Version History
2.1.4 (released Aug 29, 2008)
- Silk now runs on Mac OS X 10.5.
- Dropped Mac OS X 10.3 support. Silk now requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later.
- No longer dynamically loads Objective-C.
- Moved a lot of code to the awesomely awesome CoreText APIs (10.5 only).
- Adjusted some code so it can be moved to CoreText in the future.
- Attempted to make Cocoa applications respect the baseline of a font when a custom theme font is used.
- Note: Classic is not supported in Mac OS X 10.5 and the fonts in the Classic fonts folder will not be loaded by Mac OS X. You may have to adjust your Silk settings to address any missing fonts.
- Updated to APE 2.5, UI 3.7.1, and SCR 1.5
2.1.3 (released May 31, 2006)
- Silk is now a Universal (Fat) binary compatible with the new Intel-based Macs (ICBMs).
- Addresses a display problem with synthetic font styles in a future version of WebKit if font substitution is enabled.
- Fixes the minimum font size settings in applications that use WebKit.
- Addressed a potential problem with the font in the location field in Safari.
- Fixes a potential over release of memory if font substitution was enabled but no fonts were set to be substituted.
- Added an Updater that automatically checks for updates at user-specified intervals.
- No longer have to relaunch System Preferences after entering your registration information in order to see it.
- Greatly reduces the dependence on font families. Silk no longer substitutes fonts based on the stored Font Family ID. This means substitution and changing the theme font should continue to work even if you have duplicate fonts with the same name but different Font Family IDs.
- If the specified theme font is no longer available, Silk no longer replaces the theme font with Geneva (or some other random font).
2.1.2 (released Oct 13, 2005)
- Addresses a crash in the recently released iTunes 6.0 when accessing the music store if font substitution is enabled.
2.1.1 (released Sep 26, 2005)
- Addressed a problem that would cause applications to crash if there was a new moon out, Jupiter was in alignment with Mars, and you happened to be running Macromedia Dreamweaver 8.
- Includes Smart Crash Reports.
- Removed a spurious message that appeared in the console log if the fallback font did not have a font family.
2.1 (released Jun 21, 2005)
- This is a free update for registered users.
- Tiger Compatible
- Dropped Mac OS X 10.2.x support.
- No longer crashes iCal 2.0
- Added an option to disable antialiasing for fonts.
- The font panel in the preference pane now only shows the font names and no longer shows any effects or sizes that aren't valid for Silk.
- No longer need to setup a substitution rule to get the location field in Safari to respect the theme font.
- Fixed a problem that prevented newly installed fonts from appearing in the Silk preference pane. Silk now completely rescans fonts when the Mac OS X font cache is updated. This also means it may rescan the first time you open the Silk preference pane on each login.
- New Registration System. Registered users are able to click the Update Now button to quickly and easily update their registration. The new serial number works across users so if you have permissions to write to /Library, all users will get the new SN automatically.
- TinkerTool is no longer necessary to get Silk to completely change the theme font in Cocoa applications.
- Dutch translation by Dhr. Tom Klaver.