- Update to version 2.5.1960
New features:
* New sample factory scripts: ThomsonConstraints?,
FontConverter?, CodenetSend?, various picture converters taking
color clash constraints into account
* Allow factory scripts full access to our widget/window
system, for more comple UIs: sliders, textboxes, and more.
* Android and GCW Zero platforms now supported.
* New file format: PCH for Amstrad CPC "Perfect Pix" editor
(load only)
* Implement saving of palettes in GPL format (GIMP compatible).
* New 3:4 pixel aspect ratio
* Gamma-correction of palette
Fileformats improvements:
* PI1/PC1 format now can save color cycling information
* More complete support for IFF files in several formats
* Better color matching algorithm for C64-multicolor and FLI
converters.
* Don't save *.C64 pictures in FLI format, use plain C64
format instead.
* Ability to save "fullscreen" CPC/SCR pictures (more than 16K
of video RAM)
Scripting improvements:
* Factory scripts only create a backup step when they actually
modify the picture
* matchcolor2 in lua script has better accuracy.
* API to get the count of layers in main and spare page
Other improvements:
* On X11 based platforms (Linux, *BSD), use fontconfig to get
ttf fonts instead of the X11 API. (issues 305 and 525)
* Reworked palette look to make the transparent color visible.
* Right click on "add layer" duplicates the current layer.
* Added "sort by histogram" in palette editor.
* Reworked layout of effects and palette windows.
* Right click on drawing mode button now has a menu to
directly select the new mode.
* Animation bar shows total number of frames
* Limited UTF-8 support
Fixes:
* Loading of IFF files from Atari ST version of Deluxe Paint
(#38)
* Freeze when palette is vertical and number of rows isn't a
power of two (issue 539)
* PC1 files saved in GrafX2 were not loadable in Degas Elite
(issue 535)
* Improve choice of colors for the XOR highlight on low-color
images.
* Crash when saving CPC pictures in SCR format.
* Possible crash when opening the file selector.
* Crash when using contour fill and grid at the same time.
- Spec cleanup