Tgif - Version 4.2 Release Notes

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1. Export in the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format.

2. Add "configure" to the distribution so that on systems that does not have "imake", a "Makefile" can be created by running "./configure".

3. Add "structured splines" where cubic Bezier curves are used.

4. Add support for user-specified rotation pivot.

5. Add a new X default, Tgif.EnableTrueColorImages, so that on TrueColor displays, X11 pixmap and JPEG objects can have all the colors.

6. Add a new X default, Tgif.CustomPatternDir, so that tgif can replace the default patterns for fills and pens with custom ones.

7. Add Copy Double Byte (UTF8) String and Paste Double Byte (UTF8) String under the Edit Menu.

8. Add Choose Color under the Properties Menu to use a colorwheel to add colors to the current drawing.

9. Enable printing for X11 pixmap objects having too many colors.

10. Integrate the Tangram Whiteboard feature into tgif on Linux machines.

1. Fix bugs with copy and paste. Thanks to Dr. Ing. Dieter Jurzitza <dieter.jurzitza at herrmannultraschall.com> for pointing out the bug and helping to find the problem.

2. Fix a bug with the pstoepsi() internal command so that tgif does not crash if pbmtoxbm is not installed. Thanks to Yannick Morvan for pointing out the bug.

3. Fix a bug with pinned shape menu. The problem was that text cannot be entered immediately after a shape is created, Thanks to Paul Lew for pointing out the bug.

4. Fix a crashing bug which happens when Tgif.DefFixedWidthFont is used and a non-existent double-byte font is specified in the X resource file.

5. Fix a bug with Tgif.DeleteCmdAsCut. It was not handled like the way it said in the man pages.

6. Incorporate the following patches from the Fedora RPM package (tgif-4.1.45-5.fc8.src.rpm): tgif-4.1.35-overthespot_fix.patch tgif-4.1.44-xim-bad-focus.patch tgif-4.1.45-fontcheck.patch tgif-QPL-4.1.45-open-with-mode.patch tgif.gif tgif-4.1.41.ja.po (in po/ja) tgif-4.1ja9.tar.gz (in po/ja) tgif-wrapper.sh (in po/ja) tgif.desktop (in po/ja) tgif.spec (in po/ja) The following patch is not applied since it did not look correct. tgif-textcursor-a-urasim.patch I don't understand why the most-significant-bit is cleared no matter what. The original code in tgif right below this patch suppose to handle the situation correctly.

7. Fix a bug with composing international characters. In newer Linux releases, UTF8 characters are used by default when international characters are composed. These UTF8 characters are often multi-byte characters so they needed to be converted to single-byte in order to use X11 fonts. To get this to work, tgif loads "libidn" dynamically and calls functions in "libidn" to do the conversion. If your system does not have "libidn", you can use the -D_NO_IDNLIB compiler option so that tgif will not attempt to load "libidn".

8. Fix typos in "tgif.pl". Thanks to Carlo Segre <segre at iit.edu> for pointingn out the bugs.

9. Fix various mistakes in "tgif.man". Thanks to Shigeharu TAKENO <shige at iee.niit.ac.jp> for the patch.

10. Rename the Tgif.IconPixmap X default to Tgif.WMIconPixmap. If this is not done, Xtoolkit will interpret this X default and display an error message. Thanks to Dr. Ing. Dieter Jurzitza <dieter.jurzitza at herrmannultraschall.com> for pointing out the problem.

11. Export in the SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format. This requires "uniconvertor" (which is part of the "uniconvertor" package) and "pstoedit" (which is part of the "pstoedit" package). One known limitation of "uniconvertor" is that it cannot convert bitmap/pixmap patterns/objects.

12. Add support for user-specified rotation pivot.

13. Add support for "structured splines" where cubic Bezier curves are used. The Tgif.SplineRubberband X default became obsolete.

14. Add "eq4png.sym" to be used instead of "eq4xpm.sym" if "eq4xpm.sym" gives you an all-black or all-white image. The problem was that there is a bug in ImageMagick's "convert" when converting EPS file to a PPM file. With "eq4png.sym", "convert" will be called to convert an EPS file to a PNG file.

15. Integrate the Tangram Whiteboard feature into tgif on Linux machines. This feature used to be experimental (enabled if compiled with the -D_TGIF_WB2 option). Now the authors of the Reliable IP-multicast Library (distributed in the "rmcast" subdirectory of tgif) believe that "rmcast" is mature enough, the interface to "rmcast" is now enabled by default (but not activated unless you run tgif with the "-tgwb2" commandlinen optoin). If you want to try this feature, you might want to make sure that your network interface card has multicast turned on (using "ifconfig <interface> multicast") and your firewall is not blocking the multicast port used by the whiteboard (default address is 225.1.2.3). You can try adding "... -p udp -d 225.1.2.0/24 -s 127.0.0.1 -j ACCEPT" to /etc/sysconfig/iptables. The "libz" and "libpthread" libraries are required to interface with the "rmcast" library. Therefore, "-lz -lpthread" must be used in Tgif.tmpl. If your system does not have "libz", you can use the -D_NO_LIBZ compiler option and remove "-lz" from Tgif.tmpl. If your system does not have "libpthread", you can remove "-DPTHREAD" and "-lpthread" from Tgif.tmpl. Thanks to Jorge Allyson Azevedo <allyson at land.ufrj.br> and other members of the research group lead by Professor Edmundo de Souze e Silva <edmundo at land.ufrj.br> at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

16. Add a new X default, Tgif.EnableTrueColorImages, so that on TrueColor displays, X11 pixmap and JPEG objects can have all the colors. Internally, tgif stores them as deflated (using zlib) PPM files. Therefore, this feature requires zlib and pbmplus to be installed on your system.

17. Add a new X default, Tgif.CustomPatternDir, so that tgif can replace the default patterns for fills and pens with custom ones. Thanks to Daniel Bauer <dsbauer at gmail.com> for the patch.

18. Add a new X default, Tgif.ReportMissingFonts, so that tgif can report missing fonts when it starts.

19. Add new X defaults, Tgif.@@@ConvFromUTF8 and Tgif.@@@ConvToUTF8, where @@@ is the name of a double-byte font, to convert between UTF8-encoded strings and strings of the named double-byte font. The specified commands are used in the new Copy and Paste Double Byte (UTF8) Strings operations under the Edit Menu.

20. Add a new X default, Tgif.DefaultLatin1FontCharEncoding, so that the 4 default fonts (Times, Courier, Helvetica, and NewCentury) can use character encoding other than iso8859-1. Newer Linux systems seem to have only a small number of font sizes available for these fonts. The scalable and pre-installed version of these fonts are all iso10646-1 encoded. This is best for creating new tgif files. There may be a slight compatibity problem with existing tgif files because the iso10646-1 fonts seem to be taller than their iso8859-1 counterparts.

21. Add Tgif.tmpl-dragonfly (identical to Tgif.tmpl-netbsd) for DragonFly BSD.

22. Enable printing for X11 pixmap objects having too many colors (as long as it does not have transparent pixels).

23. Add "configure" to the distribution so that on systems that does not have "imake", a "Makefile" can be created by running "./configure". This is new and has only been tested on a few platforms. If this does not work on certain systems, please send an e-mail to the author. Thanks!

24. Add a dependency in the tgif.spec file to declare that tgif depends on the xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi, ghostscript, and netpbm-progs packages. If you install tgif using an RPM file, you must have these three packages installed before you can install tgif.

25. Add the following internal commands:

    random_permute_lines_in_attr(<attr_name>)
    find_obj_names_on_all_pages(<result_attr>,<attr_name_value>)