Re: ANN: Graphos 0.3

[William F. Adams]

On May 1, 2:03 pm, Riccardo Mottola <r...@gnu.org> wrote:
> G R A P H O S   0.3
> -------------------
>
> I am pleased to announce the third major public release of Graphos.
>
> What's new?
> -----------
>
> The most important news is the further improved inspector. It is now
> modeless and real-time.
>
> A new file format is needed to fix a problem with object layer save and
> restore. Graphos is able to read old files. The new format contains also
> a version attribute, so that in the future further enhancements will be
> possible.
>
> Bug fixes, potability enhancements.
>
> What is it?
> -----------
>
> Graphos is a vector drawing application centered around bezier paths. It is 
> available as free software both for GNUstep and for Mac.
>
> Graphos roots are directly set in GDraw, written by Enrico Sersale and
> released in 2000. Version 0.1 of Graphos is a direct descendant of
> GDraw: the interface is almost unchanged, but the application has been
> refactored, reorganized, debugged, rewritten and updated. The file
> format was improved a little, Graphos is able to read GDraw files but
> not the other way around. Graphos 0.1 focused mainly on getting things
> working again, cleaning and reorganizing the code structure.
>
> Where to get it:
> ----------------
>
> Graphos is a user application of GAP, the GNUstep Application Project.
> Its page is here:
>
> http://gap.nongnu.org/graphos/index.html
>
> What's next:
> ------------
>
> Printing needs to be improved, some tools are still missing, but the
> application surely improved!

I desperately hope that you've looked at Altsys Virtuoso / Macromedia
Freehand -- I'm dreading having to replace my iMac running 10.6 at
work --- w/o Rosetta, 10.7 won't be able to run Freehand MX.

William