Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

Nothing yet.

v2.1.0 - 2025-02-12

Added:

• Complete type annotations for the whole library.

• effects.expand() for increasing the resolution of a font, along with the bdflib-expand command-line tool to wrap it.

• A new bdflib-validate command-line tool to exercise the rewritten parser (described below).

• Font.get() to match the existing Font.__getitem__() method.

Changed:

• reader.read_bdf() is much more robust, reports errors with a well-defined reader.ParseError class (instead of random AssertionError and ValueError exceptions), and can report warnings as well as errors. If your code did not check exceptions too closely (and it probably shouldn’t have), it should still work just fine.

Fixed:

• Font.new_glyph_from_data() now raises GlyphExists before adding the glyph to the font, rather than after.

v2.0.1 - 2022-01-14

Fixed:

• Fixed the v2.0.0 changelog entry.

v2.0.0 - 2022-01-14

Added:

• This changelog!

• Documentation for the FontFiller.missing_chars and FontFiller.unknown_classes attributes.

• Font now stores the standard BDF fields as attributes (name, ptSize, xdpi, ydpi).

• bdflib.xlfd makes it easy to check whether a font conforms to the X Logical Font Descriptor conventions, and to automatically fix many conformance problems.

Changed:

• Now that Font stores BDF fields in standard attributes, and now that bdflib.xlfd exists, the Font class no longer needs to assume BDF custom properties are used for anything in particular. In particular, the standard BDF fields are no longer mirrored to XLFD-style properties, there’s no special property names that cannot be overwritten, and XLFD properties will no longer be automatically synthesised when writing out a BDF font.

• The Glyph constructor (and therefore Font.new_glyph_from_data()) now takes bitmap data in the form of a list of integers, not the hex-encoded string used in the BDF on-disk format.

Removed:

• Support for Python 2.x

• Support for fonts whose point-size (the first parameter to the SIZE field in the font header) is a non-integer. I don’t know why I ever thought this was a good idea.

v1.1.3 - 2019-04-23

Fixed:

• We now support BDF comments in more places (although all the comments in a file are still concatenated)

• We now support values being separated from keywords by more than a single space.

v1.1.2 - 2019-04-22

Added:

• The examples in the API reference and tutorial are now automatically tested.

Fixed:

• The documentation now includes the tutorial.bdf file used by the tutorial.

v1.1.1 - 2018-11-19

Changed:

• Set the package long description to the README contents.

v1.1.0 - 2018-11-19

Added:

• Standalone documentation, including a tutorial

• The Glyph.iter_pixels() method, making it easier to get at the glyph bitmap data.

Fixed:

• FontFiller now supports supports generating spacing characters made from only combining characters.

v1.0.4 - 2016-10-19

Added:

• Support for Python 3.

v1.0.3 - 2016-09-25

Fixed:

• No longer breaks on BDF files containing blank lines.

v1.0.2 - 2016-03-27

Added:

• a README

• Support for running tests with Tox

Fixed:

• No longer requires to be installed from a Git checkout.

v1.0.1 - 2015-04-06

Changed:

• Repository moved from Gitorious to GitLab

v1.0.0 - 2009-03-22

Initial release.