Fontself Maker for Photoshop release notes

[Illustrator release notes are here]

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 3.5.9

2024–01-25

Improved
- Compatible with Photoshop 2024

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 3.5.8

2022–10-24

Improved
- Compatible with Photoshop 2023

Fixed
- Circumventing new bugs introduced by Photoshop's latest versions

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 3.5.7

2021–07-21

Fixed
- Circumventing new bugs introduced by Photoshop's latest versions

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 3.5.6

2021–06-28

Fixed
- Minor bugs

Apple Silicon / M1+ computers compatibility issue requires to run under Rosetta

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 3.5.4

2020–11-02

Fixed
- Compatibility bug fixed on Windows for Photoshop 2021

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 3.5.3

2020–10-19

Improved
- Compatible with Photoshop 2021
- Compatible with macOS Big Sur 11

Fixed
- Bugs with vector strokes

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 3.5.2

2020–09-07

Fixed
- Minor bugs

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 3.5.1

2020–02–20

New
- Smart Metrics: get spacing & kerning adjusted for all glyphs in one click (vector fonts only)
- Support of Greek

Fixed
- Minor bugs

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 3.4.0

2019–09–06

New
- Photoshop 2020 ready
- macOS 10.15 (Catalina) ready

Fixed
- Importing metrics now works with single-case fonts

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 3.3.0

2019–07–30

New
- Smart Create: import & name many glyphs at once (select them and enter the same amount of characters, separated by a comma, like: A,a,B,b or $,€,¥‎ or Б,Д,Ж,И or more sophisticated ffi.liga, f.alt2 to create ligatures and alternates)

Improved
- Speed, speed, speed (up to 500% faster to open, load and refresh complex fonts)

Fixed
- Fewer crashes when editing complex vector & bitmap fonts
- Metrics import bug that mixed up some glyphs
- Wrong conversion for all-cap fonts on Ÿ

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 3.2.2

More details about these cool new features here.

2019–06–11

New
- Easy all-caps fonts (uppercase/lowercase-only fonts are saved to display the missing case)
- Warnings to highlight potential issues
- Scaling guidelines to compare glyph size with a standard font
- Preview glyph name & Unicode value in Spacing & Kerning views
- Easily copy characters in Spacing & Kerning views
- Convert color fonts to “black” fonts
- Create & edit alternates via Smart Batch
- Scale a font to a specific height
- New help articles on Advanced Spacing and Kerning Groups
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Improved
- Performance improvements (up to 50% faster to refresh fonts)
- New spacing & kerning sample texts to quick-start the process

Fixed
- Kerning Pad bug that displayed wrong alternates
- Scrolling bug when selecting glyphs
- Alternates kerning bug when using kerning groups

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Fontself Maker for Photoshop 3.1.2

2019–03–05

Fixed
- Some users weren't able to enter the license key and login successfully.
- The extension could logout after a month if it wasn't used.

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 3.1.1

2019–01–07

Added
- Create custom glyph for space character
‍Fixed
- Wrong alternates in text pad when ligatures were enabled

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 3.1.0

2018–12–06

Added
- Create glyphs from Unicode values, like U+E902
- Create custom space characters

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 3.0.2

2018–10–11

Fixed
- Unlocking kerning group pairs prevented from reopening font files
- Monospace feature in Advanced spacing did not work

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 3.0.1

2018–09–05

Fixed
- Wrong glyph metrics after renaming & replacing a glyph
- Windows installer's title was still "v2"...

Updated
- Our EULA for the software installer

Added
- Our terms and privacy policy for all Fontself tools & services

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 3.0.0

2018–09–02

Added
👯 Kerning Groups, you can now kern Better, Faster, Stronger...!
🔍 Import Spacing / Kerning, for font families it's a time-saver!

Improved
- Faster operations with all fonts ✨

Fixed
- 🐛 Tiny bugs
- Create a ligature with multiple dot characters

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 2.3.5

2018–06–13

Fixed
- Better checks on glyphs' advance width⚠️ If you have created fonts with a version older than v2.3.3 containing alternates or ligatures or kerning, open & export the font again to get the fixes.

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 2.3.3

2018–06–05

Added
- A warning if you create alternate(s):
Due to a bug in Photoshop, alternates in color bitmap fonts will not show up when selecting characters that have alternate glyphs. To use alternates, pick them from the using the Window > Glyphs panel.
You can notify the Photoshop team about this issue here and help solve this bug by upvoting it ;)Fixed
- Exporting fonts on Windows should now lead to fewer invalid fonts for Latin & Cyrillic scripts, as alternates, ligatures or kerning could previously cause troubles.⚠️ If you have created fonts containing alternates or ligatures or kerning, open & export the font again to get the fixes.

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 2.3.0

2018–03–20

Added
- Feature parity with Fontself for Illustrator 🎉Improved
- Faster operations with color bitmap fonts🔍 Advanced Spacing
👯 Kerning
💡 Smart Batch
🎈 Scale all glyphs at once
📝 Font creation template file

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 1.0.6

2017–04–13

Fixed
- Installer issues on some computers
- No need to re-enter your personal license key
- Corrupted fonts on Windows can now be reexported to install
- Links in our chat window work again

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 1.0.5

2017–01–18

Warning
- Please upgrade to the latest Photoshop CC 2017.0.1 update to avoid PS crashes & bugs while using color bitmap fontsImproved
- Better glyph metrics for bitmap fonts.
- If you open a document with a selection saved, the drag & drop is now working.

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 1.0.4

2017–01–12

Improved
- Compatibility with a specific environment on macOS (it was causing a deactivation of the license when opening the extension).

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 1.0.3

2016–12–15

Improved
- Bitmap fonts now work in Photoshop for Windows CC 2017.0.1
- Bitmap fonts now exported as both OpenType-SVG & SBIX image formats for better Mac & PC compatibilityAdded
- Automatic glyph substitution for missing capital, lowercase and accented characters (i.e. if the characters Ê or h are missing in your font, they will be replaced by the existing E or H)

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 1.0.2

2016–11–24

Improved
- Better rendering in live preview for bitmap / color fontsFixed
- Bugs

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 1.0.1

2016–11–21

Added
- Send logs button in extension menuFixed
- Removed "Beta" from extension's menu

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 1.0.0

2016–11–18

Added
- Live preview for bitmap / color fonts
- New spinner (with progress indicator)Improved
- Performance when exporting bitmap / color fonts
- Auto ascender/descenderFixed
- 🐛 Bugs

Fontself Maker for Photoshop 0.6.0

2016–11–07

Added
- Alerts if the Fontself Generator Plugin is not found or have a problem.Improved
- PerformanceFixed
- Auto activation of Generator in Photoshop

Fontself Maker for Photoshop Beta 0.5.6

2016–11–01

Added
- Auto-update is here!Fixed
- Style of the chat icon

Fontself Maker for Photoshop Beta 0.5.5