UniConvertor

Last time we didn't post any news about the development. But that does not mean that we are rested. On the contrary, the work was more active than before. In early June, the project faced a serious problem. We found that support for GTK + 2.0 on ... [More] Ubuntu 13.04 has deteriorated significantly. Hence we are faced with a choice of either porting the application to the Gtk + 3.0 or to use a different widgetset. [Less]

The first reused part of UC 1.x is WMF importer. The code has been refactored and connected to UniConvertor 2.0 file format importers.

During last week we have implemented sK1 document model which is fully compatible by interfaces with original native sK1 document. This issue resolves several important tasks. At first we got importing of reference file format. This will help to ... [More] improve PrintDesign rendering. At second, we can start porting Skencil application to Gtk+ widgetset using MVP pattern. At third (and this is major issue) we can reuse a lot of code from UniConvertor 1.x and by this way we are going to release UniConvertor 2.0 at the end of May. [Less]

The next development step is a Preferences dialog. We have implemented infrastructure for preferences plugins and added template for first item - Color Management preferences.

We have implemented guide object, guide creator and guide controller to drag guides. Of course snapping to guides is also implemented. So, snapping system is ready for production. Also we added PageBorderPlugin to simplify page layout operations:

As we have said before, snapping to objects was almost ready. Today we have finally implemented this feature. To simplify snapping management we added Snapping Plugin: So the last item in snapping is a guides implementation. We think this issue will be resolved on Monday. Have a nice weekend!

So, grid snapping is ready! Also we have implemented snapping to page. Actually snapping to guides and objects are almost ready because they use the same snapping engine.

PathsCreator tool is ready. Also we have added feature to continue drawing of existing curves for PathsCreator and Polyline tools. The next our milestone is a snapping system: snapping to grid, guidelines and objects.

Polyline tool is implemented: