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RoboFont 3.0

You will need a new license in order to run RoboFont 3! If you bought RoboFont 1.* after the 8th of march 2017 you get a full discount. Contact the ‘team’ with your order number for details.

  • Uses UFO3 as its native source format.
  • Written entirely in Python 3.
  • Lots of internal rewrites.
  • Opens UFO files with lightning speed.
  • Replaces roboFab with fontParts.
  • Layers are more independent.
  • Components refer to glyphs in the same layer.
  • Validating and converting incoming UFO2 data:
    • Removes duplicates in kern groups.
    • Removes glyphs that occur in too many kern groups.
    • Converts RoboFont 1+ lib keys to UFO3 objects.
  • Glyph View
    • Use Cmd + Shift to add a diagonal constrain for line segments.
    • Use Alt + click on a line segment to convert it to a curve. Click near an on-curve point to select the off-curve point.
  • Space Center
    • Speed improvements.
    • Show guidelines and blues.
    • New input syntax: /<glyphName>@<layerName> to select a glyph from a given layer. For example: /A@background.
  • Scripting
    • Moving fontWillGenerate and fontDidGenerate to a more internal level, so it sends a notification when generating with a script.
    • Speeding up print() statement.
    • Adding Cmd + period to stop a script (like in DrawBot, thanks Just!!!).
    • Autocomplete ([{}]) in the code editor.
    • Adding glyphConstruction as a module!!
    • Renaming sys_path_override to external_packages – a folder to overwrite embedded packages.
    • Moving lots of internal modules to mojo.*.
    • Update of internal packages to UFO3, py3 and much more.
    • Adding RFont.hasInterface().
  • Preferences
    • Use drag-and-drop to sort Miscellaneous Colors.
    • New raw Preferences Editor (press Alt while opening the RoboFont menu item).
    • New Preferences > Menus section, listing all menu items and keyboard shortcuts.

RoboFont 1.8.4

  • Updating internal packages.

RoboFont 1.8.1

  • Fixing the auto-updater.

RoboFont 1.8

  • Updating internal packages.
  • Use logging for logs, saved to Application Support/RoboFont/robofont.log.
  • Adding spaceCenterSelectionChanged notification.
  • Show a warning when adding glyphs with already existing unicodes.
  • Show an outline error when smooth points aren’t really smooth.
  • Adding support for swipes and other events to mojo.canvas.
  • New Space Center notifications: spaceCenterDrawBackgroundLineView and spaceCenterDrawLineView
  • Ignore Components menu when there are too many items.
  • Adding font and glyph metrics to guides measurements.
  • Improving Inspector transform pane input fields.
  • Ignore autoSavePath on Preferences export.
  • A scripting window can become a floating window.
  • Adding sys_path_override to the RoboFont application support folder, to overwrite embedded packages and modules. Be careful!

RoboFont 1.7

This update only supports Mac OS X 10.9 or higher.

Older versions of Mac OS X are supported by RoboFont 1.6.

