Roadmap
Things to do before the next release. This is a very rough draft of a roadmap, and is by no means the final word.Version 0.098 -- | ||
| • | Implement tile stacking of signatures from same sheet, in addition to just duplication | |
| • | Spine marks to indicate signature order | |
| • | Update svg in/out to use Inkscape's new view based multipage | |
| • | Fix NetImposition double sided | |
| • | Make a 2d version of the 3d Net unwrapper | |
| (done) | Convert website to use hugo, make some new tutorials for really out of date ones | |
| (done) | Import/export new Inkscape multipage art boards via expanded Singles imposition type | |
| (done) | Update Singles editor to edit new artboard style | |
| (done) | Implement some accordion net impositions | |
| (done) | Ellipse tool | |
| (done) | Rounded rectangle tool | |
| (done) | Issue #16: Dynamic UI scaling | |
| (done) | Update color palette window with various export/import options | |
| (done) | debug svg in enough to be able to load icons.svg | |
| (done) | svg in/out with powerstroke | |
| (done) | svg in/out with meshes, at miminum round trip export/import should work | |
| (done) | Import svg gradients with proper filling of parent | |
| (done) | Animated gif import | |
| (done) | Page Atlas exporter | |
| (done) | Way to export pages as svg embedded into html | |
| (done) | pick and choose export range, not single "from:start to:end", but like "1-3,5,19-20" | |
| (done) | Clip paths | |
| (done) | Clip path in place editing | |
| (done) | Gradients able to fill parents with none,pad,reflect,repeat spread methods | |
| (done) | Debug gradient radial controls | |
| (done) | Show/hide objects | |
| (done) | Object tree window, at least allow toggling locked, visible, and select from list. | |
| (done) | Find object interface | |
| (done) | Empty objects that can be parents, or whose contents are defined by nodes | |
| (done) | Perspective transform object filter, proof of concept for hybrid interface/node workflow | |
| (done) | engraver tool, fix so that current render is not rerendering every frame | |
| (done) | PathInterface: adding point hint | |
| (done) | PathInterface: Mouse based delete segments | |
| (done) | Debug Text on path tool a little | |
| (done) | Clean up mesh controls | |
| (done) | Node based image "importer" | |
| (done) | More nodes: global var access, any drawable object, expressions, path generators, reroute | |
| (done) | Even more nodes: point set creators and converters, path endpoints, path extrema | |
| (done) | Yet even more nodes: set element, subset, getdocument, export, "basics", objectfunction | |
| (done) | Mirror node, coupled with a Mirror Interface | |
| (done) | Animation play/stop overlay, with node hooks | |
| (done) | Convert backend to using Theme objects for easier adjusting in the future | |
| (done) | Issue #12: Fix object bleeding across pages for signatures and nets | |
| (done) | Make Imlib2 dependency optional, prepare replacement image loading with GraphicsMagick | |
| (done) | Replace x11-dev makedepend with custom script | |
| (done) | Issue #10: Investigate AppImage creation | |
| (done) | Be able to generate icons from source svg directly | |
| (done) | drag-n-drop from system, like drag images into viewwindow from an external file browser | |
| (done) | Issue #16: Address icon/text/thin line sizing issues for high dpi monitors | |
| (done) | System to manage external tools, like print command or image editor | |
| (done) | Moving selected things in group contents does not update group bounds | |
| (done) | should not be able to select both group and group contents at same time | |
| (done) | If curobj, select siblings first. If no curobj, select direct children of context first | |
| (done) | double click on group should change selection area to group contents like inkscape? | |
| (done) | make laidout.org twitterable with an image card | |
| (done) | Html gallery output with optional template | |
Version 0.099 -- | ||
| • | Issue #28: Update CI to not use travis | |
| • | debug previous version a bit | |
| • | Undo/Redo | |
| • | Issue #16: Rescale icons on ui_scale changes so icons aren't fuzzy | |
| • | Better icon management with changing ui size. Just generate from svg on the fly always? | |
| • | engraver tool direction overlay should be cached | |
| • | engraver tool grow point mode | |
| • | engraver tool, resolution cut mode | |
| • | engraver tool, blockout needs to be more precise | |
| • | engraver tool, fully test tool effects when many objects selected | |
| • | PDF in, at least as 1 image per page, for purposes of imposition | |
