ANNOUNCE: dia-0.85

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

I have just released dia-0.85.  Dia is a drawing package that can be used
for drawing structured diagrams, including UML, flowchart and network
diagrams.

The new release is available from:
  ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/dia/dia-0.85.tar.gz

Here is a list of the new features in this version:
* Bug fix for bringing up properties window when a group of objects that
  don't implement the properties code are selected (james).
* New sheets: Pneumatic, Electric and Civil (from Cyrille and Steffen).
* New export filters: TeX PSTricks and DXF (from Jacek and Steffen
  respectively).
* New polygon object (Lars).
* You can now select between symmetric, smooth and cusp as the vertex
  style for the segments in a bezier line object (Lars, james).
* Some fixups to make sure preferences and save files are written with
  LC_NUMERIC set to C (james).
* dia will now use gdk-pixbuf in preference to imlib if it is found on the
  system when compiling.
* there is a simple (unfinished) bonobo component now.  To build it, you
  must pass --enable-bonobo to configure (this will not affect whether the
  normal dia is built).  (Alex)
* Bug fixes in FS objects by David Thompson.
* new plugin system, along with a plugin manager where you can prevent
  plugins from being loaded (james).
* Objects handled by the custom sheet code now have a better distance
  algorithm -- before it just used a bounding box (james).
* New select submenu in the right click menu that makes it easier to
  select groups of objects (Lars).


James.

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