  • Glyph Editor
    • Glyph View should feel a lot faster (almost 4 times faster on 10.10).
    • Optimized behavior between mouse and arrow keys point modifications.
    • Making the guides popup menu a bit wider.
    • Move multiple tangent points selection according to their angle.
    • Fixing background color bug in Preview mode.
    • A glyph note can be None, so don’t copy it.
    • Fixing measurement in layer glyphs.
    • Changing behavior of the arrow keys based on if the cap lock key is down. When cap lock is down, the arrow keys behave like a mouse.
    • Fixing a slicing issue.
    • Fixing disappearing view on small zoom levels.
    • Rename glyph is possible when the glyph already exists as a template glyph.
    • Improving off curve while modifying an open contour.
    • Fixing starting point issue while setting extreme points.
    • Improving undo.
    • Improving drawing tool.
    • Fixing bug when pulling BCP out of two overlapping on-curve points.
    • Improving color overlay for images on 10.11.
    • Prevent circular component references.
    • Support jumping to first and last glyphs with home and end key.
    • Optionally disable snapping of off-curve points.
    • Show contextual guide menu when the guide is locked.
    • Draw end points of open paths differently.
    • Dragging a guide with an italic angle if there is one set.
    • Adding clear guides to contextual menu.
    • Adding skew + scale for scaling italics. Use “shift lock” to enable. An italicAngle must be set.
    • Show transform info while transforming.
    • Improving transform, more focus on the proportional constrain.
  • Font Overview
    • Support for mark colors (as color swatches) in the rule editor.
    • Ignore template flag when importing empty glyphs from a binary font.
    • Improving checks in fonts with quadratic curves.
    • Improving group sheet to make it more flexible.
    • Update glyph cell representation when a layer is removed.
    • The Font Overview’s search query should not change while show/hide the Find bar.
    • Adding support for displaying big unicodes in Space Center and glyph cells.
    • Improving selection in Font Overview.
    • Adding a new notification glyphCollectionDraw, sent when redrawing the ice cube glyph view. Be careful and don’t draw heavy stuff. Cache before!
    • Delay updating of components in the font overview (this should speed up editing a lot!).
    • Small optimizations in the rule editor (aka Search).
    • Store custom unicode → glyph names mapping in the Preferences (only those which aren’t in the GNFUL list).
  • Inspector
    • Show a nice warning when trying to assign a unicode that already exists.
    • Round the center points when transforming a glyph.
    • Snap to grid even when no transformation is set.
    • Store Inspector pane sizes and reuse them when reopening window.
    • When renaming a glyph, also update the glyph order.
    • Improving setting data in Inspector list views. (Anchor.name cannot by None or empty, baseGlyph is required for a component).
    • Set italic angle as skew value (see options).
  • Preferences
    • Adding hot key to toggle measurement info.
    • Adding hot key to toggle upside down.
    • Fixing reordering extensions in the Preferences window.
    • Adding glyph window tool sorting in the Preferences.
    • Check autoSavePath default key and revert the expanded user back to ~/….
    • Adding vertical metrics color to the Preferences.
    • Reset all warning buttons in the Preferences.
  • Space Center
    • Adding support for centered text alignment.
    • Set point size correctly when opening a new Space Center.
    • Adding support for hiding template glyphs.
    • Recalculate beam position when setting it with a script.
    • Fixing spaceCenter.getPointSize().
    • Adding support for display options in Kern Center (same hot keys as in Space Center).
    • Improving performance when a current glyph (aka /?) is not needed.
    • Fixing display of left margin while changing it in a Space Center.
    • Support for /! to display the current glyph selection.
    • Fixing issue when the input box is still active.
    • Disabling drag, use CurrentSpaceCenter().disableDrag(True).
    • Adding notification spaceCenterAdditionContextualMenuItems for additional contextual menu items.
  • Scripting
    • Jump to the github version of fontTools.
    • Open the UI of an existing font that has been created without one.
    • Adding mutatorMath and the *.desingSpace icon.
    • RoboFab kerning can be set to zero for a specific pair (breaking the old robofab API…).
    • Extension developer’s name can be unicode.
    • Extension name must be ascii only.
    • Fixing font.cmp(other).
    • Better support for setting display states in a glyph line view.
    • Send spaceCenterInputChanged notification.
    • Support for some extensions time logging.
    • Adding from mojo.canvas import CanvasGroup (same as Canvas but with no scrollview).
    • Jump to definition (Alt + Cmd + J).
    • Support word wrap in code editors (py, fea, …).
    • Fixing fontTools recalcBounds when there is no extreme point.
    • Adding KernCenter, GroupCenter and SpaceMatrix to mojo.UI.
    • Adding a UI to an existing font object without a UI: font.showUI().
    • Wrap internal defcon objects.
    • Fixing robofab font.kerning.remove(pair) and del font.kerning[pair].
    • Support for custom extension root – use default key: extensionsDir.
    • Adding removeDefault in lib.tools.defaults.
    • Fixing SmartSet object.
    • Support for custom glyphOrderAndAliasDB: store it in the font.lib with the key com.typesupply.ufo2fdk.glyphOrderAndAliasDB.
    • Support for the hdmx table: store it in the font.lib with key com.robofont.robohint.hdmx.
    • Support for the VDMX table: store it in the font.lib with the key com.robofont.robohint.VDMX.
    • Improve font.copy() by also copying layers.
    • Sort the all fonts list: AllFonts("familyName", "styleName", "italicAngle", "isItalic", myCustomFunction, useDefault=True, reverse=False).
    • Adding support for cap lock modifier key in event tools.
    • Adding contextual menu event in font overview with this notification: fontOverviewAdditionContectualMenuItems
    • Send notification when a testInstall is done: didTestInstallFont.
    • Fixing some small mojo.compile.ttfautohint issues.
    • Fixing bug in checking component baseGlyph names for robofab interpolation.
    • Optionally disable event stream use default enableExternalFileCheck (True/False).
    • Enable automatic text replacements in code editors.
    • Adding AllWindows() and CurrentWindow() to mojo.UI.
    • Adding support for getting a CurrentGlyph() from a Space Center selection.
    • Improving mojo.canvas.
    • Adding glyphWindow.addAdditionalView(vanillaView).
    • Adding glyphWindow.getVisibleRect()to a glyph window. This is the actual visible rect without the scrollers and rulers.
    • Adding glyphs should clear the glyph when overwrite is enabled.
    • drag-and-drop should copy the width of the dropped glyphs.
    • Adding vertical metrics color to the Preferences.
    • Adding roundedRect to mojo.drawingTools.
    • Adding glyphWindow.getVisibleRect() to a glyph window. This is the actual visible rectangle without the scrollers and rulers.
    • Support for Data() object in json.
    • Installations of extensions is based on extension in the default folder.
    • Adding find bar to Output window.
    • Improve glyph.setParent(font).
    • Adding local Python lib folder to sys.path.
    • Improving SliderEditStepper with support for floats.
    • Adding MenuBuilder to mojo.
    • Send notification when drawing the background when the view is inactive.
    • Fixing compiling scripts where the file name contains unicode characters.
    • Improving SmartSet support.
    • Adding selectSmartSets(selection) to set a selection in a Smart List (selection is a list of indexes).
    • Adding updateAllSmartSets() to update a Smart Set list in the UI.
    • Support for period + tab → self. in a code editor.
    • Fixing bug when removing a last smooth bPoint in an open contour.
    • Fixing weird Cmd + grave issue.
    • Fixing issue when something wants to set a lib object in a RFont.
    • Keep BPoint anchors smooth when inserting another bPoint.
    • Improve code editor syntax highlighting.
    • Embedding feaPyFoFum. Use the font.lib key com.typesupply.feaPyFoFum.compileFeatures to enable it while generating.
    • Update glyph after move(x, y).
    • Building extensions with .pyc only enabled copies scripts linked to the menu as normal .py files.
    • Adding RFont.templateGlyphOrder.
    • Fixing drag-and-drop issue with files in a code editor.
    • A glyph view has drawTextAtPoint and drawTextInRect to assist you to draw text in the glyph view.
    • Adding magnetic attribute to a guide object.
    • Fixing flipping glyph.
    • Fixing bug in comparing components in the robofabWrapper.
    • Improve regenerating of the scripting menu, prevent loss of hot keys.
    • Remove kerning pair with kerning.eliminate(…).
    • font.templateGlyphs is an attribute, not a method.
    • Send notification when RoboFont will terminate.
    • Improving API on collection view, mainly used externally in the glyphCollectionDraw notification.
    • autoUnicode() uses uni<4-hex> and u<5-hex> glyph names to set the unicode value.
    • Fixing issue while decomposing a selected component.
    • Adding glyph cell notification: glyphCellDraw and glyphCellDrawBackground. Use it wisely.
  • New Icon.
  • Updating the embedded AFDKO.
  • Adding GNFUL, glyphNameFormatter (with a : script separator)
  • Fixing some high unicode input bugs.
  • Small UI improvements in 10.10.
  • Touch .ufo file to update the file modification date.
  • Fixing autosave.
  • Optionally disable event stream – use enableExternalFileCheck (True/False).
  • Remove empty dictionaries in the glyph.lib when saving.
  • Show a warning when a UFO is badly written (but with correct syntax, like 2 moveTo points in the same contour).
  • Improving group sheet and make it more flexible.
  • Solve small bug in setting extreme points.
  • Friendly warning when assigning a unicode that already exists.
  • Extension name must be ascii only.
  • Transform matrixes in components must be tuples.
  • Use the width of the glyph to check if a component can be used with the flag USE_METRICS (only while generating TTF).
  • Improving glyph view updates on 10.9.
  • Adding menu when launching in safe mode (shift down).
  • Update vanilla, compositor and fontTools.
  • Fixing big unicodes issue by updating ufo2fdk.
  • Removing limitation for ttfautohint requiring a lowercase ‘o’.
  • Add GDEF if necessary while building TTF binary.
  • Improving support for cursors on retina displays, when creating a cursor please use CreateCursor(pathOrNsImage, hotspot).
  • Set the text field as first responder, whatever settings are used.
  • Only show Find bar when the font window is the main window.
  • Do not add a unicode value for a template glyph if the unicode already exists.
  • Show a message when font generation has failed.
  • Fixing issue setting maxComponentElements.
  • When no glyph name is given, don’t analyze while pasting.
  • Better support for orphan glyphs.
  • Adding an optional check when the font does not contain an ‘o’, so ttfautohint recognizes it as a symbol font.
  • Adding version of embedded packages in the About window.
  • Adding clear buttons to Extension Builder.
  • Don’t show Output Window when a print statement is not in the main thread. (fixed here and in Mechanic as well)
  • Fixing a bug that removed duplicated guides with same angle and position.
  • Adding support for dummy DSIG table. (see Font Info sheet > RoboFont).

