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TTX/FontTools Version 2.4
- Option to write to arbitrary files
- Better dump format for DSIG
- Better detection of OTF XML
- Fix issue with Apple's kern table format
- Fix mangling of TT glyph programs
- Fix issues related to mona.ttf
- Fix Windows Installer instructions
- Fix some modern MacOS issues
- Fix minor issues and typos
TTX/FontTools Version 2.3
- TrueType Collection (TTC) support
- Python 2.6 support
- Update Unicode data to 5.2.0
- Couple of bug fixes
TTX/FontTools Version 2.2
- ClearType support
- cmap format 1 support
- PFA font support
- Switched from Numeric to numpy
- Update Unicode data to 5.1.0
- Update AGLFN data to 1.6
- Many bug fixes
TTX/FontTools Version 2.1
- Many years worth of fixes and features
TTX/FontTools Version 2.0 beta 2 (released ??? 2002)
- Be "forgiving" when interpreting the maxp table version field:
interpret any value as 1.0 if it's not 0.5. Fixes dumping of these
GPL fonts: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/pds.cgi?ports/chinese/wangttf
- Fixed ttx -l: it turned out this part of the code didn't work with
Python 2.2.1 and earlier. My bad to do most of my testing with a
different version than I shipped TTX with :-(
- Fixed bug in ClassDef format 1 subtable (Andreas Seidel bumped into
this one).
TTX/FontTools Version 2.0 beta 1 (released September 10 2002)
- Fixed embarrassing bug: the master checksum in the head table is now
calculated correctly even on little-endian platforms (such as Intel).
- Made the cmap format 4 compiler smarter: the binary data it creates is
now more or less as compact as possible. TTX now makes more compact
data than in any shipping font I've tested it with.
- Dump glyph names as a separate "GlyphOrder" pseudo table as opposed to
as part of the glyf table (obviously needed for CFF-OTF's).
- Added proper support for the CFF table.
- Don't barf on empty tables (questionable, but "there are font out there...")
- When writing TT glyf data, align glyphs on 4-byte boundaries. This seems
to be the current recommendation by MS. Also: don't barf on fonts which
are already 4-byte aligned.
- Windows installer contributed bu Adam Twardoch! Yay!
- Changed the command line interface again, now by creating one new tool
replacing the old ones: ttx
It dumps and compiles, depending on input file types. The options have
changed somewhat.
- The -d option is back (output dir)
- ttcompile's -i options is now called -m (as in "merge"), to avoid clash
with dump's -i.
- The -s option ("split tables") no longer creates a directory,
but instead outputs a small .ttx file containing references to the
individual table files. This is not a true link, it's a simple file
name, and the referenced file should be in the same directory so
ttcompile can find them.
- compile no longer accepts a directory as input argument. Instead it
can parse the new "mini-ttx" format as output by "ttx -s".
- all arguments are input files
- Renamed the command line programs and moved them to the Tools
subdirectory. They are now installed by the setup.py install script.
- Added OpenType support. BASE, GDEF, GPOS, GSUB and JSTF are (almost)
fully supported. The XML output is not yet final, as I'm still
considering to output certain subtables in a more human-friendly
manner.
- Fixed 'kern' table to correctly accept subtables it doesn't know about,
as well as interpreting Apple's definition of the 'kern' table headers
correctly.
- Fixed bug where glyphnames were not calculated from 'cmap' if it was
(one of the) first tables to be decompiled. More specifically: it cmap
was the first to ask for a glyphID -> glyphName mapping.
- Switched XML parsers: use expat instead of xmlproc. Should be faster.
- Removed my UnicodeString object: I now require Python 2.0 or up, which
has unicode support built in.
- Removed assert in glyf table: redundant data at the end of the table
is now ignored instead of raising an error. Should become a warning.
- Fixed bug in hmtx/vmtx code that only occured if all advances were equal.
- Fixed subtle bug in TT instruction disassembler.
- Couple of fixes to the 'post' table.
- Updated OS/2 table to latest spec.
TTX/FontTools Version 1.0 beta 1 (released August 10 2001)
- Reorganized the command line interface for ttDump.py and ttCompile.py,
they now behave more like "normal" command line tool, in that they accept
multiple input files for batch processing.
- ttDump.py and ttCompile.py don't silently override files anymore, but ask
before doing so. Can be overridden by -f.
- Added -d <destination-directory> option to both ttDump.py and ttCompile.py.
- Installation is now done with distutils. (Needs work for environments without
compilers.)
- Updated installation instructions.
- Added some workarounds so as to handle certain buggy fonts more gracefully.
- Updated Unicode table to Unicode 3.0 (Thanks Antoine!)
- Included a Python script by Adam Twardoch that adds some useful stuff to the
Windows registry.
- Moved the project to SourceForge.
TTX/FontTools Version 1.0 alpha 6 (released March 15 2000)
- Big reorganization: made ttLib a subpackage of the new fontTools package,
changed several module names. Called the entire suite "FontTools"
- Added several submodules to fontTools, some new, some older.
- Added experimental CFF/GPOS/GSUB support to ttLib, read-only (but XML dumping
of GPOS/GSUB is for now disabled)
- Fixed hdmx endian bug
- Added -b option to ttCompile.py, it disables recalculation of bounding boxes,
as requested by Werner Lemberg.
- Renamed tt2xml.pt to ttDump.py and xml2tt.py to ttCompile.py
- Use ".ttx" as file extension instead of ".xml".
- TTX is now the name of the XML-based *format* for TT fonts, and not just
an application.
Version 1.0 alpha 5 (never released)
- More tables supported: hdmx, vhea, vmtx
Version 1.0 alpha 3 & 4 (never released)
- fixed most portability issues
- retracted the "Euro_or_currency" change from 1.0a2: it was nonsense!
Version 1.0 alpha 2 (released as binary for MacOS, 2 May 1999)
- genenates full FOND resources: including width table, PS
font name info and kern table if applicable.
- added cmap format 4 support. Extra: dumps Unicode char names as XML comments!
- added cmap format 6 support
- now accepts true type files starting with "true"
(instead of just 0x00010000 and "OTTO")
- 'glyf' table support is now complete: I added support for composite scale,
xy-scale and two-by-two for the 'glyf' table. For now, component offset scale
behaviour defaults to Apple-style. This only affects the (re)calculation of
the glyph bounding box.
- changed "Euro" to "Euro_or_currency" in the Standard Apple Glyph order list,
since we cannot tell from the 'post' table which is meant. I should probably
doublecheck with a Unicode encoding if available. (This does not affect the
output!)
Fixed bugs:
- 'hhea' table is now recalculated correctly
- fixed wrong assumption about sfnt resource names
Version 1.0 alpha 1 (27 Apr 1999)
- initial binary release for MacOS