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Release Notes for DrawPlus
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This version of DrawPlus, as well as incorporating some new features and the
inevitable bug fixes, is fully compatible with the RiscPC and the latest
version of RiscOS and upgrades as officially available from Acorn. However,
it will no longer work with RiscOS 2: if you are still using this then I
(and Acorn) would strongly suggest that you upgrade.
The user-visible changes are summarised below; refer to the documentation
file for more information.
Note that this is a beta test version. The code has been extensively
reorganised in order to hopefully make it easier for me to maintain the code
and add new features in the future (a few minor changes have been
incorporated already). This may, of course, have introduced some new bugs,
so please report any that you find in this version.
2╖30 (25th February 1996)
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1. If running on a RiscPC, dynamic areas are used for files and drawing
memory. This improves performance, and also allows them to operate
with Clares' Virtualiser (I have not tested this, and I would be
interested to know if it works properly with DrawPlus).
2. System font text is created and edited on screen, in the same way as
fancy font text, instead of in a dialogue box.
3. When using the PostScript« printer driver, the fonts used in the drawing
are declared to it so that they will be downloaded or mapped correctly.
4. Draw files with non-fatal errors can be loaded. Some applications
produce these: notably, EarthMap sometimes produces null paths which
would previously have resulted in the file being rejected.
5. The "Interactive help" options has been removed: interactive help is
always available.
6. A full set of high-resolution and 3-D templates and sprites are
provided.
2╖31 (9th March 1996)
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7. Background printing is implemented (if supported by the printer driver,
and enabled in its "Connections" dialogue).
8. Layer 0 can now be made selectable or invisible. It cannot, however, be
deleted or renumbered.
9. Acorn settings objects found in a file being loaded are silently
discarded without any warning being given.
2╖32 (25th March 1996)
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10. The order of the buttons in the "Save,Discard,Cancel" dialogue has been
changed to conform to that used by most other applications.
11. There is an option to display the full pathname of a file in the window
title, rather than just the leaf name as shown by default: this is for
users of TreeMenu and similar utilities which expect to be able to find
the full pathname of a document by looking at its window title. To
enable this option, edit the last line of the !Run file in the
application directory, which originally reads:
Run "<DrawPlus$Dir>.!RunImage" %*0
to:
Run "<DrawPlus$Dir>.!RunImage" -fulltitles %*0
before running the application.
2╖33 (2nd April 1996)
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Bug fix release only: no new features or facilities.
2╖34 (13th April 1996)
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12. When using "Select this" or "View this" to change layer settings,
layerá0 is no longer special and can be turned off just like any other.
13. There are now two zoom icons in the toolbox, each with independent
settings. Selecting one which is currently unselected sets the display
magnification to that: selecting the one which is currently selected
resets the magnification to 1:1. Clicking Adjust on either of the icons
opens its magnifier setting box.
The "Display" menu has been slightly rearranged: there are now two
"Magnify" options which dplicate the functions of the two toolbox icons.
Choosing the menu item changes the display magnification in the same way
as clicking on the toolbox icon: the currently-selected magnification
is ticked. Moving righwards off the submenu arrow opens the magnifier
setting box.
Due to the introduction of this change, the saved magnification setting
in existing Draw files is ignored; when a file is first loaded into
this version standard defaults (of 1:2 and 2:1) will be set.
14. Choosing the "Save" option from the top-level document menu opens the
"Saveáas" dialogue box.
2╖35 (21st April 1996)
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Bug fix release only: no new features or facilities.
2╖36 (1st May 1996)
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Bug fix release only: no new features or facilities.
2╖37 (11th June 1996)
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15. Printing is now possible when the driver module is present but the
printer manager application (Printers) is not.
16. The file name and window title is handled correctly when performing an
OLE transfer from Impression or similar applications.
17. Text objects with no text (produced by some applications) are removed to
avoid problems with transformation and groups later on.
2╖38 (5th January 1997)
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18. JPEG objects can now be displayed (and moved, resized, copied, deleted
etc.). It is not possible to save the JPEG image out into a file, or
create a JPEG object.
19. Sprite objects which do not contain a palette are drawn in the correct
colours (in all screen modes).
20. Printing multiple copies is now handled correctly.
2╖39 (13th January 1997)
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Bug fix release only: no new features or facilities.
2╖40▀ (15th March 1997)
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21. Reorganised font and style menus to better handle odd font names.
22. The old "Library - Store all" facility has been eliminated. It never
really worked.
23. OLE files from all applications should be handled correctly.
2╖41▀ (27th April 1997)
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24. Fixed bugs concerned with menu accelerator keys in path edit mode,
saving of library files with the correct type, storing objects in the
library and displaying the grid.
25. The bounding boxes of all objects are checked and resized before
printing. This may help when printing files which have been converted
from PDF with a TurboDriver.
26. The "Scale" dialogue now scales line widths as well as dimensions, in
the same way as Draw always did.