Version 0.8 of the Dia VDX plug-in can now be found at
http://www.redferni.uklinux.net/dia/vdx/

This version addresses almost all of the problems reported by testers
over the last month. In particular, the unwanted boxes, "Unexpected
Bezier object:", "MoveTo not at start of Bezier", many text alignment,
grouping, arrow, flip, curve, bitmap, master and arc problems should now
be solved.

I've tidied the code up to remove some duplication, and added additional
debugging: the environment variable VDX_DEBUG turns on copious
debugging, and VDX_DEBUG_SHAPES=all colours each shape by its Visio
Shape ID to allow the user to easily find which Visio shape corresponds
to a Dia one.

The only major outstanding problems are with certain kinds of spline,
some text layout, and embedded EMF - the latter particularly affects
users of the Cisco Visio icons, and will not be solved soon.

I hope to release a 0.9 during the coming week that addresses the
remaining spline issues and any others that people report; that version
should become 1.0 and be ready to ship as part of Dia 0.96 next weekend.

Many thanks to all the testers who sent VDX files with bug reports - I'm
using all of them in my regression tests, and they've been invaluable
for locating some of the more baroque features of the file format. More
volunteers are always welcome.

Ian Redfern.


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