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diff --git a/graphics/xfig/xfig.README.3.2.4 b/graphics/xfig/xfig.README.3.2.4 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..59fa364fa1 --- /dev/null +++ b/graphics/xfig/xfig.README.3.2.4 @@ -0,0 +1,483 @@ +December 19, 2002 + +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). + +xfig 3.2.4 is available from ftp://epb.lbl.gov/xfig and www.xfig.org, and usually +from any CTAN (Comprehensive TeX Archive Network) site such as +ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/tex/ctan/. +See http://math.nmu.edu/Web/TeXArchives/ctansite.html for a long list of CTAN sites. + +Be sure to set binary mode when transferring. + +These are the files: + +xfig.3.2.4.full.tar.gz tar file with everything +xfig.3.2.4.code_only.tar.gz tar file with source only +xfig.3.2.4.docs_only.tar.gz tar file with docs only (man pages, html) +xfig.3.2.4.libraries_only.tar.gz tar file with only Fig Object Libraries + +And, now it comes with a binary RPM: xfig-3.2.4.i386.rpm + +You also need to get TransFig version 3.2.4. TransFig contains the post- +processor (fig2dev) needed by xfig to convert fig files to one of several output +formats, such as PostScript, pic, LaTeX etc. The TransFig package can always +be found at the same site as xfig. + +Please send email about any questions/bug fixes/contributions etc. about +TransFig or xfig to xfig-bugs@epb.lbl.gov. + +Brian V. Smith +Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory +I don't speak for LBNL; they don't pay me enough for that. + +***************************************************************************** +Following is a description of the CHANGES for 3.2.4. + +SPECIAL COPYRIGHT NOTICE: + +The xfig copyright has changed slightly since the previous version. +It now states that: + + Any party obtaining a copy of these files is granted, free of charge, a + full and unrestricted irrevocable, world-wide, paid up, royalty-free, + nonexclusive right and license to deal in this software and + documentation files (the "Software"), including without limitation the + rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish and/or distribute copies of + the Software, and to permit persons who receive copies from any such + party to do so, with the only requirement being that this copyright + notice remain intact. + +The previous notice allowed the *selling* of xfig or any code in xfig. This is +not allowed now, unless xfig is simply included in a collection of programs +(e.g. on a CD) that you are selling. + +NEW FEATURES: + + o Binary and source RPM files available for systems with rpm (RedHat + Package Manager). + o Examples moved to Libraries/Examples so they are installed in a + convenient place for viewing (via the library feature) + o "Front" and "Back" labels in depth manager to show relative + positioning of depths on drawing. + o The mu (micro) character is now entered using "Compose | u" instead + of "Compose / u" + o If you wish to place a library object at the position it was + originally created, e.g. for laser printer labels, hold down the Shift + key and press mouse button 3 (`place at orign posn') to place it. + o New URL for chemtool, a chemical structure editor: + http://ruby.chemie.uni-freiburg.de/~martin/chemtool/chemtool.html + o The minimum and maximum depth of objects are shown in the edit panel + for compound objects + o EMF (Enhanced Metafile) export driver (TransFig/fig2dev) based on CGM + driver. Converted by M. Schrick + o SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) beta driver (for TransFig/fig2dev) from + Anthony Starks with major improvements by Martin Kroeker + (martin@ruby.chemie.uni-freiburg.de). Some caveats when using + Mozilla-SVG to view these: + 1. the file must be exported with magnification = 6.6% (0.066 in + fig2dev) to scale to screen coords + 2. the file suffix must be ".xml" + o The xfig documentation is nearly entirely GIF-free (TM). Only the + frames images use GIF because they use a transparent background, which + many browsers don't honor. PNG is used for all other images. + o Xfig reference manual now available in PDF besides html. The English + version is in Doc/xfig_en.pdf and the Japanese in Doc/xfig_jp.pdf. + These are also available in the Help menu. + o Dimension lines - Hold the shift key down while drawing a polyline, + and after specifying the two endpoints a "dimension line" is created, + which is actually a compound object