| • | pdf export, unicode capable | |
| • | Optimize pdf export to rescale to target dpi, and compress image data | |
| • | Global Settings window, so you don't have to manually tinker with laidoutrc | |
| • | Tools should remember their settings | |
| • | Import Images dialog needs total reprogramming | |
| • | Tool scripting | |
| • | Scripted plugin interface | |
| • | Clone Pattern Builder | |
| • | Object tree window, allow rename, rearrange | |
| • | Finish implementing double sided net impositions | |
| • | allow inserting net impositions as foldouts in regular Signature Imposition stacks | |
| • | debug Net imposition interactive unwrapper, via optional opengl Polyptych | |
| • | Net imposition build net interface | |
| • | Signature editor: detect non staplable binding edge, show red rather than green | |
| • | Signature editor: option to specify alignment of different size signature stacks | |
| • | drag-n-drop text to and from the various text edits | |
| • | Issue #6: Figure out what on earth is to be done about color font processing | |
| • | lock down color backend.. currently it's mostly a series of terrible hacks based on 8-bit screen rgb | |
| • | Soup up the color box so one can recall previous colors, and/or integration with palette window | |
| • | color styles, so objects can refer to a named color, just change that named to change all | |
| • | In image properties dialog, be able to select from various default preview configs | |
| • | fix object transform handles for really small objects (handles should still be accessible) | |
| • | Clean up project load/save internals and dialogs | |
| • | Object and resource tags interface | |
| • | Custom line caps | |
| • | make PathInterface extrapolate line join work | |
| • | debug and optimize line outline cache, especially for joins | |
| • | Finish implementing anchor tool | |
| • | Custom alignments to parents, not just affine transform to parent | |
| • | Externally rendered objects, similar to Scribus render frames | |
| • | Softmask | |
| • | Stroke fill | |
| • | GraphicsMagick nodes | |
| • | Gmic nodes plugin | |
| • | Merge EpsData with normal images, since they can be previewed with gm now | |
| • | Make a laxkit.pc and use it in Laidout build to simplify build process | |
| • | Python plugin | |
| • | Collect for out | |
| • | export preview | |
| • | Make sure scribus export works with 1.5, and can handle new clipping features | |
| • | Scribus import should try to do something appropriate with page spreads >= 2 pages wide | |
| • | Scribus import should do something meaningful with original Scribus page bleed values | |
| • | Issue #11: Flatpak creation, submit for Flathub | |
Version 0.1 -- | ||
| • | First and foremost, need copious testing by people who are not me. | |
| • | implement command line language tag | |
| • | Full internationalization support (via harfbuzz) in window controls for input and output, including rtl/mixed text? | |
| • | SpreadEditor: be able to eject a page into limbo, for creation threads, connect, then insert as a group | |
| • | When importing from an image list file, should be able to say if and when to auto-make previews | |
| • | Basic infrastructure for most things should be in place. | |
| • | Must be Stable, not merely "Stable" | |
| • | Creep management controls | |
| • | graphical shell should also help find and set key shortcuts | |
| • | Construct an adequate command core, so that no X connection necessary for batch processing | |
| • | Improve open from template to be able to use names (defined in a file), not just filenames | |
| • | perhaps have image open window pane for main split window? drag and drop in images? that would be AWESOME | |
| • | Should have option to print/see or not print/see big, preview, or no images, per image | |
| • | When adjusting things with the object tool, must have option to be temporarily a little transparent | |
| • | All the pdf 1.4 group combine properties, like most importantly transparency | |
| • | Configurable icon panel/menu system, make the button box actually function | |
| • | Linear (including curvilinear) guides | |
| • | Have imagepatch be a transform you can apply to any object | |
| • | Some sort of basic scripting infrastructure allowing easy addition of other scripting language plugins. Swig? | |
| • | Plugin infrastructure should be in place: add objects, panes, commands, interfaces, resources, command-line-options? | |
| • | allow for easy method for runaround area determination | |
| • | Full color management implemented, floating point or integer. Got to keep up with Krita and Gimp! | |
