The great selecting
Now Ctrl, Shift and click work as expected for font selection.
FontBase now properly renders on retina and HiDPI screens.
Fonts, folders and collections are now ordered alphabetically.
To select a font now, you can simply click on it. To select multiple fonts, just hold Ctrl and click on them. Shift will select all fonts in between two selected ones. A click on a selected font, while holding Ctrl will unselect it.
Preview text is now saved on exit and restored when the app is opened again.
Added a donation suggestion window, which will appear from time to time (not too often, we hope).
The long awaited Mac
Yay!
Double yay!
Now you can activate a single font and it will be available across your whole system!
Just drag and drop a folder with subfolders into FontBase and let the magic do the rest!
Now all the changes in your system are tracked automatically and displayed immediately in FontBase.
Now you can rename a collection and delete fonts from it.
Now you can rename a collection and delete fonts from it.
And a lot of sweat and tears, also.
Absolutely new and improved UI.
We have entirely rebuild the whole app. We now use React as our main engine. This will allow us to do improvements much more quickly in the future and the overall stability of the app is greatly improved.
You can now activate all fonts in a collection or folder by clicking the circle at the left side.
You can now select multiple fonts by holding Shift and clicking on them.
You can now delete a font from a collection by selecting it and starting to drag it. You will see a delete section in the right side of the app. Just drop the font there, and it will be removed from a collection.
You can now rename a collection by clicking on its name, while the collection is selected.
Improved font rendering speed. Now works better with large-size font files.
Improved font analyzing. The app should now recognize fonts better.
All activated fonts are deactivated when the app is closed and re-activated when it is opened again.
Temporarily removed text alignment and opentype features until we're working on a better implementation.
Temporarily removed the apply text style feature until we're working on a better implementation.
Improved local database speed and management.
Added an indicator to show when an update is downloading and when it is ready to install.
Automatic updates should now work on every OS.
The small folders
You can now add folders with fonts to the app.
The fonts should take less time to display and render now.
All fonts in folders, that are added to the app are activated automatically and available across the whole system. Fonts are deactivated when the app is closed.
Text is automatically selected now, when clicking on the sample text control.
Added opentype features support. You can now select the preferred features in the dropdown menu at the toolbar.
The installation archive is now much smaller in size.
Changed the location of update files to a static managed server.
Fixed a bug when not all found fonts were displayed properly in the preview window.
The birth
Woooo!
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