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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Monthly FontForge Update: 20080303

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Another month is over and so a new release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge is available. The big new thing in this release are "Layers". Read the change log for details.

Monthly FontForge Update: 20080203

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A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. Mostly Bugfixes, smaller improvements and new translations.
There is now an incomplete FontForge which uses the GTK toolkit, which will hopefully be the end of the ugly GUI of Fontforge. Read the change log for details.

Monthly FontForge Update: 20080109

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A new release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. It comes with a many changes.
There is now an incomplete FontForge which uses the GTK toolkit, which will hopefully be the end of the ugly GUI of Fontforge. Read the change log for details.

Monthly FontForge Update: 20071210

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A new monthly release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. Mostly Bugfixes and smaller improvements.

FontForge 20070831

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A new release of the powerful, cross platform font editor FontForge. It comes with a many changes. I wished they would porting it to GTK to have a nice interface instead of this very oldschool, ugly GUI.