Changes Introduced in 1.0 Beta-5
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New Features
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New option for creating rectangular Bézier contours.
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New '-gfile' command line option in the 'gentexfont' tool, for extracting the
glyph set from a given text file.
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New 'Copy Layer Attibutes' feature for transferring layers attributes to other
layers.
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New 'Wireframe Mode' option in the 'View' menu, useful for debugging the level
of tesselation for Bézier contours and Image warping/distortion.
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New 'Duplicate Selected Layers' command in the 'Edit' menu.
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New 'Scale Selected to Size' dialog box tool.
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New 'Zoom Extents', 'Zoom Selected Layers', and 'Auto Zoom Extents' tools.
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The Render Area can now be adjusted by drawing scale and DIN paper size.
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Multiple render areas: You can now store as many render areas as you wish in
the same composition.
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Snapping to vertices, lines, and midpoints from layers bounding boxes, DXF
entities, Bézier curves, the render area, and the pivot point.
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Numerical input for translation, rotation and scaling.
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New menu items for side-stepping the Render Area, in the 'Place>Adjust Render
Area' submenu pane.
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New 'Off' blending mode as a workaround for disabling layers.
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Enhancements
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Added new keyboard shortcuts to the main menu.
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New (and better) implementation of 'Place>MakeBézierCurvesParallel'.
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The 'History' menu has been renamed as 'Edit' menu.
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A warning dialog is now displayed when the automatic contour meshing procedure
fails in DXF files.
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Better explanation of 'Insert>InsertOptions>ImageTilesOverlap' at the
'Managing Large Images' section from 'Help>ImageLayers'.
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Texture LOD optimization. Very noticeable for IMPACT and Octane.
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New 'Layer Culling' optimization. Useful for complex DXFs and Béziers.
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More accurate bounding box computation for Bézier layers.
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File lists of file selection dialogs are now refreshed each time they're shown
in screen (no FAM monitoring yet, but better than previous version).
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A wider range of Bézier tesselation resolution is now supported.
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Alternative code for machines where proxy textures fail.
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Executables are now built with MIPSpro 7.3 compilers. Previous versions were
built with MIPSpro 7.1.
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Bugfixes
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Fixed: Minor memory leaks.
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Fixed: Pegamento could crash if a TexFont layer had text with characters not
available in the font.
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Fixed: Snapping was honored when invoking transformation actions from the
'Place' menu, or from numerical input dialogs.
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Fixed: There was a bug at snapping when translating DXF and Bézier layers.
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Fixed: If snapping turned the displacement null for a Bézier vertex, the
vertex smoothing mode was toggled.
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Fixed: 'Zoom Extents' and 'Zoom Selected Layers' didn't work properly in
'Image Processing' display mode.
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Fixed: The 'gentexfont' tool could crash when the user didn't have write
permission in the output directory.
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Fixed: Stored Render Areas weren't automatically deleted when
'File>NewComposition' was executed.
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Fixed: Snapping could cause a crash with some DXF files.
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Fixed: The application was killed if an IFL error happened, because it used
the default IFL error handler, which has such behaviour.
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Fixed: Some multiple instances of a same image could be inserted with null
dimensions.
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Fixed: Tooltips were hardcoded to use black text.
Changes Introduced in 1.0 Beta-4
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