I’m glad and scared to announce a new public release of Fontmatrix. I hope you’ll continue to enjoy it.
Source package : http://www.fontmatrix.net/archives/fontmatrix-0.3.0-Source.tar.gz Signature : http://www.fontmatrix.net/archives/fontmatrix-0.3.0-Source.tar.gz.asc md5sum : http://www.fontmatrix.net/archives/fontmatrix-0.3.0-Source.tar.gz.md5 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We've invited Harfbuzz to the party. Harfbuzz is a libary to discover and use advance OpenType features and its aim is to enable better support for non-Latin languages. At the moment, only the basic transformations are working now. Moreover, non-latin languages handling is not yet functionnal. For now, you can see and preview features present in OpenType GPOS and GSUB tables. If you just arrived from Mars, it means giving access to ligatures, optical small caps, old style figures and generally what’s called "fine typography" - even if it will be you cannot enjoy it in all applications currently. Why Harfbuzz? It’s yet part of Pango and Qt and aimed to be the standard FLOSS text layout componment. Moreover, Scribus team wants it for its non-latin rendering engine and Fontmatrix is definitly the Scribus’ user font manager :) But supporting other layout engines such as ICU or M17 wont be forgotten, just a matter of spare time. Freetype Rendering As expected and experienced by early users of Fontmatrix, rendering glyphs at small size without a specific engine just results in ugliness. Little by little, we tend to use Freetype (we have to repeat here how this piece of software is excellent, thanks for it) more and more. Systray Some might think it’s kind of gadget, but beyond its own and obvious utility, systray icon stands for "Hey, I don’t eat 500Mb of memory anymore, leave me alone!" Multiple Text Samples Among a lot of UI improvements, the ability to maintain a set of samples is what I’d like to emphasize. It saved me a lot of time, I hope it will be the same for you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Pierre Marchand http://www.oep-h.com _______________________________________________ Undertype-users mailing list Undertype-users@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/undertype-users
