Gnome Specimen 0.2 released



Gnome Specimen 0.2 is out!

(Note: this is just the message posted earlier as a blog post at
 http://uwstopia.nl/blog/2007/06/gnome-specimen-0-2-is-out
 Visit that URL for pictures, screenshots, and more links)

I proudly present Gnome Specimen 0.2, your favourite tool for previewing and
comparing fonts. It has been a while since the initial Gnome Specimen
release happened. Since then, development has slowed down a bit... however,
Gnome Specimen is still alive!

User-visible changes in this release:

  * New artwork: application icon and image in about dialog
  * Show previews for all font styles when a font family is
    double-clicked/activated
  * Don't ellipsize the preview texts, scroll instead
  * Use a more common pangram as the default preview text
  * Allow zooming using ctrl-mousewheel
  * Consistently use the correct application name
  * Respect theme colors

Other changes:

  * Store settings and defaults in GConf
  * Allow running from the source directory
  * Changed license to GPL only (copy-pasted boilerplate referred to LGPL
    as well)
  * Better Python module checking

Translation updates (the Gnome community rocks):

  * Brazilian Portuguese (Vinicius Depizzol)
  * British English (Alex Jones)
  * Catalan (Josep Puigdemont)
  * Chinese (Lew Harper)
  * Czech (Vitezslav Kotrla)
  * Dutch (Wouter Bolsterlee)
  * Finnish (Kalle Vahlman)
  * French (Yan Brodeur)
  * German (Christian Kintner)
  * Greek (Dimitris Glezos)
  * Italian (Daniele Medri)
  * Norwegian Bokmaal (Runar Ingebrigtsen)
  * Portuguese (Flavio Martins)
  * Russian (Alexandre Prokoudine)
  * Spanish (Albert Abril)
  * Swedish (Maarten Woxberg, Daniel Nylander)
  * Vietnamese (Nguyễn Thai Ngọc Duy)

Get it while it's hot! Download Gnome Specimen 0.2 now!

  * Gnome Specimen 0.2 tarball:
    http://uwstopia.nl/files/2007/06/gnome-specimen-0.2.tar.gz
  * Development branch (Bazaar-NG, bzr branch that url):
    http://uwstopia.nl/geek/projects/gnome-specimen/gnome-specimen.uws/

There's a provisionary Debian package as well, thanks to Daniel Holbach of
Ubuntu fame. He has also uploaded Gnome Specimen 0.2 to Ubuntu Gutsy, so it
is apt-gettable already! In the mean time, Debian and Ubuntu users may just
download the file and run dpkg -i gnome-specimen_0.2-0_all.deb (as root) to
install it.

  * Gnome Specimen 0.2 Debian package:
    http://uwstopia.nl/files/2007/06/gnome-specimen_0.2-0_all.deb

Enjoy!

Wouter Bolsterlee

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