Changelog for Fontra

2024-12-04

2024-11-29

2024-11-28

2024-11-27

2024-11-20

2024-11-18

New feature: background images.

A background image can be added to a glyph in three ways:

The image file or data can be in PNG or JPEG format.

The glyph needs to be in edit mode, and at a selected source (not at an interpolation).

Fontra's background image feature is mostly compatible with UFO background images, although it doesn't implement UFO's colorization feature yet. Fontra does allow the opacity of the image to be set.

Background images are locked by default, and can be unlocked with the "Unlock background images" context menu item.

Selected background images can be moved around by dragging, and they participate in the Selection Transformation panel's operations.

The Selection Info panel shows the settings for a selected background image: the Opacity can be edited there and the Transformation settings can be edited numerically there.

Caveat: support for background images is limited to the .designspace/.ufo and .fontra backends. It is currently not supported in the rcjk backend.

Issue 1660, Issue 1777 (There were too many PRs to mention individually here.)

2024-11-13

2024-10-24

2024-10-23

2024-10-16

2024-10-14

2024-10-13

2024-10-12

2024-10-10

2024-09-27

New editor features

New panels

New sidebars

New visualizations

Misc

2024-03-01