Ardesia free digital sketchpad --------------- ardesia 1.0 --------------- Feautures - Ubuntu 11.10 compliant - Persist the background setting options - Compliant with xfce desktop environment enabling the display compositing xfwm tweak or using compiz or xcompmgr composite manager - Compliant with kde desktop environment using kwin or compiz or xcompmgr composite manager - Pause the recording whenever necessary, and then resume when you want - Update backgrounds images - Add file permissions check for import/export functions Dependencies: - Delete dependency from the libbfd - Delete dependency from binutils - Require gtk 2.16 Internationalization: - Add the po/ardesia.pot translation template; you can use it to add the support to a missing language with poedit and others tools (issue 27) Usability - keyboard accelerators - ctrl+q to quit - ctrl+z to undo - ctrl+y to redo Bug Fix: - Solved the issue 22: the libbfd dependecy has been removed. - Solved the issue 30: configure strange behavior - Solved the issue 31: Losing Window Focus in Win7 - Solved the issue 33: undo/redo implementation misbehaviour - Fix the clear button in order to clear the screen immediately --------------- ardesia 0.9 --------------- Features - The iwb file import/export feature has been enriched with - Ubuntu 10.10/11.04 compliant Dependencies: - Delete the zip/unzip dependency - Add a new requirement: the libgsf library Bug Fix: - Eraser: fix the eraser tool using the the back side of some wacom tablet pen --------------- ardesia 0.8 --------------- Usability - New mouse tool; the lock/unlock button has been removed - User interface revision; new tool and cursor icons Features - The iwb file import/export feature has been enriched with the background settings - Add a new micro thickness for the tools - Easy circle painting with the rounder tool - Use the mouse tool with semi transparent coloured background - Ubuntu 10.04 compliant Bug Fix: - Arrow tool: caused the arrow detachment from the sketched polyline - Rounder: broke the digital ink if it is was painted a short line with this tool - Solved a critical bug that occurred if the tool is started with the decorate command line option (-d) - Rounder: fix the elliptic close path filling - Fix the open/save iwb files under Windows - Fix the open/save iwb file uder the unix environment that has not set an xdg documents folder --------------- ardesia 0.7 --------------- Internationalization: - Added german translation Packaging - New free windows installer created with an inno setup script Usability - The default folder where store the created files called ardesia workspace now is located under the document folder - Created a shortcut on desktop that links to the ardesia workspace - Now to save an image you must push on the the camera photo icon Features - Now you can open, save and reuse projects thanks to the Interactive Whiteboard Common File Format (iwbcff); the artefacts will be saved under the ardesia workspace at the end of the session - At the end of the program you will be invited to send by email the artefacts created in session (iwb file, png screenshots and pdf) - The virtual keyboard is shown each time that is focused an editable item; this feature works only in Linux with the gnome environment and in Windows 7 if you have the "Tablet PC Input Panel" - New crash report dialog - Improvements in the shape recognizer Bug Fix: - Fix in the filler a strange behaviour when you try to fill a not closed path shape --------------- ardesia 0.6 --------------- Internationalization: - Add french translation Usability: - New text insertion tool to improve the usability; implemented a new text insertion cursor, when you click on the page a new cursor blinks on the text focus - New drawing mode tool: you can select the free hand mode, the roundifier or the rectifier - insertion tool integration with the "Tablet PC Input Panel" on windows - insertion tool integration with the "Florence Ramble Virtual Keyboard" on Linux in the Gnome Desktop environment - vlc used to perform the recording is auto detect if it is installed in a default location Features: - Ardesia stay above all windows; you can open a program in fullscreen and annotate on it - When a fault occurs it logs the backtrace in tour TMP folder - Email support - Pdf email sender; when you quit the program if you have made a pdf Ardesia opens your default mailer with a new stub mail and it attaches your artefact - Bug Tracking: If the program is able to found a misbehaviour it open an email stub with the log to be sent to the ardesia developers staff - Florence virtual keyboard integration: if you have it installed, will be show/hide when you select the text tool (linux only) --------------- ardesia 0.5 --------------- Dependencies: - gtk 