Announce: Cenon 3.82 - Modular Graphics Application

[Georg Fleischmann]

Announce

We are happy to announce Cenon version 3.82 with new features and many  
improvements and fixes.
The major new feature is Batch Printing, allowing printing of multiples for  
labels, bookmarks, CDs and the like, including serial numbers. Also, the  
editing functions have been improved greately.
As always, the new version can be found at:

http://www.Cenon.info


*** What's new ? ***

Cenon 3.82:

- New: Batch printing (Multiples) added, including serial numbers
- New: Contour-Panel:
  switch, whether to replace the source graphics (or keep it)
  Panel has now it's own Unit Popup
- New: convert TextPath to Path
- New, Editing: with Control + Mouse you can drag Curve points within a path
- New: Curve Inspector: all Curve Points are displayed at once and can be set
  directly
- TransformPanel: now with a nice bar of Icons to look better
- Undo: number of undos increased to 25 instead of 10
- DIN-Import: for Excellon, the tools can be defined within the file
- Fix, HPGL-Import: Labels fixed
- Fix, Join:
  two paths or polylines are joined by keeping the order
  Undo with two closed paths corrected
- Fix, Path: Undo works when moving several points in a path
- Fix, Arc: 360 degree snap works better now
- Fix, Snap: snapping to itself removed
- Fix, Select: Selecting a point no longer creates a move point undo step
- Fix, Punch: Undo added for groups
- Fix, Punch: Undo without crash
- Fix, Inspector: changing color on non-editable layer leaves color well with
  correct color
- Fix, Layer-Inspector: redraw Layer, if non-editable and visible layer is
  turned to editable
- Fix, Text: editing at the top of a window now scrolls the text to visibility
- Fix, DXF-Import: close of polylines corrected to work in all cases
- Apple, Import: PDF/PS-Import now work on Power PC with OS X >= 10.4.7
- Apple: graphics cache is on as default
- GNUstep: Our patch for loading images from it's bundle has been applied
- More details


*** What is Cenon ? ***

Cenon is a vector graphics tool with a wide range of applications. It is built  
upon a modular graphical core, and offers a variety of applications beyond  
desktop publishing. Cenon can import, edit and export many graphics formats.  
The modular concept allows the extension of Cenon into very specialized  
applications.

Key features:
- import/export of vector graphic formats like HPGL, PostScript,
  Gerber, DXF, and more
- Editing of graphic elements like lines, curves, arcs, text,
  complex paths, polylines, text on path, etc.
- publishing functionality for exposing images, color shading,
  color separation, thumbnail images, etc.
- working with layers as well as pages
- Extension of Cenon with modules (bundles)
- Cenon runs with GNUstep, Apple (Mac OS X), and OpenStep

Cenon is free software and is released under the vhf public license (vhfPL).
The vhfPL is compatible to most free software licenses.

You can find more information on Cenon at
http://www.Cenon.info


*** Cenon on GNUstep ***

The Art backend is the prefered backend if you need text rotation
and text scaling.

Cenon is stable and well tested on Mac OS X and OpenStep. With GNUstep there  
remain some imperfections especially with image functions, scrolling, text.


*** Authors ***

Cenon is the creation of
Georg Fleischmann and Ilonka Fleischmann