FONTpage Changelog

FONTpage
A font viewer and graphic utility for Linux
by Paul Sherman
License: GPL2


    Saturday, 07/15/2006
	* version 2.0
        * New "Display Font" feature opens popup window with 
	  complete alphabet (upper and lower case) and 0-9.
	  Window shows current font with current size -- use 
          multiple windows to compare different fonts.
	* Font size now scales up to 256 pts (was 128)
	* Config file will now track last window dimensions 
          when the application is restarted.
        * If user font directory directory (~/.fonts) does not exist, 
          FONTpage will create one. This is to facilitate installing 
          and deleting fonts, which FONTpage will only do on a per-user 
          basis. (This is to avoid problems.)


    Sunday, 01/22/2006
	* version 1.0
        * running creates ".fontpage" configuration file that
	  saves values between sessions for font size, color,
	  background color, font name, last directory an image was
	  saved in, last directory a font was installed from...
	* tweaked graphics
	* cleaned up old code


    Thursday, 01/19/2006
	* version 0.89
        * Keeps custom text after changing fonts
	  (Had previosly returned to displaying the font name)


    Tuesday, 01/17/2006
	* version 0.8
        * Foreground and Background color dialogs now open
	  with the currently used color
	* python script now all lowercase -- "fontpage.py"
	

    Monday, 01/09/2006
	* version 0.7
        * corrected bug in save dialog for creating images
          that failed if GTK < 2.8.


    Wednesday, 10/26/2005
	* version 0.6
	
        * corrected startup error on some machines that 
	
          reported fontconfig missing when it was not
        * Gui tweaks to make labels fit correctly on other systems
	
        * Created binary and tested on Ubuntu-5.10


    Monday, 10/17/2005
	version 0.5

	Saves last-saved directory in memory so, if you
	are making a number of images and saving them,
	you don't have to keep digging for the same 
	directory in the save dialog. 
	  
	Gave up making cx-frozen binaries. See my web
	pages for details of my undignified retreat :(
	

    Saturday, 10/15/2005
        version 0.4
	
         Bug Fix:
         Mistakenly injected a cairo-related dependency
         on previous version. I had started playing with
         Cairo on 2.8 GTK for an SVG viewer/convertor I'm
         making and, well... oops.

	
    Thursday, 10/06/2005
	
	version 0.3

	added save dialog
	will prompt user for location/name to save image 
	rather than just saving to home directory with the 
	"current text".png -- although the dialog 
	defaults to those values. 

	Dependency change.
	Moved to GTK-2.8 series. (See install for details)
	Use the binary if you have older versions
	and don't want to upgrade at this time.


    Tuesday, 08/30/2005

        version 0.2
    
	Added install/remove font dialogs:
	Choosing to install a font will:
	1] Test if file is a truetype font
	2] Make new file lower case, no spaces
	3] Copy font into user's home .font directory
	4] run 'fc-cache' on that folder
	5] Display the font with your current FONTpage settings
	
	Removal will delete the copy made to ~/.fonts,
	re-run fc-cache on that dir and update FONTpage
	
	Good way to check a downloaded font with all
	the different sizes/colors, then keep for general
	use or dump if disenchanted :)



     Thursday, 08/25/2005
     
          version 0.1
	  
	  Initial Release