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- About AmiFIG 2.5
- ================
-
- Copyright
- =========
-
- This software is shareware. It may be freely distributed as long as
- no part of the distribution is changed or removed. Long term use
- is only permitted to registered users.
- The copyright remains (C) 1996 Andreas Schmidt.
-
-
- Disclaimer
- ==========
-
- The author cannot be held liable for the suitability or accuracy of this
- manual nor the program(s) and can not accept any responsibility for
- damage directly or indirectly caused by the use of this manual and/or the
- programs.
- In other words: Anything you do is at your own risk.
-
-
- Registration
- ============
-
- The unregistered version only saves up to 30 objects (incl. contents
- of compound objects). That also applies to the size of library folders.
- If you want to register send US$ 20,- or DM 30,- to the address given below.
- You will receive the code to remove the restriction via mail or e-mail.
-
- Please add your e-mail address and the version number of your AmiFIG-copy.
-
-
- About AmiFIG
- ============
-
- AmiFIG is a universal vector based drawing program, which is derived from
- the well-known Unix-program XFig by Supoj Sutanthavibul and others.
- This version now includes most of the v3.1 features.
- Parts of the GUI were designed using GadToolsBox 2.0b by JaBa Development.
-
- Also included is fig2dev, a tool to convert fig data files into several
- formats (postscript, LaTeX, epic etc.).
- It's the original Unix program version 3.1.3. I merely added v1.4 file format
- support and some more page formats for postscript export and fixed some bugs.
- The postscript converter knows two new options -h xxx and -d yyy. xxx and yyy
- are the page size in pixels at 72 dpi.
-
-
- Requirements
- ============
-
- Processor: works with 68000 without FPU or 68020 and FPU depending on the
- program version
- OS: 3.0 or better
-
-
- New in version 2.5
- ==================
-
- This version is merely a bugfix but was recompiled using SAS/C 6.57.
- There is on new feature that lets you choose whether the draw window shall
- be activated after clicking in one of the tool bars.
-
- fixes the following bugs:
- -it was impossible to move the points of a polygon that was an interpolated
- spline before
- -the text tool used wrong mouse pointers
- -after scaling a compound object the "undo" function did not set it back to
- its old size under certain circumstances
- -the grid was sometimes painted with a wrong background color (between the dots)
- -positioning via grid is more accurate
- -fig2dev swapped the 45 degree diagonal patterns
-
- New in version 2.4
- ==================
-
- -displays polygones (and arcboxes) with different line widths regarding
- line style and join style
- -text objects can have any angle (angles <> 0 will be displayed as framebox)
-
-
- New in version 2.3
- ==================
-
- -Picture import via DataTypes which also includes export via fig2dev
- -All Xfig arrow types
- -Creates icons
- -A number of smaller enhancements
-
- bugfixes:
- Crash when activating the magnet mode. This only happened when AmiFIG
- could not find a config file.
- A number of smaller bugs were fixed which probably nobody encountered.
-
-
- Differences to XFig
- ===================
-
- Look up the manpage on drawing functions. This manpage refers to the
- Unix-Version, therefore there are lots of differences.
- The most important thing is the ability to handle a library of objects.
- Objects can be taken from drawings and stored in folders. So you can
- build a collection of symbols and pieces, that can be easily accessed
- in future projects. This is very useful if you often need the same
- things.
-
- There is a bug in the XFig-versions that are based on the original source
- code: Due to a round error centimeter rulers are not correct displayed.
- One centimeter is 1.5 pixels too small in 80 dpi magnification. This
- makes an error of 15 pixels or 1/2 cm for each 10 cm.
-
- To correct this the original fig2dev scaled figures, that were drawn
- using the centimeter-ruler by a factor of 1.05.
-
- AmiFIG does not have this bug. Therefore I removed this workaround
- from fig2dev. Figures that were drawn with other XFig-clones with
- that have the buggy rulers are very probably by the factor of 0.95
- smaller in AmiFIG.
-
- Supports DataTypes.
-
-
- What is to do?
- ==============
-
- -cap style
- -correct representation of different line widths of splines, circles and arcs
- -automatic alignment
- -fig-datatype
- -and more
-
-
- Contact
- =======
-
- AmiFIG Homepage <http://www.cs.tu-berlin.de/~huluvu/amifig.html>
-
- e-Mail: huluvu@cs.tu-berlin.de
-
- Mail: Andreas Schmidt
- Walter-Friedrich-Str.45
- 13125 Berlin
- Germany
-