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- =============================================================================
- Version 3.1
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-
- Patchlevel 4 (Aug, 16, 1995)
-
- NOTE 1: The Display PostScript code is not supported anymore until some kind
- user can debug it for me, as I have no access to a server with DPS
- extensions. Use ghostscript for rendering your EPS files. It gives
- a color image on the xfig canvas now anyway.
-
- NOTE 2: Because Unisys has stated that they will not charge royalties for the
- use of the LZW compression algorithm in *FREE* programs, xfig will
- continue to support importing and exporting of GIF images.
- However, be aware that if you sell xfig, for example as part of a CD-ROM
- package with freeware, you may be liable for paying royalties to Unisys.
- The authors of xfig and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory cannot
- be held responsible in any case.
-
- NOTE 3: Because of the patent/licensing issue with Unisys and the LZW compression
- algorithm used in GIF files, the author of ghostscript has decided to
- remove GIF support from that program.
- xfig will now use PCX output from ghostscript when importing EPS files.
- This means that you must compile ghostscript with the pcx256 and pbmraw
- drivers.
- Additionally, there is a bug in the pcx driver in Aladdin Ghostscript
- versions prior to 3.32, which writes an incorrect pcx file for images
- with odd width (not even). There is a compile-time flag set (the
- default) to make xfig add one pixel to the width of an odd-width image
- when it reads in the pcx output from Ghostscript.
- If you have Aladdin Ghostscript 3.32 or newer (which wasn't released
- as of this writing) you may comment out that flag and your images will
- have the proper width. However, one pixel extra in width shouldn't
- matter for most imported eps files.
-
- NOTE 4: The -textoutline (resource textoutline) option has been moved into the
- -debug option. This makes xfig draw a red box around text objects for
- debugging purposes.
-
- NEW FEATURES:
-
- o JPEG (JFIF) images can be imported and exported - see Examples/pictures.fig
- Unless you have an image (picture object) in your figure, you may not
- gain very much by exporting in JPEG over GIF because of the nature of
- compression used in both methods. GIF is usually better for line
- drawings or drawings with large blocks of continuous color (e.g. filled
- polygons). JPEG is usually better for compressing images.
- The quality factor for exporting JPEG is fixed at 75. This seems to be
- fine for figures containing only solid objects (no images) and adequate
- for figures containing imported images (GIF, JPEG, etc.).
- o New features in the Picture Object edit popup:
- 1) Capture a screen image to a GIF file to use for importing.
- 2) Call an image editor (e.g. xv) to edit an imported image. New
- resource for the editor: "Fig.image_editor: xv" (default)
- 3) Popup a file browser to look for images to import.
- all from Jim Daley (jdaley@cix.compulink.co.uk)
- o the points of arrow heads don't protrude past the endpoints of the object
- o when drawing polyline/polygon or spline you can delete newly created points
- by pressing shift-mouse button 1
- o when saving figure, original is first renamed to file.bak to make backup file
- o smartlinks improved - lines touching boxes inside compound object will be
- moved when compound is moved with smart links mode on
- From Ian Brown
- o -help option to print all command-line options to xfig
- o can now change boxes to arc-boxes and vice versa with same button that
- converts lines <-> splines.
- o label in fill style panel added to separate shaded fill from pattern fill
- (if the pen and fill colors are both black or white it was impossible
- to distinguish the patterns from the 100% shade fill)
- o when adding a new user-defined color, it is automatically selected for
- modification without having to click on the cell.
- o point positioning now has five resolutions: arbitrary, 1/16" (1mm),
- 1/4" (5mm), 1/2" (10mm) and 1" (20mm)
- o increased resolution of dimensions in message window when drawing/moving
- objects from 2 to 4 decimal places
- o new meta sequence "%f" in print parameters is replaced with current filename
- for printing. Can be used for job name to printer.
- (e.g. lpr ... -J %f ...)
- o version/patchlevel added to error handler messages to identify version of xfig
- o new export option for MetaFont language
- o new resources for ruler and unit box fonts: *topruler.font, *sideruler.font
- and *unitbox.font. See Fig.ad.
- o new resource (Fig.rulerthick:) and command-line arg (-rulerthick) to set
- thickness of rulers (height of top ruler and width of side ruler)
- o note about patch for HP compilers in README file (see "Possible problems...")
- o on abort, xfig does a cd to the original directory where it was started so
- that any core dump will be in the original directory
- o strncasecmp and strcasecmp routines provided for those systems that don't have
- them. See the Imakefile . From Fred Appelman (Fred.Appelman@cv.ruu.nl)
-
- BUG FIXES:
-
- o fig.h includes sys/types.h for BSD and Mips systems and excludes errno,
- sys_nerr and sys_errlist for BSD
- from Kurt J. Lidl (lidl@va.pubnix.com)
- o error in path for xpm.h in resources.h
- o reversed #elif conditions in fig.h for linux/osf defs of random() and srandom()
- o text size problem when reading file with text when zoom != 1.0 fixed
- o deleted user colors still showed up in color menu in "edit object" panel
- o when rotating or flipping an object, the new position wasn't kept on the
- point positioning grid
- o selecting drawing mode using keyboard accelerators now updates mouse
- indicator window
- o undo of multiple copy (array place) now undos all objects
- o undo of "figure load" properly sets "current filename" in File popup and
- "default filename" in Export popup back to original values
- o undo of "figure load" does not set "figure modified" flag now
- o changing the figure orientation to/from Landscape/Portrait is considered a
- figure modification for quitting/saving
- o GIF export was not available if XPM not installed - rearranged order
- o misplaced fclose() in f_readeps.c
- o misdeclared function close_picfile() in f_readeps.c
- o infinite loop when copying a line after scaling a compound using the move
- point mode
- o bitmap image of Latex "Italic" font was mis-named "Italics"
- o no more hard-wired setting of background for mode and indicator panels
- see Fig-color for more details
- o font size for text objects adjusted if < 4 points or > 1000 when reading file
- o update settings from object wasn't setting PostScript vs LaTeX flag when Font
- update indicator was enabled
- o more checking done in popup edit panel for illegal line thickness or depth
- o flip or rotate anchor/center point crosshair turned off when selecting new
- drawing mode
- o seg fault in import/edit of picture object due to filename string corruption
- o segfault sometimes on file load - gcc sometimes produces code which segfaults
- when doing ungetc on const string. Constant string copied for sscanf
- o bug in computing the center of an arc when scaling
- o smarter redrawing of objects in correct depth order when creating or modifying
- any object
- o changed bestd = ~(((int) 1)<<31); to bestd = INT_MAX in f_neuclrtab.c due to
- temporary integer overflow inside the parentheses
- o if -textoutline was specified, boxes appeared around text when exporting to
- bitmap-type format (e.g. GIF, XBM, etc)
- o if the file message window popped up before canvas translations were installed
- a warning about the PasteCanv action not being found resulted. This was
- fixed by narrowing the specification for the translation in the
- app-defaults file.
- o bounding box for text objects was incorrect when loading file with zoom != 1.0
- o bounding box for ellipses was incorrect with thick lines
- o bug in handling text objects with \ at end
- patch from Andrew McParland (akm@rd.bbc.co.uk)
- o mis-named character "acute" removed from the multi-key sequence list in man
- pages
- o LaTeX font "Modern" changed to correct name "Sans Serif"
- new menu bitmap from Volker Kuhlmann (kuhlmav@elec.canterbury.ac.nz)
- o bounds calculation of objects didn't take line thickness into account
- correctly
- o drawing very small arcs (e.g. when zoom is small) resulted in strange lines
- being drawn
- o importing XPM images with undefined colors resulted in an X error. Now xfig
- uses white for null color entries.
