XmBDFEditor 4.2 released

[Mark Leisher <mleisher@crl.nmsu.edu>]

Version 4.2 of the XmBDFEditor is now available.  This version adds a couple
of minor features for working with a keyboard, fixes a few problems, and has
improved on-line documentation.  The list of changes is included at the end.

For those of you who have not heard of this program before, check out:

  http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/xmbdfed.html

My apologies to those of you who requested that an xdelta be generated for the
binaries.  I accidently deleted the beta versions before doing so.

FTP:

  [Sources]
  ftp://crl.nmsu.edu/CLR/multiling/General/xmbdfed.tar.gz

  [Binaries]
  ftp://crl.nmsu.edu/CLR/multiling/General/xmbdfed-4.2-LINUX.tar.gz
  ftp://crl.nmsu.edu/CLR/multiling/General/xmbdfed-4.2-SOLARIS.tar.gz

WEB:

  [Sources]
  http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/xmbdfed-4.2.tar.gz

  [Binaries]
  http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/xmbdfed-4.2-LINUX.tar.gz
  http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/xmbdfed-4.2-SOLARIS.tar.gz

XMBDFED CHANGES

Version: 4.2
Date   : 23 October 1999
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  1. Added an error message when trying to export a PSF font with a font that
     does not have character cell spacing or has a width > 8.

  2. Fixed it so that moving/copying a selection by grabbing it with the mouse
     after it has been selected now works as expected.

  3. Made it clearer in the GlyphEditors that "Resize" means to resize the
     glyph bounding box, and not the glyph.  Also updated the documentation
     to indicate that this can change the font bounding box when the glyph
     is saved.

  4. Changed the FontGrid so clicking the mouse outside the actual bounds of
     the drawn area does nothing.

  5. The glyph name is now updated immediately when a non-merging paste is
     done in the FontGrid.

  6. Changed things so that the last chosen operation in a GlyphEditor will
     remain the same operation even after it has been closed and opened
     again.

  7. Fixed a problem with merging glyphs.  Only the first glyph was being
     merged.

  8. Changed the GlyphEditors so the glyph name input field is the width of
     the editor.

  9. Added menu options to the FontGrids so glyphs can be merged (overlayed)
     or inserted instead of replacing glyphs when pasting.

  10. Added the ability to specify the initial glyph using the "-g" command
      line option.

  11. Changed so that when the program first comes up, an initial glyph is
      selected.  This was done to make keyboard navigation easier.

  12. Changed page navigation for empty fonts so all pages are available from
      the First, Last, Next, and Previous page buttons.

  13. Added the arrow keys to allow keyboard based navigation through the
      FontGrid pages.

  14. Added the Return key to be equivalent to double clicking on a cell in
      the FontGrid.

  15. Added ability to select glyphs using the keyboard using the Shift key
      combined with the arrow keys.

  16. Added the ability to turn the progress bar off and use a watch cursor
      instead for potentially long operations.

  17. Changed the page traversal code to move the cursor as well as the arrow
      buttons.

  18. Added the Ctrl+Shift+Return toggle to the GlyphEditors for drawing using
      the keyboard.

  19. Fixed a problem with setting the initial glyph when later fonts are
      loaded.

  20. Added code to make backups at save time which can be turned on or off
      from the Setup dialog or the .xmbdfedrc file.

  21. Improved the documentation.

  22. Fixed a problem with selecting a cell after a cut.

  23. Removed everything related to the _XFREE86_GLYPH_RANGES property.

  24. Fixed a problem with duplicate glyphs in the GlyphTest dialog.

  25. Fixed a bug in deleting glyphs when the range specified is in reverse.

  26. Some minor code cleanup.
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Mark Leisher
Computing Research Lab            The first virtue is to restrain the tongue;
New Mexico State University       he approaches nearest to the gods who knows
Box 30001, Dept. 3CRL             how to be silent, even though he is in the
Las Cruces, NM  88003             right.    -- Cato the Younger (95-46 B.C.E)
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