tools v1.0

(With some additions)
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Topaz_Tools/lib/topaz-changes.txt

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+Changes in 2.2
+	- fix for minor bug in encode_Number from clark nova
+	- more fixes to handle paths with spaces in them
+	- updates to work better with the gui front end
+
+
+Changes in 2.1
+	- extremely minor changes to support a gui frontend
+	- no changes to functionality
+
+
+Changes in version 2.0
+
+	- gensvg.py now accepts two options
+             -x : output browseable XHTML+SVG pages (default)
+ 	     -r : output raw SVG images (useful for later conversion to pdf)
+	  
+	- flatxml2html.py now understands page.groups of type graphic
+	     and handles vertical regions as svg images
+
+	- genhtml.py now accepts an option
+	     --fixed-image : which will force the conversion
+	                     of all fixed regions to svg images
+
+	- minor bug fixes and html conversion improvements
+
+
+Changes in version 1.8
+	- gensvg.py now builds wonderful xhtml pages with embedded svg 
+	    that can be easily paged through as if reading a book!
+	    (tested in Safari for Mac and Win and Firefox)
+	    (requires javascript to be enabled)
+	- genhtml.py now REQUIRES that gensvg.py be run FIRST
+	     this allows create of images on the fly from glyphs
+	- genhtml.py now automatically makes tables of words into svg
+	     based images and will handle glyph based ornate first 
+	     letters of words
+	- cmbtc_dump_mac_linux.py has been renamed to be
+	     cmbtc_dump_nonK4PC.py to make it clearer
+	     when it needs to be used
+	
+
+Changes in version 1.7
+	- gensvg.py has been improved so that the glyphs render exactly (ClarkNova)
+	- gensvg.py has fixed a render order "bug" that allowed some images to cover or hide text. (ClarkNova)
+	- change generated html to use external stylesheet via a link to "style.css"
+	- add missing <title> tag
+	- make xhtml compliant doctype and minor changes to write correct xhtml
+	- make divs that act as anchors be hidden visually and to take up 0 height and 0 width to prevent any impact on layout
+
+Changes in version 1.6
+	- support for books whose paragraphs have no styles
+	- support to run cmbtc_dump on Linux and Mac OSX provided you know your PID of your ipod or standalone Kindle
+	 (contributed by DiapDealer)
+
+Changes in version 1.5
+	- completely reworked generation of styles to use actual page heights and widths
+	- added new script getpagedim.py to support the above
+	- style names with underscores in them are now properly paired with their base class
+	- fixed hanging indents that did not ever set a left margin
+	- added support for a number of not previously known region types
+	- added support for a previously unknown snippet - <empty></empty>
+	- corrected a bug that caused unknown regions to abort the program
+	- added code to make the handling of unknown regions better in general
+	- corrected a bug that caused the last link on a page to be missing (if it was the last thing on the page)
+
+Changes in version 1.3
+	- font generation by gensvg.py is now greatly improved with support for contour points added
+	- support for more region types
+	- support for inline images in paragraphs or text fields (ie. initial graphics for the first letter of a word)
+	- greatly improved dtd information used for the xml to prevent parsing mistakes
+
+Version 1.0
+	- initial release
+