Compared to 0.4.2, almost everything is new. From the storage backend to the preview engine, all has been reworked to offer a better user experience and prepare exciting future developments. Here’s a non-exhaustive list of changes:
· SQLite database and a Python script to move data from old XML based DB
· Python scripting
· Independent samples directory (allowing easy sharing of this resource)
· Configurable shortcuts
· A text layout engine to display samples (including hyphenation)
· ICU, Harfbuzz and Fontmatrix's own shaper engines
· A playful playground
· PANOSE browser (experimental)
· New help system and user manual written from scratch
· Glyphs comparision panel
· Boolean operators in search filters
· File system browser for fonts
· Themable informations panel (CSS and JavaScript)
· Extract embedded fonts from PDF documents (experimental)
· Find font from an bitmap image (experimental)
· Expose, and possibly export, TrueType tables
· Edit tags
