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@TheHolyOneZ TheHolyOneZ released this 11 Sep 14:29
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Changelog

All notable changes to ZFontManager are documented here. The format follows
Keep a Changelog, and the project uses
Semantic Versioning.

0.3.0 — 2026-09-11

Added

  • Apply a font in Photoshop or Illustrator (Windows and macOS). Right-click a
    family → Apply in Photoshop… / Apply in Illustrator…, or use the command
    palette with a family selected. ZFontManager talks to the running app
    (COM on Windows, AppleScript on macOS) and switches every selected text
    layer or text frame to the font; with nothing selected it adds a new text
    layer using the family name as sample text. A sleeping font is woken "until
    close" first, so auditioning never installs anything permanently. Every
    outcome is reported in a toast (applied with layer count, layer created,
    app not running, no open document, app hasn't refreshed its font list yet).
    Not yet verified against a real Photoshop/Illustrator — the app-side
    plumbing and scripts are tested up to the Adobe boundary only. Feedback
    welcome.
  • Adding or removing a watched folder now indexes the library immediately,
    shows the progress inline in Settings, and reports what changed
    ("3 new fonts found", "4 fonts removed", or that no font files were found).
  • Linux bundles (AppImage, .deb, .rpm) are now built by the GitHub Actions
    workflow alongside the Windows and macOS installers, and
    prepare-release.mjs refreshes the website download page and checksums.

Fixed

  • Watched folders on Windows. Fonts in a folder added in Settings were
    shown as active, could not be deactivated ("font not found in per-user
    registry"), and every card said "This format can't be previewed yet".
    • Activation is now driven by what Windows itself lists in the font
      registry (read through the Win32 API instead of scraping reg.exe
      output). Fonts from a watched folder start inactive; switching one on
      registers it for your user account right where it is — external drives
      included — and switching it off unregisters it, without errors when there
      was nothing to unregister. Original registry names are remembered so a
      round trip leaves the registry exactly as it was.
    • Fonts registered from outside the per-user font folder are loaded again
      at app start so they are available to other apps immediately.
    • Bulk activation keeps going past a failing file and always persists what
      was applied.
  • Previews for fonts outside the standard folders. Watched folders (and
    on Linux /usr/local/share/fonts) were never allowed through the preview
    asset scope, so their fonts could not render. Every scanned folder is now
    allowed at startup and whenever the folder list changes.
  • Constant GPU load. A perpetual background-gradient animation kept the
    compositor busy on every frame and forced the blurred sidebar and detail
    panel to re-blur continuously — up to ~50 % GPU on large displays and
    integrated GPUs. The gradient is now static; idle GPU use drops to zero.
  • The in-app "Reduce motion" setting now also disables CSS animations
    (skeleton shimmer, toast flashes), not only the interface springs.
  • macOS: a deactivated (parked) font lost its preview, glyph map and
    OpenType feature list because those were read from the original path.
  • Registry entries ZFontManager writes on Windows now use the names Windows
    itself would use: (OpenType) for CFF files, every face named for
    collections, and a numbered suffix when a name is already taken.

Changed

  • All nine languages gained the strings for the features above.

[0.2.0] and earlier

Earlier releases predate this changelog. Their installers remain available on
the download page.

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