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		     Release Notes for MagicPoint

			    Jan 23, 2007

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<<<1.12b>>>

* add %tsystem directive which might be more stable than %xsystem

* add -rotate option for newimage

* allow to use non-ASCI filename in slides (use -U to enable this feature)

* many bug fixes

<<<1.11b>>>

* (bugfix) suppress flickering screen when ctrl key is pressed

<<<1.11a>>>

* use EWMH to get borderless fullscreen. (use 'w' key to switch)

* MacOS X support

* m17n library support

* setlocale-patch built in, print.c (from mailing list: mgp-users 01112)

* %-character can be escaped by '\' at the beginning of a line

* escape sequence added 
    o \[xX]HH will be converted to a character (H - hex value)
    o \\ means \
    o \[^xX] or \[xX]CC with 'C' different to hex values will cause the
      program to exit -1

* super-/subscript support
  
* support for symbol font added 

* new option: --title 'title' for mgp.

* add -raise option for %newimage directive 
  
* many bug fixes.

<<<1.10a>>>

* Support for Xft2 + fontconfig. If you are not familiar with these words,
  please see FAQ and README.xft2 for more information.

* Support for new directive %tab 0 which can be used to apply a list of 
  directives to lines that start with a non-tab character.

* For security reasons, we have changed mgp so that directives that fork a 
  process are not processed by default. The -U option must be specified in 
  order to process such directives.

* Introduced %opaque directive. Please see SYNTAX for detailed information. 

* Support for  iso8859-2 encoding for mgp2ps

* Introduced -X option for mgp2ps to suppress the use of the specified 
  rendering engine

* Introduced escape char '\' to display lines that start with '#'.

* Many bug fixes.

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<<<1.09a>>>

New features:
	- The "area" directive: specifying drawing area in the window.
		it can be used for siide-by-side positioning or logo displaying, etc.
	- Enhance "prefix" directive 
		you can specify prefix spacing by percentage of the drawing area width.

Bugs fixed:
	- Security fix:
		fix a seculity hole inherited from xloadimage.
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<<<1.08a>>>

New features:
	- The "charset" directive: you can use iso-8859-[1-4]
	- MNG support: animation without "mark" and "again"
	- Enhancing "mgp2ps"
		* Supporting "cont", "mark", "again"
		* Resizing image

Bugs fixed:
	- Some. :-)

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<<<1.07a>>>

New features:
	- PNG support
	- Adding a dither algorithm to the gradation mechanism
	- Pre-drawing
		(Pages which contain text only is cached before
		displayed.)
	- mgp2ps produces much closer PS image to display image.

Bugs fixed:
	- If bgrad and/or bimage were used, display speed was getting
          slower and slower. This has been fixed.
	- Freeing color resources used anti-alias was wrong.
	  This has been fixed.
	- Cleaned up the code for background image handling.
	- mgp was core-dumped if reloaded during caching. This has 
	  been fixed.
	- Fixed some small bugs.

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