News/2008-01-02

From Synfig

• More tutorials were written
• More bugs were fixed
• baccob is interested in writing a mod_svg (initially reading, then writing)
• dooglus added a mod_libmagick to take advantage of recent improvements to imagemagick's gif optimization routines
• the demo reel was started
• Dmitry from the Avaon Group (a Russian PC distributor) says that his employer is interested in including synfig on their PCs
• we got invited to LGM 2008 in Poland
• one of us saw synfig being distributed on a magazine from the UK (who previously contacted us)
• we killed off the ./bootstrap scripts
• we have some more people in the IRC channel
• synfig & synfigstudio are now translatable
• several new conversion types: aTan2, Cos, Time Loop and Reciprocal
• the Time Loop Layer was updated so its parameters match that of the new Time Loop Convert
• the forums came online and are ready for use
• some security issues got fixed in mod_imagemagick, mod_ffmpeg and mod_dv (but not on Windows)
• htodd completed ETL/synfig-core packages for fink
• Genete completed the synfig-core Español translation and it was added to SVN
• Zelgadis has been working on a Russian translation of the wiki
• math support was added to the wiki
• doxygen documentation is available and regenerated daily from SVN
• The January Challenge was posted
• The lowest preview quality level now doesn't render any blurs or feathers, to make for faster rough renders
• The wiki moved to synfig.org and synfig.com is now closed.