I have just put xfig and transfig 3.2.3-beta-2 on our ftp
server ftp://www-epb.lbl.gov/xfig
There is a patch file to take transfig from beta-1 to beta-2, but there
are too many changes for xfig and changes to GIF files so you will have to
get the whole tar file for xfig.
Here are the new features and bug fixes for xfig 3.2.3-beta-2:
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Version 3.2
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Patchlevel 3-beta-2 (Jan 3, 2000)
NEW FEATURES:
o Added Ian MacPhedran's web site http://duke.usask.ca/~macphed/soft/fig/
for FIG-related information to the html docs under "Related Applications"
in the "Getting and Installing Xfig" section
o Moved allocation of xfig's 32 "standard" colors last in the widget
setup procedure so that there is a better chance of the widgets
getting the correct colors before the colormap fills up and xfig
changes to a private map.
o Assumes default of Letter(or A4 if metric mode) if no %%BoundingBox in
imported eps
BUGS FIXED:
o Imakefile didn't install pdf files as advertised with "make install"
o "XEvent event" missing from input tablet code in main.c
o If xfig tried to import a compressed image file and the directory was
not writable, it segfaulted while trying to close an unopen file
o Inadvertantly removed "Help/Xfig man pages" menu entry
o Wrong path for installation of the xfig-howto.pdf file
o Bad hyperlink for "Help Menu" in html docs
o Fig files with "#FIG" but no version number crashed xfig
o "Show depth manager" missing from screenshot and description of global
settings
o Background color for exporting didn't have "None" option
o PDF export ignored centering, background color and multiple pages
options
o Warnings from fig2dev weren't displayed when exporting
o Various command-line options missing from man pages and html docs
o When turning on or off the depth manager the canvas needed refreshing
o Symbol "MAXCOMLEN" defined by xfig is already used on some systems
o Character array illegally freed in screen capture procedure
o There is a less restrictive copyright on the html pages. Instead of:
"However, you may not modify any part of this documentation
without explicit permission of T.Sato or Brian V. Smith."
there is now:
"Modification of this documentation is also granted as long as
this copyright notice remain intact and name of the person who made
the modification is explicitly written in the documentation.
However, contact to T.Sato and/or Brian V. Smith is strongly
recommended if you want to distribute modified version of this
documentation."
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and for transfig 3.2.3-beta-2:
Patchlevel 3-beta-2 (Jan 3, 2000)
NEW FEATURES
o adapted the transfig manual from LaTeX 2.09 to LaTeX 2e and uses
Times/Helvetica/Courier instead of Computer Modern fonts.
From Roland Rosenfeld (roland _at_ spinnaker.de)
BUGS FIXED
o japanese.ps and korean.ps were left out of the distribution tar file
o bug in importing EPS files - strange aspect ratios resulted
o Used "True" and "False" instead of "TRUE" and "FALSE" in several
driver files. Have converted all TRUE to True and FALSE to False
o Some applications don't set clipping path when they import EPSF file,
and not only the background of the figure but whole paper may be
painted with the -g (background) option.
o BitmapSuccess and BitmapFileInvalid were not defined in
fig2dev/dev/genxbm.c
o Digital's compiler doesn't like "{ }" as initializer (genps.c)
o declarations of malloc() and calloc() removed from alloc.h, as they
are declared in <stdlib.h>
o arrowheads didn't quite extend far enough
o extra parenthesis in shell script when exporting to SLD, XBM, and XPM
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Brian V. Smith (bvsmith _at_ lbl.gov) http://www-epb.lbl.gov/BVSmith
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
I don't speak for LBL; they don't pay me enough for that.
Check out the xfig site at http://www-epb.lbl.gov/xfig
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glass is half empty. To the engineer, the glass is twice as big
as it needs to be.
