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Font Gander Pro 1.2.6
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Font Gander Pro Version History
1.0 - 1.0.2 Limited-release versions. Mostly changes to documentation
and a few last-minute bug fixes.
1.0.3 First fully approved public release. Still no Kagi payment
mechanisms.
1.0.6 No substantial changes to the program, but Kagi is finally
available so a new release is warranted. The new version
number is bumped up a couple of notches to help avoid con-
fusion with the original Font Gander (sans Pro), which was
distributed in versions between 1.0 and 1.0.5.
1.0.7 Added "Mimic Type Reunion™ Sorting" option to the prefs.
This came after months of head-banging frustration, trying
to find a way to keep "B Garamond Bold" right next to "I
Garamond Italic" on the menu and on the printouts - that
sort of thing. Gander's method of shuffling fonts in and
out of memory makes this difficult if not impossible to
achieve by any conventional means, but if you have a well
organized font collection (as you should), this filename-
based sorting scheme can be just as good.
1.1 The new file-based sorting preference seemed to beg for a
corresponding upgrade to the plug-ins (i.e., those built
by Gander Quill), to recognize a new keyword that prints
suitcase file names similar to font names. So, we dipped
back into Gander Quill, added the "<FILE>" keyword, also
added "<PAGE>" for good measure, and just happened to spy
a potentially nasty bug that could have caused problems
when keywords were used in text boxes holding more than
255 characters (fixed). Taken together, the improvements
to both Gander Pro and Gander Quill seemed to warrant a
major new version number.
1.1.1 Prettied-up Gander Pro's long-neglected prefs dialog and
whipped up a quick band-aid fix for Gander Quill's cos-
metic problem with Greg Landweber's "SmoothType" system
extension. The SmoothType problem remains, but it's not
as noticable most of the time, and either way, it never
did affect printing (to the best of my knowledge).
1.1.2 Well, it turned out I could do a little better than file-
based sorting in my attempt to mimic Type Reunion. It's
now called "Family-Based" sorting - a step away from a
trademark infringement even though it's a step closer to
the goal. Still can't sort family members very nicely, to
make sure Roman comes before Italic for instance, but the
members do hang together without regard to which suitcase
they're in. Again, it's very hard to do these things when
the resources are not memory-resident. Stay tuned.
1.1.3 Fixed the magnifier window so it can't go part-way off-
screen in grid mode. It now appears wholly on whichever
screen the mouse-click occurred on. Also added tab key
selectability to the font menu. Typing the tab key moves
you down one item on the menu; a shift-tab moves you up.
This will help users of TypeTamer™, which currently seems
to have a bug that disables menu items in groups of 32.
These users can tab through the disabled items normally,
and as always they can temporarily override TypeTamer by
holding down shift when they select from the menu. The
initial reports of the TypeTamer problem gave me a bit of
a scare because it sounded like it may have been caused
by metacharacters - namely the "(" character - in Post-
Script font names. Gander was adding the PostScript names
to the menu as part of the new "Family-Based Sorting".
Although it turned out that this was not the problem, it
is still a potential problem, and so PostScript names
will no longer be displayed on the menu. Sorry.
1.1.4 More cosmetic improvements to the Preferences dialog.
Also made the grabber-hand/magnifier switching more com-
patible with multi-button mice and trackballs.
1.2 Added the ability to customize the strings in Gander
view. Is that worth a major version number increase? I
don't know, but a rose is a rose is a rose.
1.2.1 Minor facelift to the custom strings dialog. No changes
other than that, but the new Font Gander Pro Website
<http://home.att.net/~BHuey> calls for a new release with
appropriate documentation revisions.
1.2.2 Fixed an annoying problem with the registration algorithm
and lifted the restriction on "Include Natives" in print-
ing when "Family-Based Sorting" is active.
1.2.3 Limited release, partial bug-fix (see next entry).
1.2.4 Fixed rare startup bugs in both Font Gander Pro and Gander
Quill, and synchronized version numbers of both programs.
Added "metered cursors" to Gander Quill, to facillitate
more accurate placement of guides.
1.2.5 Limited release, partial bug-fix (see next entry).
1.2.6 Fixed a Gander Pro bug that caused some printing errors
to go unreported. Print jobs would terminate with a beep
and nothing more. Fixed a Gander Quill bug that caused
bombs when picture objects containing text were rendered
into thumbnail picts during the "Build Plug-in" process.
Also added spinning cursor so that long builds aren't
mistaken for freezes. In addition, made overdue changes to
Gander Pro's documentation, to incorporate these revision
improvements into the main text, and beefed up the online
"Help..." window. It's now an actual, genuine scrolling
text, good enough to replace the Quick Start guide.