| • | CieLab color space | |
| • | Resource manager/style edit window | |
| • | a real PrintDialog that can configure itself based on printer info | |
| • | non-hacky new document box that can retrieve printer capabilities, and adjust accordingly (ie grok ppds) | |
| • | all things must define their styledefs | |
| • | make it easy to add/remove/prioritize/replace import/export filters | |
| • | support for rendering the svg filters | |
| • | Provide some kind of visual feedback while doing lengthy operations | |
| • | Improve and/or make new logo and splash image, and generate icons from a laidout doc | |
| • | Somehow combine the ViewWindow and SpreadEditor to optionally allow the sort of 'infinite scroll' | |
| • | Be able to interact with patches in a way reminiscent of Inkscape's node sculpting | |
| • | Object and page templates, aka master pages | |
| • | Pages with curved edges, to allow nets for shapes resulting from intersecting cylinders, for instance | |
| • | Able to select and transform paths/points from different objects at the same time | |
| • | Color channel density control, to not overdo CMYK mix, for instance | |
| • | Allow accessing scribus image cache, or try to spin off a non project specific general image cache | |
| • | Backwards compatibility with previous Laidout versions, without extra utilities, starting with 0.1 | |
| • | update french and spanish translations, if possible | |
| • | Paper sizes should be translated strings | |
| • | Implement poor man's multi-contact interface for all appropriate interfaces | |
Version 0.2 -- | ||
| • | Flowed text tool | |
| • | text: Opentype feature support (other than multicolor stuff) | |
| • | text: Opentype color font support: COLR/CPAL, SVG | |
| • | text: Mixed left/right/vertical text in text streams | |
| • | text: Numbered lists | |
| • | text: Tables | |
| • | text: hanging punctuation | |
| • | text: Automatic table of contents | |
| • | text: Bibliography | |
| • | text: Footnotes | |
| • | text: auto track chapter/section | |
| • | text: Automatic, yet overrideable hyphenation | |
| • | text: layout inside anything that provides an 'area' and runaround facility. | |
| • | text: math mode | |
| • | Implement .obj file material import | |
| • | Full multi-contact, blob and pressure sensitive touch for possible tablet interface | |
| • | partial Laidout export | |
| • | implement export even/odd, batches, and paper rotation for other exporters: ps eps plan ppt | |
| • | Figure out best way to expose laidout functions to other program's scripters (ie inkscape and scribus) | |
| • | Bezier color patch freeform, rather than just grid. | |
| • | Possibly allow pure function gradients, and redefining the functions for the other gradients.. | |
| • | Maybe bez part of path interface should have segment move like inkscape | |
| • | Somehow be able to do simulated add-ins/foldouts from within any page of an imposition | |
| • | use any path as a kind of tab stop | |
| • | Optional multi-key shortcuts? | |
| • | Decide on adequate rendering backend: going with cairo for now, but that's only 8bit. gegl? antigrain? antigrain/freetype/harfbuzz/gm? | |
| • | GraphicsMagick/ImageMagick plugin or integration: benefits: a gazillion file formats, including EPS, and color profiles Imlib chokes on really big image files, whereas this would not | |
| • | svgfont/cairo user font support.. too special of a case? | |
| • | Optional Midi controller usage | |
| • | gmic filter plugin | |
| • | full TeX importer | |
| • | Would be nice to have tex/latex text and equation reader | |
| • | Would be nice to be able to handle metapost/metafun sort of things | |
| • | Would be nice to be able to handle lilypond sort of things | |
| • | Load/save various gimp/inkscape/etc things like gradients, palettes, and paths, perhaps extract from/to xcf | |
| • | Maybe have ability to break apart and use parts of gimp.xcf/inkscape.svg/scribus.sla, and put them back in? | |
| • | Stream/Story editor, maybe html export from streameditor? | |
| • | for plain postscript, there's bitmask, but no transparency. maybe optionally do simulation with dithered bitmask | |
| • | Cooperate with photo programs like KPhotoalbum, f-spot | |
| • | Make nets cooperate with Hugin/Enblend: plugin for panorama projection to/from nets? | |
| • | Work and turn/work and tumble | |
| • | openoffice files import | |
| • | Uniconverter support | |
| • | Super import place tool, including recursive placement | |
| • | The other Postscript/Pdf gradients?: Triangle strip and Triangle Mesh | |
| • | fore edge printing | |
