Passepartout: Release 0.5

The source code for Passepartout release 0.5 is now available for download.

Passepartout is an Open Source Desktop Publishing application for the X Windows environment. The goal of this project is to create a system capable of producing pre-press material of professional quality, but also to be a useful tool for any enthusiast with access to a printer.

Changes since 0.4

• The document view has been rewritten to use Gnome::Canvas. This eliminates the flickering (hurrah!) and makes the code a lot simpler.
• Rotation now works for all objects in the user interface.
• Using auto apply in the Object Properties and Text Streams windows.
• Much improved PDF support in xml2ps (works with Acrobat Reader). (No PDF support in Passepartout yet though.)
• Explicit pagebreaks (<pagebreak>) added to the xml2ps DTD.
• Fixed file descriptor leak bug.
• The handling of raster images sizes has been improved. The file format has changed slightly.
• The stream parameter list is now updated when setting the stylesheet and disabled if the stylesheet lacks any parameters.
• The stream menu in the Object Properties dialog is now updated when the streams change.
• Empty strings are no longer allowed as Text Stream names.
• Fixed 'Arrrgh' bug in the page selector widget.

Known problems

The major version number is still 0, here's some of the main reasons for that:

• Text frames are not always updated properly.
• The fake transparency may not be completely reliable on all systems, but it can be turned off by setting FakeTransparency to false in ~/.pptout
• Lots of strange stuff happens for grouped objects. Avoid it.