From 3d2d8a60bde89a2dd058b7533021071ca224fbfa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Just Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:56:56 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] known bugs and last changes git-svn-id: svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/fonttools/code/trunk@98 4cde692c-a291-49d1-8350-778aa11640f8 --- Doc/bugs.txt | 6 ++++++ Doc/changes.txt | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 55 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Doc/bugs.txt create mode 100644 Doc/changes.txt diff --git a/Doc/bugs.txt b/Doc/bugs.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..24781611b --- /dev/null +++ b/Doc/bugs.txt @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +Known bugs + +- 'kern' subtable format 2 has not been implemented properly +- The code has hardly been tested on 64-bit platforms -- there are + still some places where it assumes a long is 32 bits. + diff --git a/Doc/changes.txt b/Doc/changes.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1001e0988 --- /dev/null +++ b/Doc/changes.txt @@ -0,0 +1,49 @@ +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 +