Open source is well established in cloud infrastructure, web hosting, embedded devices, and many other areas. SQLite as a database instead of an XML file a much improved user interface complex queries when searching for fonts a much improved sample text view tab new Classification tab to explore fonts using PANOSE metadata a new function to search for fonts using bitmap sample of a glyph non-destructive PANOSE metadata editor a new Compare tab to compare glyphs with optional fill, control points and metrics display rewritten Playground a new function to extract subsetted fonts from PDF to PFM files configurable shortcuts Python scripting new help system with search and bookmarks and actually new content. There's a whole bunch of new features and improvements that definitely deserve a review. Pierre Marchand has just released a new version of Fontmatrix.
Over a dozen of new nodes: clamp colors and clamp blacks, median filter, noise, bloom (ported from pbrt), pfstmo tonemapping operators, corner pin, add-mix, pde blur (ported from CImg), alpha levels, flip, key_mix improved existing nodes: Roto node (rotoscoping) was renamed to QShape and significantly improved mask input for color correction node opacity param foor layer node a new fully commented example node for potential new (3rd party) developers undo/redo for node params was implemented GradientShop support and six nodes based on it experimental support for OFX which makes it possible to use effects created for tools like Nuke, Combustion etc. Not many changes since our review + tutorial published a couple of weeks ago, but the whole set of features re previous version is quite impressive: New version (and the first one with source code tarball) of Ramen, free node-based composer, is out. Single-window UI based on GTK+3, with various improvements full-featured bone system new Skeleton Distortion layer to apply advanced image distortion new non-destructive Cutout tool for cutting bitmap images initial implementation of a sound layer with support for WAV, Ogg Vorbis, and MP3 files dynamics converter which adds basic rigid body physics: torque, friction, spring, inertia etc. Many of them were crowd-sponsored by Synfig’s community in 2013-2014.
What’s new The new version has a handful of major changes and improvements. Patience is one tough lady: after 13 years in development, free 2D vector-based animation application Synfig Studio finally gets the golden badge of v1.0, delivering a sleigh of improvements and new features.