RoboFont 1.6

  • Font Overview
    • Improving Alt copy of glyph selection to glyph names only.
    • Preserve checkboxes in the Add Glyph sheet.
    • Adding support for glyph note in the Font Overview list view and font search.
    • Glyph cell slider + Alt key will resize cells in all open fonts.
    • Improving Add Glyph sheet with options to import glyph names from external encoding file or from other open fonts.
  • Glyph Editor
    • Better support for orphan point selection during copy paste.
    • Support drag-and-drop glyphs to a Scripting Window.
    • Undo support for flip layers.
    • Use italic slant offset as a display option.
    • Fixing bug with transformation of components selection.
    • Reset selection after locking an image and switching from Transform mode.
    • Slice tool snaps to guides.
    • Reset image selection after locking an image.
    • Improved support for copy/paste and preserving contour order.
    • Jump to glyph pushes exact matches to the top.
    • Fixing bug with joining contours when points are on top of each other.
    • Don’t jump to hidden layers.
  • Space Center
    • Enable flip.
    • Live preview when editing the left margin.
    • Fixing bug when using the beam.
    • Display font size as a combo box.
    • Fixing bug in window order when double-clicking a Space Center.
    • Add in-between values when beam is active.
  • Scripting
    • Fixing bug when setting x, y values in guides.
    • Support for adding Inspector window panes and toolbar items in both a font window or a glyph window with: inspectorWindowWillShowDescriptions, glyphWindowWillShowToolbarItems and fontWindowWillShowToolbarItems event notifications.
    • Fixing bug when comparing components with glyph.isCompatible(otherGlyph).
    • Adding a new bundle.html attribute to ExtensionBundle, to indicate if the bundle has html help files. It must be a bool.
    • Adding font.showUI() (only for fonts which have no UI yet).
    • Improving glyph.center() to work better with layers.
    • Improving getting bcpIn and bcpOut in bPoints with open contours.
    • Adding OpenScriptWindow(path.py) to mojo.UI.
    • Adding obj.getRepresentation to robofab glyph and font wrapper.
    • Fixing bug when getting an extension icon.
    • Improving support for font.save() when no path is given and font has no path.
    • Remove closed documents from AllFonts.
    • Fixing bug in rounding kerning.
    • Fixing bug in diving a glyph.
    • Fixing bug in copying orphan glyphs.
    • Add a space after # when commenting lines of code.
    • Improving support for code completions.
    • mojo.CurrentFontWindow().setGlyphNamesAsSet(glyphNames)
    • font.setLayerDisplay has an option for all.
    • mojo.UI.getTestInstalledFonts() and mojo.UI.testDeinstallFont(font)
    • Script file browsers hide empty .py files in the menu, and support alias files.
    • Fixing bug in font.copy().
    • Adding font.info.update(otherInfoObject).
    • Adding support for sub-classing internal font objects.
    • Improving messages when installing and uninstalling extensions (with version numbers).
    • Adding currentFontOnly option for getting windows with mojo: CurrentGlyphWindow(currentFontOnly=True) works for all windows in mojo.
    • Make it easier to add a UI to an existing font without a UI.
    • Adding mutatorMath and mutatorMath.designSpace icon :)
  • Inspector
    • Visual support for multiple unicodes in Inspector window.
    • Fixing bug when setting the transform matrix for components.
    • Transform pane now accepts Enter to apply a transformation.
    • Support for transform location while flipping.
    • Add a nice warning when assigning a unicode that already exists.
  • Preferences
    • Adding AGL-file path for custom unicode to glyph name mapping.
    • Check if short key path exists.
    • Adding option to toggle __future__.division while executing a script.
    • Adding color preferences for preview fill and preview background.
    • Improving support for sorting extensions.
    • Adding hot key to toggle measurement info.
  • Fixing bug: rounding error while compiling a ttf.
  • Improving Test Install.
  • Search Box in Info Sheet.
  • Support for vfb import/export if users have vfb2ufo installed in /usr/local/bin.
  • Update the embedded FDK.
  • Fixing bug when generating an unsaved font.
  • Improving conversion from cubic to quadractic curves.
  • Support for conversion from quadratic to cubic curves with the same logic.
  • Improving support for Test Install when there is no UI.
  • Update color marks in the rule editor with the colors in the current font.
  • Holding Shift down while launching the app will open RoboFont without any extensions installed (Safe Mode).
  • UI uniformity on list cell colors.