| • | fore edge sculpting | |
| • | hdr color support | |
| • | Vx support? | |
| • | Verse support? | |
| • | Content version control? | |
| • | dbus? | |
| • | 3-d/vr interface support (mainly for hedron unwrapper) | |
| • | port to other os | |
| • | port to tablet, or subset functionality, like check out to tablet, work on lower res version, to later import to system with full resources | |
| • | Net/polyhedron layout 3-d previewer extra (maybe?? software BSP tree? opengl?) pdf 1.6 can embed rotatable 3-d | |
| • | Perhaps have animation support/mode, 1 page=1 frame or separate time slider and keyframes | |
| • | Akin to animation mode, have movie/sound objects available to html export, for instance? | |
| • | a FlexibleImposition for html/streamed output target? | |
| • | JDF,JTAPI support? | |
| • | Saveable undo stack(?) see https://people.csail.mit.edu/sarasu/history/ for inspiration. Also Xara has this. | |
| • | Implement cross platform | |
Version 1.0 -- | ||
| • | End world hunger | |
| • | Stabilize the biosphere without causing mass extinction | |
| • | Neutralize all nuclear waste | |
| (done) | Visit Pluto | |
| • | Visit Pluto (in person) | |
| • | While i'm at it, I'd like a pony. | |
Old Releases | ||
Version 0.097 -- released 25 November 2018! | ||
| (done) | debug previous version at least slightly! | |
| (done) | experimental Delauny/voronoi lines tool | |
| (done) | engraver tool, fix non-live updates when tweaking various parameters | |
| (done) | Clean up symmetry clone interface, not easy to use currently | |
| (done) | Allow setting custom default exported file name (via a line in laidoutrc) | |
| (done) | text objects: harfbuzz based | |
| (done) | Add more save options: save a copy, save incremented, save as template, autosave settings | |
| (done) | Allow permanently changing units and default paper via a control in a window, not just by editing laidoutrc | |
| (done) | svg out default to 96dpi | |
| (done) | Implement c++ plugin infrastructure | |
| (done) | Experimental perspective transform interface | |
| (done) | Experimental voronoi interface | |
| (done) | Experimental node interface (done aside from large todo list) | |
| (done) | fix tooltips | |
| (done) | Connect node interface for use with object filters | |
Version 0.096 -- released 18 December 2015! | ||
| (done) | Finish Implementing cairo renderer, make meshes finally render faster, plus general rendering niceness | |
| (done) | Text for god's sake!! It's been what, 10 years!? | |
| (done) | text: layered color fonts, each layer has to be a separate font file | |
| (done) | Caption text tool | |
| (done) | Caption tool, export svg: done, but due to svg, problem specifying colorfont fonts | |
| (done) | Caption tool, scribus -> done-ish, font naming problem for color fonts, and a sizing discrepancy | |
| (done) | Caption tool, pdf -> done sort of, fails for text outside latin-1, because fonts in pdf are a terrible headache. | |
| (done) | reprogram file dialog to have adequate presentation of recent and bookmarks | |
| (done) | fix viewport zoom and rotate wigging out on right click mouse move | |
| (done) | make window maximize work in gnome (magically seems to work again in recent gnome, resize also seems to work again in recent gnome) | |
| (done) | autosave for autorecover -> done, but you have to set manually in ~/.config/laidout/(version)/laidoutrc | |
| (done) | test new export even/odd, batches, and paper rotation for major exporters: svg image pdf scribus, not done: ps eps plan ppt | |
| (done) | export option alternate each paper 180 deg | |
| (done) | export option rotate every paper by increments of 90 | |
| (done) | export option, put out in reverse order | |
| (done) | Infrastructure for resource sharing between objects | |
| (done) | engraver tool, fix blockout! how did it break?! | |
| (done) | engraver, allow work on multiple objects at once, including tracing | |
| (done) | Re-fix cut and paste from system clipboard | |
| (done) | Re-Re-fix paste from system clipboard. I swear it was working. | |
Version 0.095 -- released 23 April 2015! | ||
| (done) | be able to trace images in engraver tool | |
| (done) | engraver tool point groups to trace from same object to different trace settings | |
| (done) | engraver tool linear, radial, or circular line fills | |
| (done) | engraver tool, implement dashes | |
| (done) | allow editing meshes based on a path | |
| (done) | PathInterface varying width lines, offsets, and different kinds of line joins (bevel, round, miter) | |
| (done) | PathInterface subpaths for hole making should work: check exports (ignoring eps and ps for now) | |
