All releases tagged Major feature enhancements


Release Notes: This is a much enhanced release that comes after more than 2 years of development, with support for alpha channel images, TrueType fonts, UTF-8 text, a modernized GUI, new image formats (JPEG2000 and PGF), vector image import (SVG, PDF, etc.), multi-page documents, anti-aliased painting/drawing through sub-pixel resampling, and more.


Release Notes: This release has been enriched with a collection of new tools, including regions with spline curve bordure, boxes with round corners, regular and starlike polygons, arrows, etc. Several important bugs have also been corrected. Compilation with Athena widget variants, e.g. Xaw3d, has been fixed.


Release Notes: This is a big step forward for Xpaint. C-scripts can now be used to handle filters, to create of images defined through arbitrary algorithms, or to create mathematical 2D or 3D plots. Layers are now supported, and a new widget box appears on the canvas window to visualize and manipulate objects kept in memory.


Release Notes: This release adds the ability to extend the program using scripts written in C and features an improved arc operator, arrows, dash styles, and support for the ICO and PDF formats.


Release Notes: The user interface was substantially improved. In particular, the toolbox features a new set of smaller, nicer icons. Filters can now be undone, and the region menu includes some new primitives.


Release Notes: The GUI has been extensively reworked and improved. A comprehensive color and pattern editor was added. The Xaw95 widgets have been included, and are now offered as a compilation option.


Release Notes: The code is now fully internationalized and currently supports English and French. A few minor bugs in the print and snapshot utilities have also been fixed.


Release Notes: XPaint now includes a built-in Printing Widget. Routines for reading PostScript and PDF files have been added. The snapshot tool has been fixed.