Developing Keyman
Character Identifier tool
The Tavultesoft Character Identifier breaks down a Unicode string to show you how it is constructed, and identifies the fonts on your system which will work best with the text you have entered.
Developing Keyman
Accepting Unicode input in your Windows application
This blog post is a refresh of some documentation that has been buried for years on the Tavultesoft website. It is perhaps less important now than it was 5 years ago, but it is still helpful for those poor souls among us who are tasked with looking after existing legacy Read more…
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Designing the new Tavultesoft home page
As part of the Keyman Desktop 8.0 release work, we needed to give the Tavultesoft website some attention: the pages were looking dated, and the content had grown over time and was getting out of control. The Tavultesoft website has thousands of pages of content, and finding the right content Read more…
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Keyman Desktop 8.0 Default Options
Today we had a meeting to finalise the default options for Keyman Desktop 8.0, and determine how we would migrate option settings when upgrading from earlier versions of Keyman Desktop. For those of you who are interested, I reproduce the table below. Any comments or suggestions are always welcomed! Option Read more…
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Adobe Reader X’s Sandbox and Keyman Desktop
Adobe recently released a secured version of Reader which includes a new security feature called sandboxing. A sandbox restricts the privileges of the PDF viewer built into Adobe Reader to access computer resources, which in turn helps to reduce the impact of as-yet undiscovered security flaws in the PDF viewer, Read more…
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Installing Keyman 8
In the last week, I've spent a fair bit of time tidying up the installer. There were a number of issues I had to resolve, such as problems upgrading when the user's admin status had been removed in between the original install and the upgrade … yep, we've had to Read more…
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More new features in Keyman Desktop 8
In my last blog I talked about some of the more visible new features in version 8 of Keyman Desktop. In this blog I'd like to quickly go through some of the important features that are just little bit less visible. Full x64 support Keyman Desktop 8 now includes full Read more…
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Keyman Desktop 8.0 Beta Release
Today we released a new beta for Keyman Desktop 8.0. This beta is very nearly feature complete — we held off on just one area so we could get this beta out so you could start using it. In this blog I'd like to go through a few of the Read more…
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Keyman 8 Beta Announcement
I’m very pleased to announce that we are today publishing the first beta of Keyman Desktop 8. This preview release of Keyman Desktop 8 includes a bunch of new features and most importantly full x64 support. This release is very incomplete but we wanted to get the new beta x64 Read more…
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Differences in KeymanWeb and Keyman Desktop keyboard source files
Most Keyman Desktop keyboards can be compiled for KeymanWeb without modification. However, there are a few platform differences that it is important to be aware of, and a few differences in the supported Keyman Keyboard Language features between Keyman Desktop and KeymanWeb. The table below details the differences. Feature Keyman Read more…