- o problems with XFree86-3.1. Get XFree86-3.1.1.
- o some picture objects without filenames would be saved incorrectly and
- couldn't be re-read
- o extraneous error message about inaccessible file when it contains bad Fig
- object
- o bug in bounding box calculation created compound objects off by one unit
- o added #include <sys/types.h> for ultrix file stat structure
- o bug in scanning 8-bit character followed by a number in text object
- (e.g. \24355 should be the British Pound Sterling character followed
- by 55, not character (octal) 24355)
- o in older Fig files (2.1) text at 90 degree angle was slightly jagged due to
- rounding error
- o xfig doesn't coredump when delete window operation is done on xfig window or
- user logs out without quitting xfig
- o bug in redefining user colors when merging figures
- o single-point lines with arrowheads caused segfault - xfig now takes more
- steps to not allow arrowheads for those
- o undo of delete arrowhead created arrowhead with current line thickness etc.
- instead of restoring original
- o removed extraneous comma (,) from lp command for SYSV/SVR4 systems.
- o changed the "-oPS" command-line option (used for SYSV systems) to "-T PS"
- in the Fid.ad app-defaults file.
- o typo in FORMAT3.1 file - line and arrowhead thicknesses units are 1/80 inch,
- not Fig units. Also, dash/dotted size/spacing are in 1/80 inch units.
- o some compilers don't like empty .c files (e.g. when XPM is not compiled in)
- static dum_function() placed in f_readxpm.c and f_wrxpm.c for that case
- o bug in #include for xpm.h - X11/xpm.h was appended to XPMINCDIR - removed X11/
- o added #ifdef ultrix to include <sys/types.h> which is needed for <sys/stat.h>
- o black and white colors in colorpanel were set to fore/background colors
- instead of black and white (problem when -bg and/or -fg used)
- from Matthias Braun (browny@ise.fhg.de)
- o length of line reported when drawing in Mountain or Mountain/Manhattan mode
- was behind by one point positioning unit until new point was established
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Patchlevel 3 (Jan, 24, 1995)
-
- BUG FIXES:
-
- o when using the 3D Athena widgets, user defined color buttons in popup color
- panel were allocating three colors per user color - fix to app-default
- file fixed that (3D widget set was trying to make shadows)
- o EPS objects were too small when "Use orig. size" used in edit panel
- o hexadecimal color names not parsed correctly for xpm images
- o moved include of <stdio.h> and some others above <X11/Xlib.h> for gcc
- warnings about NULL being redefined
- o LaTeX text with special flag had wrong style (Roman became Italic etc.)
- o cap style implicitly set to ROUND for ellipses and closed splines with
- dotted lines
- o some cleanup of pointer/data type casts
- from Randy MacLeod
- o incorrect parameter for ibmgl export mode - incorrectly used -L for landscape
- o more #ifndef/#endif surrounding random, srandom and frandom in fig.h
- o removed the -oPS command-line option for SYSV systems because it is printer
- dependent. Use the "Fig*job_params*string: -oPS" resource.
- o can now dismiss message window while edit panel is up
- o command string for printing file too short for some cases - increased
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Patchlevel 2 (Jan, 13, 1995)
-
- BUG FIXES:
-
- o ISO8859 restriction on font searching was inadvertantly removed - added back
- o hexadecimal color names not parsed correctly xfig standard colors. This was
- causing xfig to switch to monochrome mode after complaining that it
- couldn't allocate the standard colors.
- o definition for XCOMM in Imakefile for those running R4
- o fixed problem with popup message panel having wrong colors when xfig switches
- to a private colormap
- o objects with dotted lines didn't show until an object with dashed line was
- first created
- o moved #include of X11/Intrinsic.h to top of fig.h file so
- XtSpecificationRelease would be defined when needed
- o comment for patchlevel 1 about command-line option -dontswitchcmap misspelled
- o new label in print panel - "Print to PostScript Printer" makes it obvious
- that the only printer type available is PostScript
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Patchlevel 1 (Jan, 11, 1995)
-
- BUG FIXES:
-
- o couldn't read eps files that didn't have showpage command
- o segfault when non existent eps or other image file is referenced in a figure
- o command-line option -dontswitchcmap (resource Fig.Dont_switch_cmap) fixed
- o export and file load/merge offsets units (inches, cm, etc) not correctly
- set when -metric option used
- o seg fault when converting line to spline because cap_style wasn't initialized
- o when converting spline to line, cap_style was set to current cap_style
- instead of style of line being converted
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Patchlevel 0 (Jan, 9, 1995)
-
- BUG FIXES:
-
- o NOTE: An error in version 3.0.0 incorrectly positioned objects on the canvas
- when reading older fig files. New objects entered with 3.0 are
- correctly positioned. A warning will popup when you load a version 3.0
- file with version 3.1 that says you might need to offset your figure by
- 14 fig units in X and Y when you load it. This is done by setting the
- X and Y offset in the popup File panel.
- I apologize for the inconvenience.
-
- ***** This is also why the file version number has changed.
-
- o conditionals and macros added for for machines with different random number
- generators
- o segfault in show_pen_color and show_fill_color under certain conditions when
- switching colors
- o error in x/y load/merge offset when reading pre 3.0 files
- o bug in drawing large (6 inches diameter or larger) circles or ellipses with
- dashed or dotted lines and angle of 0 degrees.
- o extra line was drawn to center of ellipse or circle when dashed or dotted
- lines used and angle of 0 degrees.
- o bug in f_read.c which caused FPE errors when reading incomplete/incorrect
- Fig file
- o declaration of count_lines_correctly() inconsistent in f_read.c
- o incorrect cast using malloc in f_readxpm.c()
- o setcenter, setcenter_x and setcenter_y should be extern in e_flip.c
- o setanchor, setanchor_x and setanchor_y should be extern in e_rotate.c
- o text following #endif non-ANSI in main.c
- o error in source file names in Imakefile - had f_wrgif.o instead of f_wrgif.c
- o error in freeing NULL font struct when quitting xfig (in u_free.c)
- o renamed basename() to basname() to avoid conflict with Linux libc function
- o error in LaTeX font numbering in Doc/FORMATx.x files
- o major errors in reading version 1.3 files
- o overriding translations in turn_on left black outlines around buttons in
- mode panel when new mode button pressed
- o some servers drew black background in indicator panel buttons - caused by
- fill mode being "tiled" for buttons other than the fill style button
- o images (GIF, XPM etc) weren't always recolored correctly when using popup
- edit panel on picture object
- o DPS fixes for Solaris 2.3
- from Pete A. Zaitcev (zaitcev@lab.ipmce.su)
-
- =============================================================================
- Version 3.0
- =============================================================================
-
- Patchlevel 0 (Dec 22, 1994)
- Changes to Version 2.1.8:
-
- NEW FEATURES:
-
- o changes to the file format (protocol). See Doc/FORMAT3.0 for details. This
- means you must also get transfig 3.0. Xfig will still read older Fig
- format files but will always write the new format.
