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That app is long gone and it was called Fontographer. I think the last version was 5.0. A lot of designers actually used it to create custom font sets.

From what I have read over the years in the forums the text engine will have to be rewritten or something like that.

I am just guessing but for the 1.10 release Serif talked about how they spent a lot time improving performance and the underlying code so now going forward I think they will be able to focus on getting features added faster. We will see if this is true in the next few months.

Software companies always charged for version upgrades. Remember Adobe before the subscription model? About every 2-3 years you had to purchase the next version. If you had CS2 you had to pay to get CS3 if you wanted the updates. On the Macromedia side I had just purchase FreeHand 7 then 8 came out soon after and it wasn't free but was offered at a discount.

LOL Whats funny is the company that owns Clip Studio Paint did this. After 10 years they announced V2.0 and 3.0..LOL It was and still is kind of confusing.

Well Serif says V2 by the end of the year so they could announce anytime between tomorrow and the next 3months.

Yeah the software is great. Each app is only several features away from blowing away other apps.

The subscription model if you want to call it that I think would work for Serif is the model the UI app Sketch uses. When you buy you get 1 year of updates then after that you can still continue to use the software going forward. If at some point you see updates you think are worth it you pay the renewal fee for another year of updates. Doing this affinity would need to be consistent with updates.

I guess a beta for ver 2.0 will be next. this was posted on Twitter today.

It hasn't been a year yet since 1.10.5 so there will probably be something soon. Heck I am still discovering things in the current release and whenever the next update arrives I would hope there are updates to the core features like more path and node editing options etc.

A roadmap like others have posted would be nice or at least we started working on features X, Y and Z and the beta will be soon. Anyways it is definitely time for some major updates since it seems like the last few months went to speed improvements etc.

Well with the timelines Serif has released in the past 2.0 could possibly show up end of year or early next. All the bug fixes might be 1.10, 1.11 etc. December 2015 - 1.4 December 2016 - 1.5 November 2017 - 1.6 June 2019 - 1.7 March 2020 - 1.8 February 2021 - 1.9 Fixing all the bugs with some usability fixes and updates of current features would be a good foundation to introduce brand new features later.

LOL They can have a power nap after a few more features are added.

Yes GarryP thank you..lol How did I not see this?? I don't think I have even seen a tutorial showing it either.

This is a option I mentioned that would be great in another thread. Contour gradient that follows what ever shape you draw or distort.