containing the line drawn (with + arrowheads if auto arrow mode is on) in the current color, "tick" + lines at each endpoint, text showing the length of the line in the + current units, and a box around the text filled in the current fill + color. If this compound object is rescaled or one or more endpoints + are moved, the actual length is recalculated and the text is updated. + o New Xfig logo courtesy of Marc-Aurele Darche. + o Can now paste text in text mode using Shift+Middle-mouse-button in + addition to F20 and Sun's Paste key (F18). + o If xfig is compiled with #define WHEELMOUSE uncommented in the + Imakefile, the wheel may be used for several things (see html docs + under Miscellaneous/Wheel Mouse). + o New grid/positioning option for inches mode: -grid_unit. If the value + given is "1/10", "ten", "tenth", "1/10" or "10", (e.g. -grid_unit ten) + then the grid and point positioning is in decimal inches. Otherwise + they are in 1/16 inch units (as before). When in this mode, the grid + step sizes are 0.1, 0.2, 0.5 and 1 inch and the positioning steps are + 0.05, 0.10, 0.2, 0.5, and 1.0 inch. + o Background (-g to fig2dev) option for tk export honored now. + o New command-line argument -correct_font_size (X resource + Fig.correct_font_size) to make xfig use real points for font sizes + instead of units of 1/80 inch. xfig has always claimed that the font + size units are points (1/72inch), but in fact they were 1/80 inch. + This new option is not the default because it will break some figures + by making the text too large compared to other Fig objects, but it + will be the default in a future version. + The corresponding argument to fig2dev is -F (xfig automatically sets + this when calling fig2dev). + o Added "Stop" button to stop loading library. + o Much more efficient when copying large imported pictures - existing + pixmap is used instead of creating new one. This also precludes the + need to remap colors when running out of colors when the colors are + identical. + o When changing an attribute of an imported picture that doesn't change + the picture itself (e.g. depth), the pixmap is not regenerated, + therefore saving time. The same is true when copying a picture. + o New X resource Fig.ghostscript and command-line argument -ghostscript + by which you can tell xfig what your ghostscript is called (e.g. "gs" + or "gswin32"). + o Can now add ASCII (EPSI) preview to EPS export. See export panel. + o Can now add monochrome or color TIFF preview to EPS export. This is + needed by Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, etc. to display the EPS on the + screen. Select from the pulldown menu of export languages. You must + have fig2dev 3.2.4 for these features. See export panel. + o Translations of LATEX.AND.XFIG document into two popular Chinese + encodings (GB2312 and Big5). These are called LATEX.AND.XFIG.zh_CN + and LATEX.AND.XFIG.zh_TW respectively. + From Mendel Chan + o When text becomes too small to see (e.g. small zoom), xfig will + "Greek" it, meaning it draws a gray line segment for each word in the + string. + o When resizing canvas to a smaller height, the number of buttons per + row of the mode (side) panel increases so that it doesn't protrude + into the indicator (bottom) panel + o Smarter redraw when turning on depths from the depth manager. If + depth N is turned on and there are no active depths < N, only depth N + is drawn - otherwise, the canvas is erased and the whole figure is + redrawn. + o If the user's pointer (mouse) buttons are switched (usually 3 2 1) + xfig will automatically flip the mouse hints messages. This overrides + the -flipvisualhints command-line argument. + o If the user clicks on or modifies an existing text, and presses + return, the new text on the next line will use the attributes of the + first text instead of the attributes from the indicator panel. + o Note in README and Imakefile about not casually setting the DESTDIR + make variable. + o Picture objects are drawn as filled gray boxes when their layer is + inactive in gray mode. + o xfig no longer requires fonts that are named "-adobe-..." (e.g. for + RedHat systems with URW fonts). + o Updating the attribute panel from a compound object will retrieve + (only) the smallest depth from the compound. + o When scaling an object, the line thickness is no longer scaled with it + o New measuring modes: angle, length, area and tangent. See Editing + section in html docs. From Alex