v3.0.0

Users

• Add new command line option --additional-fonts-recursive (#30)
• Support duplicate style name like VSFilter/libass (#31)
• Truncate font name to 31 characters like VSFilter if the user ask about it (#18)
• If two fonts have the same attributes, always collect the oldest font (#8)
• The collected fonts have appropriate filename capitalization (#34)

Developers

A big refactor have been done in #34. This break the compatibility with the version 2.1.4. I highly recommend you to look at this example.

• Distinct a font file from a font face.
  There are now 2 kinds of font face. "Variable" is for variable font and "Normal" for the rest.
• Know what is the language of a family name or a exact name
• From a FontFace, get the best name depending of the OS language via ABCFontFace.get_best_family_name/ABCFontFace.get_best_exact_name. The user can also query a family name from a BCP47 tag via ABCFontFace.get_family_name_from_lang/ABCFontFace.get_exact_name_from_lang
• Users can know implement their own ass document reader. They just need to extend the class ABCAssDocument
• Users can create their own strategy to find a font. They simply need to implement FontSelectionStrategy.
  Also, the user can choose between 2 strategy (FontSelectionStrategyLibass and FontSelectionStrategyVSFilter)
• Know if a font is a font collection (TTC/OTC file)
• Know what is the font type (opentype/truetype)
• Create a FontCollection class. It has the same responsabilities has the old FontLoader. The new FontLoader now only load the font cache, load a batch of fonts and load the system fonts.
• Add need_faux_bold attribute to FontResult
• Implemented typing for all the package
• Fallback to freetype when fontTools isn't able to read a cmap (#44)
• Bump FindSystemFontsFilename version to 0.3.0 (38160c6)

General

• Add mypy and pytest verification workflow (#33)

v3.0.0rc2

• Fallback to freetype when fontTools isn't able to read a cmap (#44)

v3.0.0c1

Users

• Add new command line option --additional-fonts-recursive (#30)
• Support duplicate style name like VSFilter/libass (#31)
• Truncate font name to 31 characters like VSFilter if the user ask about it (#18)
• If two fonts have the same attributes, always collect the oldest font (#8)
• The collected fonts have appropriate filename capitalization (#34)

Developers

A big refactor have been done in #34. This break the compatibility with the version 2.1.4. I highly recommend you to look at this example.

• Distinct a font file from a font face.
  There are now 2 kinds of font face. "Variable" is for variable font and "Normal" for the rest.
• Know what is the language of a family name or a exact name
• From a FontFace, get the best name depending of the OS language via ABCFontFace.get_best_family_name/ABCFontFace.get_best_exact_name. The user can also query a family name from a BCP47 tag via ABCFontFace.get_family_name_from_lang/ABCFontFace.get_exact_name_from_lang
• Users can know implement their own ass document reader. They just need to extend the class ABCAssDocument
• Users can create their own strategy to find a font. They simply need to implement FontSelectionStrategy.
  Also, the user can choose between 2 strategy (FontSelectionStrategyLibass and FontSelectionStrategyVSFilter)
• Know if a font is a font collection (TTC/OTC file)
• Know what is the font type (opentype/truetype)
• Create a FontCollection class. It has the same responsabilities has the old FontLoader. The new FontLoader now only load the font cache, load a batch of fonts and load the system fonts.
• Add need_faux_bold attribute to FontResult
• Implemented typing for all the package

General

• Add mypy and pytest verification workflow (#33)

v2.1.4

• Update the build system AND add automatic package uploads to PyPI (#27)

v2.1.3

• Use the same method as GDI for get_decoded_name (#25)
• Get missing glyphs - Use freetype instead of fonttools + fixes (#26)
  • This introduce a new parameter support_only_ascii_char_for_symbol_font for Font::get_missing_glyphs. For more detail, see the documentation.

v2.1.2

Add --collect-draw-fonts arguments
To know when use this argument, see: libass/libass#617

v2.1.1

Replace matplolib by FindSystemFontsFilename

v2.1.0

Corrected bugs:

• Correct the variable font algorithm to match the GDI implementation
• Mimic how GDI decode an NameRecord

v2.0.5

Corrected bugs:

• If an .ass file did not contain an WrapStyle element in the [Script Info] section, it would previously raise an exception. Now, if it isn't specified, we use the WrapStyle 0 like libass/VSFilter.
• Transform cmap codepoint into string like VSFilter/Libass.
• Transform name into string like VSFilter (it basically doesn't impact any font.

v2.0.4

New feature:

• If there is an unknow problem while parsing a font, raise an exception with a message that contain the font path

Corrected bugs:

• If the AxisValueArray is None, return an empty array which won't raise an exception