RoboFont 1.5.1

  • Fixed Preferences window bug for 10.6 users.

RoboFont 1.5

  • Font Overview
    • Adding support for deletion of multiple Smart Sets.
    • Adding option for choosing a mark color when generating new glyphs.
    • Adding support for selection of multiple Smart Sets.
    • Adding support for navigation with arrow keys in Smart Sets.
    • New code editor for OpenType features.
  • Glyph Editor
    • Fixing direction of keys for layer up/down. :)
    • Adding Cmd + Ctrl in the Components contextual menu, to copy the base glyph metrics.
    • Adding display option Show Segment index.
    • Remove Overlap now works faster.
    • Separating display options: Guides and Rulers.
    • Fixing bug in beam factory when two intersections are on top of each other.
    • Adding Show Image Info.
    • Glyphs with more than 5 unicodes are renamed to uXXXXX.
    • Add Components sheet now accepts both unicode value and glyph name when searching for glyphs.
    • Better support for selection of multiple tangent points.
    • Adding Ctrl + Cmd + A to select all components.
    • Fixing bug in joining contours with line and curve segment.
    • Fixing bug in exporting smart list to groups.
    • Improving sliders for image colors.
    • Set components as selected after decomposing.
    • Adding Lock Image to image contextual menu.
    • Join a contour with another contour (only when two end/start points are selected).
    • Alt + click on a straight line to generate BCPs with the rule of thirds.
    • Set points as selected after slicing.
  • Space Center
    • Same default settings as a glyph view for jumping to the next glyphs.
    • Adding hot key to toggle Space Matrix.
    • Preventing PUA from converting characters in the input field back to unicode.
    • Improving esc menu.
    • Handling Space Window titles similarly as other windows.
    • Fixing small bug with drag-and-drop.
    • Adding setBeam(pos) and beam() methods.
    • Adding flexible cell widths.
    • Adding hot keys to toggle kerning.
  • Inspector
    • Adding support for drag-and-drop reordering of contours.
    • Fixing bug with setting a note in a glyph.
    • Improving layer panel: drag-and-drop and reordering.
  • Generating
    • Better output for .ttf compiler.
    • Faster generation for all formats.
    • Fixing bug in .ttf splines. (It’s possible to have a contour without any on-curves, doh)
    • Fixing bug with double points in .ttf compiler.
  • Preferences
    • Adding ‘Reveal Python Script folder’ button to Preferences > Python.
    • New default colors and options for the new code editor.
    • Allow any kind of shortcut to be assigned to a script.
  • Scripting
    • Adding a selected attribute to Robofab bPoints.
    • Adding glyph.removeSelection to RoboFab.
    • Allowing ExtensionBundle to save an extension or make one from scratch.
    • New Code Editor, with new syntax highlighting.
    • New mouse and keyboard shortcuts in a code editor:
      • select number → Cmd + drag
      • select tuple → Cmd + drag
      • select number → Cmd + arrow up/down
      • select bool (True, False) + Cmd + click
      • select bool (True, False) + Cmd + arrow up/down
    • Remember settings for ‘Show Line Numbers’.
    • Fixed bug in exporting preferences in mojo.UI.
    • Improved UI for Extension Builder.
    • Adding support for sending custom events.
    • Set and get a transform matrix from a Robofab component.
    • Check if the coding font used in the scripting window is installed.
    • Adding AllSpaceCenterWindows and CurrentSpaceCenterWindow.
    • Adding option to import/export Preferences to/from a dict.
    • Adding shortcuts for indenting and unindenting code.
    • Fixing Robofab’s rotate, skew and offset attributes.
    • Adding support for applying transformation matrixes to an image object.
    • Publish event when an extension is built.
    • Adding support for inserting BPoints in a contour.
    • Fixing bug in robofab.contour.breakContour(point).
    • Adding support for glyph, component and selection colors in mojo.glyphPreview.
    • mojo.UI.multiLineView returns a proper Robofab glyph.
    • Adding SpaceCenterToPDF and GlyphWindowToPDF.
    • Improving Smart Sets in mojo.UI
  • Fixing typos!
  • ‘Update found’ bugs should be completely fixed. :)
  • Massively improved memory management.
  • Adding support for robofont://path and robofont-script://path.py.
  • Fixing bug with saving images.
  • Adding support for opening .ttc TrueTypeCollection files.