-
- These are the new features related to the new file format:
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- o resolution is increased from 80 ppi to 1200 ppi. This decreases jaggies.
- A side effect is that xfig can now read fig files of any resolution,
- although it converts the file to 1200ppi internally, and saves it in
- that resolution.
- from Ross Martin (martin@trcsun3.eas.asu.edu)
- o Portrait/Landscape, Print Justification (center or flush left) and Metric/
- Inches indicators saved with figure file now - xfig automatically
- switches to correct mode when reading file
- o separate pen and fill colors for all objects except text.
- o there are now 32 "standard" colors - new ones are: gold, three shades each
- of blue, green, cyan, red, magenta, brown and pink.
- o in addition, there are now user-definable colors which may be defined by
- using RGB (Red, Green, Blue) or HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value) slider bars
- or by hexadecimal values. These are stored in the figure file as pseudo-
- objects of type 0 which define the rgb values in hexadecimal. The color
- numbers range from 32 to 543.
- o more fill options - colors transition from black to full saturation
- (shades) and on to full white (tints, i.e. pastels).
- Or you can use one of 16 fill patterns - diagonal lines, bricks,
- shingles, crosshatch etc.
- o two arc styles: open (original) and pie-wedge (closed)
- o three line-join styles: miter (default style), round and bevel (see
- PostScript or Xlib reference for description)
- o three line-cap styles: butt (default style), round and projecting (see
- PostScript or Xlib reference for description)
- o three new arrowhead types (both hollow and solid)
- and the tips of the arrowheads are now pointed, as they should be
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Features which are independent of the new file format:
-
- o EPS objects have been changed to "picture objects" to include GIF images,
- X11 bitmap images and the XPM3 (color pixmaps) besides Encapsulated
- PostScript. Compressed (.Z) and gzipped (.z or .gz) files are also
- handled. Future versions of xfig may include TIFF, etc. X11 bitmap
- picture objects use the pen color component. The popup edit panel
- shows the image type, size and number of colors used, if applicable.
- See the Examples/pictures.fig for examples of XPM, XBM and GIF.
- You must have version 3.4c or newer of the XPM library. This is
- available from ftp.x.org in /contrib/libraries.
-
- GIF input code from David Koblas' giftoppm code from the pbmplus
- package.
-
- A Floyd-Steinberg dithering is applied to color images for monochrome
- displays.
-
- For EPS files, if Ghostscript is used to generate the preview, an 8-bit
- color preview is generated if xfig is running on an color display.
- The command-line option -dSAFER is used when calling ghostscript which
- prevents any files being written by the postscript code.
-
- The color quantization algorithm to minimize the number of colors
- needed for the color images uses a neural network scheme written by
- Anthony Dekker (dekker@ACM.org).
- [NEUQUANT Neural-Net quantization algorithm by Anthony Dekker, 1994.
- See "Kohonen neural networks for optimal colour quantization"
- in "Network: Computation in Neural Systems" Vol. 5 (1994) pp 351-367.
- for a discussion of the algorithm.]
-
- o when moving an object on the canvas the straight-line (sqrt(x^2 + y^2))
- distance from the original position is reported in the message panel
- along with the X and Y distances.
- from Uwe Bonnes (bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de)
- o rotate or flip objects around a chosen anchor point - see FLIP and ROTATE
- sections in the man pages.
- from Uwe Bonnes (bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de)
- o make multiple copies of object as you rotate or copy it - see COPY section in
- the man pages
- from Uwe Bonnes (bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de)
- o new command panel button to switch canvas between Portrait and Landscape mode
- o new option in file load/merge panel to load/merge figure with offset on canvas
- o new option to export file with offset on page in inches or cm
- o OE and oe characters possible now; though not visible on the canvas because
- they don't exist in the X11 fonts they will print in PostScript
- from Serge Lacourte (lacourte@bikini.imag.fr)
- o starting textstep, fillstyle, linewidth and gridmode can all be specified
- with command-line args or resources now (see man pages)
- from Serge Lacourte (lacourte@bikini.imag.fr)
- o larger grid (1 inch or 20 mm)
- o when zooming very small, number of grid lines are reduced to avoid clutter
- o more keys available for multi-key sequence: Alt_L, Alt_R and Escape besided
- the usual Meta key
- from Serge Lacourte (lacourte@bikini.imag.fr)
- o in update mode, the control panel doesn't scroll with the indicator buttons
- but stays on the left side all the time
- o rulers are a little smarter - fewer labels and ticks when zoom scale is small,
- 0.5 inch marks for inches scale when large enough
- o minor changes to names of some widgets - "xfig_" prefix removed from those
- having it
- o can use "box-scale" on ellipses and circles now besides "scale about center"
- o new alignment options - Distribute objects evenly horizontally, vertically
- or both, spacing either their edges or centers evenly, or abutting
- their edges
- from Matthew Leditschke (mcl@eikona.eng.monash.edu.au)
- o keyboard icon appears in mousefun window when text entry is required
- works during canvas text entry and in ASCII widgets in popups
- o carriage return in any ASCII widget in edit popup applies changes
- o zoom in and zoom out accelerators (Z (zoomin) and z (zoomout) defaults)
- o popup font menu is now two entries wide to reduce overall height
- o panning is proportional to zoom factor, i.e. pan step is 1/2 inch in canvas
- units, not drawing units
- from Anthony Smith
- o holding down the Shift key while panning pans 5x as far
- o fill style indicator shows current color now
- o two new Example files: illusion.fig and recycle.fig
- from Vivek Khera (khera@cs.duke.edu)
- o four new clip-art files (Examples directory): clp_bldgs.fig, clp_network.fig,
- clp_computer.fig and clipart.fig
- from William J. Chimiak (chim@relito.medeng.wfu.edu)
- o new export languages - GIF and X11 Pixmap (XPM, color X pixmaps) output
- - must have the XPM3 package for XPM output.
- XPM3 code from Karel van Houten (K.H.C.vanHouten@research.ptt.nl)
- GIF code from E. Chernyaev (chernaev@mx.decnet.ihep.su)
- o can handle eps files with %%BoundingBox: (atend)
- from Paul Hodgkinson (hodgkin@physchem.ox.ac.uk)
- o no need for the -DNOSTRTOL flag anymore if your system doesn't have strtol()
- o export magnification factor added for X11 bitmap/pixmap output
- o MAXNUMPTS (the maximum number of points displayed for large objects) may be
- specified in the Imakefile with -DMAXNUMPTS=xxxx, if desired
-
- BUG FIXES:
-
- o first/opposite corner designation for box objects was reversed in popup edit
- o line count correct when reporting any errors reading figure file
- from Andreas Bagge (Andreas_Bagge@h2.maus.de)
- o when scaling box object, size of box now shown with first click when using
- middle button
- o more sanity checks on starting values (e.g. -startfillstyle < 0 etc)
- o changes in dot/dash spacing were sometimes delayed in effect. Fixed.
- o if printer name came from env variable, it didn't show up in print panel until
- first figure was printed
- o smarter redraw of underlying objects when updating or rotating objects or
- moving, adding or deleting points of an object
- o metric scale is now correct size when printing
- from Hans Werner Strube (strube@swing.physik3.gwdg.de)
- o temporary file for importing EPS objects wasn't honoring XFIGTMPDIR
- o text angle was written with only 5 decimal places - causes rounding errors
- o after adding/deleting a point from a poly object, copying a compound object
- would cause xfig to hang (loop in linked list)
- o grid wasn't reset when changing to/from Imperial/Metric scale
- o "Ruler units" message was incorrect when changing to/from Imperial/Metric
- o file_msg() routine now uses varargs
- old method was causing crashes to occur on a 64 bit machine
- o toggle of update masks wasn't using correct variable
- o when drawing a dotted line with only two points which are coincident, some
- servers die and others give BadLength error. A call to draw a point
- is substituted in this case.
