XPaint Files

2015-01-02  J.-P. Demailly  <jean-pierre.demailly@ujf-grenoble.fr>

        * Version 2.9.10.3

	* Port to the newer libXaw3dXft-1.6.2d.tar.bz2 (the latter is
	  actually a requirement, this version no longer compiles
	  with libXaw3dXft-1.6.2c). The point is that libXaw3dXft-1.6.2d
	  has improved binary compatibility with plain libXaw3d-1.6.x

	* Only further cosmetic changes, no change in functionality.

2014-04-17  J.-P. Demailly  <jean-pierre.demailly@ujf-grenoble.fr>

        * Version 2.9.10.2

        * Minor fixes in 'configure.ac' and 'configure.old' scripts
          Xpaint can now be compiled again with plain Xaw or Xaw3d
          (this is NOT recommended, Xaw3dxft definitely gives much
          better results !) Thanks to Stefan Husmann (Arch Linux)
          for helpful reports in this respect.

        * 'configure' (based on autotools) and 'configure.old' (based on
          imake) should in most cases give essentially equivalent binaries.

        * PDF files are now read by using mudraw if mupdf & mupdf-tools
          are installed (otherwise Xpaint falls back to the formerly used
          solution: pdf2ps + ghostscript, a much slower one...)

        * Xpaint can now even import libreoffice files as images as soon
          as libreoffice is installed (assuming /usr/bin/libreoffice is
          a valid path to the main program)

2014-04-09  J.-P. Demailly  <jean-pierre.demailly@ujf-grenoble.fr>

        * Version 2.9.10.1

        * Includes the "version_and_focus_patch_for_2.9.10" and other
          minor fixes.

        * The alpha channel menu now includes a new function that allows 
          editing as RGB values the image that appears when transparency
          is applied on a background of the selected background color -
          white being the default (this removes the transparency levels
          afterwards, so as to get a pure RGB image).

        * Bug (probably very old) corrected : selection of background color
          always resulted in black being chosen !

        * MINOR COMPILATION PROBLEM MENTIONED BY SOME USERS :
          on some distros the configure script might not find the freetype2
          headers. This can be fixed by replacing the line
            [AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[#include <freetype/config/ftheader.h>]])],
          with
            [AC_LANG_PROGRAM([[#include <freetype2/config/ftheader.h>]])],
          in configure.ac, and running autoconf again.
          Other (possibly better) solution : use the "configure.old" script
          instead of "configure" - it seems to produce a binary executable
          that has better optimizations.

2014-03-03  J.-P. Demailly  <jean-pierre.demailly@ujf-grenoble.fr>

        * Version 2.9.10

        * This version should preferably be compiled with libXaw3dXft-1.6.2c,
          although it still works Ok with libXaw3dXft-1.6.2b.

	* readWritePNG.c: fixed bug occurring when writing grayscale images
          possessing no more than 16 colors.

        * readWriteJPEG.c: JPEG images in CMYK colorspace are now handled 
          properly (they will still be memorized as RGB, so the original
          CMYK information is lost, but at least they are shown correctly).

        * fileBrowser.c: "Save" and "Save as" menus now include the option
          to adjust JPEG quality between 50% and 100% (default is 90%)

        * fileBrowser.c: improved logic : the file browser now remembers
          file names when changing directories, and also takes into
          account default extension when specifying file format.

        * fileBrowser.c: thanks to a new feature from libXaw3dXft-1.6.2c
          (possibility of creating colored lists), xpaint now
          implements file type coloring in its file browser - at this
          point this is guessed merely from the suffix of the file.

        * operation.c: Canvas menu reorganized - it is now named 
          "File menu" so as to conform to general use. Except from 
          reordering the items, the main functionality is unchanged.

	* pattern.c: bug fixes. A segfault problem in the zoom selector
          has been corrected, and contextual help has been fixed.