dia-0.97-pre2 - get it while it is hot;)

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

After almost two years of spare-time development Dia 0.97 is on the 
horizon. The prerelease can be got at 
http://download.gnome.org/sources/dia/0.97/ now!
Please help making Dia 0.97 not only the latest but also the greatest Dia
release ever by helping to shake out the remaining bugs.

Some highlights:
 * High quality cross-platform print and pdf output by use of cairo. [1]
 * Rotated text, but only with the new "Standard - Ouline" object. [2]
 * Object properties dialog finally does handle multiple objects. [3]
 * Improved text edit mode for consitent handling of the Delete key.
 * A new integrated user interface mode with diagrams in tabs. [4]
 * More than 160 bugs and feature requests resolved [5] [6]

Special thanks to:
  Lars Clausen - maintaining Dia for more than five years, text edit,
    units and much more
  Steffen Macke - keeping Dia buildable on win32 and Linux, maintaining
    the win32 installer, consistent icon size and more
  Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe - resolving the oldest feature request
    (multiple object change) and fixing a bunch of long-standing bugs
  Marcel Toele - contributing the ability for custom shapes with subshapes
  Petr Novotnik - contributing dedicated database shapes
  Thomas Harding, Mark Dexter - doing a documentation overhaul
  Patrick Hallinan - contributing the integrated UI patches
  Luc Cessieux - providing SISSI objects
  Elie Roux - contributing Ligths shapes and a lot less compiler warnings
  ... - everyone else providing patches or reporting bugs

Happy Diagramming,
        Hans
        
[1] http://projects.gnome.org/dia/render-test.pdf
[2] http://projects.gnome.org/dia/dia-0-97-coming-soon.png
[3] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60331
[4] http://projects.gnome.org/dia/dia-0.97-integrated-ui.png
[5] 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=dia&target_milestone=0.97&resolution=FIXED
[6] http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/dia/trunk/NEWS?view=markup

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