RoboFont 1.4

  • Font Overview
    • Fixing bug in the conversion of Smart Set to group.
    • Don’t mark template glyphs.
    • Fixing bug in setting glyph order by dragging glyphs.
    • Fixing bug in removing glyphs and template glyphs.
    • Building components with anchors.
    • Adding anchor syntax: Agrave=A+grave@top.
    • Adding search by mark color.
    • Adding Smart Set binders.
    • Fixing bug with include(myFile.fea).
  • Glyph Editor
    • Fixing bug in remove overlap.
    • Fixing bug in slicing glyphs.
    • Correctly perform layer up / layer down hot keys.
    • Swap complete glyph to layer when there is no selection.
    • Round components after decomposing to the value set in the Preferences.
    • Fixing bug in beam glyphs.
    • Fixing bug in Jump to Layer popup window.
    • Page up / down jump through component selection.
    • Page begin / end jump through anchor selection.
    • Support for Shift constrain when scaling images.
    • Fixing bug with horizontal and vertical flipping.
    • Draw anchor coordinates when ‘show point coordinates’ is active.
    • Enter on anchor selection.
    • Transform position is written back to the defaults.
    • Fixing bug when slicing glyphs.
    • Adding anchor indexes and component indexes.
    • Fixing bugs with constrains.
    • Better undo support for global guides.
    • Improving break contour.
  • Generating
    • Optimizing .pfa compiler.
    • Check contour direction while generating .ttf or .otf from different sources.
  • Preferences
    • Adding Close Contour to hot keys.
    • Adding Space Center Input Selection Color.
  • Scripting
    • Support for opening binary fonts without UI and scripting.
    • Clear Output Window before running a script.
    • Adding stemHist to mojo.compile.
    • Backup code if code makes RoboFont crash :)
    • Debug window is accessible through mojo.
    • Support for isCompatible with nice error report.
    • Support for tabs in Scripting Window.
    • OpenFont(…, showUI=False) can be opened in a Glyph Window or Space Center.
    • font.templateSelection in robofab.
    • Adding hasOverlap() to robofab (both in glyph and contour object).
    • font.copy(showUI=False/True) to make a copy with or without UI.
    • Adding QTKit.
    • Fixing bugs in Cocoa drawing tools.
    • setGlyphViewScale and centerGlyphInView for a glyph window object.
    • Open the MultiLine view as a vanilla object.
    • Support for glyph math and boolean operations with | union, % difference, & intersection and ^ xor.
    • Support for tracking in Space Center aSpaceCenter.setTracking(10).
    • New event callbacks in Space Center: spaceCenterDraw, spaceCenterKeyDown, spaceCenterKeyUp.
    • Adding GlyphWindowToPDF and SpaceCenterToPDF to mojo.UI.
  • Metrics
    • Optimizing RTL kerning.
    • Pressing esc in Space Center input will cancel setting metrics.
    • Make sure the Space Center input box is continuous.
    • Fixing large linespace frame size in Space Center.
    • Don’t live update Space Center on glyph change when there are lots of characters to display.
    • Fixing an old scroll to selection bug in Space Center.
  • Let users know if an UFO is unsaved when switching to another app. (Jumping RoboFont icon in the dock)
  • All editable numbers have support for up / down arrow keys.
  • Better support for Single Window Mode with additional glyph windows and current glyph.
  • Pop up a warning if RoboFont is stored in a folder containing space characters.
  • Send event when an external change has happened.
  • Adding View short keys for font window (available under Window > View).
  • Better support in detecting quadratic / cubic glyphs.
  • Fixing bug in external updates and save operation.
  • Optimizing external changes (example: when a UFO is stored in a DropBox folder and changed when RoboFont is active).
  • Toolbars are more flexible and easier to change.
  • Remove empty contours during loading.

