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Linux-Announce Digest #985
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Linux-Announce Digest #985, Volume #3 Thu, 28 Jun 01 13:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Aegis 3.27 - a project change supervisor (Peter Miller)
ANNOUNCE: ImPress 1.1b9 (Chris Cox)
Leafwa-0.6.0 released (phil hunt)
Spread Toolkit 3.16.0 -- Messaging Multicast Tools with Open-Source license (Jonathan Stanton)
SHAREWARE: txt2pdf 5.x PRO (SANFACE Software)
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:26:55 CST
Subject: Aegis 3.27 - a project change supervisor
Reply-To: Peter Miller <peterm@lucent.com>
From: Peter Miller <peterm@lucent.com>
I am pleased to announce that Aegis 3.27 is now available.
Aegis is a transaction-based software configuration management
system. It provides a framework within which a team of developers
may work on many changes to a program independently, and Aegis
coordinates integrating these changes back into the master source
of the program, with as little disruption as possible.
You are invited to visit
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/aegis/
for a more complete description of what Aegis is, and access to
the download files.
For information about what new features are available in this
release, please see the README file available at the above site.
Regards
Peter Miller E-Mail: millerp@canb.auug.org.au
/\/\* WWW: http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/
Disclaimer: The opinions expressed here are personal and do not necessarily
reflect the opinion of my employer or the opinions of my colleagues.
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From: Chris Cox <cjcox@acm.org>
Subject: ANNOUNCE: ImPress 1.1b9
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:27:55 CST
Major changes. Full undo capability, reworked grouping (let
me know), gradient thing, vectorized text tool, progress
bar, pstoedit handles vectorizing text on the fly and
produces much better output (!) and much more...
Call pstoedit with the following flags...
-dt -flat .05 -ssp ....
(you can skip -dt -flat if you don't want the text
to be turned into polygons... however, ALWAYS
specify ssp from now on, adjust the flat parameter
to be finer if necessary)
I need to update the clip art and the documentation
before release.
http://www.ntlug.org/~ccox/impress/impress/src/CHANGES
ImPress is a Tcl/Tk based desktop publishing and layout package.
It also supports presentations and it can run inside or
outside of a web browser.
To download visit:
http://www.ntlug.org/~ccox/impress/
Read the documentation at (which needs to be updated):
http://www.ntlug.org/~ccox/impress/impress/src/doc/impdoc.html
1.1-b9
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o Added page number display between the page navigation buttons.
o More KDE/KDE2 preferences cleanup.
o Added a generic callout under the File menu to ImageMagick's display
tool. This is an easy way to export to raster formats.
o Added feature to turn text items into polygons, Vectorize Text.
This feature uses pstoedit and must use pstoedit with the changes
that come with ImPress. Made change to drvbase.h in pstoedit
to allow for handling more paths (vectorizing text requires a lot
of paths).
o Open URL will now allow you to insert an image file. Works even
for the plugin. Open File will also allow you to open images.
Just remember, the image will appear in the Paste buffer.
o Reorganized menus extensively. Keyboard shortcuts have changed.
o Removed extraneous (not used) code (and added some hopefully not
extraneous code).
o Added tck/tk patch as part of distribution to fix the delays
seen in raising/lowering windows (deiconifying). It is said
it is a bug in KDE and most other Linux window managers...
strange that the only applications affected are Tcl/Tk ones.
$ cd tk8.3.2/unix
$ patch -p0 <tkUnixWm-patch.diff
o Added pre-defined page sizes to Page Properties. These were
essentially taken straight from the changes I made to pstoedit.
o Added Justification buttons to the main panel. Sets the
justification for new Text objects or modifies the justification
on selected Text objects.
o Undo is now officially a feature (use Menu or ^Z). Let me know of
things that are not undoable that you would like to see. Currently,
Object Properties, Raise/Lower and Document Open events are not undoable.
o Completely rewrote Grouping again. Let me know if anything
breaks.
o Added a Gradient Tool. Creates a lot of objects. (Warning: do
not use the tool on more than a few objects at one time)
Gradients are simply shaded scaled representations of an object.
o Fix problem in Object Properties where prior objects of a different
type was not being thrown away when editing a different object
type (effect was that apparently you couldn't do an Apply...
this was because the apply would fail since it included options
valid only for the other object type).
o Added Color Palette, Text Input callouts for Object Properties.
o New Wrap button on Text Input to wrap selected text (eliminates
newlines).
o Coords now work on Object Properties.
o Fix scrolling problem... added understanding for the next and prev
buttons and for the corner. Without these, the next and prev
buttons made things scroll the wrong direction when doing some
kind of drag operation (ideally need a better mechanism... will
leave it for now).
o Bug in the text widget retrieves an extra newline on get to end.
Added code to strip it off.
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From: philh@comuno.freeserve.co.uk (phil hunt)
Subject: Leafwa-0.6.0 released
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:28:51 CST
I have just released Leafwa version 0.6.0.
