PrintMyFonts

Change Log

On this page, you can find the history of changes made to the program PrintMyFonts.

• New Language (2024-08-31): Türkçe (Turkish).
• New Language (2024-01-17): Български (Bulgarian).
• Window Positioning (2023-12-27): With the new option "Settings > System Integration > Always on Top" you can keep the window of PrintMyFonts permanently in the foreground above all other program windows.
• Position Storage (2023-06-09): Improved storage of the last window position in environments with more than one monitor.
• Size Storage (2023-06-06): Improved storage of the program window size and the program layout under high DPI conditions.
• New Function of the File List (2023-02-26): Via the context menu of the file list (right mouse button) and the new menu item "List Properties", a summary overview of all files in the file list broken down by their format can be displayed.
• New Function of the File List (2023-01-24): Copy file paths to the clipboard (so far it was only possible to copy files into the clipboard).
• New Language (2023-01-19): Српски (Serbian) in the versions for Windows, Linux and macOS..
• New Placeholders (2022-11-15): With the new placeholders %type% and %ext%, the font type (TrueType, OpenType, Raster, Type 1 y así sucesivamente) as well as the file extension of the file of a font (TTF, OTF, FON, PFM/PFB y así sucesivamente) can be shown in the font list. In contrast to the old placeholder %format%, now also installed fonts are supported on Windows.
• Font Type Filter (2022-11-13): With this new filter, the font list can be filtered according to the type (file format) of a font. Available are the options OpenTyp (OTF), TrueType (TTF), TrueType Collection (TTC), Raster (FON), Type 1 (PFM/PFB) and others. A multiple selection is possible.
• Filter Selection (2022-11-02): In the dialog for selecting the format filter, a context menu can now be opened with the right mouse button, with which all formats can be activated or deactivated at the same time. This means that a format selection can be made faster, since not every font format has to be clicked individually.
• Adjustments of the User Interface (2022-10-22): Adjustments of the program windows and dialogs for an improved display under high-dpi resolution conditions.
• System Integration (2022-07-31): Possibility to integrate PrintMyFonts into the "Send to" context menu of the Windows Explorer in order to open and show font files and folders with font files in the program directly from the Explorer by right-click. You can find the option in the menu "Settings > System Integration > Context Menu".
• New Parameters (2022-07-30): Font files and folders with font files can now be passed to PrintMyFonts by parameter in order to show the corresponding fonts with the program.
• Settings (2022-01-19): To reduce the size of the settings files, only those settings are stored, which deviate from the default settings.
• New Keyboard Shortcuts (2021-07-27): CTRL+P (Print current font list), CTRL+S (Save current font list according to the current selection of the export format), Shift+CTRL+S (Show Export Dialog), CTRL+R (Refresh Font List), CTRL+T (Show Font Test window), CTRL+O (Add Fonts from Font Files), CTRL+D (Add Folder with Font Files), CTRL+M (Show window for managing font files) and ESC (Quit program).
• Restructuring of the Menus (2021-07-27): Restructuring and new menu items in the menu of the main window and in the context menu of the font list, including options to add individual font files or font files from folders, options for direct printing and saving of the font list as well as for updating the list.
• New Placeholder (2021-06-13): The new placeholder %abs0num% stands for the position of the font within the font list with so many leading zeros that the character length corresponds to the character length of the number of fonts (suitable for the placeholder %abs%).
• New Program Version (2021-05-05): 64 bit version for Linux as Debian package, RPM package and portable binary.
• Language Detection (2021-05-03): Improvement of the automatic language detection of the system language when starting the program.
• RTL-GUI Optimization (2021-04-14): Optimization of the font list and the general program layout for languages written from right to left.
• New Language (2021-04-12): اَلْعَرَبِيَّة (Arabic).
• Wildcard Search (2021-03-30): In addition to the search with regular expressions, the filter for the file name and the file extension now also supports simpler wildcard searches with * (any series of one or more characters or no character) and ? (single character).
• Remove nonexistent Font Files (2021-03-21): New option in the pop-up menu of the font file list, which can check whether the files in the list still exist or, for example, have been deleted or moved after being added.
• Font Zoom (2021-02-03): The fonts in the font list can now be zoomed with the mouse wheel while pressing the CTRL key.
• Improved Help (2021-02-01): A readme file with instructions for running the program has been added to the ZIP archive for the macOS version.
• Search Folders (2021-01-19): Improved dialog control when adding files from multiple folders.
• Multiple selection of Folders (2021-01-14): In the dialog for adding font files from folders, with the CTRL key pressed, several folders can now be selected, searched and added at the same time.
• New Keyboard Shortcuts (2020-12-23): You can use DEL to delete all selected fonts or font files, Shift + DEL to delete all fonts or font files not selected and CTRL + DEL to remove all fonts from the font list or files from the file list.
• New Placeholders (2020-11-30): With the new placeholders %0num%, %00num%, %000num%, %0000num% and %00000num% you can output the position of the font in the list with one to five leading zeros.
• New Language (2020-02-24): Polski (Polish).
• New Program Version (2019-08-13): 64 bit version for macOS.
• Export and Import of added Font Files (2019-07-31): The list of added font files can now be exported as a file. The exported file can be imported in this or other programs again.
• New Language (2019-07-10): 日本語 (Japanese).
• Export Directory (2018-12-10): Storage of the last export directory.
• Custom Columns (2018-12-08): In the file list for the font files, now, custom columns can be set by right-clicking.
• Font Tester (2018-12-05): Separate window to try a font.
• New Export Format (2018-08-13): Open Document Text (ODT) for LibreOffice or OpenOffice.
• New Export Format (2018-08-13): DOCX for Microsoft Word.
• New Language (2018-06-12): Italiano (Italian).
• Saving of window position and window size (2018-02-10): Position and size of the program window can now be saved in the startup settings and setting profiles.