RoboFont 1.3

  • Font Overview
    • Cmd + F shows Find Glyph panel in Font Overview.
    • Fixing bug in Smart Sets.
    • Warn about duplicated glyph names when adding glyphs.
    • Add Glyphs by pressing Enter is the same as using the Apply button.
    • Check for template glyphs when adding new glyphs.
    • On glyph change, also check if the glyph name is scheduled for deletion.
    • Fixing bug in Font Info Sheet: reset font info with some basic attributes.
    • Font Overview drag-and-drop:
      • drop on row: add contours
      • drop on row + alt: add as components
      • drop between row: reorder glyph set
    • Alt + click on Smart List to select Smart Set.
    • Alt + delete also removes the template glyph.
    • Cell size slider updates when using keys to change the zoom level of glyph cells.
  • Glyph Editor
    • Fixing a bug in Editing Tool when glyph was None.
    • Ignore Shift + down constrain while Cmd is down
    • Move BCP when closing a contour.
    • Bezier Drawing Tool continues to draw in selection only if the contour is open.
    • Show Add Anchor sheet only when an anchor name is given.
    • Better stroke-hit-by-point calculations.
    • Check for selection while transforming a set of glyphs.
    • Check if grid size is not 0.
    • Fixing a bug with snapping contours when both points are selected.
    • Don’t send keydown notification in Preview mode.
    • Post notification when Glyph Window gets selected/deselected.
    • Don’t join contours when in Transform mode.
    • Fixing bug in Cut with template glyph.
    • Close current contour on double-click (Drawing Tool).
    • Toggle selection on mouse click with magic contour selection.
    • Fixing bug in removeAnchor.
    • Allow spaces in anchor names.
    • Fixing bug in Select All when there is no glyph set.
    • Ignore first mouse down when in Single Window mode.
    • Better support for new glyph windows, don’t fit to window directly.
    • Tab with hot key through BCP-anchor-BCP.
    • Better support for layers visibility when layer is selected.
    • Update rulers when a new glyph has been set.
    • Fixing an annoying bug in Transform.
    • Fixing bug with shift constrain on y-axis (jumped over the first 5 units).
    • Join contours takes the Glyph View scale into the snapping distance. The snapping distance can be stored as a new Preferences setting.
    • Smaller increase rate of grid disappearing.
    • Fixing bug in slicing: bounds should be checked as bounds, not as rectangles.
    • Make anchors visible if one anchor is added.
    • During Select All, show anchors in the selection, even if they aren’t visible.
    • Fixing bug in joining contours.
    • Fixing bug in Copy&Paste with different kind of objects.
    • Support Undo while adding anchors.
    • Take the closest distance when joining multiple contours.
    • addComponent copy metrics will be disabled when the glyph contains some contours.
    • Don’t break contour, but delete single on-curve point in the contour.
    • Don’t move when switching layers up & down :)
    • Select layers with double-click.
    • Better support for preserving point attributes during remove overlap.
    • Fixing bug in Editing Tool: dragging a mix of off-curves and on-curves.
    • Fixing ray margins.
    • Adding join contours in contextual menus.
    • Adding break contours in contextual menu.
    • Adding layer data in copy paste from Font Overview.
    • Scroll with control to zoom faster with scroll wheel.
    • Adding crosshair to anchor, component dragging.
    • Clear also all layers when a glyph gets deleted.
    • Fixed bug in setting glyph and keeping the same scroll amount, so switching glyphs is less jumpy.
    • Use esc during transform to reset the transformation.
    • Allow transformation of single points and multiple points not even in a segment.
    • Magic selection tool should also select single moveTo points.
    • Better support for transform and guides.
    • Mixed selection is possible (points, segments, contours, anchors, components, image).
    • Slanted grid based on italic slant angle.
  • Inspector
    • Solving weird layer color syncing.
    • Only reset selection if it has contours, so components keep their selection.
    • Resizable column headers in the Inspector view.
    • Reverse how transformations are added.
    • Prepare to save transformations in the user defaults.
    • Fixing bug when glyph is empty and transform metrics is on.
    • Write transforms back to defaults and recover them while opening the Inspector window.
    • In move transforms, ignore do metrics while transforming.
    • Removed Action button in layers Inspector pane.
    • Close the Inspector window when Cmd + i is pressed.
    • Check if there is a document open in the Inspector window.
    • Unicode value can be None when set in the Inspector.
    • Adding option Transform Again, to repeat the previous transformation.
  • Preferences
    • Python panel gets tabs.
    • Adding defaultForeGroundLayerColor and defaultBackGroundLayerColor to the Preferences.
    • Better support for changing scripting hot keys in the Preferences.
    • Check for Cmd + F shortcut in Scripting hot keys and disable the Full Screen shortcut.
    • Set starting points hot key and better support from the menu.
    • 45° constraints as a Preference setting.
    • Always add Update menu in Extensions menu.
    • Marque selection color in Preferences.
    • Adding Test Install hot key.
    • Adding Preference starting point color for open contours.
    • Adding options to reset, export and import Preferences.
    • Check if the chosen font used in to display code and features is still installed.
  • Space Center
    • Space Center input text could be None.
    • Improving scrolling in single line mode in Space Center.
    • Auto suffix detection based on current glyph.
    • Show/hide space matrix.
    • Set the current value when tabbing to another value.
    • Improving Undo support in Space Center input fields.
    • Require Enter after a value has been edited.
    • Support for Italic angle in beams and measurements.
    • Space Center keeps track of the current glyph when opening.
    • Adding Alt + drag to move glyph along the y axis, Alt + Cmd + drag to move glyph along the x axis.
    • Improving how “Jump to Glyph” works.
    • Renaming layers.
  • Features
    • Open .fea files natively.
    • Features editor supports drag-and-drop of a .fea features file, which is inserted into code as a link: include(dropFilePath);.
  • Generating
    • Only move contours when shifting with an italic offset.
    • Always check for mixed components before generating.
    • Converting TrueType off-curve points must be inside the bounds of the original Bezier segment.
    • Fixing bug in generating .ttf files.
    • Updating to AFDKO 2.5, with better support for mark-to-mark (thanks Miguel and Erik).
    • ttf compiler: space can be anywhere in the glyph order.
    • ttf compiler: check if anything goes wrong in generating the empty font, and report nicely.
    • While generating decompose when a component has a scale transformation
  • Scripting
    • Run Python files directly from the file browser with Cmd + R or contextual menu.
    • Adding support for external scripting with shell command: see Preferences, robofont -h.
    • CurrentFont().glyphOrder creates and removes template glyphs.
    • Better handling of notifications for viewWillChangeGlyph and viewDidChangeGlyph.
    • Solved bugs in mojo.UI involving getting and setting Character Sets.
    • Adding mojo.tools.
    • glyph.pointInside() is a lot faster.
    • Cmd + g in Scripting window for Find Next.
    • Save .py files encoded as utf-8.
    • Improved support for Smart Set in mojo.UI.
    • Adding addSmartSet, removeSmartSet, setDefaultCharacterSet, getDefaultCharacterSet,removeCharacterSet, getCharacterSet, setCharacterSet, setMaxAmountOfVisibleTools,getMaxAmountOfVisibleTools.
    • Scripting Window keeps track of placing and size of the window.
    • Code and feature editors will not convert (p) to ℗.
    • All textEditor have disabled rich text formatting.
    • Support for external editing of .py and feature files.
    • Adding support for CurrentFontWindow() in mojo.
    • Adding help to the scripting namespace.
    • Adding draw, drawPoints and box to robofab components.
    • Adding new notification binaryFontWillOpen.
    • Adding mojo.compile.
    • Adding getScriptingMenuNamingShortKey and setScriptingMenuNamingShortKey to mojo.UI.
    • Adding testInstallFormat for format used in test install (should be otf or ttf).
    • Adding a clearDefaults in lib.tools.defaults.
    • Adding mojo.UI importPreferences exportPreferences.
    • Adding getToolsOrder, setToolsOrder to order the tools in the toolbar.
  • RoboFab
    • Return public.glyphOrder when there is no document in the RoboFab font object.
    • Revert order of interpolation masters in RoboFab methods.
    • Fixing bug in RoboFab compare font.
    • Don’t assume added glyphs are robofabwrapperglyph only :)
    • Support for beams and rays in robofabwrapper.
    • Adding path to save notifications.
    • Set a default width for new glyphs setDefault("newGlyphWidth", 123).
    • Use Esc to ignore “don’t show again” dialogs.
    • Fixing bug in remove overlap comparing numpy objects.
    • Fixing typos.
    • Adding modules syncope and csv.
    • Fixing bug in the Extension Bundle.
    • Set modification time for ufo if saved.
    • Improving support for reading .woff files.
    • Return the value of RSegment.smooth.
    • Support for glyph metrics math in robofabwrapperglyph.
    • Adding breakContour(point) to robofabwrapperglyph.
  • All assets are ready for Retina displays.

