Major Features in Version 4.0:

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3-D look.

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Allow text to have multiple font faces, sizes, styles, and colors.

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Allow superscripts and subscripts in text objects.

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Support double-byte fonts and their input methods such as kinput2 for Japanese and xcin and chinput for Chinese.

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Slide show mode.

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Import/export GIF animation.

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Export PDF files.

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Copy/paste object properties (such as color, linewidth, etc.)

Expected Release Date:

December, 1998. (Sorry, didn't make it in November!)



William Chia-Wei Cheng (william@cs.umd.edu)