• Column-Layout (2018-02-07): The export formats "RTF-Document" and "HTML-Website" can now also be created with an arbitrary number of columns.
• Pangrams (2018-01-18): Additional pangrams (sentences containing all letters of a language) have been added for the languages English, German, Danish, Dutch, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish as well as the option "Show Pangrams of all languages".
• Placeholders (2018-01-18): In addition to the existing placeholders, the new placeholder %abs% standing for the total number of all fonts in the list can now also be used in both text fields.
• Line Breaks (2018-01-18): With the placeholder <linebreak> a line break can now be generated in the text fields. The line break is visible in all export formats as well as in the font list of the program.
• Raster Fonts (2018-01-17): Special treatment and font size adjustment to enable the display of Microsoft raster fonts (also known as Screen Fonts or Bitmapped Fonts) such as Courier, Fixedsys, MS Sans Serif, MS Serif, Small Fonts, System and Terminal.
• Print Font as Image (2018-01-17): New option in the print settings, which makes it possible to print a font not directly but as a picture. This approach resolves the problem that sometimes not all fonts could be printed. More information.
• Improvements (2017-12-26): Better support of Simplified Chinese Font Names.
• High-DPI-Improvements (2017-12-06): Improvements of the graphical user interface and the icons for high dpi settings.
• Font List (2017-12-05): Implementation of Page-Up and Page-Down scrolling by keyboard and by mouse click on the open space of the scrollbar.
• New Language (2017-09-22): Nederlands (Dutch).
• Print Word Wrap (2017-07-16): You can now determine whether the font list should be printed with or without breaking long lines.
• New Language (2017-03-23): Dansk (Danish).
• Default Fonts (2016-09-18): You can now specify default font files and folders that are automatically loaded at startup.
• Text Alignment (2016-09-14): The text can now be adjusted vertically (top, center, bottom) in the image export format.
• Image Size (2016-08-17): The image export can now optionally be carried out using a fixed or dynamic width and/or height.
• Text Alignment (2016-08-17): The text can now be adjusted left aligned, right aligned or centered in all export formats.
• Font Style Filter (2016-07-17): With the new filter options for font styles, you can categorize and filter all of your fonts according to the type (sans serif fonts, fonts with serifs or other fonts), line weight and character width (fixed or variable).
• New Operating System (2016-07-13): Release of the Linux version as Debian package, RPM package and binary.
• New Language (2016-05-29): Français (French).
• New Language (2016-05-27): Русский (Russian).
• New Operating System (2016-05-24): Release of the Mac OS X version.
• Improvement (2016-05-23): Speed optimizations of the font list.
• File Associations (2016-02-05): Settings (File Extension PFS, PrintMyFonts Settings) can now be linked with the program directly out of the application - Info.
• New Function (2015-12-27): Filter-Options for searching font files.
• New Language (2015-12-09): Português do Brasil (Brazilian Portuguese).
• Colors (2015-10-29): There are new options in the settings for setting the font color and background color for the font list in the application as well as for the export formats individually.
• Font Variants (2015-10-27): It is now possible to show, export and compare multiple variants of the same font (regular, bold, italic, bold italic) within one list under each other. The variants can be seleted from the settings General > Font Variants.
• New Language (2015-10-11): Español (Spanish).
• New Language (2015-10-08): Added Translation to 简体中文 (Simplified Chinese).
• Manage Font Files (2015-10-07): The program now has a window in which it is possible to manage the added fonts from files.
• Filter (2015-10-07): It is now possible to filter the font list.
• Image-Export (2015-10-07): You can now set a maximum number of fonts for each image and thus create multiple images with a defined number of fonts simultaneously.
• Save Settings (2015-10-07): It is now possible to save settings.
• Advanced Settings (2015-10-07): The settings are now separated by the different export formats.
• New Function (2015-10-07): You are now able to define two different texts, one which will be written in the corresponding font, and another one which will be written in the default font. With this, it is possible, for example, to write the font name behind symbol fonts in a readable way.
• Preview of each Font (2015-10-07): Now you can see an arbitrary text written in the font even in the font list.
• Constants (2015-10-07): In both text fields, it is possible to use some constants such as %name% (name of font), %num% (numbering), %format% or %filename%
• New Export-Formats (2015-10-07): RTF-Document, HTML-Web Page, PNG-Image. The printing is now carried out via the print dialog by default and there is a new function to open the new file directly after creating.
• Improvement (2015-02-01): Improvements for multi screens.
• Improvement (2013-06-26): Improvement of displaying fonts with different heights in the font list.
• Improvement (2012-08-06): Bug during font counting fixed.
• New Function (2012-02-01): In the output box, the possibility to print with the standard printer dialog was added. So, it is now possible to change the printer or other settings with the dialog.
• Improvement of existing functions (2012-01-10): Improvement of the user experience during user inputs. Bug fix for Windows versions Vista and 7. Cleaning up of the main window.
• New Function (2011-04-23): Now it is possible to print the name of the font in the font list both in a standard font as well as in the selected font. So it is now possible to also read the names of unreadable fonts.
• New Function (2011-02-28): Beyond exporting as print, PDF or image, you can now also export your font lists as Microsoft Word® Document.
• New Function (2011-01-15): Fonts that are not installed can now alternatively exported with or without directory and/or file name.
• New Function (2011-01-10): You can now export alternatively in portrait or landscape orientation. The function can be found in the menu "Advanced Settings".

Note: Minor changes, such as updating an existing program translation or fixing a bug, are typically not included in this list. Therefore, if you find a newer version of the program in the download area than the most recent date in this list, we have typically made such a change to the program.