RoboFont 1.2

  • Global app cache for template glyph image cells.
  • Separate Revert options for changed, added and removed glyphs.
  • Set glyph to unchanged on Revert to saved.
  • Sort glyphs based on public.glyphOrder from font.lib.
  • Application alias added to the .dmg file.
  • Transparent mark colors are now drawn with a black triangle in the back.
  • Show slant angle in the glyph cells.
  • Fixing bug which made new glyphs unselectable.
  • Check for nested components.
  • Solving weird tool cursor issue in fullscreen mode (10.7).
  • Better support for the AFDKO, with better feedback when it encounters an error.
  • Fixing bugs with adding/removing glyphs when a subset is selected.
  • Test Install now also works with fonts which are not Document-based, for example UFOs opened without a UI with OpenFont("path/to/my/font", showUI=False).
  • Check glyph order in binary compilers for template glyphs.
  • New licensing system.
  • Adding Sparkle auto-updater.
  • Better support for copying & pasting of EPS data (from and to Illustrator).
  • When pasting paste, check segmentType and convert if necessary.
  • Fixing UI bug when tabbing through the font info sheet (10.6 only).
  • Better support for drag-and-drop on Smart Sets (also: drag on top of Smart Set to add the glyph name).
  • The app is code-signed for 10.8 usage.
  • Fixing a few typos :)
  • Documents
    • Preserve starting points when converting splines.
    • Open .fea files as native documents. This will open a new feature window with no font attached – so it possible to send the feature to all open fonts, or to a selection of all open fonts.
    • Added icons for .otf .ttf .fea .pfa .woff .pfb .py files (will only be applied if RF is the default application to open these files).
    • Support for .ttf in .woff files.
    • Open folders: files are now listed in the tree of a Scripting Window.
    • Disable PS auto-hinting when no blue values are set
    • Saving predefined character set in the font.lib.
    • Saving sorting order in the font.lib.
    • Adding export features.
    • Really remove deleted glyphs :)
  • Glyph View
    • Select added components.
    • Shift + tab to select previous point.
    • Alt + tab to select off-curve points.
    • Alt + next/previous glyph jumps to glyphs from another Smart Set.
    • Adding BCP minimal mouse moved distance to account for the view scale.
    • Support for hiding measurements info (useful when lots of measurements are added).
    • Scrolling through glyphs in Glyph View: previewKey + Alt + scroll wheel.
    • Draw the grid first in the Glyph View.
    • Copy/paste .glif xml.
    • Fixing bug with deletion of points.
    • Components are now added when selecting all.
    • Alt + click + drag to select off-curves only.
    • Draw some component info in the new Component info display option.
    • Refinements when a user has more then 7 tools installed: a drop-down menu will appear in the last segment of the tool button.
    • Nicer defaults for glyph offset in the Glyph View.
    • aicbtools (copy paste from Illustrator and FL) now supports open paths.
    • Better rounding point coordinates.
    • Better handling of grid resolutions when zooming out.
    • Fixing bug with dragging smooth on-curve points.
    • Fixing bug with copy/paste: starting point now stays the same.
    • Lock side-bearings in Glyph window.
    • Reverse quadratic curves after removing overlap (so they will have a default TT direction).
    • Don’t send mouseUp notification when zooming.
    • Extreme points now only adds points between two selected on-curve points, or adds all extreme points when nothing is selected.
  • Space Center
    • Space Center prevents unintentional click & drag.
    • Alt + drag glyphs into the Space Center to include them in the input string.
    • Support for equalized slanted side-bearings in angled italics.
    • Moving glyph names suffix and kerning to the display options menu in the Space Center.
    • Space Center can go full screen.
    • Adding smart suffixes in Space Center, based on splitting glyph names on . (period).
  • Inspector view
    • Adding Reverse to flipping.
    • Adding Undo support for Transform actions.
    • Use metrics math in Inspector glyph info panel.
    • Reorder components in Inspector with drag-and-drop.
    • Inspector points are displayed as a tree view.
    • Transform options in Inspector window.
    • Transform metrics as option in the Transform panel.
  • Preferences
    • New option: hide dashed cross line while dragging.
    • New color options added: measurement, contour index, point index.
    • Redesigned Glyph View Preferences panel.
    • Shift and Cmd + Shift are now in the Glyph View Preferences panel.
    • New option: color schemes for quadratic and cubic curves (handle and point strokes are interchangeable).
    • New option: when deleting glyphs, also delete the glyph name from groups and kerning.
  • mojo
    • New mojo.UI.UpdateCurrentGlyphView.
    • from mojo.extensions import ExtensionBundle, getExtensionDefault, setExtensionDefault, getExtensionDefaultColor, setExtensionDefaultColor
    • Extension Builder now has support for a resources path: a folder containing images or additional data. (Note: this is not a place to store Python files.)
    • Adding new events: glyphWindowWillOpen, glyphWindowWillClose, fontWillSave, fontWillAutoSave
    • Adding mojo.roboFont.version :)
    • Adding ExtensionBundle: from mojo.extensions import ExtensionBundle
    • Send proper UFObecomeActive notifications.
    • Adding extensionValidator.
    • Defaults system for Extensions (using another Preferences file to save defaults).
    • Adding AccordionView to mojo.UI.
    • Addint registerExtensionDefaults to mojo.extensions.
    • Fixing bug in mojo.drawingTools involving text with fill and stroke colors set.
    • Adding SetCurrentLayerByName to mojo.UI.
  • RoboFab
    • Fixing bug when adding glyphs with Robofab.
    • Adding removeGuides.
    • Adding font.copy() to the Robofab wrapper.
    • Robofab rotate in degrees instead of radians.
    • Handle obj.selected = True/False (better).
    • appendComponent will check if it is referencing to itself.
    • Fixing bug with scaling of components.
    • Fixing bug with Robofab segment.selected.
    • Fixing bug with Robofab set/get bPoint types.
    • glyph.mark can accept None to remove a mark color.
  • Scripting
    • Contextual menu in file browser.
    • Output Window now has color preferences, copying & pasting text will ignore rich text attributes.
    • Scripting Window: enter on a file will send the file as current document.
    • Open a folder in the Scripting Window.