2.16.6 included inside the windows package Usability: - performance improvement - faster pdf export - enhancement in the pressure support Features: - Ardesia now works with Kwin and xcompmgr composite managers also - Better shape recognition with the roundifier tool; now a new bezier algorithm and ellipse detection has been implemented - low memory usage; the save point are stored on files - add system that print the backtrace in the case that a segmentation fault occurs (linux only) Bug Fix: - fix the sound recording on Linux using pulse audio - fix a bug that caused the conjunction of the new drawn point with the last point belong to the old line; this problem occurred only using the xtest virtaul device (this is used by the python-whiteboard wiimote driver also) - fix the opening image file as ardesia background right clicking on file icon end selecting "open with ardesia" - fix the missing savepoint after the text insertion that caused a wrong behaviour with undo and redo when was used the text insertion tool --------------- ardesia 0.4 --------------- Dependencies: - removed the gconf dependency - removed the ezstream dependency - require vlc to record and forward the live screencast to the icecast server Usability: - added Spanish translation Features: - Implemented cross platform recorder and stream forwarder - Added the pen pressure support for the drawing tablet - Added the eraser support for the drawing tablet on Linux - Export as pdf Bug Fix: - Fix the file name suggestion in the record and save wizard on windows - Solve the bug in the hide/show button on windows - Fix the colour of the pen cursor synchronization on windows --------------- ardesia 0.3 --------------- Dependencies: - ezstream to forward the live screencast to the icecast server Features: - update to gpl-3 - using getopt; the Unix standard for the command line parsing - use intltoolize to support the language translation - added info button with author info and license agreement (issue 11) - added the verbosity option to trace the tool - undo/redo using vector graphics surfaces instead of raw images - added electronic whiteboard support - added tablet support - add stream forward support to an icecast server to make a live online presentation - now you can different ardesia instances one for each workspace - set the ardesia windows to stay always on the top - build on windows platform Bug fix: - fill now works after a close path drawn with or within the highlighter selected - fix the behaviour of recorder Now if the recordmydesktop tool is missed a dialog shows the problem (issue 9) - solved some memory leaks - solve a critical bug that froze the cursor when the window loose the focus - solve a bug that froze the application when the roundifier was enabled and short a lines was drawn Usability: - better user interface - better arrow painting - added unlock button - increase the painting performance - enhancement in the shape recognizer - Dynamic change of eraser and pen cursor depending on the selected width - hide the cursor after a paint to avoid that the cursor overlap the annotations - lighter recording using subsampling; this allow to have a good video for busier machines too - Added text insertion using keyboard - Added text insertion using external text input program This feature is tested using - the "onboard" virtual keyboard - the "florence-ramble" virtual keyboard - the "cellwriter" handwriting recognizer - Using a horizontal and vertical layout (see the --gravity option) - Use a only one button to configure the line thickness (thin, medium, thick); this seems compact and more usable with the whiteboard than the slide - better shape recognizer - fast responsiveness --------------- ardesia 0.2 --------------- The first public stable realease rewritten in C from scratch Dependencies: - libgtk-2 > 2.14; interface rewritten using the new "gtk builder" glade format - recordmydesktop used at runtime for the on the fly recording Usability: - Multiple language support - English and Italian translations - Added the colour selector dialog - Added a button to clear all the screen - New pen and eraser cursor - Add the preference dialog that allow to change the background Features: - Draw rect lines - Draw broken lines - Smoothing algorithm for curves - Draw rectangles - Draw ellipses - Add text insertion - Draw arrow and double arrow - Save in jpeg or png format - Make screencast - Width selection - Colour selection - Highlighter - Undo/redo - Draw Text - Realtime recorder - Open png, jpeg and svg images as background - Background colour and opacity selection --------------- ardesia 0.1 --------------- The initial prototype written in python; this has not been distributed to the public. I have put this version in the trash. ===== EOF =====