Some highlights from this release:
- In-context glyph design with Neighbors and Shape groups, true tangent points, color-customized and streamlined glyph window
- Revolutionary new metrics and kerning editing: multiline preview, better class kerning, smart autogeneration of classes
- Pixelfont support: import BDF files and make pixelfonts, built-in autotracing
- Unicode 6.0 support: SMP codepoints, auto-generate over 2,500 accented characters from built-in definitions, new Unicode glyph template images (from Monotype Imaging)
- Improved OpenType support with better VOLT integration, roundtrip editing of complex-script fonts, font merging, glyph suffix renaming
- Opens Mac fonts on Windows (Mac Type 1, TrueType GX/AAT) and Ikarus files
- Five new printing modes, Quick Test fonts with system rendering
- Open installed fonts, generate multiple fonts in one step
- Redesigned preferences; save, open and exchange preference profiles and UI workspaces

Changes & Bug Fixes in 5.1.5

 
Mac & Win dual-platform bugs

• The Preview panel doesn’t update when you browse through fonts in Font Info (worked in 5.0.4)
• Generating Unicodes using a .nam file fails on last glyph in font
• Underscore char not supported in the Family Name
• Component numbering display bug
• Generate Instance causes PFM Default Character field in Font Info to become empty
• Pasting from MM to single master glyph pastes all masters, not just the active layer
• [FATAL] Compiling Verdana Regular GPOS ‘kern’ feature fails (worked in 5.0.4)
• Underline and strikeout positions (and thickness) are changed on export to OTF
• CFF subroutinization nesting problem can cause glyph rendering problems in some fonts
• Disappearing outlines in one master of MM fonts
• Wrong tooltips in TT Hinting Options > Zones, and top zone can’t be changed after being set
• Metrics Window contextual menu issues
• Blue class kerning indicators not visible in Kerning Table of Metrics Window
• Metrics undo is applied only to the base component of composite glyphs
• “Digital signature” and “Trace Options” sections disappear from “Preferences” (Options) dialog after performing “Reset
• options to defaults” command
• Slanting in the Actions dialog does not work with decimals (fractional values)
• OTF only: export of “name” table loses non-ASCII characters, OS/2 table inserts default values for blanks,
• Add –Regular in auto-generated PS FontName and Full Name
• Using tab key between Metrics windows fields disables further glyph editing afterwards
• Pasting from EPS scales inconsistently
• Component shift doesn’t work in Generate Glyphs dialog
• Trying to generate a font containing 65536 glyphs causes lock up instead of warning
• Hidden classes sometimes get deleted during re-ordering

Mac-only issues

• Font create date not editable and auto-set to current date/time in OS X 10.9+
• Printing fails on OS X 10.9+ (Out of memory error)
• Copy Font Info dialog: missing Select All/None buttons
• Underscore and digits are not allowed in PostScript Name
• Menus disappear if user chooses a Workspace with a non-ASCII character; app must be restarted with Control pressed to fix
• Wrong Type 1 hinting rasterizers in Hinting Preview
• Applying any saved workspace using the Window>Workspace menu shifts all toolbars

Requirements: Mac OS X 10.7+

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