What's new in Fontmatrix 0.6.0
Aug 14, 2009
- 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