Synfig 0.63.05 - Changelog

What's new in Synfig 0.63.05:

April 10th, 2012

Bug Fixes:
· ETL: Apply patch #3424217. Fix compiling issues with clang compiler. Thanks to Hisashi Todd Fujinaka
· ETL: Fix value test case what was broken. Patch thanks to Denis Washington
· Roll back fix bug ID 3405011 because it produced other worse bug.
· Fix bug: ValueNode_BLineCalcTangent is broken for Angle types.
· Additional fix for be able to build on Ubuntu 12.04. Patch thanks to Denis Washington (denis_w)
· Apply partially patch #3424218. Fix compiling issues with clang compiler. Thanks to Hisashi Todd Fujinaka
· Commented out unused variables. Additional compiler warning fixed
· Fix bug ID: 3486075. Add new panel on Preferences Dialog ('Render') and include one option for separator string on image sequence render. Default is a dot '.'.
· Fix bug ID: 3486412 Shortcut inconsistence.
· Fix typos and misspelling on various messages. Patch thanks to Bertrand Gregoire
· Fix bug 3512887: Crash when drag and drop panels on OSX Lion
· Fix bug 3475624: Startup crash on Ubuntu 12.04. Patch thanks to Denis Washington (denis_w)
· Fix bug: Warning dialogs hangs if the message is to long. It uses a scrolled window when needed.
· Fix bug: 3486723: Info Panel not updated when Guides dragged to Canvas WindowInfo.
· Fix bug: When grid size is negative, use its positive value.


Features:
· New Outline Grow parameter on Paste Canvas layer. For inline canvases it increases (decreases) the width of the children layers by a exponential factor.
· Add new parameter to the CLI '--sequence-separator' option for separator string on image sequence render. Default is a dot '.' Forbidden space character.
Rework of the Preview window (thanks to Yu Chen aka jcome):
· Artwork content can be zoomed in/out
· Add a zoom widget, so that user can change zoom factor from a dropdown list to select a factor or type the a specified value the user prefers
· Scrollbars are size of artwork content and window sensitived now
· Toolbar can be hidden to have a simpler UI
A set of accelerator keys (hard-coded at the moment):
· a) a-prev frame, s-play/pause, d-next frame,
· b) h-show/hide toolbar
· c) 1,2,3,4,5 mapped to zoom factors: 25%, 50% ,100%, 200%, Fit
· Dark background for preview window (hard-coded at the moment)
· Rewording some UI strings
· Support for load Gimp palettes. Patch thanks to Bretrand Gregoire.
· Improve constrast on color sliders for Color Edit and Gradient Edit widgets. Patch thanks to Bertrand Gregoire
· Rename icon source from zoom to scale. Patch thanks to Bertrand Gregoire

What's new in Synfig 0.63.04:

March 14th, 2012

Bug Fixes:
· Fix crash when inserting an item on a generic empty dynamic list.
· Fix broken ffmpeg target that doesn't work for some non dot decimal points numeric locale settings.
· Fix several bugs and crashes related to dashed outlines
· Fix bug: http://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/23017929
· Fix bug http://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/23212095. If two rotations of 90 and -90 are consecutive the program crashes.
· Fix bug http://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/23342471.
· Fix bug 3472549. When editing the parameter don't parse the keyboard shortcuts.
· Fix several bugs in the Groups Panel

Features:
· New interpolation type "Clamped"
· Allow Loop and Unloop actions when value description is a Tangent of a BLine Point.
· Allow merge and split tangents when using a tangent as value node.
· Allow split/merge tangents loop/unloop bline and delete vertex every where possible in the BLine Tool.
· Include any of the sub parameters of the Composite Value Node to the candidates of remove multiple items smart.
· Allow remove item smart when a child of a composite value node is selected and the composite is child of a dynamic list.
· Redesign of the preview window updating the slider widget, adding new start/stop button and a new toggle loop button. Close button for Gnome 3 users is also included.

Translation:
· Updates for some of the languages.

What's new in Synfig 0.63.03:

December 6th, 2011

· Meta Data edition is handled at Meta Data dock dialogue.
· Remove unused code on Canvas Properties.

What's new in Synfig 0.63.02:

September 29th, 2011

· Refactor duck creation for selected layers into duckmatic.
· Guides are saved now between sessions. Fix bug
· Guides are not dragged if not visible. Fix bug
· Add undo capability for guides.
· Snap to grid is now relative to zoom.
· OptionMenu (deprecatd) has been replaced by ComboBox.
· When change the Setup Dialog, spread it inmediately to the canvas's rules.
· Circle, Rectangle, Star and Polygon Tools allows create Advanced Outlines Layers.
· Linked to BLine has the option of be curve length based. On by default.
· New icons for canvas navigation, preview, render and animate mode buttons.
· Canvas window buttons rearranged.
· Imported canvases are now 'Children Locked' by default.
· New language support: Persian, Lituanian
· Updated existing translations.