| (done) | Cache transforms to optimize ColorPatch/ImagePatchData point lookup | |
| (done) | allow export even or odd | |
| (done) | allow export in batches | |
| (done) | Freehand drawing with tablet pressure support | |
| (done) | Clickable page numbers to select markers | |
| (done) | impose-only mode should allow access to all imposition types, not just signatures | |
| (done) | Scribus import of doc with 2 page spreads on export imposes incorrect object positions | |
Version 0.094 -- released 20 February 2014! | ||
| (done) | need partial Laidout import | |
| (done) | should probably put laidout stuff in its own namespace, just to be polite | |
| (done) | Rough draft of Custom alignments to parents, not just affine transform to parent | |
| (done) | Cloning | |
| (done) | Clone Tiler | |
| (done) | Shortcuts editor dialog | |
| (done) | Signature editor needs option to preview pages while folding | |
| (done) | Signature editor: have variable num of pages per signature | |
| (done) | Optimize pdf export to not duplicate images | |
| (done) | SpreadEditor: insert blanks, delete pages | |
| (done) | SpreadEditor: working with >100 image heavy pages does strange hangs, and starts really slow. Fix! | |
| (done) | Color sliders, when double clicking on color box | |
| (done) | implement scale pages to new imposition when reimposing | |
| (done) | graphical shell, kind of a searching calculator and function caller | |
| (done) | Laidout application icon for window manager paging seems to be broken | |
| (done) | More robust scripting: loops, variables, functions, classes (still a bit buggy, but much has been done) | |
Version 0.093 -- released 17 July 2012! | ||
| (done) | On canvas flip controls | |
| (done) | Align tool | |
| (done) | Nup tool | |
| (done) | Fully configurable shortcuts (editable through config file) | |
| (done) | PathInterface must be improved | |
Version 0.092 -- released 30 December 2011! | ||
| (done) | Debug enough to hopefully not be too embarrassing | |
| (done) | Actually implement path exporting. Make that path icon mean something this time! | |
| (done) | At bare minimum, path interface use should not cause a seg fault | |
| (done) | Fix broken paper tiling interface | |
| (done) | Ability to add custom printer marks | |
| (done) | Fix multi-object selection move when crossing page boundaries | |
| (done) | Gui for modifying Page Labels | |
| (done) | Scribus import must support master pages | |
| (done) | Scribus import/export should support PageRange <-> Section conversion on import | |
| (done) | Units, especially Allow changing units in rulers | |
| (done) | Add proper .desktop and application icons installation | |
| (done) | Use ~/.config/laidout, instead of ~/.laidout | |
| (done) | Implement wavefront obj file format in/out for polyhedra | |
| (done) | from laxkit: clear up focus handling which currently REALLY SUCKS especially when dialogs or menus are up (maybe done) | |
| (done) | from laxkit: clean up pop up menus which currently REALLY SUCK -> now deletes menus when clicking outside them | |
Version 0.091 -- released 13 November 2010! | ||
| (done) | Well, maybe done: Debug enough to not be too embarrassing | |
| (done) | impose-only mode, so as to allow easy plugin in access, to for instance do booklets inside scribus | |
| (done) | Do a poor man's multi-contact touch screen interface with 2 mice and Xinput2: object tool only, so far | |
| (done) | Images should maintain their aspect ratio by default when scaling | |
| (done) | Scribus import must make sure linked text and linked table mystery data behave properly on export | |
| (done) | Export PLAN files for podofoimpose | |
| (done) | Generic fold and trim imposition | |
| (done) | Be able to load imposition instances, a form of resource | |
| (done) | Import images as flow/centered within page margins, not within page outline | |
| (done) | Import images with alignment per page type into the page margin region | |
| (done) | SpreadEditor: improvements: re-re-fix auto layout | |
| (done) | SpreadEditor: load/ save many spread editor views with doc (including marker placement, other settings) | |
| (done) | SpreadEditor: editor should allow changing working document | |
| (done) | SpreadEditor: be able to change marks of many pages at once | |
Version 0.09 -- released 21 February 2010! | ||
| (done) | Test, test, test! from fresh install to print out, make booklet, portrait, landscape | |
| (done) | More libintl support, means finally adapting laxkit and laidout to utf8 internally, no small task! | |
| (done) | Add, delete, and rename limbos | |
