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FontForge Portable Changelog

What's new in FontForge Portable 2022-03-08

Oct 13, 2022
  • Resync with latest master for te 20220308 release

New in FontForge Portable 2020-11-07 (May 5, 2021)

  • Resync with latest master for the 20201107 release

New in FontForge Portable 13-April-2019 (Jun 7, 2019)

  • This is a bugfix focused release.

New in FontForge Portable 31-Jul-2017 (R2) (Oct 2, 2017)

  • Compile run_fontforge with Visual Studio 2015 to avoid antivirus false positives

New in FontForge Portable 31-Jul-2017 (Oct 2, 2017)

  • Upgrade to Pango 1.40.7
  • Sync with the 20170731 release

New in FontForge Portable 4-Oct-2016 (Oct 17, 2016)

  • Sync with the 20161005 release
  • Upgrade to Freetype 2.7

New in FontForge Portable 23-Sept-2016 (Oct 17, 2016)

  • Also bundle ssleay32.dll for the Python ssl module.

New in FontForge Portable 14-Sept-2016 (Oct 17, 2016)

  • Updated application icons (finally)
  • You may need to clear your icon cache for it to take effect

New in FontForge Portable 13-Aug-2016 (Oct 17, 2016)

  • Sync with git master (prerelease)

New in FontForge Portable 07-Apr-2016 (Oct 10, 2016)

  • Fix crash in kern pairs dialogue (#2681)
  • Fix preferences dialogue being too large (#2675)

New in FontForge Portable 05-Apr-2016 (Oct 10, 2016)

  • Sync with the April 20160404 release

New in FontForge Portable 04-Jul-2015 (Oct 10, 2016)

  • Add in many more locales to bin/VcXsrv/locale/locale.alias
  • This should fix titles not being displayed properly. (#2323)

New in FontForge Portable 14-Jun-2015 (Oct 10, 2016)

  • Fix bug in Window titles not being displayed properly

New in FontForge Portable 13-Jun-2015 (Oct 10, 2016)

  • Sync with the June 20150612 release
  • Fix clipboard pasting to/from FontForge
  • Patching FontForge to work with filenames regardless of current locale
  • still somewhat experimental)

New in FontForge Portable 30-May-2015 (Oct 10, 2016)

  • Patch Gnulib to make fopen and open assume UTF-8 filenames for opening files
  • This allows files with non-ASCII/English filenames to be opened IFF a UTF-8
  • locale is used (see fontforge.bat)
  • Port the MetaFont import function to Windows
  • Fix autorecover 'forget' options (actually delete the files if a 'forget'
  • option is requested)
  • Fix saving hotkeys

New in FontForge Portable 26-May-2015 (Oct 10, 2016)

  • Using GLib for Unicode file browsing (opening fix TBA)

New in FontForge Portable 24-May-2015 (Oct 10, 2016)

  • Attempt fix at keyboard layout settings.

New in FontForge Portable 19-May-2015 (Oct 10, 2016)

  • (Finally) do another 64-bit build

New in FontForge Portable 03-Apr-2015 (Oct 10, 2016)

  • Build for 20150330 release (ab4d46) + 902919
  • Hovering over PDF files in the file browser should now be fast(er)
  • Disabled scanning of fonts in the PDF files (slow, buggy)

New in FontForge Portable 11-11-14 (Jan 21, 2015)

  • Update to latest git version a7edc6
  • Fix potential PATH issue for PATHs containing double quotes (GH #1907)
  • Switch to different X server port (11) to avoid potential conflict with old versions of FontForge (2012/2013 versions)
  • Update VcXsrv_util to allow for dynamic switching of the port used

New in FontForge Portable 18-10-14 (Jan 21, 2015)

  • Bug-fix for the file picker dialogue. Makes it much more robust to Windows file paths.

New in FontForge Portable 20-06-14 (Jan 21, 2015)

  • Upgrade to latest git version d4abd3:
  • SF issue #8 is fixed
  • Menus are now not absurdly wide
  • Build FontForge with Cairo support:
  • Glyph outlines in the editing window are now anti-aliased
  • The glyph fill operation should be faster
  • Fontconfig is not used any more, unless Cairo is disabled (-usecairo=no)
  • Fonts can be placed in share/fonts or a folder called 'ui-fonts' in your preferences folder and FontForge can use them to display the user interface correctly. If you installed FontForge, this will be APPDATA%/FontForge/ui-fonts. This distribution comes pre-bundled with the DejaVu fonts. Cantarell, Inconsolata and WenQuanYi has been dropped.
  • Bundle the Python executable (python.exe as ffpython.exe):
  • This gives users direct access to the Python distribution bundled with FontForge, so they may install extra Python modules if they need to.
  • Unfortunately the Python extension cannot be used with the native official) Python installation as that has been compiled with MSVC.
  • There are limits to what can be installed. Simple extensions are fine. Trying to install something like numpy will not work.

New in FontForge Portable 14-06-14 (Jan 21, 2015)

  • Updated to the latest git version 4b0ceb
  • Patched libxcb (courtesy of VcXsrv), allowing libX11 to be upgraded to the latest git version. Probably fixes a few GUI bugs.
  • Updated all X libraries to the latest git version
  • Fixed resource loading (the background is now white)
  • Fixed scrolling in menus with the scroll wheel
  • Fixed the display of tool-tips

New in FontForge Portable 31-05-13 (Jan 21, 2015)

  • Updated to latest git version 416fb4 + snapping fix
  • TTC handling has been fixed
  • Some crashes in the Print dialogue have been fixed
  • The cursor used for scroll zooming has been fixed
  • Point snapping in the glyph editor has been fixed