There were a number of bug reports I got soon after the 0.82 release of
dia.  I have fixed most of them, so have decided to put out a new release
containing these fixes.  As for new features, it includes the new export
dialog and the CGM export plugin.

The new version is available from:
  ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/dia/dia-0.83.tar.gz

Here is the list of changes:
* Copying/pasting of bezier and image objects should work correctly.
* New export filter interface, which allows export filters to be
  loaded from plugins rather than being integrated into the application.
* New CGM export plugin.  It currently doesn't handle beziers yet, but
  it does handle all other aspects of rendering.
* Fixed rendering of logo in about dialog.
* Don't reencode the symbol font in latin1, as this stops it working.
* Renamed the --export-to-ps option to --export (the short form is still -e).
  It now works out which filter to use based on the file extension.
* Portability fixes.

I have also put together a screenshot showing some of the export
capabilities of dia:
  http://www.gnome.org/~james/dia-exports.png

I still haven't got the font issues sorted out yet in the SVG filter.  The
reason that the CGM output looks weird is because of a font mismatch (the
font used is a bit wider).  In the bottom right corner, you can see the
python plugin I am working on.  It can currently do simple operations on
the diagram, but doesn't take the undo system into account at the moment.

James.

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