Durner. + o New feature to add tangents and normal lines to curves. See Editing + section in html docs. From Alex Durner. + o Splash screen on startup. Disable with -nosplash (resource Fig.splash). + Interior logo by Marc-Aurèle Darche. + o New command-line option -grid_color (resource grid_color) to set the + color of the canvas grid (default: red). + o New option to print grid when exporting or printing (see printing/ + exporting section in html docs). + o When drawing an arc by specifying the center point, a circle is drawn + showing the radius of the arc as the user drags the mouse, then when + the first end point is clicked an arc is drawn as the mouse is dragged. + The user then clicks in the direction the arc should go, followed by + the final angle to complete it. + o If the Ruler unit is Imperial (in), you may have xfig display + measurements using fractions where possible. If a measurement can be + shown as an integer multiple of 64ths of an inch (or 32nds, 16ths, + etc.) it will show it as such (e.g. 3-5/64 in), otherwise a decimal + value will be shown (e.g. 3.085 in). + o When opening a compound object, if the middle button us used to open + the compound, all other objects on the canvas are kept visible. + From Alex Durner. + o When opening a compound object, the "point positioning" indicator is + enabled, allowing you to set the bounds of the compound according to + the indicator when you close the compound. + o Zero-crossing lines on canvas have own command-line parameter + (-zero_lines) and resource (Fig.zero_lines) for setting color separate + from page border color. + o Smooth factor when exporting to bitmap format is now a pull-down menu + with: No smoothing, Some smoothing, More smoothing. + o When flipping compound objects with text, a vertical flip will now + shift the text to maintain its relative position to the other objects + in the compound and its angle is rotated by 180 degrees minus the + original angle. This behavior will for example, keep the orientation + of a text inside a polygon consistent with the polygon. + A horizontal flip of a compound containing text will change the angle + in the same way. + o Three-D borders for buttons, etc reduced from 2 to 1 pixel for "lean" + look (resource Fig*shadowWidth in Fig-color.ad). + o Additional JPEG file format (EXIF) added for import. These usually + come from digital cameras. + o Validation for integer spinners - doesn't allow non-numeric input when + typing in values directly. + o When scaling an object, the scale factor is shown in the message. + window in addition to the width/height. From Alex Durner. + o New url for pstoedit (mentioned in installation.html). + o When picking points of an object at high zoom, the tolerance has been + reduced to make it easier to pick the correct point. + o When "graying" inactive depths, the inactive objects are drawn first + followed by active objects ensuring visibility of active objects. + o xfig now draws "grayed out" picture objects (inactive depth) as a gray + box with the filename only. + o Line style in edit panel now shows graphic of style instead of + textual description. + o Cap style in edit panel was inadvertantly left off open-splines. + o Popup dialog to edit behavior of spline point now pops up near the + point being edited. + o When cancelling drawing a picture object from the popup editor, the + empty object is removed rather than showing a <empty> in the box. + o Pressing Return or Escape in popup message window will dismiss it. + o In picture browser popup, double clicking or clicking and pressing + Return will apply the selected picture AND close the browser. + o New popup query if updating the depth in a compound object would + result in any depth exceeding the maximum. The popup gives the user + the option to cancel the depth update part. + From Marcus Eger (eger.m@gmx.de) + o More consistent placement of Cancel/Ok/Set etc. buttons in dialogs. + Generally, the Cancel button is first followed by the others, and + where possible, they are at the bottom of the dialog. + o More meaningful message "Cut buffer is empty" if there is no .xfig + file in the user's home directory. + o New MetaPost driver for TransFig 3.2.4 supported. + o New option for binary CGM export (must have TransFig 3.2.4 too). The + ralcgm program is required for this option. + See ftp://ftp.cc.rl.ac.uk/pub/graphics/ralcgm/ + o In popup edit panel for compound objects, one may easily shift a + compound object by changing either corner's x, y values and pressing + return or scale it by changing the width and/or height and pressing + return. + o "condensed" alias for "narrow" fonts (urw changed their helvetica- + narrow to helvetica-condensed). + o Pressing escape in a popup dialog will dismiss it. + o Zoom/Unzoom (Shift-Z/z) changes zoom by a factor of 1.5 instead of + adding or subtracting 1 from the zoom value. Also, the zoom/unzoom is + centered on the canvas. + o Exporting to JPEG doesn't require compiling with USE_JPEG defined in + Imakefile. + o Minimum and maximum depths of objects in a compound are displayed in + popup edit panel. + o Named styles where user can save attributes that are often used for + quick access. For example, the user may want dashed, thick, red lines + often so he can save those attributes and call it (e.g.) "thickred", + and easily call it up later. See the html docs in Main Menus (the + View/Manage Styles...) menu entry. + +NEW LIBRARIES and Examples: + + o Poster advertizing German version of "Little Shop of Horrors" in + Libraries/Examples/poster.fig. From Kai-Martin Knaak + o Three new Examples from Carlo Kopp (in Libraries/Examples): + Python-4.fig - RAFAEL Python 4 all aspect agile heatseeking missile + YF-23A.fig - Development example of the USAF's Northrop-MDC YF-23A + tsr2-side.fig - Notional camouflages for BAC TSR.2 production aircraft. + o Many new country flags in the Libraries/Flags directory. Now + organized by region of the world (e.g. Africa, Europe, MiddleEast). + o New flags of Bosnia and Slovenia with vector coat of arms in + Libraries/Flags directory from Roman Maurer + o New maps of Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and + Slovenia (Libraries/Maps/Europe) + o New maps of Russia, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan + and Uzbekistan (Libraries/Maps/Asia) + o New Avery label templates in Libraries/Labels directory, including a + CD label, Avery_5931, done by William Chimiak. + o New Avery and PerfectData Corp CD label templates in Libraries/Labels + directory, done by Len Hickey. + o New computers and printers in Libraries/Computers library from Ernst + Pisch + o New network library devices Extreme Networks Inc. Black Diamond and + Summit 5i network switches, Net Gear Hub, and new CODECs in + Audiovisual library from Bill Chimiak + o New DSP component library from Jakub Stastny (stastnj1@volny.cz) + o Standard welding bevels library from Erik Engh (Libraries/Welding) + o Canadian map from Seymour Green + o A Uno hand (card game) drawn by Roland Rosendfeld + (Libraries/Examples/uno_hand.fig) + +BUGS FIXED: + + o Undo of join/split now works correctly. + From Pieter-Tjerk de Boer (ptdeboer@cs.utwente.nl) + o Pulldown menu for object library didn't always go away while loading + library + o If -library_dir was relative path, any imported pictures in library + files wouldn't be found. + o If in text draw mode and user uses Alt- accelerator, the compose LED + would stay on + o Middle mouse emulation for 2-button mice wasn't accepting Alt-Right- + click, only Meta-Right-click. + o If one created a new figure and didn't save it before exporting, the + export command was malformed resulting in an error message. + o Numeric locale setting moved to routines that read and write Fig files + so that the user's numeric convention is used in everything else. + o Point positioning was truncated in the negative X and Y regions of the + canvas instead of being rounded. + o -b (border margin) wasn't being passed to fig2dev for PDF and PSTEX + output. + o xfig only recalculate the bounds of compound objects being read if + there are no bounds following the "6" or they are all 0. This fixes + the problem introduced in 3.2.3d where objects that were bound at a + certain point positioning were rebound at the current positioning. + o When xfig reads in a .fig file (merge_file or load_lib_obj) it will + not put the file into another compound if it contains only one + compound. This will prevent the double compounding of library objects + or merged files. + o If a compound with more than 64 strings was edited, xfig segfaulted + because the limit wasn't checked. This is fixed, and the limit has + been increased to 200. + o Typo in figx.h. "#ifdef XAW3d" instead of "#ifdef XAW3D" (capital "D") + o If the XFIGDOCDIR directory didn't already exist, install.doc failed. + o The "make install.all" directive did not install the