DWBox 2.5.0.0

2.5.0.0 (2024-11-18)

New features:

• Live text and glyph analysis (use context menu to turn on/off).
• Prefer regular font faces when adding one per family.
• Alt+D to normalize selection to form D, Alt+C to normalize selection to form C.
• Support surrogate pairs in the input box, Alt+U to switch a selected codepoint between UTF-16 and UTF-32.
• Drag and drop fonts out of DWBox, both into other instances of the app and into a folder as a file.
• When fonts are not added on drop because they are already present, show a warning.

Requires at least Windows 10 build 20348 (in practice that means Windows 11)

DWBox 2.4.0.0

2.4.0.0 (2024-09-21)

New features:

• Switch between em scaled and design units in GlyphRun details
• Highlight individual boxes
• Add remaining faces from the same typographic family
• Remove fonts with missing glyphs (i.e. not mapping all requested characters)

Bug fixes:

• copy box image resulted in empty image
• setting size did not update box sizes

Requires at least Windows 10 build 20348 (in practice that means Windows 11)

DWBox 2.3.0.0

2.3.0.0 (2024-02-23)

• Layout options:
  • grouping by typographic family
  • stacking and wrapping arrangements
  • uniform arrangement now prefers vertical direction
  • remove item button shows remove options on click
• Format options:
  • text alignment
  • paragraph alignment
  • word wrapping
• Rendering options:
  • switch between ClearType and Grayscale
  • Grayscale rendering copies transparent bitmap into clipboard
  • when copying GlyphRun bitmap, holding Shift copies the whole bitmap (not just bounding box)
• Alt+X support in input box
• remember last added font and size
• option to add one font per family when matching fonts
• locale list with prefilled available locales

Requires at least Windows 10 build 20348 (in practice that means Windows 11)

DWBox 2.2.0.0

2.2.0.0 (2023-03-03)

• copy to clipboard (name and version, item bitmap, glyph run bitmap)
• fixed cases when glyph run analysis was empty
• remove all but this item
• save settings on font drop
• acronym decoding (CGJ ZWSP ZWNJ ZWJ LRM RLM LRE RLE PDF LRO RLO NBSP LRI RLI FSI PDI ISS ASS IAFS AAFS NADS NODS)
• \u and U+ decoding
• command line switch core for using DWriteCore
• fixed rendering crash under stress

Requires at least Windows 10 build 20348 (in practice that means Windows 11)

Private releases changelog

2.1.0.0 (2022-07-12)

• basic text analysis
• glyph run detailsf
• informational strings
• set size on existing items
• filters for removing items
• add all progress (in taskbar)
• remember last input text
• window can be marked with color (from taskbar)

2.0.0.0 (2022-07-02)

• Typeface selection migrated to DirectWrite
• GlyphRun and GlyphRunDescription report
• Drag & drop font files
• Configurable font size