* Update (0.5.7)
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.
* Update (0.5.6)
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.
* Update (0.5.5)
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applications cache to remove outdated entries.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. <matrix> 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.
* Update (0.5.4)
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 file a bug detailing why they needed help,
and what would make things easier. ;-)
* Update (0.5.3)
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.
* Update (0.5.2)
Released on the same day as 0.5.1 to address some critical bugs.
* Update (0.5.1)
This is a major update, *almost* a complete rewrite.
Not much has changed as far as the user interface goes, but under
the hood almost everything is shiny and should hopefully make it easier
to maintain and extend Font Manager. :-)
The applications private directories now follow the XDG specifications,
which not only helps keep user home directories cleaner but also makes
it easier when doing backups. Old files should automatically be migrated
to the new structure. That said make sure you have a recent backup of your fonts. ;-)
Font information is now kept in an SQLite3 database.
The 'font info' feature is back, it's now provided by the application
itself and is able to display much more detailed information.
Also fixed a regression from the last update which caused re-ordering
collections by drag and drop to fail.
* Update (0.4.4)
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.
* Update (0.4.3)
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.
* Update (0.4.2)
Fix tray icon behavior, clicking it should always have an effect
Fix homepage link in about dialog
Don't allow exporting of empty collections, duh
Include AFM files when exporting Type 1 fonts, oops, must
not be a lot of use for this function or maybe Type 1 fonts,
or someone would have mentioned it... oh, well it's useful to me. ;-)
Ask for confirmation before exporting a collection
Fix http://code.google.com/p/font-manager/issues/detail?id=6 by
allowing user to specify where exported collection is to be saved,
whether it should be compressed or not, and whether to include
a sample sheet in the archive or folder.
This last feature only works if Report Lab is installed and then
only for Truetype and Type 1 fonts. Open Type supposedly works
but I don't have any that do.
* Update (0.4.1)
Restart application instead of attempting to reload in place.
* Update (0.4)
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.
* Update (0.3)
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.
Startup times on an X2 5600+ :
First run - 6300 fonts = 3m30.738s - Ouch!
Second run - same fonts = 0m4.969s
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.
* Update (0.2)
Properly handle font names containing illegal characters.
Return only the first result when detailed info is requested
Added option to select different directories to scan
Added option to export collections to an archive
Added a category for fonts not present in user collections
Added preferences dialog
* Initial release (0.1)
Preview release.