New public release We’re proud, and scared all together, to announce a new public release of Fontmatrix.
This release is numbered 0.6.0. It replaces the Jurassic old 0.4.2. The 0.5.0 branch has been obsoleted as soon as branched. Trunk is now numbered 0.6.99. 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: On top of it, Inline Help written by Alexandre Prokoudine, without it, most of the code would be useless. SQLite database Python scripter Independant samples directory (allowing easy sharing of this resource) Shortcuts A text layout engine to display samples (including hyphenation) Different shaper engines A playful playground PANOSE browser (experimental) Glyphs comparision panel Boolean operators in filters Browse file systems for fonts Themable informations panel (including javascript) Extract embedded fonts from PDF documents (experimental) Find font from an image (experimental) Expose, and possibly export, TrueType tables Edit tags billions bugs fixed and UI improvements… DOWNLOAD Main source for this package is the fontmatrix006 branch on Subversion server: svn co http://svn.gna.org/svn/undertype/branches/fontmatrix006 You can find source packages in archives on the web server: Tarball - <http://fontmatrix.net/archives/fontmatrix-0.6.0-Source.tar.gz> Md5 - <http://fontmatrix.net/archives/fontmatrix-0.6.0-Source.tar.gz.md5> Signature - <http://fontmatrix.net/archives/fontmatrix-0.6.0- Source.tar.gz.asc> Key - <http://fontmatrix.net/archives/pierre_marchand-sc.pubkey> We don’t provide yet binary packages. Although expect ones in the coming days in popular GNU/Linux distributions repositories, and in coming weeks for Windows and MacOSX installers. Have fun! -- Pierre Marchand http://www.oep-h.com _______________________________________________ Undertype-users mailing list Undertype-users@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/undertype-users
