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Grace list of changes (since 5.1.*)
KNOWN ISSUES
Grace-5.99.* are preview releases of the forthcoming Grace-6. What
does "preview" mean?
* First, the new format of project files, xgr, has not yet
stabilized. In other words, anything you save with 5.99.* most
probably will not load in the further 5.99.* and in the final 6.0
releases without manual tweaking of some extent.
* Another big deficiency of this release is that the old command
interpreter has been removed, while the new one (Graal) is still
in its infancy. In other words, any script-based usage of Grace is
impossible now.
Other, smaller issues:
* Non-linear fit is not there (this is a consequence of the above)
* Region interface isn't finished
* Rotated arcs are not functional
* Stacked line plots with filled interior may have symbols shadowed
* Part of the "Point explorer" tool functionality isn't available
yet
5.99.1
Functionality
! [ES] Axis/AGrid changes (including reps. #889, #1087, #1128, and #1129)
! [ES] separate (from tick marks) drawing properties for grid lines
(rep. #1087)
! [ES] support for CUPS
! [ES] multiple SSD/blockdata (including reps. #589, #907)
! [ES] multi-level undo/redo (rep. #384)
! [ES] set data binding
! [ES] SSD column labeling
! [ES] SSD index column
! [ES] SSD coalescing
! [ES] impelmented SSD transposition
! [ES] faster import of large data sets
! [ES] added closure drawing in arc DObjects
! [ES] format/precision
! [ES] set export -> SSD export
! [ES] "annotation" column binding for sets
! [ES] unified XY* and BAR* set types. XYZ type removed
! [ES] got rid of set comments
! [ES] generic datetime formatting using strftime()
! [ES] formatting of geographical coordinates via fstring as well
! [ES] got rid of everything except support for reading in .agr files in the
old parser
* [ES] switched to using GSL instead of the Cephes library
Graal
! [ES] beginning...
Security
* [ES] use mkstemp() instead of tmpnam() if available (rep. #1134)
Interface
* [ES] draw plus/minus boxes in the Explorer tree
* [ES] in the Explorer tree, nodes of hidden quarks are collapsed
* [ES] removed "-bxy" command line option
* [ES] removed "Auto redraw" option from preferences (now always on)
! [ES] preview of projects before loading
* [ES] made Motif controls slickier
* [ES] got rid of -fixed and -usage command line options
Bug fixes
* [ES] fixed bar outline placement in barcharts
* [ES] fixed transparency in the PNG driver (rep. #2003)
* [ES] fixed rendering of texts having color = plot's background
* [MD] characters from symbol fonts couldn't be displayed in SVG outputs
produced by Grace
Packaging
* [ES] excluded autoconf's cache dir from the source tarball (rep. #2015)
5.99.0
Functionality
! [ES] all elements of a project now form a true tree structure with
rendering following the order. This solved a lot of requests
(including reps. #226, #806, #894, #960, #1005, #1177, #1229, #1255)
! [ES] each element has a string id which can be set to a meaningful value
(hence solving rep. #1367, #1384)
* [ES] all transformation dialogs: act on all data columns (including #659),
provide destination selectors (rep. #837), use new set selectors
everywhere (reps. #885, #1195)
! [ES] Fourier transforms fully reworked (including reps. #554, #630,
#684, #1216, #1391)
! [ES] feature extraction reworked (including rep. #1130)
! [ES] diff/derivatives reworked (including rep. #436) and combined with
seasonal differences
! [ES] running properties reworked
! [ES] integration reworked
! [ES] prune data reworked (including reps. #1140, #1342)
! [ES] convolution reworked (including #496, #954)
! [ES] correlation redone - now performed via Fourier transform
! [ES] sampling reworked
! [ES] "Cumulative properties" dialog
! [ES] positions of drawing objects can be defined in either
viewport/frame/world cooridnates (including #1336)
! [ES] implemented rotation of drawing objects (rep. #1413)
! [ES] frame/pointer for text objects (including rep. #1109)
! [ES] implemented macro expansion in cstrings (for now, timestamp and
filename) (including rep. #20)
* [ES] include filename when creating sets from block data (rep. #346)
! [ES] changed legend length/vgap/hgap params to be defined in the
viewport coordinates
! [ES] no more world coordinates for the legend placement
! [ES] allow legend entries to contain a single symbol instead of two
! [ES] set filling in legends
! [ES] define legend frame placement via anchor point (in the frame
coordinates) + justification and offset vector (including rep. #833)
! [ES] titles/subtitles are separate objects (thus solving rep. #1075)
! [ES] justification for annotated values (rep. #1382)
! [SJ] "minimum symbol separation" option for set presentation
* [AM/ES] X error handler. If X server crashes in the middle of a Grace
session, your data will be saved
* [AG] netCDF: parse and use calibration attributes add_offset, scale_factor
and understand 1 byte variables
* [RA] enabled inout tick direction be set separately for major and minor
ticks
! [ES] implemented fontsize and linewidth scales per project
! [ES] got rid of world stacks
* [ES] hotlinks now work for all set types
! [ES] arrows now can be filled with different from the line color/pattern
Interface
! [ES] all "Plot/* appearance" dialogs replaced with Tools/Explorer for easy
project navigation and editing (including rep. #635, #1374, #1105)
! [EV/ES] instant update (rep. #861)
! [ES] removed "Geometric transformation" and "Digital filter" dialogs.
