ANN: Graphos 0.4

[Riccardo Mottola]

G R A P H O S 0.4
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I am pleased to announce the 0.4 release of Graphos.


What's new?
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* The Text editor now uses the standard font panel
* selection improved
* mouse constraints for boxes and circles
* undo for pasteboard operations
* many bug fixes
* 64bit fixes


What is it?
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Graphos is a vector drawing application centered around bezier paths. It is
available as free software both for GNUstep and for Mac.


Graphos roots are directly set in GDraw, written by Enrico Sersale and
released in 2000. Version 0.1 of Graphos is a direct descendant of
GDraw: the interface is almost unchanged, but the application has been
refactored, reorganized, debugged, rewritten and updated. The file
format was improved a little, Graphos is able to read GDraw files but
not the other way around. Graphos 0.1 focused mainly on getting things
working again, cleaning and reorganizing the code structure.

Where to get it:
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Graphos is a user application of GAP, the GNUstep Application Project.
Its page is here:

http://gap.nongnu.org/graphos/index.html


What's next:
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Printing needs to be improved, some tools are still missing, but the
application surely improved!

Riccardo Mottola






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GNUstep maintainer and Application developer

[William F. Adams]

On Apr 3, 6:03 pm, Riccardo Mottola <r...@gnu.org> wrote:
> G R A P H O S   0.4

> What's next:
> ------------
>
> Printing needs to be improved, some tools are still missing, but the
> application surely improved!

Big improvement. Some observations:

- <shift> constrain is too aggressive --- it shouldn't force the on-
curve point into a line w/ the previous on-curve point
- it shouldn't be necessary to switch to the hollow arrow tool to sub-
select --- that should be an _option_ --- the program should be smart
enough to figure out when I want to select an object (click somewhere
other than a node), when I want to manipulate a node (click on / very
close to a point or drag-select so that I only select a node)
- it should be possible to click-hold and drag an object --- this
burlesque of clicking to select, then re-clicking to initiate a drag
is a bad waste of time / clicks
- click to select should be more forgiving --- currently the
requirement isn't lax at all --- there should be an option to set how
many pixels off one can be
- need drag-select to select multiple objects
- need to be able to un-group rectangles (and the rectangle tool
should be generalized to allow one to make other polygons --- for
bonus points, when grouping an object, if it's a polygon, restore it
to being such)
- polygons need an option for rounding corners

and all the other stuff I mentioned before.

Things I may've forgotten:

- holding down <Command> should switch to the solid arrow tool
- it should be possible to put text into a box or graphic
- text boxes should have options for auto-sizing horizontally and
vertically and separate options for fill, stroke, &c.
- need to be able to live-edit text on the page, have more than one
font per text box, &c.

William