| (done) | Load, save, add, delete paper groups | |
| (done) | Finish implementing project based setup, particularly being able to save a project, not just load one | |
| (done) | Use the freedesktop recommended ~/.recently-used (on laxkit's todo also) | |
| (done) | NetImposition needs to be able to import 3-d models such as from OFF files | |
| (done) | Debug net impositions!! | |
| (done) | Selected region out to image(s), regions optionally remembered (done via custom papergroups) | |
| (done) | be able to reimpose a document from gui and command (from command mostly works) | |
| (done) | Import(), Export(), NewDocument() commands | |
| (done) | Make commands actually available in the command prompt window | |
| (done) | command line option to pass in commands, like "import blah; reimpose box; export blah2" | |
| (done) | plain text edit window for notes/scripts/whatever save with project or doc or its own file | |
| (done) | Image and Color patches, gradients should allow transparent colors | |
| (done) | When importing, need infrastructure to preserve mystery data as possible, to be later exported back out | |
| (done) | Passepartout import | |
| (done) | (very, very partially, anyway) Svg import | |
| (done) | (very partially, anyway) Scribus import | |
| (done) | fix the memory hole (in papergroups?) | |
| (done) | fix the other memory hole (triggered by importing images?), something in paperinterface, too | |
| (done) | for some reason, podofobrowser doesn't like laidout produced pdfs, but they're fine with xpdf. huh! | |
| (done) | control-q quits now rather than plain 'q' | |
| (done) | from laxkit: Fix cut and paste from system clipboard | |
| (done) | mouse releasing grab when crossing window control boundaries, makes color box unusable. address this!!! | |
Version 0.08 -- released 15 September 2007! | ||
| (done) | Test, test, test! from fresh install to print out, make booklet, portrait, landscape | |
| (done) | fix hard to trace crash in importimages dialog for shift select range of files | |
| (done) | (sort of, load but not save) Finish implementing project based setup, especially when loading | |
| (done) | limbos should be selectable, and saved independently of windows | |
| (done) | Basic libintl support, latin-1 translations only! | |
| (done) | Paper tiler interface | |
| (done) | Zoom handles screw up viewer transform aspect. Fix it!! | |
| (done) | Fix linear/radial gradient editing when object is sheared | |
| (done) | Dialogs should remember their placements | |
| (done) | Standardize the import/export mechanism | |
| (done) | PDF out | |
| (done) | svg out | |
| (done) | Export all/current paper/paper range, by singles, page layout, or paper layout to any filter | |
| (done) | Export to various things from command line to allow batch processing | |
| (done) | Export as a Scribus document | |
| (done) | Print/export to images (via ghostscript) | |
| (done) | Find and fix the damn memory hole (at least it currently slowly eats memory rather than crashing) (fixed PageStyle mess up, now problem in viewwindow->curobj probably) | |
Version 0.07 -- released 2 June 2007! | ||
| (done) | Have command line option to output to a file a pseudocode mockup of the file format | |
| (done) | EPS out booklet landscape is broken, fix it! | |
| (done) | Implement all preview config options, namely auto preview files over a certain size | |
| (done) | Be able to search for existing previews in ~/.thumbnails/large and normal | |
| (done) | Document selector button up in corner should work | |
| (done) | Clean up image import dialog | |
| (done) | Fix icons/makeimages.py!! "from xml.sax import saxexts" somehow stopped working | |
| (done) | Eye dropper-ish color grabber, ideally grab any color anywhere on the screen | |
| (done) | (sort of) Make the select by dragging out a rectangle work | |
| (done) | limbo objects should save with the document, instead of just disappearing!!! | |
| (done) | Linear and radial Gradients should have vastly better interfaces | |
| (done) | Image and Color patches should have vastly better interfaces | |
| (done) | (but only because I can't reproduce it any more for some mysterious reason) from laxkit: fix tooltips: seems laxkit accidentally allows multiple tooltips on rare occasions | |
Version 0.06 -- released 25 April 2007! | ||
| (done) | parent/child nesting and interface for that: nesting, and grouping: layer trees | |
| (done) | New document creation from templates | |
| (done) | Be able to work with preview images more easily | |
| (done) | Basic EPS import, would open up all kinds of down and dirty tricks using other programs:latex,lilypond,... | |