Leafwa is a web-based administration package for Leafnode
(Leafnode is a small Usenet news server, designed for "leaf
nodes" - sites that only exchange news with one other site).
Leafwa allows the user to view which newsgroups Leafnode is
reading news from, to manually subscribe to and unsubscribe
from newsgroups, and to view and edit the list of unsent
messages waiting to be uploaded to the remote news server.
With the advent of Leafnode 2.0, Leafwa also allows you to
maintain Leafnode's local newsgroups, creating and deleting
them. You can also delete individual messages in local
newsgroups.
New features in 0.6.0:
The main change is the addition of Kevin Bulgrien's
improvements to the local newsgroup system. Now you can
properly delete local newsgroups (this wasn't working very
well before), and also inspect and delete messages to local
newsgroups.
Other changes include: improvements and bugfixes in the User
Survey, adding new help pages.
Leafwa is available from:
http://www.vision25.demon.co.uk/oss/leafwa/intro.html
Leafwa is licenced under the GNU GPL.
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==== Philip Hunt == philh@comuno.freeserve.co.uk ====
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:30:43 CST
From: Jonathan Stanton <jonathan@cnds.jhu.edu>
Subject: Spread Toolkit 3.16.0 -- Messaging Multicast Tools with Open-Source license
Spread 3.16.0 released as Open Source.
Information, Sources, and Binaries available at http://www.spread.org
Spread is a toolkit that provides a high performance messaging service
that is resilient to faults across external or internal networks. Spread
functions as a unified message bus for distributed applications, and
provides highly tuned application-level multicast and group communication
support. Spread services range from reliable message passing to fully
ordered messages with delivery guarantees, even in case of computer
failures and network partitions.
Spread is designed to encapsulate the challenging aspects of asynchronous
networks and enable the construction of scalable distributed applications,
allowing application builders to focus on the differentiating components
of their application.
A major new version, 3.16.0, of the Spread toolkit was released today.
The main changes are:
1) New Open Source License. Based on BSD (but not identical).
2) A new authentication and access control framework to enable strong
client authentication and configurable access policy enforcement.
3) Fixed to be compatible with the current release of Secure Spread and the
Flush library (http://www.cnds.jhu.edu).
4) Configurable support for multiple interfaces on one machine. Options
to control which interfaces Spread listens on are provided.
5) Considerable performance improvement for joins and leaves.
6) Updated libraries (perl, java, C)
7) Spread will generate a unique user name for you if you want.
8) Programs packaged with Spread now all have "sp" beginning their names
to avoid conflicts with other programs called "monitor".
9) Bugfixes.
With the new open source license, the Apache Spread logging license and the
Apache-SSL license do not seem necessary, as commercial use under the main
open source license is now allowed. If you have any questions, or for more
details please see http://www.spread.org/license/
Other commercial licenses or other licensing arrangements are available.
Please contact yairamir@spreadconcepts.com. We are looking for partners
interested in using group communications and/or replication to solve
demanding, real-world problems.
Jonathan
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Jonathan R. Stanton jonathan@cs.jhu.edu
Dept. of Computer Science
Johns Hopkins University
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Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 11:31:43 CST
From: sanface@sanface.com (SANFACE Software)
Subject: SHAREWARE: txt2pdf 5.x PRO
txt2pdf 5.x PRO is a very important release in the evolution of
txt2pdf 4.x PRO and is the PRO version of txt2pdf 5.x. We distribute
txt2pdf PRO only in executable binaries, but under special
circumstances, source code can be provided. This binary-only outlook
makes it easier to install, and simpler to use. You don't need PERL,
nor any of the PERL modules or libraries. There are also new exciting
features in the PRO version that are not available in the regular
version.
txt2pdf PRO offers you all the features of txt2pdf 5.x plus these
important features:
NEW: annotation in the first page (you can set also the position (x,y)
of the annotation icon
NEW: You can use colours, fonts, links, etc with your personal or
standard tags
NEW: bgdesignlast to change the background of the last page
NEW: performance:
medium: doesn't convert word like http://, ftp:, mailto:, ... to links
high: ignores fontmark and color settings
Form Feed (^L) support
-skip1ff option to skip the first form feed
doesn't print file name in the first line
the possibility to set the top and left margins
the possibility to create compressed PDFs and to set the compression
factor. Compression works also with EPD. (at the moment you can use
these features only with the Windows executable version and the perl
source code)
the possibility to set all the text bold, italic, bold italic
mailto option (the possibility to send to the specified user the
created PDF like attach. It's possible to specify the title, the body,
the SMTP host, the from user (at the moment you can use these features
only with the Windows executable version and the perl source code)
configuration files to change phrases with different colours, fonts,
links
layers: background, foreground, background only in the first page,
background in every page without the first, foreground only in the
first page
Inside you can use PDF syntax to write and design and
#!image#;;;;;;;;#!/image#
#!link#;;;;#!/link#
#!epd#;;;;;;#!/epd#
Download and test it at
http://www.sanface.com/txt2pdfPRO.html
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