Salasaga

Wednesday, 28th February 2007

Installed Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft release) into a virtual machine on my workstation, and started reading the Ubuntu packaging guide. Several people have asked for Ubuntu packages, so I might as well learn how to make them sooner rather than later. :)

Monday, 26th February 2007

Added useful info on how to take screenshots to a new documentation page:

 How to take screenshots 

Also created a new RPM/SRPM set of the very latest development snapshot, including the SVG output code change made yesterday:

 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=58083&package_id=53841&release_id=489267 

It was compiled/created on Fedora Core 6, and will work with no issues there. Other flavours of Linux should probably use the .tar.bz2 version available from the same location.

Someone recently reported a problem with compiling the .tar.bz2 on a (older?) version of Debian. It had a problem with the version of autoconf or automake, so you may need to upgrade that first if you run into a similar problem.

Sunday, 25th February 2007

Updated the SVG output so objects are removed properly when no longer needed, by setting their "display" attribute to "none", rather than the previous method of moving them offscreen (to a large y offset). As per this thread on the Opera forums, where a long time ago I'd reported what I thought was a bug:

 http://my.opera.com/SVGraphics/forums/topic.dml?id=153297 

The code is in CVS and the svg output has been tested (in Opera 9), but I haven't made new packages with it yet.