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