Release Notes: FontLab 7.0.0.7264»
1 December 2019
Highlights»
Editing glyph drawings»
- Precision dragging of nodes, handles and selections with Cmd or Ctrl without the need to zoom in
- View the centerline between two opposing segments with Quick measurement
- View the thickness at both ends of opposing segments, and visualize the thickness change with a colorful rainbow using Quick measurement
- See handles in Mask and inactive layers
- Move anchors together with contour selections
- Nudge and move nodes and selections with keyboard more easily
- Shift-drag points more flexibly
Glyph design»
- Find and fix uneven (irregular and uncommon) stems with FontAudit
- Find nearly flat curves and convert them to lines with FontAudit
- Get much better fixing results from many FontAudit tests
- Copy-paste and import PDF vector artwork
- Paste monochrome vectors as simple contours for immediate editing
- Make SVG Editable with more faithful results
- Automatically fit pasted bitmaps between font metrics
- Turn bitmaps into contours with vastly improved Autotrace
- Quickly run a series of Actions on many glyphs and masters one by one
Glyphs and OpenType»
- One-click automatic generation of OpenType features
- Friendly glyph names and batch glyph renaming
- Choose between replace or append when pasting in Font window
- Add a glyph to your font with the simple New Glyph command
- Toggle Auto Layers for all masters and multiple glyphs
- Copy glyph names and recipes with new Copy Text As
- Test language-dependent OpenType features (
locl) - Write interpolable GPOS features with Font Info > Parameters (
cpsp, contextualkern) - Edit important properties of the current glyph in the Font window bottom status bar
Metrics and Kerning»
- Link metrics for many glyphs in the Glyph panel
- Quickly autospace or autokern your glyph with the ; key
- Kern glyphs like other glyphs with Set Kerning Classes
- Define both-sided kerning classes
- Find visual conflicts (clashes) in class kerning and convert them into exceptions with Audit Kerning
- Kern most popular “kernable” combinations and easily manage word lists with the Pairs & Phrases panel
- Access common Metrics and Kerning operations from Glyph window context menu
Fonts and Variations»
- Open and export
CFF2-based Variable PS (.otf) fonts (beta) - Draw with multiple masters shown as colored wireframes for easy reference
- View all masters while editing with master Cousins
- See contour matching and node numbers with the Matchmaker tool
- Export intermediate glyph masters into Variable OpenType fonts (e.g.
:wt=650) - Export conditional glyph substitutions (
rvrn/rules) with tilde glyph tags (e.g.~wt>850) - Copy-paste Font Info between fonts and masters
- Edit Font Info in a concise tabular Overview
- Sort masters and instances flexibly by axis or name
- Easily rename masters in Font Info > Masters
- Change interpolation coordinates per axis, and other info, for multiple masters or instances at once
- Map your interpolation coordinates to Variable OpenType user coordinates (
avar) with all-new Axis Graph - Use named locations on each axis (axis instances) to create a variable
STATtable, or to build a “matrix” of predefined instances - See glyphs with non-matching masters in the Font window sidebar
Other»
- Hold F1/FnF1 over a user interface element to see longer Quick Help explanations
- Manually add hints with the Magnet tool
- Many detailed improvements in
UFO3and.glyphsimport/export - New
JSON-based human-readable clipboard format - One-click install TypeRig, a mighty FontLab 7 Python extension that facilitates batch work with layers, contours, metrics, anchors, guides and texts
- Vastly reduced memory consumption
- Mac version ready for macOS 10.15 Catalina and digitally signed
- 250+ new features, fixes and improvements