplicate anchors issue
- Glyphs shown in edit glyph name feature(s)
- Improved class name generation
- Fixed outline movement misalignment
- New option to keep existing glyph names on opening a font