- o bug in changing directory using ".." in text panel for "Curent Directory" in
- file and export popups
- o in monochrome mode, popup color choice panel black/white reversed from
- indicator button for blue-yellow
- o first section of man pages didn't mention IBM-GL language in reference to
- fig2dev
- o filled objects didn't show the fill pattern in monochrome mode
- o seg fault when xfig used default font when desired font could not be found
- o fixed some memory hog problems with accelerators
- o some typos in the class names of bold/normal/button fonts in man pages
- o double clicking on a filename to load it sometimes resulted in garbage or
- blank filename in file name panel.
- o remnants of #ifndef NO_SIBGUS (note typo) fixed. NOW there is no need for
- #define NO_SIGBUS if your system doesn't have SIGBUS. Automatic now.
- o typo in fig.h check for #ifdef(SYS) instead #ifdef(SYSV).
- o added check for SCO3.2r4 which needs stdlib.h for atof() and getenv()
- o switching between LaTeX and PostScript fonts while entering text object
- caused illegal font to be created in text object
- o GC's tr_gc, tr_xor_gc, tr_erase_gc, sr_gc, sr_xor_gc and tr_erase_gc declared
- in resources.c and in w_rulers.c
- o cur_cursor set to arrow_cursor before arrow_cursor was created
- o experimental color definitions in resources in main.c clobbered variables
- because array wasn't large enough.
- o false query about overwriting existing fig file fixed
- o shifted keyboard accelerators work with caps lock besides shift key
- o text bounds fixed
- o smarter text locator when moving rotated text
- o missing "return 1" in bitmapDPS procedure (Display PostScript machines)
- o type mismatch in w_rottext.c ("return NULL" changed to "return 0") in
- XRotPaintAlignedString()
- o bug in memory allocation for font name when desired font doesn't exist
- o increased memory allocation for large, rotated ellipses
-
- =============================================================================
- Version 2.1
- =============================================================================
-
- Patchlevel 8 (Oct 1, 1993)
- Changes to Patchlevel 7:
-
- NEW FEATURES:
-
- o minimum movement for mountain/manhatten mode reduced from 7 pixels to 2
- o lengths/radii of objects now displayed on first click in move point mode, not
- just when actually moving the points
- o -DOPENWIN no longer necessary - xfig automatically first uses OpenWindows
- scalable fonts (e.g. times-roman-33) if they are available, X11R5
- scalable fonts next if they are available or non-scaling fonts if
- neither of the above is available.
- o maximum radius of arc-boxes increased from 30 to 100 pixels
- o icon now shows current filename (without full path)
- o Control-L does Redraw when not in text input mode (same as Meta-R)
- o popup query to shift whole figure when reading in figure file if any objects
- have negative coordinates
- o mouse function window shows pan/zoom operations when control key is pressed
- o popup query when exporting figure if figure has not been saved (note: this
- is not necessary for exporting current figure but is a warning to
- the user that the figure hasn't been saved yet)
- o BSD-style printing on SYSV machines (like SGI) allowed by setting -DBSDLPR
- in Imakefile/Makefile
- from Dave Goldberg (dsg@blackbird.mitre.org)
- o on-screen rotation of text at any angle
- xfig now uses xvertext 5.0 from Alan Richardson which allows rotation
- at any angle. The whole font is not loaded anymore, and strings are
- cached, which speeds up the interactive input of text.
- o man pages no longer use .TS (table) commands for those systems whose roff
- doesn't support tables. Also formatting cleaned up and typos fixed.
- From David W. Sanderson (dws@ssec.wisc.edu)
- o double click on filename in File menu will automatically load figure
- o double click on filename in Export menu will automatically export figure
- o some more information about text objects has been added to the Doc/FORMAT2.1
- file - specificly about the font and font_flags fields
- o keyboard accelerators for drawing/editing mode panel. See Fig.ad for details
- From Tim MacKenzie (tym@dibbler.cs.monash.edu.au)
- o Example figure which contains building blocks for making flowcharts - called
- flowchart.fig in the Examples directory (replaces old flowchart.fig)
- from Tim P. Starrin (noid@cyborg.larc.nasa.gov)
- o The default is now for xfig to use X11R5 scalable fonts unless the server
- doesn't support them. The user may still disable them with -noscalable
- or the resource "Fig*scalablefonts: false".
- o new button panel in the indicator panel to set/clear or toggle update flags to
- make it easier to control which object attributes are affected by update
- o new command-line paramter: -but_per_row (resource But_per_row) specifies the
- number of buttons wide the mode panel should be. This is useful in
- conjunction with -pheight for small screens to reduce the canvas area.
- o no need to add -DNO_SIGBUS to Imakefile for systems without SIGBUS anymore.
- This this is automatic now.
-
- BUG FIXES:
-
- o changing a filled object to unfilled now draws background correctly
- o cleaned up inconsistencies with fill colors in monochrome mode
- o GC's were being freed twice if window quit was executed (window manager)
- o exporting figure to X11 bitmap only exported visible part of canvas
- o current directory wasn't set in export popup unless file menu had been popped
- up previously
- o units box didn't change from "in" to "cm" or vice versa when changing from
- Imperial to/from Metric
- o editing text with popup edit at zoomscale != 1 shows correct text size now
- o undo of text delete at another zoomscale shows correct text size now
- o colons (:) removed from widget names (difficult to set resources with colons)
- o conditional definition of index = strchr (or strchr = index) for those systems
- which already have them defined
- o workaround for linux bug where certain 8-bit characters are not read properly
- by sscanf()
- from Alain Lucien Knaff (knaff@mururoa.imag.fr)
- o height of cursor for text input closer to actual text height (was "descent+
- ascent" tall, now is "ascent" tall)
- o <Meta>L (LoadFile function) didn't query if current figure was modified before
- re-loading file
- o if normalFont can't be loaded, "fixed" font is tried - if that fails xfig
- quits with error message
- o 8-bit character did not appear on canvas
- o semicolon missing from "for" statement in main.c
- o caused core dump if the environment variable PRINTER was not set and the
- Fig*printer*string was not set
- o -startfontsize parameter wasn't being honored
- o quit() function was being called with too few parameters. This kills xfig
- on OpenWindows servers.
- From David Partain (dlp@ida.liu.se)
- o fixed bug with freeing two identical GC's (caused coredump when quitting on
- certain machines)
- o fixed bug inadvertently introduced in 2.1.7 which caused some arcs to be drawn
- as circles
- o scaling of arc inside compound no longer produces co-linear points
- o messages didn't appear in the message panel when filename panel wasn't
- large enough
- o parameter missing from call to curve() which made strange half-ellipse for box
- curve radius indicator. Caused massive problems for OpenWindows servers.
