News/2008-03-10

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• Zelgadis is still working on Russian translation of the wiki (started in November 2007).
• 6630 is working on a Turkish translation of the website.
• Genete created a particles tutorial.
• htodd completed synfigstudio packages for fink
• rore's French translation of synfigstudio was added to SVN
• genete's Spanish translation of synfigstudio was added to SVN
• Pxegeek posted a draft of the demo reel
• dooglus improved the information given of the history dialog
• dooglus fixed lots of warnings and errors for the use of new g++ version 4.3.
• Straight and Straight onto render bugs fixed, as well as other bugs.
• Alpha brighten and Alpha darken blend methods are now available.
• Pxegeek did some improvements on the Autotrace patch to convert a bitmap to sif format.
• Several wiki pages has been moved from "Dialog" to "Panel" consistently with the real meaning of Synfigstudio's panels.
• genete sent a patch to allow reading papagayo's voice lip-sync files.
• Dmd created a SVG to synfig format converter using XSLT.
• AkhiL created a Gimp to Synfig converter (multilayer support).
• February's Challenge has been posted: New Synfig Splash Screen!.
• A Video Tutorial wiki page has been created.
• A Converters wiki page has been created.
• mwiriadi is working on getting synfig into Fedora 9
• Jcome started a simplified Chinese translation of the wiki
• rore won the February Challenge!
• We released version 0.61.08!. This is a resume of the improvements of this release:
  • AkhiL sent a patch for Low-resolution render.
  • Added menu entries and shortcuts to increase and decrease the pixel size
  • Proper about dialog based on Gtk::AboutDialog implemented
  • dooglus fixed several bugs: 1868911, 1797745, 1891359, 1891391, 1891491, 1894723, 1894998, 1895440, 1896557, 1896834 and much much more.
  • Rearranged the Toolbox window.
  • Console output is more quiet now.
  • Now recognise GIF and gif files extensions.
  • Allow the bline tool to draw plants as well as outlines, regions, and curvegradients.
  • Improved the waypoint context menu.
  • Now magick++ module has prevalence over imagemagick module.
  • Allow manual edition of the current time in the workarea.
  • Improve the range of different scales used on the timeslider. Also set maximunm and minimum zoom levels for timescroller. Even improved the behavior of the horizontal scrolling.
  • Improved open file command and open with the OS command.
  • Auto-backup interval is now user selectable.
  • Now is possible save files in older formats (0.61.07 and 0.61.06)
  • Restrict 'radius' ducks to the top right corner of the plane. Thanks to Zelgadis's suggestion. That behavior could be enabled in program settings.
  • Give slight priority to radius ducks.
  • Allow accents in layer category name translations.
  • Now default is not render the current frame.
  • Synfig command line improved.
  • Have neither Control-A nor dragging a box around ducks select non-editable ducks, and have clicking individual ducks select them (with or without Control being held). Patch from Gerald Young (Yoyobuae).
  • Leave previously selected layers selected when drawing new lines - their ducks are useful for attaching new lines onto.
  • Allow booleans to be converted to random
  • New Value types Step and Bline Width.
  • Now Plant Layer shows his width ducks.
  • Added encapsulate and select all child layers buttons to the layer panel.
  • New icons for encapsulate and select all layers buttons. Thanks to genete.
  • Get the waypoints in the Children panel's timetrack to respond to mouse events.
  • Added help icon and some menu entries for Wiki links.
  • Save all now works.
  • Allow outlines, plants, etc. to be directly editable as soon as they're created from the 'new layer' menu.
  • Reordered Miscellaneus setiings.
  • Use etl::mutexes to lock access to reference counts.
  • RGBA color spinbuttons made wider and added a decimal.
  • Patch from Gerald Young (Yoyobuae) to save and restore the state (with canvases are open, and their position and size) for each of the recent files.
  • Patch from Gerald Young (Yoyobuae) to fix building on Win32 after the mutex changes.
  • Add an extra 'symmetrical' parameter to the 'time loop' layer to better be able to convert the 0.1 version of the layer.
• New convert types added: Vector X, Vector Y, Vector Angle, Vector Length, Gradient Color and Dot Product.
• xerakko added a Catalan translation
• March is MONSTER month on the synfig challenges forum!
• Piecia started a Polish translation of the wiki.
• Zelgadis, dooglus and Yoyobuae are working on a new feature: Linking to Blines
• pabs has updated the forum engine and is available for testing.

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