executable, as + the README file said is would. This has been fixed. + o Deleting a region (middle mouse button delete) of a figure resulted in + all other objects dissappearing after a screen refresh. + o If the user mistakenly clicked the *left* mouse button on a point + where he wanted to *split* a line, the ability to split was turned off. + o Toplevel library directory wasn't included in library menu when it + contained .fig files. + o Subdirectories without any .fig files appeared in the library menus, + contrary to the documentation. + o If xfig was renamed to anything else, the command-line arguments and + X resources weren't parsed by the Intrinsics. This is fixed. + o Some versions of "make" don't like the blank line produced by the + "#ifdef I18N" in the install.html section of the Imakefile, so it has + been reworked to get around that bug. + o Array placement with horizontally/vertically constrained copy works now + o Html "options" page showed "-pa" as abbreviation for -paper_size, when + in fact it is now "-pap" because of the new "-pageborder" option. + o If display zoom was large (> 20) and grid was turned on, very large + pixmap was being created for the grid. + o Inconsistancy with "char" vs "unsigned char" in get_canvas_clipboard(). + o Text input and editing more efficient when redrawing large fonts. + o Box curve indicator now appears when in "convert box<->arcbox" mode. + o If user called xfig with empty (but existing) file, the filename was + not retained for subsequent save. + o Cleaned up redrawing of corner markers when editing objects from popup + edit panel. + o Scaling arcbox didn't report scaling messages. + o When scaling rotated ellipses, scaling messages were overwritten. + o Improved redraw when moving/scaling/copying objects and screen is + redrawn. + o Drawing units indicator was not updated when reading Fig file. + o Cleaned up "move point" code. When moving a corner point of a box or + compound or the radius or diameter of a circle or ellipse, it would + first make the object dissappear until the mouse was moved. This + doesn't happen anymore. + o Command-line -userunit (X resource Fig.userunit) were overwritten when + reading Fig file. Now it is only changed if units are inconsistent + with value in file. E.g. if file has "Inches" and xfig has "cm", xfig + changes to "in" when reading file. + o A few files were left open that should be closed. + o If the print and/or export panels are up and the figure units are + changed from/to Metric/Imperial, the figure size wasn't updated in + the print/export panel(s). + o Missing link from editing.html file to "Paste Objects" in + main_menus.html. + o Bug in array place item - didn't work when number of X copies and + Y copies = 1. + o Bug in *undo* of array place - didn't account for adding back object + depths + o (dx, dy) values weren't displayed when moving the midpoints of a line + or arc. + o While drawing freehand (middle mouse button start), if the user wanted + to delete points by holding down the shift key and pressing the left + button, moving the mouse would still add points to the object + o PNGINC Imakefile variable added to specify where png.h is located (was + already there in fig2dev) + o The depth counts were erased when deleting a region of a figure. + o If you choose one object from a library to place on the canvas and + then popup the library panel and choose another object, the depths + from the temporary object following the pointer weren't accounted for. + o Added "Fig*AllowShellResize: false" to the app-defaults file to fix a + problem that some window managers have with xfig continually resizing + itself + o When saving path of imported picture, xfig thought path was relative + to current directory when it wasn't + o Added "|| defined(apollo)" in fig.h to include sys/types.h + o Doc/FORMAT3.2 file had imported picture description line reversed with + points lines + o Doc/FORMAT3.2 file had incorrect values for object types in the first + part of section 3. + o Segfault when merging a Fig file with only color objects (no drawing + objects) + o No message when toggling on/off depth manager + o If xfig couldn't open ~/.xfigrc for writing (e.g. because of + permissions) it would segfault + o Segfault when converting a 2-point line to a polygon. + Bugfix from Tom Sato. + o Segfault when creating a closed spline with three points, where the + last two points are coincident. + Bugfix from Tom Sato. + o