[Libwpg-devel] ATTN: libwpg 0.2.0 released

[Fridrich S. <fri...@bl...>]

Hello, good people,

It is a pleasure and honour to announce the release of libwpg-0.2.0, the
next generation of libwpg.

Libwpg 0.2.0 is not backward compatible with libwpg-0.1.3 and both the
0.1.x and 0.2.x series can be installed in a parallel way on the same
machine (except the wpg2* tools).

The new features of this release can be summarized as follows:

- Rewrite the library to reuse wherever possible the libwpd types and
APIs.
- Rewrite the libwpg API to be similar to the libwpd API where the
arguments are passed as pairs of attribute name and values.
- Convert the embedded text inside graphics.
- Remove implementation of stream abstraction class and use the libwpd's
  WPXInputStream implementations.

Moreover, many bug fixes and improvements took place in this version.

Please, note that libwpg project does not distribute anymore the wpg2odg
standalone converter. the converter is not part of the writerperfect
sources distributed by libwpd <http://libwpd.sourceforge.net> project.
Since libwpd based solutions use libwpg to convert images embedded in
WordPerfect files and since libwpg used libwpd to parse the WordPerfect
documenent fragments embedded in WP Graphic files, it would be just a
pointless dupplication of code not to join the wpd2odt and wpg2odg into
the same module. And this has been done in writerperfect module in
libwpd's git.

The "perfectspot" CVS HEAD is buildable against the libwpg 0.2.0 and
libwpd 0.9.0 combo and it can display WPG files just fine.

We hope that you will enjoy this release and stay tuned for more
exciting news from libwpg front.

Cheers

Fridrich