RoboFont 1.1

  • Adding support for nested components.
  • Improving glyph transform.
  • Fixing bug in copy and paste from Illustrator.
  • glyph.mark can handle a single as input.
  • Images can be locked.
  • Alt + Cmd down will mirror the handle point.
  • Space Center value input fields can handle simple math like =e+10-z*10 or -=10+a.
  • New mojo.canvas object.
  • API support for Smart Sets.
  • Adding support for tabbing through the Font Info sheet input fields.
  • Adding a checkbox to Add Component sheet for copying glyph metrics.
  • Find bar/panel in the Scripting Window’s output area.
  • Fixing bug in Space Center preventing notifications.
  • Ignore mask color and guides during copy in the Glyph View.
  • Fixing bug in kerning sheet when the group name is not in the font.groups.
  • Generating choices are enabled/disabled based on the export format.
  • Ignore template glyphs in robofab.
  • Improving conversions between cubic and quadratic contours.
  • Save states for the Font Overview panes.
  • Show a warning if groups contain glyph names with ‘ (single quote).
  • Adding HelpWindow to mojo.UI.
  • .py files are now also document based.
  • Fixing typos.
  • Extension Builder can handle required major minor version of RoboFont.
  • Import extensions in Extension Builder.
  • Extensions builder write files automatically.
  • Improving file browsers.
  • Clear info in the Font Info sheet.
  • Ignore anchors during binary compile.
  • Single line and waterfall have a horizontal scrollbar.
  • New column in Font Overview: mark color.
  • Fixing bug with setting extreme points.
  • Undo/redo on glyph selection in Font Overview.
  • Mirror all/selected glyphs in Transform panel.
  • Use a Find bar in 10.7.
  • mojo.UI can open a glyph in a window and create a new Space Center.
  • Scrolling when you jump with tab in the Font Info sheet.
  • Remember the developer and developer URL in the Extension Builder.
  • Fixing bugs in Space Center.
  • Close the window with unsubscribing the glyphs.
  • Better accept mouse move so it will not disturb other views.
  • Adding drawPreview event.
  • Space Center can hide “in between” control glyphs.
  • Display selection info in the status bar of the Font Overview.
  • Fixing bugs in robofab.
  • Print font will now print familyName and styleName.
  • Adding removeGuide.
  • Update the Output Window when you print something directly.
  • Use the Glyph View bounds for calculating the length of the guides.
  • Better support for generating .ttf binaries.
  • If you have ttfautohint installed, autohint is an option. ttfautohint cannot be embedded in RoboFont because of license incompatibilities.
  • Improved support for preserving same amounts of points.
  • Draw glyph coordinates in context of the background, slightly darker on darker backgrounds.
  • Opens all files: ttx, T1 binary, T2 ascii, PostScript outlines / T1 suitcases aren’t supported (yet).
  • Drawing tool: Alt + click (no drag) will convert the last segment to a line.
  • ‘Lock guides’ is a global user setting instead of local to the Glyph View.
  • Fixing sorting error.
  • Revert.
  • Fixing bug in Transform.
  • Update the glyph view during paste.
  • Glyph order issue in .ttf generation.
  • Use allowPseudoUnicode in the super Smart Sort.
  • f.glyphOrder returns the glyph order.
  • Bitmap representation is properly aligned to the grid.
  • Grid is a solid line.
  • Fixing typos.
  • Scripting Window has an Edit With… toolbar item.
  • Edits to the Kerning and Groups sheets can be canceled, so the changes will not be applied to the font.
  • Generating binaries: the order is the same as in the UI. A new option can add Mac Roman in front of the glyph order when generating fonts.
  • Ice cube tray view show when a glyph has been edited.
  • Adding SetCurrentGlyphByName to mojo.UI – set a glyph by name in the current glyph view.
  • Don’t copy unicode value if that unicode value already exists in the font.
  • Adding text color and background to the Scripting Window.
  • Save As… will not save template glyphs.
  • Mark colors are added the the color palette.
  • Columns in the Font Overview can be hidden with a right click on the column header (like iTunes).
  • New super Smart Sorting options (thanks to Tal), you’ll never create an .enc file again :)
  • If the default font for template glyphs isn’t installed on your system, it will take the default system font.
  • Images can be saved in the new image folder next to the UFO. (This is similar to UFO3, but not inside the UFO.)
  • Glyph cell headers in the Font Overview changes background color when the mark color is too close.

RoboFont 1.0

Initial public version.

Last edited on 05/03/2018