Typo in attributes.html in describing the selection of the previous or + next attribute with mouse buttons 2 and 3 respectively. For mouse + button 2 it should read "previous" and for button 3 "next". + o Typo in Doc/FORMAT3.2 and Doc/html/fig-format.html for backward_arrow + description: + said "(0: no forward arrow, 1: on)" instead of ... no backward ... + o Added $(DUSESMALLICONS) to dependencies for main.c in Imakefile + o Reduced height of object edit panels by only displaying 3 comment + lines and 6 x,y pairs before scrolling. + o Special texts weren't filtered by the depth filter when exporting to + combined ps/latex or pdf/latex + o Various typographical errors found by Daniel Frèrejacque + o Segfault if fast export (Alt-Shift-X) is done before either the file, + export or browse panel was created + o When xfig was compiled with WHEELMOUSE support, zooming was always + "centered" even not zooming with wheel + o Typo in Fig.ad resource file for pasting text using F8 key + o When doing a panic save (segfault, etc.), xfig now closes any open + compound objects first + o Bug in importing GIF file. File descriptor changed between first open + and final close. + o Bug in Imakefile with JPEGINCDIR + o Had to include SimpleMenu.c and header files because of changes to + some Xaw SimpleMenu implementations that were incompatible with xfig's + own SmeBSB object + o Bug in "Figure size" label in export panel caused segfault sometimes + o Macro call (up_part) in e_update.c caused problems on HP/UX ANSI + compiler + o Same compiler takes issue with empty action records in w_style.c: + library_actions[] ={}; Removed because it isn't used anymore. + o After pressing the "Reread" button in imported picture edit popup, the + Shrink, Expand and Original size buttons were disabled + o Bug in SmeCascadeP.h when not using 3D widget set (Xaw3d) + o One remaining use of sys_errlist[] should have been changed to + strerror() in f_util.c + o Pressing Escape while drawing an object caused segfault + o When line type is dotted and the dot gap is < 0.5, XSetDashes() + produced "Bad Value" error. Found by Tom Sato + o init_break_tag() and init_break_only() each had an extraneous parameter + (loc_tag) which wasn't used and wasn't passed by the caller anyway. This + caused havoc with (at least) the gcc optimizer on an Alpha processor. + Found by Jay Estabrook. + o If you open a dimension line compound object and close it with zoom != 1, + the text is drawn unzoomed + o Didn't allow smoothing when exporting to AutoCAD slide file. + o Changing browser or pdfviewer in dialog had no effect. + o Fixed problem with RedHat imake rules not installing Doc/xfig.man + properly. + o When making a compound object including lines that have arrowheads and + large coordinates (>= 100000), an incorrect bounding box was produced. + This same bug was in fig2dev 3.2.3d and earlier. + o Drawing an arc by starting with the center and dragging it out now + reports the angles of the endpoints after clicking on first endpoint + instead of incorrectly reporting the radius. + o Checks that closed splines have at least 3 points when reading Fig + file and removes any that have fewer. + o Exporting with color TIFF preview option missing parameter when + calling fig2dev + o Export grid option disabled for languages other than PS/EPS/PDF/bitmaps + o Not really a bug, but the message that tells the user when xfig is + converting a figure from an older file format to the current format + has been removed. + o When changing the height of xfig, the number of buttons per row on the + mode (left) panel increase OR decrease as needed. + o When reading a Fig file with different units (metric/imperial) than + the current figure didn't change the ruler tick spacing. + o Chemical Process Flowsheet library Valve_horizontal and Valve_vertical + valves reversed. + o Bug in forcing absolute path for picture objects in libraries + o Bug where xfig may change the Major/Minor printing/export grid tick + values from "None" to 0.0 + o When an imported picture is compressed but the .fig file has the + uncompressed name, export failed. + o Xfig allowed "splitting" a picture box into a polyline. This has been + fixed to disallow it. + o Queries user if hasn't saved named styles after adding or deleting same. + o Print-to-batch-file didn't call print_to_file with all parms + o xfig crashed if the window manager deleted the color popup panel in + the popup editors |