dia 0.97 - finally released

From: Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>

To: dia-list <dia-list gnome org>

Subject: dia 0.97 - finally released

Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 22:30:33 +0200

After more than two years of spare-time development Dia 0.97 just got

released. You can get it at http://download.gnome.org/sources/dia/0.97/

Some highlights: * High quality cross-platform print and pdf output by use of cairo. [1] * Rotated text, but only with the new "Standard - Ouline" object. [2] * Object properties dialog finally does handle multiple objects. [3] * Improved text edit mode for consistent handling of the Delete key. * A new integrated user interface mode with diagrams in tabs. [4] * Almost 200 bugs and feature requests resolved [5] [6] Special thanks to: Lars Clausen - maintaining Dia for more than five years, text edit, units and much more Steffen Macke - keeping Dia buildable on win32 and Linux, maintaining the win32 installer, consistent icon size and more Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe - resolving the oldest feature request (multiple object change) and fixing a bunch of long-standing bugs Marcel Toele - contributing the ability for custom shapes with subshapes Petr Novotnik - contributing dedicated database shapes Thomas Harding - doing a documentation overhaul Mark Dexter - huge documentaton update Patrick Hallinan - contributing the integrated UI patches Elie Roux - contributing Ligths shapes and a lot less compiler warnings ... - everyone else translating, providing patches or reporting bugs Happy Diagramming, Hans [1] http://projects.gnome.org/dia/render-test.pdf [2] http://projects.gnome.org/dia/dia-0-97-coming-soon.png [3] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60331 [4] http://projects.gnome.org/dia/dia-0.97-integrated-ui.png

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[6] http://git.gnome.org/cgit/dia/tree/NEWS -------- Hans "at" Breuer "dot" Org ----------- Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it. -- Dilbert