{"id":40,"date":"2008-08-15T06:36:44","date_gmt":"2008-08-15T13:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fontstruct.fontshop.com\/news\/?p=40"},"modified":"2013-06-01T16:17:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T23:17:48","slug":"improvements-to-the-fontstructor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/2008\/08\/15\/improvements-to-the-fontstructor\/","title":{"rendered":"Improvements to the FontStructor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019ve released an updated version of the FontStructor. Clear your browser caches, reload and enjoy. Here\u2019s a quick rundown on the new features:<\/p>\n<h3>New \u201cCurrent Letter\u201d Window<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/uploads\/2008\/08\/current_letter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41\" title=\"current_letter\" src=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/uploads\/2008\/08\/current_letter.png\" alt=\"Current Letter Window\" width=\"307\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a new window in the interface titled \u201cCurrent Letter\u201d. This contains an example character for the letter you are currently editing and underneath, the name of this character. The universally-despised, floaty, sticky \u201cNext Letter\u201d and \u201cPrevious Letter\u201d buttons are now more sensibly integrated into this new, moveable window.<\/p>\n<h3>Rollover examples in the Character Selector bar<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42\" title=\"char_rollover\" src=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/uploads\/2008\/08\/char_rollover.png\" alt=\"Rollover Character Selector\" width=\"307\" height=\"163\" \/><br \/>\nRolling over any character in the Character Selector bar will now give you a larger tooltip containing a larger example character and the character name.<\/p>\n<h3>Better and wider range of Fonts used in the Character Selector bar<\/h3>\n<p>Many of you have noticed that many characters have not been displayed properly in the Character Selector bar. Slots have either been empty or the \u201cnull\u201d glyph, a placeholder has been displayed. This has been especially problematic for non-latin characters.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s difficult to solve this problem completely because the FontStructor uses the fonts installed on your system to display these characters, and these fonts vary greatly, but we have made some changes which should improve matters. People using OSX and Windows should notice an improvement immediately. Coverage should improve further if users (on any platform) download and install the public domain fonts <a title=\"DejaVu\" href=\"http:\/\/dejavu.sourceforge.net\" target=\"_blank\">DejaVu Sans<\/a>, and\/or the very extensive <a title=\"GNU Unifont\" href=\"http:\/\/unifoundry.com\/unifont.html\" target=\"_blank\">GNU Unifont<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Expert Info<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-43\" title=\"expert_info\" src=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/uploads\/2008\/08\/expert_info.png\" alt=\"Expert Info\" width=\"400\" height=\"242\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you choose \u201cExpert Info\u201d from the \u201cView\u201d submenu under \u201cAdvanced\u201d you will see the unicode codepoint values for the relevant character, both in the Current Letter Palette and when rolling-over letters in the Character Selector bar. If we add any further such expert features they will probably also be toggled on and off using this option.<\/p>\n<h3>Optimized Saving<\/h3>\n<p>Saving should now be noticeably faster, in particular for FontStructions which use many bricks or have many characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.fontshop.com\/news\/2008\/08\/15\/improvements-to-the-fontstructor\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"  style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px\" wp-image-44\" title=\"update_teaser\" src=\"http:\/\/fontstruct.fontshop.com\/news\/uploads\/2008\/08\/update_teaser.png\" alt=\"New Current Letter Window\" width=\"110\" height=\"95\" \/><\/a> Interface enhancements and optimized saving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fontstruct.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}