The funcionality is trivially achieved using the generic "Evaluate
expression" dialog
! [ES] removed "Regression" dialog. The functionality will be added to
the "Non-linear fit" dialog
! [ES] get rid of the hotlink popup. The functionality is moved to the
dataset spreadsheet editor
! [ES] color transformations and font rastering in device setup popup
! [ES] high/low/smart font AA
! [ES] added "Command" line functionality to Console. Got rid of the old
"Commands" dialog + (rep. #1246)
! [ES] page zoom (including rep. #712)
! [ES] sync zoom of overlaid graphs (rep. #692)
! [ES] sym char in set presentation (rep. #1284)
* [ES] dropped the "-remove", "-timestamp", and "-rvideo" command line flags
* [ES] dropped the "-param" and "-pexec" command line flags
* [ES] dropped the "-batch" and "-pipe" command line flags
* [ES] fonttool enhancements: preserve cursor positions, be smart about font
selection escape strings (rep. #1110)
! [ES] context-sensitive menu on canvas
! [ES] some enhancements to the built-in HTML viewer
* [ES] added -hdevice-options command line option
* [ES] enabled support for wheel mouse to scroll the canvas
* [ES/MO] enabled support for wheel mouse for spinboxes
! [ES] removed all page dimension settings from View/Page setup. Page
dimensions are properties of Project, as it should be. Also,
sync/rescale options removed
* [ES] removed grace_np library
* [ES] draw crosshair cursor not exceeding the current frame limits
* [ES] removed the "autoscale on set" button from the toolbar
! [KK/ES] new toolbar icons
! [ES] implemented moving of some plot objects with Ctrl+mouse dragging
* [ES] got rid of "Overlay graphs" dialog
! [ES] moved project desription and sformat UIs from "Save as" to Explorer
! [ES] moved Date settings from Preferences to the Project UI
! [ES] moved Locator UI to Graph UI
Drivers
* [ES] the drivers' framework heavily reworked
! [ES] imeplemented color transformations per device (including rep. #690)
* [ES] all drivers have the "tight bbox" option (reps. #714, #2031)
* [ES] implemented (optional) CMYK colorspace in the (E)PS output (rep. #928)
* [ES] implemented Grayscale/RGB/CMYK option in the PDF driver
* [ES] PDF-1.3/1.4/1.5 selection; default output PDF format is now 1.4
(Acrobat5)
* [ES] implemented patterned fills in PDF
* [ES] fp precision in PDF is now selectable
* [ES] implemented kerning in PDF (when supported by PDFlib)
* [ES] BBox and resources at the top of PS output
* [ES] font embedding/subsetting in PS (rep. #927)
* [ES] PS output optimizations
* [ES] HiResBoundingBox in PS
* [ES] rewritten raster drivers to use the Xmi library instead of GD. This
made the raster drivers full-featured: previously missing features -
winding fillrule, patterned lines are implemented and many weird
things fixed (including rep. #1275)
* [ES] per a popular demand, added "printable" option for EPS as a
workaround for brain-damaged EPS importing software
* [ES] implemented page clipping in *PS
Defaults
* [ES] gracerc no longer used
* [ES] default template is now Default.xgr
* [ES] removed allowDoubleClick Xresource
* [ES] changed default page size to A4
Documentation
* [ES] install PDF versions of FAQ and User's Guide instead of DVI
Portability/Compilation
* [RB] VMS updates
* [ES] dropped support for libhelp
* [ES] switched to autoconf-2.5 (rep. #1392)
* [ES] Xpm library is now a must for the GUI
* [ES] require PDFlib >= 6.0.0 for the PDF driver
Bug fixes
* [ES] polygon regions were displayed incorrectly for non-linear scales
(rep. #729)
* [ES] background fill exceeded postscript bounding box (rep. #992)
* [ES] fixed fonttool resizing (rep. #1168)
* [ES] fixed crash in PDF driver when using fonts lacking .afm files
(rep. #1287)
* [ES] fixed precision of the dobject coordinates (rep. #1227)
* [ES] importing data from the command line doesn't set project name
(rep. #1281)
* [ES] when a set was killed, the next set was often plotted black
(rep. #1362)
* [ES] fixed font width calculation in the Xbae widget
Legend:
[EV] - Ed Vigmond <vigmonde(at-nospam)IGB.UMontreal.CA>
[AM] - Alexander Mai <st002279(at-nospam)hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de>
[AG] - Alexey Goldin <Alexey.Goldin(at-nospam)jpl.nasa.gov>
[RB] - Richard Brodie <R.Brodie(at-nospam)rl.ac.uk>
[SJ] - Steven G. Johnson <stevenj(at-nospam)deas.harvard.edu>
[MO] - Marius Olechnovicius <img(at-nospam)patikimi.lt>
[RA] - Robert Atwood <r.atwood(at-nospam)imperial.ac.uk>
[KK] - Karim Kaschani <karim.kaschani(at-nospam)arcormail.de>
[MD] - Matthias Dillier <Matthias.Dillier(at-nospam)snb.ch>
[ES] - Evgeny Stambulchik <evgeny(at-nospam)stambulchik.net>
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