- o moved two accelerators (SaveFile and LoadFile) from top-level to the File
- widget heirarchy (this was causing OpenWindows servers to eat memory)
- o work around for bug in OpenWindows 2.0 with bitmaps in widgets (caused
- BadMatch error when popping up the print panel)
- o duplicate .TP in xfig.man caused nroff to throw away the text following the
- "Dismiss" description in the print section
- o emptyname() dereferenced null pointer if printer name was NULL
- o malloc didn't alloc enough space for fontname + null in w_drawprim.c
- o text outline box was sometimes drawn incorrectly
- o Renamed ICONFIGFILES (already used by X11 config) to ICONXFIGFILES and defined
- it in Imakefile (it was referenced but undefined)
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Patchlevel 7 (May 3, 1993)
- Changes to Patchlevel 6:
-
- NEW FEATURES:
-
- o Vertical and upside-down text - text with angles of 90, 180 and 270 degrees
- supported. Text between those angles will be drawn with the next
- higher angle (e.g. 130 degree text will be drawn at 180 degrees).
- from Alan Richardson (mppa3@uk.ac.sussex.syma)
- o message panel uses asciiTextWidget so one may select text from it
- o does not ask if it is OK to write an existing file during save if it is the
- current figure file that is being saved. Same for export.
- o accelerators to Save or Load file without popping up file menu
- (default: Meta-S to Save and Meta-L to Load)
- o PRINTER environment variable is used if no resource is set for
- Fig*printer*string
- o if an ellipse is scaled such that the radii become equal it is "converted"
- to a circle
- o ablity to change to/from imperial and metric with popup menu by hitting
- mouse button 3 in the units box (where rulers meet)
- from Paul King (king@cs.uq.oz.au)
- o new command-line parameters -userscale (resource userscale) and -userunit
- (resource userunit) which are used in the on-screen messages which
- show the current length/diameter etc. This provides a simple way of
- doing scale drawings, e.g. 0.25 inch = 1 ft (userscale=0.25,
- userunit="ft") or 1 cm = 1 m (userscale=1, userunit="m"). These may
- be changed via the popup menu by hitting mouse button 3 in the units
- box (where rulers meet)
- o new indicator button allows text flags to be viewed/set
- o compiles/runs on DEC Alpha with OSF/1 now
- o text widget in the print popup to pass extra parameters to print program
- (lp or lpr as the case may be)
- o indicator shows the number of figures in the batch print file in print popup
- o automatic on-screen generation of preview bitmap for EPS objects if you have
- gs (ghostscript) - compile with -DGSBIT flag
- from Michael C. Grant (mcgrant@rascals.stanford.edu)
- adapted from
- Marc Goldburg's (marcg@rascals.stanford.edu) original idea and code.
- o indicator in upper-left corner (under Quit button) shows current filename
- o print button changes message from "print FIGURE to printer" to "print BATCH to
- printer" if there are figures in batch file
- o when drawing objects or moving/adding points the length/radius/diameter is
- displayed in the message window
- o feature to shift figure on page if it is off the page has been disabled until
- it can be done with option or explicit command
- o added -noscalablefonts command-line option to force scalable fonts OFF
- (usually for debugging)
-
- BUG FIXES:
-
- o condition for OSF/1 added to use dirent
- from Dave Hill (ddhill@zk2.dec.com)
- o Floating point values allowed for BoundingBox in EPS files
- o if user asks for scalable fonts but server doesn't support them, xfig auto-
- matically switches to non-scalable fonts
- o when printing to batch file, incorrect filename appeared in message panel
- o undo of a text move didn't redraw the text
- o <unistd.h> included unnecessarily in f_util.c (X11/Xos.h includes it if
- necessary). Also, various cleanups with multiply defined cursors etc.
- From Casey Leedom (casey@gauss.llnl.gov)
- o internalborderwidth resource should be integer not float
- o cancel when drawing latex line left unwanted garbage on screen
- o put_fmsg removed and put_msg uses varargs now so MIPS machines and others
- should all work fine now
- o writing X11 bitmap still had bugs
- o text wasn't being rotated around mouse point with rotate mode
- o when moving end points of a (sp)line or when adding points to the end
- of a (sp)line, the angle geometry button was not available
- o export directory now follows file directory when load/save figure is done
- o entering centered text with odd number of characters caused double image
- o fixed bug with incorrectly placing text with point positioning on when the
- text was originally created with point positioning off
- o when moving centered or right-justified zoomed text grab point was shifted
- o rotated ellipses panned incorrectly
- o centering/flush-left options in Export menu were reversed
- o flipped EPS objects weren't being flipped properly when reading in figure
- o GC's weren't being freed when xfig finished
- o added Titan OS (Stardent) to list of machines needing getenv() and atof()
- explicitely defined (not in /usr/include/... file )
- from Joachim Wiesel (wiesel@ipf.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de)
- o underscores weren't showing in text line in popup edit
- from Daniel Faigin (faigin@aero.org)
- o old text outline wasn't being erased
- from Daniel Faigin (faigin@aero.org)
- o number[] array wasn't large enough for new 3-character numbers in the rulers
- from Andrew Haylett (ajh@gec-mrc.co.uk)
- o check for X_NOT_STDC_ENV reversed in fig.h for inclusion of stdlib.h and
- defs of getenv() and atof()
- from Jonathan Kamens (jik@rtfm.mit.edu)
- o SetDir() parameters added (but not used) to placate certain compilers
- o point positioning resolution wasn't available with add-point-in-object
- o angle geometry indicator appeared when moving/adding points but isn't used
- o problem fixed with file popup and grab
- from David Brooke (BROOKE@leva.leeds.ac.uk)
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Patchlevel 6 (Nov 1992)
- Changes to Patchlevel 5:
-
- NEW FEATURES:
-
- BUG FIXES:
-
- o typo in man pages with menu item "Textyl \special commands" in export menu
- o action changed from "cancel" to "dismiss" for print menu accelerator
- o bug in Intrinsics? on Sun Monochrome prevented side ruler from scrolling
- o was using ellipse routine to draw circles - was choppy for small circles
- o cast comparison function argument to qsort
- o rotated ellipses don't become coarse as they are zoomed
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Patchlevel 5 (Nov 1992)
- Changes to Patchlevel 4:
-
- NEW FEATURES:
-
- o support for two button mouse - use META + Button 3 to simulate button 2
- from Lars Berntzon (lasse@delila.cgl.se)
- o new resource "textoutline" (class "TextOutline") and command-line argument
- "-textoutline" which will outline text in red to show the bounding box
- that the text will occupy when printed (useful for rotated text)
- o print popup stays up until dismissed - can still pop up file/export menues,
- draw etc. while print popup is up. HOWEVER, while file or export
- popups are up, the print panel is not active.
- o can align all objects to canvas, not just to compound - use mouse button 2
- idea from Jon Forrest
- o ellipses may now be rotated by an arbitrary angle and show their rotation
- from Janes Tough (jamest@cs.heriot-watt.ac.uk)
- o new -iconGeometry command-line argument
- o new command-line argument and resource -exportLanguage to specify default
- Export language. See man pages.
- o new command-line argument and resource -flushleft to set default printing to
- flush left on page. See man pages.
- o keyboard accelerators! Resource file has defaults for file, export and print
- popup panels and top command panel accelerators; <Meta>f will popup file
- panel, <Meta>q will quit, etc. See resource file and man pages for
- details.
- o one may now batch together several xfig files for printing with one print job.
- See popup print panel and man pages.
