changes:
-High quality cross-platform print and pdf output by use of cairo
-Rotated text, but only with the new "Standard - Ouline" object
-Object properties dialog finally does handle multiple objects
-Improved text edit mode for consistent handling of the Delete key
-A new integrated user interface mode with diagrams in tabs
-Almost 200 bugs and feature requests resolved
pkgsrc note: the printing problem mentioned in TODO is resolved
(some outdated nonsense in options.mk disabled use of "cairo")
changes:
* Text rendering is now based on the TextLine objects, each of which
contain one line of text along with font and font height. This has
allowed proper control of text width and speedier rendering.
* Visio VXD files can now be imported and exported, thanks to Ian
Redfern.
-internal API changes
* A number of new keyboard shortcuts.
* Layer visibility is now undoable.
* New sheets for Business Process Modelling
-bugfixes
Lubomir Sedlacik
(no PKGREVISION bump because the default case is not affected)
Help display seems fundamentally broken to me in the !gnome case;
the code looks for an "index.html" which is not installed (and which
no make rule is present for).
changes:
-"mainpoint" system allows lines to always point towards the middle
-Python plug-ins added
-automatically change grid size depending on zoom level
-Text input now highlights the object
-security problems fixed in XFig import and Python plug-in
-new shapes added
-new UML objects added
-Full screen mode
-Improved SVG import
-Plug-in loading and unloading doesn't require restart
-i18n problems fixed
-bugs have been fixed
-Command line usage has improved
-ses the new GTK+ File Dialog
pkgsrc change:
-precompile Python files
dia-0.94: 17-Aug-2004
Nothing new happened since last prerelease, releasing.
dia-0.94-pre6: 7-Aug-2004
Fixed crash bug in save as, as well as string sorting issue and crash bug
in UML class and group unhighlighting bug.
dia-0.94-pre5: 2-Aug-2004
Finally fixed memory leak from layout cache.
dia-0.94-pre4: 1-Aug-2004
Important fix for export filters. Still some leaking from layout cache,
but not as awful.
dia-0.94-pre3: 25-Jul-2004
Fixing a number of png issues and a few bugs.
dia-0.94-pre2: 17-Jul-2004
Second prerelease of version 0.94. Bunch of small fixes, but together
important enough to make a new prerelease.
dia-0.94-pre1: 04-Jul-2004
First prerelease of version 0.94. News in this version:
* Highlighting of objects when connecting to them makes it easier to
connect.
* New shape sets include:
- RDP (Petri Networks shapes)
- KAOS (Goal-Directed Requirements Acquisition)
- I* (Intentional STrategic Actor Relationships modelling)
- Jackson (Jackson Diagrams)
- ChemEng (chemical engineering)
* Hexagonal grid, for all you chemists out there.
* Allow selection between layers, selectable in layers dialog.
* Disparate persistence systems replaced by one combined system using XML,
leaves unknown preferences alone.
* New renderer plug-in for Cairo rendering API.
* New renderer plug-in for WMF outside of Windows.
* New arrow head: Backslash.
* Rounded corners on zigzaglines and polylines.
* Automaticall open new diagram if now chosen at start.
* Diagram modified status now based on undo information.
* Wrapping operations arguments in UML objects.
* Better positioning of association texts.
* More persistence of toolbox selections and dialog entries.
* Better handling of dialogs when parent dialogs close.
* Changed from SGML to XML for docs, still DocBook.
* Fix shape background color compatibility problem.
* Many smaller bug fixes, leaks closed and stuff.
many changes / fixes (see NEWS for details)
including:
* Autorouting of orthconn lines. Still fairly primitive, doesn't avoid
objects, but at least goes the right way out of connectionpoints (when
connectionpoints have their dirs set).
* Parenting. Objects can now be set to be parents of others (so far, only
the UML Large Package is set so by default). Objects created into these
or explicitly added are moved with the parent and cannot be moved
outside.
* Dynamic grid that changes with zoom scale.
* Grid now has thicker line every n lines (default 5). Stippled grid
option removed.
* Mouse wheel(s) can be used to scroll and zoom.
* More diagram properties can be set for existing diagrams, and are loaded
and saved.
* UML Component features: Event sources and sinks.
* Improved undo of grouping and ungrouping.
* Updates of the Python plugin:
- groups, rgb, and images can be manipulated
- better svg parsing
* Gnome and Gnome HIG conformance better.
* Better text alignment in flowchart objects.
* Better SVG export.
* Better arrow head calculations.
* More tooltips.
This also fixes a gcc3 build problem.
ok'ed by wiz@
Note: dia may crash if LC_CTYPE is unset. Setting it to
"en_US.ISO8859-1" works for me)
* in FreeType mode, dia now looks for the xfs configuration files too
to retrieve the font path.
* Polish version of the manual added
* a load-time compatibility issue with files produced by 0.88.1 was
found and fixed for some UML objects.
* we now better use the intltool facilities
* increased tolerance to broken XML files
* ER objects can have their text size changed
* a couple bugs (i18n, l10n, p9y) fixed
* from now on, all XML files produced by dia will be encoded as UTF-8.
* Metapost renderer
* Faster Postscript files.
* More options in the UML Class dialog.
* An optional menu bar can be added to each display window, in
addition to the popup menu.
* All RenderObjects have been replaced by equivalent shapes, and
RenderObject support code removed.
* All Lazyprop objects have been converted to Standard Properties
instead. Lazyprop support code removed.
* lots of internal changes and cleanups in the StdProp code. This
breaks binary compatibility.
* Shapes can now have a <svg:text> element.
* polybeziers and beziergons now have their bounding box properly computed.
* a few new shapes have been added.
* crashes in the right-click menu have been nailed.
* Input method support should work correctly now.
* SVG shape files now use namespace from final W3C recommendation.
Addon shapes will have to be modified to use the
http://www.w3.org/2000/SVG namespace for SVG. SVG export filter
also uses correct doctype.
* menus should now work in both gtk+ and gnome builds and have no i18n
related problems. Don't look in app/menus.c.
* pstricks renderer output should now work fine without modification now.
* gdk-pixbuf is now a requirement for building dia. It no longer
falls back to imlib if it can't find gdk-pixbuf.
* handle "file not found" errors better in the image object type.
* Dia now has documentation thanks to the GDP. The help menu now has
more than just an about menu item.
* Antialiased drawing mode probably won't crash dia anymore
* Dia has a splash screen now (which can be turned off with the
--nosplash option).
* Updated bonobo support (when --enable-bonobo is used)
* added expose event compression for the dia canvas, which makes dia
more usable over remote X connections.
* Many objects updated to use properties interface.
* experimental unicode print support (--enable-unicode)
* updates to the python plugin and now distribute it with dia (--with-python)
* many new shapes and export filter plugins.
* other bug fixes.
