[Ipe-announce] Ipe 7.1.10 is out

[Otfried Cheong]

Ipe 7.1.10 is now available in source form, as a Windows binary, and as
a Mac OS X app on the Ipe homepage at http://ipe.otfried.org.

This release sees many internal changes, a few bug fixes, and not so
many user-visible changes.

What is really new:

1. I learnt how to build Mac OS binaries, so from now on Mac OS apps
will be released simultaneously with the sources and Windows packages.

2. Support of EPS (encapsulated Postscript) has been downgraded from a
"native format" to an "export format".  If you need to use EPS figures,
please save first in Ipe or PDF format, then export to EPS.  This can be
done either from the user interface (File -> Export to EPS), or with the
command line tool "iperender".

Note that if you used "ipetoipe -eps" in the path to generate EPS
figures, you should switch to using "iperender" instead.

Enjoy,
  Otfried 

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Ipe 7.1.10 (2015-11-21)

 * "Export to EPS" replaces saving in EPS format.  Ipe can still load
   Ipe figures in EPS format, but will not save in this format
   anymore.  Use "Export to EPS" if you need EPS figures for your
   publisher.

 * I learnt how to compile on Mac OS X, and now build "Ipe.app"
   binaries myself.  The makefiles and instructions for Mac OS are
   updated.

 * Ipe now compiles with both Qt 4 and Qt 5.  This is useful since Qt
   5 drops support for older Mac platforms (in particular Snow
   Leopard). 

 * Transparency now available by default.
   
 * Trying both .dylib and .so extension when loading compiled ipelets
   on Mac OS.

 * Ipelets compiled using -bundle and .so extension on Mac OS.

 * Removed lfs from Ipe, added Platform::listDirectory that works
   correctly with UTF-8 on Windows.

 * Ipe now runs correctly on Windows if installed in a directory with
   non-ASCII characters (feature #17).

 * On Windows, when closing from the cross icon in the window frame,
   the "Save" option now works.

 * Fixed problem with Enter key closing edit dialogs (bug #6).

 * Windows and Mac OS binaries using Lua 5.3.

 * On Windows libpng/libjpeg replaced by Windows GDI+ calls.
   "Insert image" now also supports BMP, GIF, and TIFF.

 * On Mac OS, libjpeg replaced by CoreGraphics calls.
 
 * "Export to PNG" added to user interface (feature #22).

 * Removed auto-exporting functionality.

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