- o new label in the mouse function window & more obvious default color (yellow)
- o added scrollbar for indicator panel when buttons won't all fit on screen
- o can now edit sizes of arrowheads using popup edit panel
- o "make install" now automatically installs Fig.ad and Fig-color.ad in
- app-defaults directory
- o WM_DELETE_WINDOW now supported by popups - cancels popup function
- WM_DELETE_WINDOW in main canvas saves figure in xfig.SAVE and quits
- from David Wexelblat (dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com)
-
- BUG FIXES:
-
- o rulers only allowed 2 digits for inches/cm
- o deleted line thickness/color/area-fill/line-style and arrow settings for EPS
- objects in the update mode and removed color part in popup edit panel
- o depth wasn't being updated for splines and texts using update button
- o more cleanup with respect to procedure/variable types/casts
- from Don Sharp (dws@mari.co.uk)
- o fixed text bounds calculation to take into account any rotation when reading
- in figure from a file to decide whether to shift figure to keep on
- canvas
- (fig2dev 2.1.5 is also fixed so figures with rotated text near edges
- should center properly now)
- o fixed bug where segments disappeared while drawing interpolated spline in any
- LaTeX drawing mode
- o rearranged a-z and A-Z keys in the CompKeyDB file because some HP computers
- were apparently doing random things with capitalization
- from Anthony Shipman (als@bohra.cpg.oz.au)
- o fixed export of color figure to X11 bitmap format. White -> white, all other
- colors -> black.
- o removed apparently unnecessary translation from w_export, w_file and w_print
- which causes coredump on some HP machines.
- From Alfred van der Hoeven (alfred@arthur.et.tudelft.nl)
- o fixed initialization bug in u_undo.c and object.c which caused HP 9000/700
- compilers to segfault
- From Alfred van der Hoeven (alfred@arthur.et.tudelft.nl)
- o new environvemt variable "XFIGTMPDIR" used for xfig temporary files directory
- o when reading a figure file, if any object coordinates are negative, the figure
- is shifted to keep it on the canvas so that the upper-left corner of the
- figure is placed on the current point positioning grid
- (in 2.1.4, the upper-left corner was placed at 10,10)
- o changed "char" to "unsigned char" for initialization of bitmaps by compilers
- from Teus Hagen (teus@oce.nl)
- o was passing floats to put_fmsg() instead of doubles.
- o includes copy of X11/Xfuncs.h now to use correct routines for zeroing/copying
- memory.
- o zooming to 0.1 no longer gives X error (dash list was null)
- o filenames in File/Export windows weren't sorted correctly
- from Simon Marshall (S.Marshall@sequent.cc.hull.ac.uk)
- o more explicit note about object depth in the man pages in the "GRAPHICAL
- OBJECTS" section
- o scaling vertical or horizontal line no longer causes floating point exception
- from Steve Tynor (tynor@prism.gatech.edu)
- o null strings in text objects now produce warning message when reading from
- file but xfig continues to read rest of file
- o scrollbars in File and Export popups reset to top when changing directories
- o default output filename in Export popup now changes to reflect current
- figure filename
- o default colors in Fig-color are a little nicer :-)
- o checking for file writablity now uses access() call
- from Devon Bowen (bowen@cs.buffalo.edu)
- o XtRemoveGrab bug when popping down file message window finally fixed
- many thanks to David Wexelblat (dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com)
- o XtAppAddActions() only called once now for each action
- from David Wexelblat (dwex@mtgzfs3.att.com)
- o changed cfree() calls to free() for those machines that don't have it
- from Anthony Datri (datri@concave.convex.com)
- o moved static function definitions outside of procedures for those machines
- which can't handle them
- from Anthony Datri (datri@concave.convex.com)
- o added second line to Imakefile to put the xfig directory containing the
- CompKeyDB (multi-key) database file in the standard X11 library
- o fixed bug introduced in 2.1.1 which incorrectly placed radius marker of
- circles created by radius
- o circle is now changed to ellipse type when scaled assymetrically
- o fixed various typos in xfig.man
- o changed references to mouse buttons left/middle/right to say buttons 1/2/3
- respectively
- o radius of ellipses-specified-by-radius was one pixel too large
- o changed interpretation of 1/0 bits in EPS preview bitmaps back to original
- 0=white, 1=black according to EPSF guide version 2.0.
- Brought to my attention by Vivek Khera (khera@cs.duke.edu)
- o moved #include Xaw... directives to figx.h to speed up compilation
- o added conditional for Sun 3 and SunOs 4.0.3
- from Peter Scott (pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov)
- o fixed typo in FORMAT2.1 file describing values for types of splines
- o more lint cleanup and print file name "protection" in case filename has
- any shell meta characters
- from Jonathan Kamens (jik@MIT.Edu)
- o epsf file wasn't closed after reading if there was no preview bitmap
- from Herve Poirier (rvp@dxcern.cern.ch)
- o fixed bug where certain objects inside compound weren't being drawn when
- there was more than one compound object in the figure
- o removed ISO8859 requirement for Symbol and ZapfDingbats fonts (those fonts
- weren't being displayed)
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Patchlevel 4 (Apr 1992)
- Changes to Patchlevel 3:
-
- o keyFile resource allows ANY path for compose key data base, not just relative
- to $XFIGLIBDIR
- from Pete Kaiser (kaiser@heron.enet.dec.com)
- o simple edit arrowhead feature in the popup edit for lines - can add/delete
- arrow heads. No adjustment of arrow size yet - uses current linewidth
- from indicator panel
- o Example figure files have all been converted to 2.1 file format
- o if any object coordinates are negative, the whole figure is shifted to keep it
- on the canvas
- o fixed major bug where the preview bitmap of EPS objects was in reverse video
- (1 is white not black, according to the PostScript Language Ref. Manual)
- *** SEE COMMENT IN PATCHLEVEL 5 ABOUT EPSI PREVIEW BITMAPS ***
- o general cleanup of param types in Xt callback/action etc. procedures and other
- lint cleanup
- from Jonathan Kamens (jik@MIT.Edu)
- o Alt_L key added to list of keys to do international characters
- from Marc Goldburg (marcg@alfalfa.stanford.edu)
- o fractional zoom (i.e. zoom < 1) - see man pages
- o eps data wasn't being initialized when the eps file wasn't available
- o redefined filename length for eps object to PATH_MAX
- o -showallbuttons option didn't show the depth indicator
- from Paul King (king@cs.uq.oz.au)
- o fixed bugs where using export and print shortcut before ever popping
- up respective menus used incorrect options
- o changes to the file popup:
- o new "Home" button changes directory to $HOME
- o ~ (username) operator allowed in the current directory ascii widget
- o new label widget shows the current figure filename
- o presssing "Load", "Save" or "Merge Read" will operate on the
- filename in the "Filename" window. If that name is empty the
- operation is done on the file specified in the "Current Filename"
- window.
