What's new in Font Manager 0.8.8
May 16, 2022
- Fixes build failure with GCC 11 - Issue #240
- Bumps Fontconfig minimum version to 2.12
- Adds options for Waterfall display and sizing - Issue #230
- Enables basic support for Emoji flag sequences - Issue #109
- Fixes warnings generated when double clicking an item in the fontlist - Issue #248
- Fixes warnings generated when an unknown language is encountered - Google Fonts Catalog - Issue #249
- Allows toggling the state of multiple families in the fontlist - Issue #261
- Updates vendor list
- Includes latest translation updates
New in Font Manager 0.5.7 (Dec 23, 2010)
- Allow sorting families by right-clicking. http://code.google.com/p/font-manager/issues/detail?id=42
- Address an issue where selecting a collection causes unintended drag and drop effect. http://code.google.com/p/font-manager/issues/detail?id=41
- Add font version field to the font information dialog. http://code.google.com/p/font-manager/issues/detail?id=40
- Allow managing collections while in "Browse" mode. Enable browse mode by default.
- Allow re-ordering while in compare mode.
- Add family type filter to advanced search dialog. This uses Panose values and won't display fonts which don't supply them.
- Use images which are friendlier to dark backgrounds. i.e. Ubuntu's default tooltips
- Fix some i18n related bugs.
- Add Launchpad translators to the credits dialog. Add Italian, Russian and Slovak translations. Translations are not enabled by default yet. Users wishing/willing to test and provide feedback should pass --enable-nls to configure.
New in Font Manager 0.5.6 (Aug 9, 2010)
- Address an issue where our window is still displayed at startup even though both minimize on startup and minimize to tray are enabled
- Address and issue where failure to load a font file causes startup to abort with a useless error message.
- Automatically try to move any customizations found in ~/.fonts.conf to ~/.config/font-manager/local.conf instead of simply overwriting them. You should still edit local.conf directly and not rely on this.
- Browse mode now displays disabled fonts and uses the same size setting as the rest of the application, it also includes a size slider.
- Added a dialog which allows mass renaming and deletion of files in imported folders. This has to be enabled in the preferences dialog. This feature has seen very little testing so... USE AT YOUR OWN RISK.
New in Font Manager 0.5.5 (Jun 29, 2010)
- Address an issue where fontconfig/pango updates cause previews to stop displaying properly for disabled families.
- Address an issue where fonts from user configured folders which are not in the users home directory get placed into the System category.
- Address an issue where fonts with family names containing non-ASCII characters are unusable. If you experienced this, please reset the applications cache to remove outdated entries.
- Added a fontconfig editor which allows users to configure settings for individual families and styles. * transformations are not supported.
- Added an alias editor which allows users to configure font substitution.
- Cut down on the number of events that require a restart.
New in Font Manager 0.5.4 (May 31, 2010)
- Fix several bugs introduced in the 0.5.x releases, hopefully without introducing new ones.
- Several interface improvements. The most important one being that the application now saves most of it's state when closed, i.e. window size, preview font size, compare colors, pane positions, etc.
- Added an option to keep the current collection focused when adding families to other collections as suggested at http://code.google.com/p/font-manager/issues/detail?id=18
- Added a "browser mode" as suggested at http://code.google.com/p/font-manager/issues/detail?id=19
- Switch to Mallard-based help, unfortunately this means users who do not have Yelp installed will not have access to it.
- Then again, anyone who's reading the help pages for any reason other than just being bored should probably file a bug detailing why they needed help, and what would make things easier.
New in Font Manager 0.5.3 (May 14, 2010)
- Fix several errors due to escaped/unescaped markup.
- Separated the "sample sheet" feature from the rest of the program to prevent the application from "keeping" the memory used during pdf generation. Added font-sampler, a stand-alone script that can be called by the user to generate a "sample sheet" from a directory of fonts.
- As suggested by http://code.google.com/p/font-manager/issues/detail?id=8 Added a way for users to add "actions" that can be called on font files directly from the family column by right clicking.
- As suggested by http://code.google.com/p/font-manager/issues/detail?id=7 Added an "Advanced Search" dialog that allows filtering the selected collection based on family, filetype, foundry or filepath.
- Added drag and drop installation of font files. Font files can now be dragged onto the family column and they will be installed and if possible added to the selected collection.
New in Font Manager 0.4.4 (Mar 10, 2010)
- Maintenance release.
- Fix redraw/corruption issues when widgets are shown/hidden or panes are repositioned.
- Fix unnecessary escapes in treeview text column.
- Fix typos affecting the way illegal xml characters are escaped.
- Some code cleanup
- Removed the "font info" button, because gnome-font-viewer sucks and the latest "improved" version is even silly enough to allow installation of already installed fonts...
- The rename collection button/dialog was also dropped as it's unnecessary, renaming collections can be done directly by clicking on the collection name once it's been selected.
- The "font info" feature should be back in a future release along with a more competent, at least according to me, "font-viewer" and the ability to edit font details.
New in Font Manager 0.4.3 (Jan 17, 2010)
- Added the following options
- Start application at login Start application minimized Include pangram in sample sheets Set default font size for sample sheets
- Removed unnecessary, possibly confusing, confirmation dialog when removing collections.
- Correct permissions for installed files.
- Some code cleanup
- Clean up obsolete files.
New in Font Manager 0.4.1 (Sep 24, 2009)
- Restart application instead of attempting to reload in place.
New in Font Manager 0.4 (Sep 24, 2009)
- Re-factored user interface to have a more flexible layout and take up less space while displaying the same amount of information. Added font installation/removal. Various bug fixes.
New in Font Manager 0.3 (Sep 8, 2009)
- Added the ability to compare fonts, thanks to gnome-specimen.
- When detailed info is requested it now brings up the selected style.
- Changed the way font information is loaded, this allows the application to have a map of exactly which files belong to which font family.
- It unfortunately also means that loading fonts is significantly slower, to compensate for this, results are now cached and re-used. This will probably need to be done in C at some point, not only for speed but for access to font metadata.
- Also added a basic splash screen to provide some feedback in case
- someone actually has that many active fonts on their system.
- Various bug fixes.
- Code cleanup.