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The version 5.0 of fntsample was released with the following notable changes:

• Add command line flag that allows to use pango for text layout (by Khaled Hosny, requires pango >= 1.37)
• Add possiblility to create PDF outline directly using cairo (by Khaled Hosny, requires cairo >= 1.15.4)
• Switch to CMake as build system
• Add command line flag for loading Unicode blocks file during runtime.

The project repository and issues tracker were moved to the new location: https://github.com/eugmes/fntsample

This version adds support for SVG output (works correctly only for single page output).

This version adds support for files that contain multiple fonts, like TrueType Collections.

Git repository is now used for fntsample development. The old subversion repository will not be updated anymore.

In this version scaling for fonts with large vertical metrics was added.
This version supports localization using gettext and includes Ukrainian translation (others are welcome).

The license was changed to GPLv3 or later.

With this version it is possible to use Unicode blocks file in DOS format, like one from zipped version of Unicode 5.1 UCD.

This version fixes crash (segmentation fault) with some values for -i and -x options.

With this version it is possible to change default font styles and sizes for headers and numbers displayed on font samples.

In this version new options for selecting Unicode ranges for samples and support for long options were added. Some bugfixes and optimizations were also made.

In this version support for creating fonts samples in pdf format with bookmarks (aka outlines, aka index) was added. Bookmarks allow to easily jump to needed Unicode blocks.

With this version it is possible to make samples of fonts in formats other than TrueType/OpenType, like Type1 and BDF. Error handling and reporting were also improved in this release.

This version fixes build error with non-default location of Unicode blocks file (Blocks.txt).