- o additionally, the "Load" operation will copy the name (if any)
- from the "Filename" window to the "Current Filename" window
- o pressing return in the "list of files" window in the popup File panel
- will "Load" the file
- o changes to the export popup:
- o new "Home" button changes directory to $HOME
- o ~ (username) operator allowed in the current directory ascii widget
- o pressing return in the "list of files" window in the popup Export
- panel will "Export" the file
- o Pre-2.1 fig files now have text flags set to PostScript mode when reading into
- xfig 2.1.4
- o 1.4-TFX fig files now have text flags set to PostScript mode PLUS Special
- o font names now include "ISO-8859" to insure that ISO Latin characters are used
- from Thierry EXCOFFIER (exco@ligiahp.univ-lyon1.fr)
- o -debug no longer runs xfig synchronously - use standard toolkit option -sync
- o control points for spline objects now span multiple lines in output file if
- there are many points
- o scrollable x-y points panel in the popup edit panel for objects with many
- points (mwm didn't display the x-y values when the popup was taller than
- the screen)
- o If you have Display Postscript in your server, compile xfig with -DDPS
- and you will see the full Postscript object instead of preview bitmap
- when you include EPS objects.
- !!! WARNING: this has only been tested on IBM's AIX 3.2 (X11R4) on
- an RS/6000 !!!
- from Dave Hale (dhale@green.mines.colorado.edu)
- o fixed bug in error return from system() - now popups error message when
- can't export/print figure
- o unused function clear_char_string() deleted from w_canvas.c
- o current depth is now in an indicator window and may be set like line
- thickness, color etc.
- o added update tags to control which object components are modified/copied
- when using the update button. Button appears in upper-right corner
- of indicator button (e.g linewidth) when in update mode. Clicking
- on the update tag enables/disables components (e.g. linewidth) from
- being copied to/from objects when using update.
- o fixed exporting of pstex_t and pstex (used to give Postscript for both)
- o FIG 1.4-TFX file area_fill values now correctly translated to 2.1 format
- o deleted duplicate #include <math.h> from u_geom.c and w_export.c
- o changed ^U (control U) in w_canvas.c to \023 for mailers which clobber
- control chars
- o added possibility of wider top ruler and taller side ruler by using
- -DMAX_TOPRULER_WD=value and -DMAX_SIDERULER_HT=value in Imakefile
- o added function strtol() for those systems that don't have it.
- from Jonathan Kamens (jik@rtfm.MIT.EDU)
- o added note about -DNOSTRSTR and -DNOSTRTOL for those systems that don't
- have strstr() and/or strtol() respectively.
- o fixed type mismatch and bug in call to getenv in main().
- o type mismatch fixed for X11R5 in call to XtAppInitialize().
- from Jonathan Kamens (jik@rtfm.MIT.EDU)
- o small performance fix in u_draw.c in add_point() when reallocating points
- from Dave Hale (dhale@green.Mines.Colorado.EDU)
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Patchlevel 3 (Jan 1992)
- Changes to Patchlevel 2:
-
- o pressing carriage return in value part of popup indicator buttons that take
- integer or float (e.g. line width) now sets the value and pops down
- o added foreground colors to Text*, Menu* and List* widgets in default Fig-color.ad
- this fixes problem of white-on-white text when using inverse video
- o changes two resource names -
- "xfig_export_menu.export_panel.just_label.flush left" to
- "xfig_export_menu.export_panel.just_label.justify"
- and
- "xfig_print_menu.print_panel.just_label.flush left" to
- "xfig_print_menu.print_panel.just_label.justify"
- o some type castings fixed
- from Wayne D Richardson (wdr@rchland.vnet.ibm.com)
- o fixed "open file leak" - directory wasn't closed after file popup finished
- o fixed selection of Times-Roman font under Openwindows
- o changed titles of popup panels to meaningful names
- o leading blanks no longer stripped from text objects
- from George Ferguson (ferguson@cs.rochester.edu)
- o null strings in text objects now abort load/read of file with error message
- from George Ferguson (ferguson@cs.rochester.edu)
- o conditional in xfig.man to set page offset only when using troff
- from George Ferguson (ferguson@cs.rochester.edu)
- o added translation so that pressing return in filename window in popup FILE
- will load the file
- o added translation so that pressing return in filename window in popup EXPORT
- will export the file
- o fixed filled objects of DEFAULT color
- o fixed bug in delete region
- from Peter Asenstorfer (peter@audrey.levels.unisa.edu.au)
- o cleaned up cursor stuff - no impact on user
- from Brian Boyter (pyrdc!bimbo!boyter@uunet.UU.NET)
- o new resource "-keyFile" to specify alternate compose key translation
- file in the XFIGLIBDIR directory
- From Herve Soulard (soulard@corto.inria.fr)
- o popup message window to inform user when illegal values in figure file
- are fixed or when converting from older file versions to newest
- o limit on depth of objects to 1000 when reading figure file. Fixes problems
- of infinite looping for files which were converted from Fig 2.0.
- Also sets depth to zero (0) when reading files older than 2.1.
- o xfig.man now tells man to run tbl so that regular tables can be used
- from James B. Davis (james@solbourne.com)
- o fixed Meta-Y (insert current selection), ^Y (unkill) and ^G (multiply reset)
- in CompKeyDB
- o added capability to delete whole text line from text widgets with ^X
- from Brian Boyter (pyrdc!bimbo!boyter@uunet.UU.NET)
- o ^U no longer deletes line of text in text object mode for compatibility
- with text widgets. Use only ^X now.
- o fixed problem with OpenWindows and rubberbanding objects
- from Brian Boyter (pyrdc!bimbo!boyter@uunet.UU.NET)
- o fixed minor bug in f_util.c line 82: assignment with '==' instead of '='
- from pf@diab.se (Per Fogelstr|m)
- o fixed up bug in set_tags call in w_modepanel.c
- from Graeme Gill (graeme@labtam.labtam.oz.au)
- o added strstr() function for systems without it
- o warning message about redefining InstallManPage fixed
- o removed unneeded O_NONE symbol from object.h
- o directory code fixed to work with SVR4
- from David Elliot (dce@krusty.smsc.sony.com)
- o cleaned up function declarations for event handlers
- from Anthony Datri (datri@lovecraft.convex.com)
- o renamed Fig-co.ad to Fig-color.ad for color customization under X11R5 (see
- README). Fig-co.ad can be deleted (if you have an older copy of xfig)
- from David Elliot (dce@krusty.smsc.sony.com)
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Patchlevel 2 (Dec 1991)
- Changes to Patchlevel 1:
-
- o the font flag (LaTeX, PostScript) wasn't being changed correctly in the
- UPDATE text object operation when switching from LaTeX to PostScript
- or vice versa.
- o the textstep value may now be entered in floating point in the popup menu
- o the eps-bitmap icon was renamed to eps-object because it can be any
- eps object that is imported. If it has a preview bitmap
- that will be displayed. Several filenames/program variables
- were also changed to reflect this.
- o there is now a more general glue mechanism for compounding objects
- o text pasting into canvas now possible with F18 function key or any translation
- desired by user. F18 is hardwired default in program; F20 also
- programmed in Fig.ad to paste text.
- Brian Boyter (pyrdc!bimbo!boyter@uunet.UU.NET)
- o DEFAULT fill_style caused core dump
- from Jeffry R. Abramson (jra@violin.att.com)
- o made the mouse-tracking markers hollow so as not to be visually obtrusive
- as suggested by Stephen Gildea (gildea@expo.lcs.mit.edu)
- o removed extraneous call to free() in add_point() (u_draw.c)
- from Per Fogelstr|m (pf@diab.se)
- o cleaned up gcc compiler warnings about type mismatches etc.
- o compound objects may be rotated by arbitrary angles if there are no boxes,
- arc-boxes, ellipses or circles contained within.
- o text rotation support is improved - markers are now shown rotated and
- the angle attribute is set by the relevant rotate operations.
