Releases · fonttools/fonttools

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What's Changed

Full Changelog: 4.54.0...4.54.1

@n8willis

[Docs] Small docs cleanups by @n8willis (#3611)
[Docs] cleanup code blocks by @n8willis (#3627)
[Docs] fix Sphinx builds by @n8willis (#3625)
[merge] Minor fixes to documentation for merge by @drj11 (#3588)
[subset] Small tweaks to pyftsubset documentation by @RoelN (#3633)
[Tests] Do not require fonttools command to be available by @behdad (#3612)
[Tests] subset_test: add failing test to reproduce issue #3616 by @anthrotype (#3622)
[ttLib] NameRecordVisitor: include whole sequence of character variants' UI labels, not just the first by @anthrotype (#3617)
[varLib.avar] Reconstruct mappings from binary by @behdad (#3598)
[varLib.instancer] Fix visual artefacts with partial L2 instancing by @Hoolean (#3635)
[varLib.interpolatable] Support discrete axes in .designspace by @behdad (#3599)
[varLib.models] By default, assume OpenType-like normalized space by @behdad (#3601)

4.53.1

[feaLib] Improve the sharing of inline chained lookups (#3559)
[otlLib] Correct the calculation of OS/2.usMaxContext with reversed chaining contextual single substitutions (#3569)
[misc.visitor] Visitors search the inheritance chain of objects they are visiting (#3581)

[ttLib.removeOverlaps] Support CFF table to aid in downconverting CFF2 fonts (#3528)
[avar] Fix crash when accessing not-yet-existing attribute (#3550)
[docs] Add buildMathTable to otlLib.builder documentation (#3540)
[feaLib] Allow UTF-8 with BOM when reading features (#3495)
[SVGPathPen] Revert rounding coordinates to two decimal places by default (#3543)
[varLib.instancer] Refix output filename decision-making (#3545, #3544, #3548)

[varLib.cff] Restore and deprecate convertCFFtoCFF2 that was removed in 4.52.0 release as it is used by downstream projects (#3535).

Fixed a small syntax error in the reStructuredText-formatted NEWS.rst file which caused the upload to PyPI to fail for 4.52.2. No other code changes.

[varLib.interpolatable] Ensure that scipy/numpy output is JSON-serializable (#3522, #3526)
[housekeeping] Regenerate table lists, to fix pyinstaller packaging of the new VARC table (#3531, #3529)
[cffLib] Make CFFToCFF2 and CFF2ToCFF more robust (#3521, #3525)

Fixed a small syntax error in the reStructuredText-formatted NEWS.rst file which caused the upload to PyPI to fail for 4.52.0.
No other code changes.

Added support for the new VARC (Variable Composite) table that is being proposed to OpenType spec (#3395).
For more info: https://github.com/harfbuzz/boring-expansion-spec/blob/main/VARC.md
[ttLib.main] Fixed decompiling all tables (90fed08).
[feaLib] Don't reference the same lookup index multiple times within the same feature record, it is only applied once anyway (#3520).
[cffLib] Moved methods to desubroutinize, remove hints and unused subroutines from subset module to cffLib (#3517).
[varLib.instancer] Added support for partial-instancing CFF2 tables! Also, added method to down-convert from CFF2 to CFF 1.0, and CLI entry points to convert CFF<->CFF2 (#3506).
[subset] Prune unused user name IDs even with --name-IDs='*' (#3410).
[ttx] use GNU-style getopt to intermix options and positional arguments (#3509).
[feaLib.variableScalar] Fixed value_at_location() method (#3491)
[psCharStrings] Shorten output of encodeFloat (#3492).
[bezierTools] Fix infinite-recursion in calcCubicArcLength (#3502).
[avar2] Implement avar2 support in TTFont.getGlyphSet() (#3473).