Font Pilot 2.5.2 - Changelog

What's new in Font Pilot 2.5.0:

January 20th, 2010

· Several new enhancements that make getting font metrics and details easier than ever.

What's new in Font Pilot 2.4.3:

August 31st, 2009

· With this maintenance release, the new modifications of Font Pilot allow users to preview fonts faster and now supports files that contain multiple fonts.
· The program has improved stability when previewing, activating, and installing fonts, and loads fonts faster when the program is first activated.
· Also, the Waterfall displays all the letters with the correct size and all the size labels are now visible.

What's new in Font Pilot 2.4.2:

January 29th, 2009

· Version 2.4.2 fixes an issue with adding fonts to a user collection. It also fixes a registration issue during initial setup.

What's new in Font Pilot 2.3:

November 17th, 2008

· New Feature: Sparkle updates.
· Bug Fix: The blue search bar now always draws correctly.
· Bug Fix: Fixed overlapping issue with the collections listbox and the first divider.
· Bug Fix: Bundle identifier is now set properly.

What's new in Font Pilot 2.2.9:

October 20th, 2008

· Bug Fix: Report a Bug menu item now takes the user to the correct page.
· Bug Fix: Will no longer crash if launched from a user account which did not install it.
· Bug Fix: Fixed potential crash when drag to re-ordering the collections.
· Bug Fix: Fixed issue with non-Unique UniqueIDs being loaded and causing collection issues.
· Bug Fix: Now reports preference saving issues.

What's new in Font Pilot 2.2.7:

August 22nd, 2008

· Bug Fix: Will no longer crash on showing an HTMLViewer when a temporary file cannot be created on the disk.
· Bug Fix: Will no longer crash if the preferences destination file cannot be found.
· Bug Fix: Window manager related crashes fixed.
· Bug Fix: Any/all threads destructors are now fixed from crashes.
· Bug Fix: Sockets now close properly when windows close.

What's new in Font Pilot 2.2.6:

July 20th, 2008

· Bug Fix: Minor stability improvements.

What's new in Font Pilot 2.2.5:

June 25th, 2008

· New Feature: New setup assistant.
· New Feature: No longer requires a license code.
· Bug Fix: No longer loads the main window before setup is complete.
· Bug Fix: Fixed software update progress bar.
· Bug Fix: Manual activation now works properly with our site every time.
· Bug Fix: Manual activation no longer loses activation code on relaunch.

What's new in Font Pilot 2.2.3:

May 10th, 2008

· Bug Fix: Fixed toolbar icons.

What's new in Font Pilot 2.2.2:

May 9th, 2008

· New Feature: Disable Smart Crash Reports.
· New Feature: Leopardized the collections list.
· Bug Fix: Updated application icon and toolbar icons.
· Bug Fix: Fixed toolbar crash.

What's new in Font Pilot 2.2.1:

March 29th, 2008

· New Feature: Smart Crash Reports.
· Enhancement: Improved font matching.
· Enhancement: Greatly improved the code for drawing the search bar as well as dividers and utility buttons.
· Bug Fix: Will no longer sometimes wait for an infinite amount of time when opening the main window.

What's new in Font Pilot 2.2:

February 14th, 2008

· New Feature: Online activation now uses regular HTTP GET methods to process details (should avoid some issues we had in the past).
· New Feature: Automatic HTTP proxy support on Mac OS X.
· New Feature: Koingo Crash Reporter.
· Bug Fix: Fixed issues relating to software update.
· Bug Fix: Fixed font names in Print list screen.

What's new in Font Pilot 2.1.9:

December 20th, 2007

· New Feature: New loading screen.
· Enhancement: Loading Fonts is now 500% faster!

What's new in Font Pilot 2.1.8:

December 19th, 2007

· New Feature: Added Speech menu.
· New Feature: Added numerous new ways to search for font details.
· New Feature: Now places a checkmark next to the last used search field in the Spotlight-esque search field popup.
· Modification: Now uses more reliable URL paths to store file paths.
· Bug Fix: Beveled button bar now draws on first load.
· Bug Fix: Help files searchable again.

What's new in Font Pilot 2.1.7:

September 25th, 2007

· Enhancement: Greatly improved time it takes to load collection views.
· Enhancement: Ditched brushed metal appearance.
· Bug Fix: Fixed potential crash in loading corrupt fonts.
· Bug Fix: UTF-16 font families now draw correctly.
· Bug Fix: Fixed another instance in which it as possible for a font to be scaled down too much in the main list.

What's new in Font Pilot 2.1.6:

September 22nd, 2007

· Enhancement: Improved code to calculate trial expiry.
· Enhancement: Improve encoding awareness in Engine.GetFontNameValue() to rely on platform code, language, and script.
· Bug Fix: Fixed potential crash when getting the path to a font file.
· Bug Fix: Once again shows the proper icon in the help book.

What's new in Font Pilot 2.1.5:

September 21st, 2007

· New Feature: Font collections.
· New Feature: Multiple selection in the details and metrics panes for copying.
· New Feature: Begin typing the name of a font to have it automatically select in the list.
· New Feature: Resize widgets.
· New Feature: Reorder standard font collections.
· New Feature: Displays point size for current font preview.
· New Feature: Warning if trying to install/activate more than 100 fonts.
· New Feature: Font Kind.
· New Feature: Font preview now displays all fonts within the container that were activated.
· New Feature: Ability to cancel font preview.
· New Feature: Ability to cancel font install.
· New Feature: Ability to cancel font activate.
· New Feature: Horizontal scrollbar in font details & metrics panels.
· New Feature: Main window scrollbar.
· New Feature: Beautified the toolbar icons.
· New Feature: Threadified Font Preview.
· New Feature: Threadified Font Activation.
· New Feature: Threadified Font Install.
· Enhancement: Drastically improved the install and font activate options.
· Enhancement: New icon!
· Enhancement: Now activates and deactivates one font at a time for generating previews.
· Enhancement: Mac OS X 10.5 compatibility.
· Enhancement: Completely rewrote font loader.
· Enhancement: Unified toolbars.
· Enhancement: Increased loading speed.
· Enhancement: Theme compatible.
· Enhancement: More reliably gets the font encoding type.
· Enhancement: Much more reliably determines the encoding of a font name value.
· Enhancement: Images are no longer masked on the fly.
· Enhancement: Updated Koingo Core Classes.
· Modification: Removed the toolbar divider in the main window as it should not appear on metal windows (AHIG).
· Modification: Removed gradiented selection from Details and Metrics lists.
· Modification: Increased row height for Details and Metrics.
· Bug Fix: Fixed issue with the scrollbar in the main window prohibiting scrolling when text off the page.
· Bug Fix: Color balls in the main window are now proper circles.
· Bug Fix: Fixed issue regarding missing fonts.
· Bug Fix: Turning on/off font previews in Preferences now properly sets the row height in the main listbox.
· Bug Fix: Last partially visible font in the list no longer get scaled smaller than the row height.
· Bug Fix: Preview font text no longer flashes when being resized.
· Bug Fix: Preview fonts no longer activates fonts globally.
· Bug Fix: Preview fonts no longer unnecessarily reloads the local font list.
· Bug Fix: Preview fonts should now always deactivate every font it successfully activated.
· Bug Fix: Fixed numerous crashes pertaining to reading corrupt fonts.