- o both ps and eps modes now supported in export menu.
- o new directory browsing facilities integrated with File and Export popups.
- Allows selection of file by clicking on the filename. Has mask to list
- only those files of interest. See the man pages for further details.
- o Default font for Postscript fonts may now be selected and objects that
- have default font may be edited
- o FASTSERVER flag removed; now always uses smart redrawing when available
- Additionally, smart redrawing is available more often
- o fixed bug in regular polygon where some vertices were off by one pixel
- o added "Use orig. size" button for eps objects to set object to original
- size in popup edit
- from Peter Scott (pjs@euclid.jpl.nasa.gov)
- o international characters supported (umlauts, accents, cedilla etc) using
- compose (meta) key
- from Herve Soulard (soulard@corto.inria.fr)
- o much improved color support
- from Henning Spruth (hns@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)
- o additional pan and zoom mode with <Ctrl>Key and left/middle/right button
- from Henning Spruth (hns@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de)
- o removed reference to FONTLIBDIR in Imakefile (no longer required)
- o added a smart-links feature for the MOVE and COPY commands.
- With smart links turned on, when a BOX-like object is moved
- so are the lines which join up to it (its links).
- Two modes are supported: one which moves just the endpoint,
- the other slides the endlink so that it's angle doesn't change.
- In the second mode horizontal/vertical lines remain that way.
- o added the ability to save figure during quit if it is modified
- o added support for scalable fonts under R5
- o additional command line flags supported
- -latexfonts flag (resource .latexfonts) to start xfig with the LaTeX
- fonts as the default instead of PostScript fonts
- -specialtext flag (resource .specialtext) to start xfig with special
- text as the default
- o bug fixed where number of objects count in file popup was sometimes clipped
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Patchlevel 1 (Oct 1991)
- Changes to Patchlevel 0:
-
- o xfig now reads text size, height and length as floats and rounds to ints
- this is done because certain programs generate floats for these
- o compound object was rounded to next larger grid even if objects inside were
- already on the grid
- o Examples/logo.fig included Logo.eps instead of logo.eps
- o cancellation of line drawing left single dot on screen
- o filename in File popup menu didn't get set until first popup - file save
- shortcut would save to unnamed.fig even if xfig was started with file name
- o bug fixed in not being able to delete points from certain objects
- o typo in FORMAT2.1 file (and all previous) stating that text angle is int when
- it is really float
- o can now change corners of compound object with edit popup
- also shows number of objects inside compound
- o file menu now shows number of objects in figure
- o some bugs fixed in calculating bounding boxes after scaling ellipses and
- compounds
- o "#ifdefined SYSV" now reads "#if defined(SYSV) || defined(SVR4)" because X11R5
- doesn't define SYSV if SVR4 is defined
- David Elliott (dce@krusty.smsc.Sony.COM)
- o object depths < 0 are converted to depth = 0
- o typo in Adobe font name (was "-abode-new century schoolbook-medium-r-*--*")
- Jan Lindheim (lindheim@ccsf.caltech.edu)
- o radius field for non-arcbox line objects now set to -1
- Jan Nusteling (j.nusteling@et.tudelft.nl)
- o bug fixed in not trying to load an eps bitmap file called <empty>
- and not trying to reload an eps bitmap during a copy.
- o bug fixed which caused crash after editing 0-width or 0-height ellipses
- o bug fixed which caused incorrect mode after cancelling draw (int)spline
- o bug fixed which caused incorrect minimum number of points for (int)spline
- o bug fixed which caused erroneous large values to occur after box scale of
- 0-width or 0-height objects. You can no longer box scale such objects
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Patchlevel 0 (Sep 1991)
- Changes to Version 2.0 Patchlevel 10:
-
- Implemented by Paul King (king@cs.uq.oz.au) and
- Brian Smith (envbvs@epb7.lbl.gov) with help from
- Micah Beck (beck@cs.cornell.edu) and
- Brian Boyter (pyrdc!bimbo!boyter@uunet.UU.NET) (EPS code).
-
- USER INTERFACE
- --------------
-
- o The buttons are now grouped into three panels:
-
- COMMAND panel:
- Quit, Delete all, Undo, Redraw, Paste, File popup, Export popup and
- Print popup buttons. See man pages for details.
- (see "Drawing Modes", below for description of Cut)
- MODE panel:
- Allow the user to select the current drawing or editing mode.
- INDICATOR panel:
- By default shows indicator buttons relevant to the current mode.
- Each indicator button displays current setting of some quantity
- (e.g. line width, area-fill) and allows it to be changed:
- left button gives popup menu to select setting,
- middle/right buttons provide a shortcut to inc/decrement settings.
-
- o Pan figure by using left/middle/right button in the rulers in addition to
- the previously supported arrow keys. Also a pan to origin operation
- is available by clicking in the units window (or using HOME key).
- o May now print figure that hasn't been saved (i.e. print what is on the
- canvas, not the file)
- o Zoom up or down with zoom button.
- o Mouse function window shows function of active buttons
- o New resources/command-line switches which affect the user interface:
- -showallbuttons (show all indicator buttons all the time)
- -internalBW n (use lines of width n between buttons/panels)
-
- DRAWING MODES
- -------------
-
- o Regular polygon drawing button - select number of sized from bottom panel.
- Object created is normal xfig polygon.
- o Inclusion of Encapsulated Postscript files (bitmap image in EPS file is
- displayed).
- o Rubberbanding of ellipses/circles.
- o Filled splines show areafill on screen now
- also dashed/dotted line type shows on screen
- o Dot-gap and dash-length can be changed in the line-style indicator popup.
-
- EDITING MODES
- -------------
-
- o Cut to buffer operation is now part of Copy object mode & Delete object mode.
- o Update button to either update objects to current settings, or update
- indicator settings from an object.
- o Rotation of certain objects by any angle (30, 45, 60, 90, 120 degrees can
- be selected using the mouse middle/right shortcut buttons).
- o Alignment horizontally and/or vertically of objects to compound object edge(s)
- o Objects can be scaled (not just compounds).
- o Point move or object copy/move constrainable to horizontal or vertical
- movement (middle mouse button)
- o Compound bounding corners shrink to fit enclosed objects and have markers
- that appear the same as other objects.
- o Shift-click selection should work on all editing operations.
- o Only the objects relevant to a particular editing operation will
- have their markers shown.
-
- OVERALL OPERATION
- -----------------
-
- o Smarter redrawing (if compiled with -DFASTSERVER).
- Only the relevant objects are redrawn after an expose or after
- an edit operation (not all operations support this yet).
- o Undo should work for all commands.
- o Operations can now be cancelled (using the right button when appropriate).
- o Point positioning to three resolutions:
- magnet (1/16inch), small grid or large grid
- o TransFig 2.1 features: LaTex fonts, hidden text, scalable text, "special" text
- see TransFig man pages for description
- scalable text sizes with resizing of figure
- o Attempts to save figure if signal detected (segmentation violation, etc)
- o Resizing the xfig window should now be a bit smarter.
- o The philosophy behind button usage has changed. This was necessary to
- provide a consistent (as possible) philosophy which supports the
- use of several buttons per mode. Now the same button used to start
- an edit/draw operation is used to continue to the normal next step
- in the operation. The right button can be used to cancel an operation.
- Watch the mouse function window until you get the hang of it.
-