FontXChange Changelog

What's new in FontXChange 5.3.0

Dec 4, 2019
  • Updated to support macOS 10.15 Catalina
  • Added support for Mojave dark mode

New in FontXChange 5.2.0 (Sep 30, 2017)

  • What's new:
  • Updated to support macOS 10.13 High Sierra
  • Updated UI
  • Fixed hangs when opening font files
  • Fixed potential memory leaks when converting fonts

New in FontXChange 5.1 (May 30, 2016)

  • Added support for new WOFF2 web font format
  • Bug fixes and updates

New in FontXChange 5.0.0 (Nov 28, 2015)

  • Updated for Mac OS 10.11 (El Capitan)
  • Bug fixes and updates

New in FontXChange 4.0.0 (Jul 17, 2012)

  • a new font properties window for modifying font names
  • enhanced Mac OS X 10.7 support
  • bug fixes
  • feature updates

New in FontXChange 2.2.0 (Mar 17, 2010)

  • Fixed an issue that caused font names to be truncated if the contained parenthesis
  • Fixed an issues that caused a crash when a single font suitcase contained duplicate fonts
  • Fixed an issue that caused the interface to lock up and become unresponsive
  • Fixed an issue that caused an error when converting Postscript Type 1 fonts
  • Fixed an issue that caused some fonts not to be converted
  • Fixed an issue that caused zero-length font files when a conversion failed

New in FontXChange 2.1.1 (Oct 20, 2009)

  • Snow Leopard compatibility and 64 bit support
  • Support for TrueType Collection fonts (.ttc)
  • Support for PostScript Type 1 font previews in Leopard
  • Enhanced kerning support when converting from Mac PS Type 1 fonts
  • Fix a bug that caused fonts with illegal file names not to convert
  • Fixed a bug that caused some problems when trying to convert TrueType Collection files

New in FontXChange 2.0.0 (Aug 15, 2009)

  • New folder naming options.
  • New file naming options.
  • New feature to choose how a converted fonts are named in application font menus.
  • Updated support for previewing different font formats.
  • Updated support for how certain platform names are read from Name tables.
  • Updated support for complex contours in Type 1 fonts.
  • Updated support for the UniqueID field of the Name table.
  • Updated user interface.
  • Fixed a bug that could cause problems with resource-fork fonts (e.g. suitcases).
  • Fixed a bug that reported a convernsion error when a batch conversion was cancelled.
  • Fixed a bug that caused FontXChange to skip some font files because it thought they were duplicates.
  • Fixed a DOS file naming issue when converting to the Windows platform.
  • Fixed a problem that caused a failure to convert when a filename had "gf" on the end.
  • Fixed a crash when loading PFM/PFB files into the main window.
  • Fixed support for file/folder drag-n-drop onto the application icon.

New in FontXChange 1.7.0 (Apr 23, 2009)

  • Added font validation code to check font values and fix if necessary.
  • Added Support for the JSTF table and BASE table in the OpenType format.
  • Added an error handler window for greater detail when errors occur.
  • Fixed unicode file/folder name problems.
  • Fixed confusion issue over filename extensions.
  • Fixed issue with "256" encoding arrays.
  • Fixed miscellaneous user interface issues.

New in FontXChange 1.6.1 (Jan 9, 2009)

  • Fixed support for Apple's ".dfont" format.
  • Fixed support for folders that contain "non-ASCII" characters in their names.
  • Fixed various issues with font sub-tables for more accurate conversion ("MATH", "TYP1" and others).

New in FontXChange 1.6.0 (Oct 14, 2008)

  • Fixed support for Apple's ".dfont" format.
  • Fixed support for folders that contain "non-ASCII" characters in their names.
  • Fixed various issues with font sub-tables for more accurate conversion ("MATH", "TYP1" and others).

New in FontXChange 1.5.0 (Jul 23, 2008)

  • Upgrade encodings to Unicode 5.1
  • Updated parsing and rendering of various font tables
  • Added option to generate .AFM files
  • Added font naming options
  • Added a feature to rebuild damaged fonts