What's new in Synfig 0.63.01:

September 24th, 2011

· Fix bug 3147736: avoid zero or negative value for supersample layer' size parameter.
· Allow use the Joined List Convert type to file name parameter of the Import Image layers.
· If tangents are zero and are merged, then consider them as split to make corners.
· Width points can be placed in a curve length basis using Homogeneous parameter.
· Interpolated width is from now on homogeneous. Fixes some render artifacts.
· Fixed some interpolation errors produced by bad WPList loop interpretation.
· Add new Dash Item List and support for dashed outlines.
· Linked to BLine has the option of be curve length based. On by default.
· New languages support: Persian, Slovakian, Dutch and Lituanian.
· Updated existing translations

What's new in Synfig 0.62.02:

November 15th, 2010

synfig-core/configure.ac, synfig-core/src/synfig/releases.h:
· Mofidy files to point to release 0.62.02

What's new in Synfig 0.62.01:

May 31st, 2010

· Enable reverse manipulation to range value nodes. Fix bug in value node range.
· Resolve issues with libtool 1.5.26 and 2.2.4.
· Improve SVG import support. Better support for gradients and some bug fixes.
· Add code to make possible pass parameters to the renderers. Implementation for ffmpeg.
· New Italian and German translations.
· Automatic build script for linux system. Please report success of usage.
· New parameters for Motion Blur layer. Now allows linear and constant interpolation too.
· Updated Russian, French and Spanish translation.

What's new in Synfig 0.62.00:

November 3rd, 2009

· Migration to git repository.
· Bugs fixed: #2195749, #1968248, #2250533, #2116947, launchpad.net/ubuntu/#195447
· Bugs fixed: #1993098, #1730067, #2353248, #2037732, #2412072, #2458112
· Bugs fixed: #2502818.
· Improved messages for failed open filed commands.
· Fix crash when unsetting import layer filename after using PNG or JPEG importers
· Improve the rendering of curve gradient layers near vertices with 0-length tangents.
· Fix previous bug that produced bad render to the star layer.
· Enable use of ffmpeg importer.
· Set four modules as essential: gradient, geometry, particle, freetype.
· Improve message when initialize synfig fails.
· New environment variables for options.
· Add support for alpha in paletted PNG files.
· New option: Scale New imported Images to Fit Canvas.
· Better errros when open a file that doesn't exists.
· Enable Example module: Metaballs, Simple Circle, Filled Rectangle.
· New Value Nodes: Greyed, Power, And, Not, Compare,
· Add 'Loop' parameter to the Random Value Node.
· Reverse manipulation for Scale Value Nodes.
· Remove ancient trunk folder from svn repository.
· New Import SVG files module.
· Disable corp imported images by default.
· Updated translations.
· First time Russian translation.
· Several compiler warnings fixed.

What's new in Synfig 0.61.09:

October 24th, 2008

· Segment and Blines tangents are calculated more accurately
· Don't allow feather to be negative in any layer
· New Logarithm, Int String, Angle String, Joined List, Real String, Time String, Dot Product, Gradient Colour, Vector X, Vector Y, Vector Length, Vector Angle convert types
· Remove TENSION from TCB modes as it is the same as TEMPORAL TENSION
· Unless OpenEXR half mode is used, don't ask synfigstudio to depend on it
· Added "Link to Bline" feature
· Fix several bugs: plant layer, libavformat, time format FFf, libswscale straight onto method, eyedrop tool and straight blend method for shape type layers
· Fix some compiler warnings
· Rename 'offset' and 'pos' to 'origin'
· Add French and Spanish translations
· Update the Windows builds to use OpenEXR 1.6.1
· The JPEG target can be switched on/off now
· Fix typos and other issues

What's new in Synfig 0.61.08:

September 26th, 2008

· Update the website URL to synfig.org instead of synfig.com
· Synfig is now translatable using gettext
· Removed the 'bootstrap' script for building. Use autoreconf instead
· Fixed errors and warnings detected by a pre-release version of GCC 4.3
· New Duplicate layer. This is an experimental feature, but works well
· New reverse, offset parameters and misc fixes for the Plant layer.
· Fix a crash and use relative ducks with the Stretch layer
· Allow multibyte characters in the Text layer
· Misc fixes & features on Shade, Shape, Spherize, Star, Time Loop, Warp layers
· Add aTan2, Bline Width, Cos, Duplicate, From Integer, Random, Reciprocal, Reverse Tangent, Step, Switch, Time Loop convert types
· Add and Subtract convert types now work with gradients
· Security fixes for ffmpeg/dv/imagemagick targets/importers (except on Win32)
· Add new magick++ target that does better gif rendering with libmagick++ 7.3
· Misc fixes for the rendering targets, blend methods and canvases
· Allow importing of lipsynced voice animations from Papagayo
· Various changes to related to SIF file compatibility
· Fix typos, several crashes and other issues