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NEWS:

0.9.5 -> 0.9.6:
- Add support for conversion of Zoner Draw documents using libzmf. The
  new tools are called zmf2odg and zmf2epub.
- Handle StarOffice Writer documents (.sdw).
- Allow conversion of StarOffice documents to EPUB and Abiword too. The
  new tools are called sd2epub and sd2abw.
- Fix configure check for libeot.
- Add universal conversion tools that handle any supported input format.
  The new tools are called wpft2abw, wpft2ebub and wpfg2odf.
- Fix some CppCheck warnings.
- Let mwaw2* properly handle files with a resource fork.
- Handle Lotus files with an associated format file.
- Switch to C++11.
- Add support for conversion of QuarkXPress documents using libqxp. The
  new tools are called qxp2odg and qxp2epub.
- Default to libepubgen 0.1 (0.0 is used as a fallback).
- Add options for setting EPUB version, splitting method and layout type
  (only for EPUB 3.0) to all EPUB-converting tools.

0.9.4 -> 0.9.5:
- Make numbers2ods actually work.
- Convert Pict images to SVG in mwaw2abw.
- Pass needed flags enabling C++11 mode to gcc automatically if
  configured with --with-sharedptr=c++11 .
- Fix build in C++11 mode.
- Add support for conversion of StarOffice documents using
  libstaroffice. The new tool is called sd2odf.
- Improve --help for all tools and make it compatible with help2man.

0.9.3 -> 0.9.4:
- Fix build with libgsf.
- Add numbers2ods for Apple Numbers spreadsheets. It does not do
  anything yet: it waits for libetonyek to get support for Numbers.

0.9.2 -> 0.9.3:
- put some structure to src/ : ie. create src/{abw,epub,odf} directory to split
  the codes by generators,
- add code to generate abw files,
- respect the --with-libgsf option + uncompressed mimetype
- libwpd considers empty string as a valid password
- use libwps-0.4

0.9.1 -> 0.9.2:
- Add support for generating EPUB (using libepubgen). New tools abw2epub,
  cdr2epub cmx2epub, ebook2epub, fh2epub, key2epub, mwaw2epub, pages2epub,
  pmd2epub, pub2epub, vsd2epub, vss2epub, wpd2epub, wpg2epub and wps2epub.
- Make help output compatible with help2man for mwaw2epub, wks2ods and wps2odt.

0.9.0 -> 0.9.1:
- Fix format check for ebook2odt, because of which every e-book format
  was rejected as not supported.
- Various minor fixes and improvements.

0.8.4 -> 0.9.0
- Switch to librevenge.
- Add wks2ods for MS Works Spreadsheet documents.
- Add pages2odt for Apple Pages documents.
- Add pmd2odg for Adobe Pagemaker documents.
- Support MS Works Database files in wks2ods too.
- Various build and functionality fixes.

0.8.2 -> 0.8.3
- Add fh2odg for Macromedia Freehand documents.
- Add key2odp for Apple Keynote documents.
- Improve mwaw support.

0.8.1 -> 0.8.2
- Add cdr2odg for CorelDraw documents.
- Add cmx2odg for CorelDraw exchange file-format (initial).
- Add vss2odg to extract Visio stencils into ODG documents.
- Add mwaw2odt for old Mac wordprocessing documents.
- Add pub2odg for MS Publisher documents.
- Depend now on libodfgen where we extracted the ODT and ODG generator
  classes.
- Various build and functionality fixes.

0.8.0 -> 0.8.1
- Consolidate wps2odt into writerperfect. Optionally built if libwps
  is present at configure time.
- Add vsd2odg to convert MS Visio documents. Optionally built if
  libvisio is present at configure time.
- Refactor the ODT and ODG generators to make them easier reusable.
- Support for basic text boxes in ODG.
- Proper support of elliptical arcs including correct bounding box
  computation.
- Support for opacity gradients and object shadows in ODG generator.
- Extended support for colour gradients.
- Gcc 4.6.x build fixes.

0.7.x -> 0.8.0
- Generate ODT instead of SXW file format (wpd2sxw -> wpd2odt)
- Use this module for the wpg2odg command-line tool in order to prevent
  code duplication.
- Support password protected documents in file-format where we know
  the encryption algorithm (not password cracking !!!)
- Convert embedded WordPerfect Graphics files inside WordPerfect
  documents.
- Convert positionned boxes in WordPerfect documents
- Convert comments and annotations in WordPerfect documents.
- Convert graphics in other formats then WPG inside WordPerfect documents.
- Convert page numbering in WordPerfect documents.
- Make libgsf dependency optional.
- Fix a lot of bugs and validity issues with generated ODT/ODG.
- Convert embedded text in WPG documents.

0.7.0 -> 0.7.1
- Convert table in foot/endnote into normal text because OOo is not
  supporting tables in foot/endnotes (Fridrich Strba)
- Improved lists conversion. Use additional information output by
  libwpd-0.8.3 (Fridrich Strba)
- Unreference g_objects that should be unreferenced in our add-on
  UNO component (Jody Goldberg)

0.6.1 -> 0.7.0
- Removed span properties from paragraph style (William Lachance)
- Paragraph and span properties defined in the table cell function,
  colour of the border of the table cell and vertical alignment of the
  content of a table cell (Fridrich Strba)
- Improved text attributes conversion, added font and hightlight colour,
  (Fridrich Strba)
- Conversion of text column dimensions (Fridrich Strba)
- Conversion of table row height, and table headings (Fridrich Strba)
 

0.6.0 -> 0.6.1
- Added a function insertLineBreak() (Fridrich Strba)
- Fixed a bug that prevented the conversion of full justification
  and added handling of full justification all lines (Fridrich Strba)

0.5.2 -> 0.6.0
- Simulate extra space at end of column sections (William Lachance)
- Update for other libwpd API changes (William)
- Add win32/mingw build system (Fridrich Strba)

0.5.1 -> 0.5.2
- Handle the following attribute types: redlining, double underlining, 
small caps, outlining, and blink (William Lachance)
- Handle more types of table cell shading (William)
- Update make process to allow build on RedHat 7 (Fridrich Strba)

0.5.0 -> 0.5.1
- fix a bug in the lists code that sometimes caused incorrect hierarchies
to be generated (William Lachance)

0.4.0 -> 0.5.0
- page margin support (top and bottom) (William Lachance)
- table bugfixes/additions (William)
- header/footer support (William)
- massive refactoring of the XML output generation: simpler, more robust (William)

0.3.0 -> 0.4.0
- better tab handling (William Lachance)
- better handling of multiple spaces (William)
- line spacing (William)
- text properties for numbered lists (William)
- footnotes and endnotes (William)
- table properties (cell colours, alignment, column size) (William)
- font mapping (Scott Balneaves, William)
- rpm spec (Fridrich Strba)

0.2.0 -> 0.3.0
- lists/outlines (William Lachance)
- fix style inheritance, margin issues with tables and paragraph styles (William)
- set width of tables based on current document margin state (William)
- don't set margins when the no. of columns in the current section > 0 (fixes
a nasty bug) (William)

0.1.0 -> 0.2.0:
- font face/size changes
- handle WordPerfect documents with an OLE header (side effect of
libwpd's conversion to libgsf)
- many bugfixes (memory leaks, general problems)