Re: ANN: Frescobaldi 3.1 has been released!

[Simon Albrecht]

Dear Frescobaldi devs,

that sounds absolutely great and I chime into thanking you a lot for 
this great software!

Best, Simon

On 27.12.19 11:20, Wilbert Berendsen wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> Frescobaldi 3.1 has been released! There are many new features.
>
> Most notably:
>
> - A new Fonts dialog to select fonts for text, and with more recent
>    LilyPond versions, also for music.
>
> - The Music View is completely rewritten under the hood. New
>    possiblities:
>
>    * Copy selected music to PDF, SVG or EPS in addition to PNG and JPG.
>
>    * Zoom much deeper than ever before: thanks to tile-based rendering
>      the Music View can zoom in virtually unlimited.
>
>    * New layout modes: horizontal/vertical, continuous/non continuous,
>      rotation, etc.
>
> And there are many other little feature improvements and bug fixes.
> Lastly, many improvements under the hood pave the way for new exiting
> future possibilities, such as good multicore compile support, and
> support for much more file formats in the Manuscript viewer etc.
>
> I am very grateful to many co-developers that now contribute on a
> regular basis: Urs Liska, Peter Bjuhr, and many others.
>
> See all changes in the ChangeLog:
> https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/blob/master/ChangeLog
>
> Download the source tarball at:
> https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/releases
>
> Please give packagers some time to prepare Windows/MacOSX installers,
> they will be announced when ready.
>
> Note that Frescobaldi is now part of the GitHub organisation with the
> same name :-) to reflect that I'm certainly not the only one managing
> this project :-)
>
> Note to distributors and users of a git checkout: the MO (Message
> Object) files with the translations are not in git anymore, but they are
> built manually before packaging a source tarball.See INSTALL. When
> installing from the source tarball it is not needed to build the MO
> files.
>
> Other notes:
>
> - A recent version of the poppler library is needed to make vector
>    graphics drawing and copying in the Music View work well.
>
> - Frescobaldi does not use QtWebkit anymore, but instead now depends on
>    QtWebEngine and its related modules.
>
> Thanks to ALL the translators and contributors!
> Enjoy!
> Merry Christmas and happy new year!
>
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