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FontForge Update: 20090408

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The FontForge release schedule is a little bit slower these days - but they still are active. Since the last June release they fixed a lot of bugs and made a lot of smaller improvements (too much to write it down here).
Read the change log for details. More up-to-date Deb packages of Fontforge for Ubuntu can be grabed here.

Scribus 1.3.5 Release Candidate 3

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The Dev team released now the 3rd RC of the desktop publishing software Scribus 1.3.5. All details about the changes over the last RC's can be found at the release post. Scribus 1.3.5 requires the QT 4.4.0 libraries or higher and will be the base of the 1.4.x brunch.
If you are using Ubuntu Linux you can easily install it by adding the additional sources lists.

Scribus 1.3.5 Release Candidate 2

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The Dev team released the 2nd RC of the desktop publishing software Scribus 1.3.5. All details about the changes over RC 1 can be found at the release post. Scribus now requires the QT 4.4.0 libraries or higher.
If you are using Ubuntu Linux you can easily install it by adding the additional sources lists.

Monthly FontForge Update: 20090408

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After a skiped release in March a new monthly version of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge is available. Besides the typical minor improvements, bugfixes and translation updates this shipped with:
* Support composites (references) in bitmap fonts
* Support for the JSTF table (sfd extension)
* Set of new python functions for manipulating CID keyed fonts
* Add support for reading/writing version 1.8 of Adobe's feature file format

Read the change log for details. More up-to-date Deb packages of Fontforge for Ubuntu can be grabed here.

A better interface for FontForge

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End of last year i reported about a new version of the font editor FontForge that shipped with a X Resource editor to customize the (ugly) interface of FontForge. Now i started to create a smoother interface for Fontforge. Here is my first attempt:



If you know the ugly and fat look&feel of the standard interface you know that this first try is really smooth wink

You can download the theme here. To use it with FontForge go into the preferences and select the "fontforge-theme-area42" file as a "ResourceFile" at the option set "Generic".

Monthly FontForge Update: 20081215

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And again a new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge is available. Besides the typical improvements, bugfixes and translation updates , this release ships now with a X resource editor, that allows you to customize the interface (and may getting out of the poor and ugly look).
Read the change log for details. More up-to-date Deb packages of Fontforge for Ubuntu can be grabed here.

Scribus Manual available for Preorder

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If you like to get detailed informations how to use Scribus for layouts and prepress then you can now preorder The Official Scribus 1.3 Manual at Fleskbook.
A sample chapter can be found at the Scribus website.

Monthly FontForge Update: 20081115

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A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge is available. FontForge will now use libpango (drawing opentype, anti-aliased text)/ libcairo(draw anti-aliased lines) if they are present. And again a lot of smaller improvements, bugfixes and translation updates.
Read the change log for details. More up-to-date Deb packages of Fontforge for Ubuntu can be grabed here.

Get Fonted!

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Monthly FontForge Update: 20080927

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A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. Besides the typical fixes and improvements there are now some improvements for MacOS X.
Read the change log for details. More up-to-date Deb packages of Fontforge for Ubuntu can be grabed here.

Stuff for Scribus

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Font Conference: When Fonts were People

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I discovered this funny video on Planet Gnome. If you are a font fanboy this is a "Must have seen" smile http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1823766

Monthly FontForge Update: 20080720

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A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. Besides the typical fixes and improvements there are now the possibilities:
* to set up an own pixmap path for icons
* importing images from PDF files
* basic support for alpha channels in images
* customizing colors of the metrics view
Read the change log for details. More up-to-date Deb packages of Fontforge for Ubuntu can be grabed here.

Scribus 1.3.5 SVN builds

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Scribus 1.3.3.12 Update

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The stable branch of Scribus is updated to 1.3.3.12.
This version shipped with:
* Several fixes and improvements to text frames and the Story Editor.
* Some additional scripts have been added to enhance functionality.
* More translation and documentation updates.
* Several fixes to protect against possible crashes.
* Improvements to the Scripter to enable more features.

New Scribus 1.3.5 SVN builds

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As i can see there are new Scribus SVN builds available from this weekend for Fedora 9. Hopefully someone updates the builds for Debian/ Ubuntu too smile
Thomas Zastrow wrotes a little preview about what we can expect from Scribus 1.3.5.
My favorite wishes about Scribus 1.3.5 are CMYK-Tiff images with alpha work in PDF documents and the text frames renembers their font properties and display them correct in the property panel.

Monthly FontForge Update: 20080607

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A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. This versions offers new dialogs, improved sfnt header checks, a new russian translation, some new Python commands and of course bugfixes & improvements. Read the change log for details. More up-to-date Deb packages of Fontforge for Ubuntu can be grabed here.

Monthly FontForge Update: 20080429

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A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. Again a lot of bugfixes and smaller improvements . Read the change log for details.
What I'm missing are news about the progress of the GTK port sad Hopefully this port didn't died.
A Deb packages of Fontforge for Ubuntu can be grabed here.

Fontmatrix 0.4.2

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The development of Fontmatrix, a cool Qt based font manager, goes straight on. Now beta 0.4.2 is available with a lot of new features und fixes.
If you are using Ubuntu Linux you can get a Deb archive at GetDeb.

Monthly FontForge Update: 20080330

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A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. Again a lot of Bugfixes, smaller improvements and new translations. Read the change log for details.
What I'm missing are news about the progress of the GTK port.