Changelog for Fontra

2024-11-20

• Add support for background image colorization PR 1815

2024-11-18

New feature: background images.

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

• Paste image data
• Drop an image file onto the canvas
• Choose an image file from the user's hard drive, with the "Glyph" -> "Add background image..." menu.

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

• Improved UI translations PR 1764
• Added "Selecte previous/next glyph" menu items PR 1706
• Partial support for background images (more to come) PR 1775
• Add support for many UFO font info fields, so they won't get lost during round-tripping PR 1770
• Fixed cosmetic issue with scrollbars on Windows PR 1767
• Fixed bug with Copy/Paste menu items PR 1756

2024-10-24

• Various improvements to the font sources panel PR 1739
• Add changelog file PR 1749

2024-10-23

• New cross-axis mapping page for avar2 mappings PR 1729
• Allow custom shortcuts for selecting previous/next reference font PR 1742

2024-10-16

• New pen tool icon PR 1726

2024-10-14

• New languages: French, Dutch, German

2024-10-13

• Fontra Pak: build macOS application as "Universal2" binary, so it runs natively on all processor types Fontra Pak PR 108

2024-10-12

• Delete gear panel (move to difference locations, for example: View -> Glyph editor apperance) PR 1701

2024-10-10

• Fontra Pak: added "Export as..." functionality Fontra Pak PR 133

2024-09-27

• Shape tool (rectangle, ellipse)
• Knife tool

New editor features

• Interactive transformation (scale, rotate)
• Glyph level guidelines
• Close/Join contours
• Anchors
• Glyph locking

New panels

• Development status definitions panel (colors)
• Sources panel (Global sources editor)
• Shortcuts panel

New sidebars

• Selection Transformation
• transform objects (move, scale, rotate, skew)
• Align and distribute objects
• Path operations like remove overlaps
• Glyph Notes
• Related Glyphs & Characters

New visualizations

• Line metrics
• Development status color
• Transform selection
• Guidelines
• Component nodes and handles
• Anchor names
• Contour indices
• Component names and indices
• Coordinates
• Point indices
• Glyph lock icon for non-editing glyphs

Misc

• UI Translation (Chinese and English)

2024-03-01

• Fontra Pak: Create new font
• Menu bar
• Axis editor
• Mapping (graph + list)
• Axis value labels
• Discrete axis
• Axis reordering
• side bearings
• shift click