Veusz 1.5 released

Item posted by Jeremy Sanders <jeremysanders> on Sun 27 Sep 2009 09:55:11 AM UTC.

Veusz 1.5 has been released.

Changes in 1.5:

• EMF export (requires pyemf and PyQt snapshot)
• Character encodings supported in data import
• Rewritten stylesheet handling. User can now set defaults in document for all settings. This is now under the Edit->Default Styles dialog.
• A default stylesheet can be loaded for all new documents (set in preferences dialog)
• Linked datasets saved in documents now use relative filename paths (with absolute paths as fallback)
• Axes can now have text labels of points plotted along them (choose "labels" as axis mode)
• Dataset points can be scaled to different sizes according to another dataset (this is the "Scale markers" option for point plotters)

More minor changes

• Custom delimiter support in CSV data importer
• Add SetDataText and support text in GetData in command API
• \dot and \bar added to LaTeX renderer
• Option to change icon sizes displayed
• Rearrange toolbar icons and create data and widget operation toolbars
• Zoom button remembers previous usage
• Conversion from 1D->2D datasets more robust
• Expression datasets can now be a constant value
• Uses colors form theme better and allow user to change some UI colors in preferences
• Fix contours if coordinates can be infinite (e.g. log scaling with zero value)
• nan/inf are no longer ignored when the ignore text option is selected in import dialog

• Several other minor UI changes and bugfixes