[PyX-devel] ANN: PyX 0.8.1 released

[Andre W. <wo...@us...>]

Hi,

I've just uploaded PyX 0.8.1, which focus on bug fixing. Thanks to our
users for helping us improving our releases. The release notes are:

This release fixes some bugs in the path module and the output of
decorated paths. The fallback for kpathsea was considerably improved
in speed (it was unintensionally slowed down in 0.8). The inclusion of
the bounding box information in PS and PDF files is now optional. It
is suppressed by default when a paperformat is specified. A new path
example completes the release.

Enjoy,


Jörg, André, Michael, and Gert


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CHANGES:

0.8.1 (2005/08/13):
  - deco module:
    - fix bug in postscript deco code for stroking only attributes
  - path module:
    - fix multicurveto._normalized
    - fix path.paramtoarclen and path.paramtoarclen_pt 
    - remove unused method-local function
    - fix linestyle rellength in PostScript
    - correction to the rounding problems in circles (reported by Uwe Fabricius)
  - epsfile module:
    - fix a typo
  - pattern module:
    - issue a warning when not using a stroke color for patterns
  - text module:
    - postpone PDFfontdescriptor information, since it raises an error on certain
      fonts even when PostScript output was requested (reported by Gert Ingold)
    - remove spurious spaces when checking for empty texmessages
  - kpathsea module:
    - caching in fallback to lower system call bottleneck
  - canvas module:
    - add missing writePSfile wrapper
    - add *args to writeEPSfile and writePDFfile wrappers
  - writer modules:
    - writebbox option to write bbox information (disabled by default)
      even when a paper format is specified (PS and PDF writers only)
  - use arclen in spring example
  - add knot example
  - use pdf graphic files for pdf version of the manual
  - use PyX to create tipa fallbacks for FAQ
  - correct description regarding the manual in the README file


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