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From: [e-mail] (Brian V. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: xfig 2.1.5 available
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Date: 9 Nov 92 16:36:56 GMT
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xfig 2.1.5 is available on export.lcs.mit.edu in /contrib/R5fixes/xfig-patches/
xfig.2.1.5.tar.Z.  Be sure to set binary mode when transferring.

There is also an incremental patch file to convert from 2.1.4 to 2.1.5.  This
is in the file /contrib/R5fixes/xfig-patches/2.1.4.to.2.1.5.Z.  You may use
the 'patch' program to automatically apply the changes to your 2.1.4 release.

Xfig is a menu-driven tool that allows the user to draw and manipulate objects
interactively in an X window.  The resulting pictures can be saved, printed
on postscript printers or converted to a variety of other formats (e.g. to
allow inclusion in LaTeX documents).

Following is a description of the CHANGES for 2.1.5.

Many thanks to the users who contributed bug fixes and new features.

Brian Smith
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
I don't speak for LBL; they don't pay me enough for that.

Version 2.1 Patchlevel 5
Changes to Patchlevel 4:

NEW FEATURES:

o support for two button mouse - use META + Button 3 to simulate button 2
    from Lars Berntzon ([e-mail])
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 ([e-mail])
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 ([e-mail])

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 ([e-mail])
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 ([e-mail])
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 ([e-mail])
o fixed initialization bug in u_undo.c and object.c which caused HP 9000/700
    compilers to segfault
    From Alfred van der Hoeven ([e-mail])
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 ([e-mail])
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 ([e-mail])
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 ([e-mail])
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 ([e-mail])
o XtRemoveGrab bug when popping down file message window finally fixed
    many thanks to David Wexelblat ([e-mail])
o XtAppAddActions() only called once now for each action
    from David Wexelblat ([e-mail])
o changed cfree() calls to free() for those machines that don't have it
    from Anthony Datri ([e-mail])
o moved static function definitions outside of procedures for those machines
    which can't handle them
    from Anthony Datri ([e-mail])
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 ([e-mail])
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 ([e-mail])
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 ([e-mail])
o epsf file wasn't closed after reading if there was no preview bitmap
    from Herve Poirier ([e-mail])
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)