Version 0.05 -- released 4 November 2006! | ||
| (done) | Build a features.html for the webpage | |
| (done) | Be able to work with preview images, rather than hundreds of 15M tiffs | |
| (done) | Show adjacent pages in Net Singles view (prelude to being able to unwrap shapes any way they can) | |
| (done) | Use a ~/.laidout/0.05/laidoutrc | |
| (done) | SpreadEditor: re-fix auto arranging | |
| (done) | ObjectInterface for selecting and resizing multiple stuff | |
| (done) | Import images from a list file | |
| (done) | Make ImageInterface scaling suck less, and distinguish between no image and broken image | |
| (done) | autoconfiscate or cmake or (this one)have simple "configure" thingy | |
| (done) | Should be able to 'Open Document' without restarting Laidout!! | |
| (done) | Improve internal icon management | |
Version 0.04 -- released 4 September 2006! | ||
| (done) | Palette Window | |
| (done) | RSS feed for website | |
| (done) | A style manager, which is Not dependent on laxkit::refcounter, which is being removed | |
| (done) | from laxkit: SplitWindow: swap window positions | |
| (done) | Simple multiple image import by selecting one or more from a directory | |
| (done) | Allow for window docking, floating, swapping panes, and temporary pane maximize | |
| (done) | Page Ranges controlling page number labels | |
| (done) | Make workspace bounds and popup panner save with the document | |
| (done) | Fix page/spread flip by number | |
Version 0.03 -- released 13 May 2006! | ||
| (done) | (but needs serious optimizing) Bezier patch with image for the color (this would be HOT for the gimp! a side project..) | |
| (done) | if an image is selected, should be able to import an image to it | |
| (done) | printing: produce masked images based on 50% threshhold of alpha channel of images | |
| (done) | When loading files from the command line, should understand: 'file:///path/to/it' | |
| (done) | Whoops! Change reference from LGPL to GPL in source code!! Crap!! | |
| (done) | Load and save window configurations | |
| (done) | EPS out to file###.eps by page not paper | |
| (done) | Be able to print a paper range | |
| (done) | an About window | |
| (done) | command prompt window | |
| (done) | Get rid of vertical white stripe toward bottom of the laidout webpage | |
| (done) | SpreadEditor: drag to viewer to work on that page or spread | |
| (done) | SpreadEditor: fix auto arranging | |
| (done) | Make doc tree changes sanely update the various windows | |
| (done) | Be able to DEselect all objects!! | |
Version 0.02 -- released 8 April 2006! | ||
| (done) | Rename Disposition to Imposition. Why oh why did I call it Disposition?? | |
| (done) | Insert some way to turn off debug info dumped to cout (done in a convoluted way, perhaps) | |
| (done) | Linear Gradients edit, save, and printout | |
| (done) | Circle Gradients edit, save, and printout | |
| (done) | Color patches should work better than in 0.01 | |
| (done) | Overall windowing setup using Laxkit::SplitWindows, | |
| (done) | from laxkit: replacement of 'datastack' should be complete, do same here | |
| (done) | Popup tool selector | |
| (done) | ObjectInterface for resizing and shearing | |
| (done) | Make Save/Save As dialog box suck less: 'test/1.doc' should mean cd test, save '1.doc' | |
| (done) | Make it easy to make deb packages from source | |
| (done) | extremely basic print dialog: print to file (ask on overwrite) or send via shell command | |
| (done) | make the directory spot in viewer keep updated current directory | |
| (done) | debug SpreadEditor thumbnail updating, and clip thumb to page | |
| (done) | A help button to popup a list of all the otherwise unmentioned key shortcuts | |
| (done) | Debug 'Delete Page' | |
| (done) | Button for pageclips | |
| (done) | Implement SpreadEditor Reset button | |
Version 0.01 -- released 12 March 2006! | ||
| (done) | Clean up web page a bit. | |
| (done) | TILING MUST WORK!!!!!!! for booklets also | |
| (done) | Get NetDisposition sort of going | |
| (done) | Implement page clipping for display AND for printing.. | |
| (done) | Images should work well | |
| (done) | Color patches should work enough to be getting on with | |
| (done) | in the laxkit: menuselector, | |
| (done) | tooltips IMPORTANT!!, | |
| (done) | and set said tooltips for the mystery numbers in ViewWindow | |
| (done) | Add copyright notice to source files | |
| (done) | Add and Delete Page buttons | |
| (done) | Throw together a quick key-stroke cheat sheet | |
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