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Changes for version 1.5

  • New coordinates system (SVG compatible)
  • binmode() for win32
  • add the ability to specify custom bullet points
  • add documentation and test cases for nested slidesets
  • add more scaling options for images
  • initial support for captions and titles, visually not yet sufficient
  • bug fix: scaling unit line (width) corrected
  • scaling test page
  • documented <span> tag
  • fixed font handling bugs in CSS handling routines
  • added test cases for <span> text attributes
  • added <u> tag and text-decoration CSS attribute
  • added plain text tag
  • added unordered list tag functionality and documentation
  • fixed Makefile.PL dependencies
  • added ordered lists
  • added box element for free positioning of content
  • Added a placeholder tag to insert various variables from the slideshow
  • added XSLT processing mode with the ability to create completely custom page designs
  • fixed SVG path's A/a command
  • changed SVG coordinate system to make inclusion of external graphics easier
  • fixed various bugs regarding text styles, flow and image handling
  • added align attribute to <plain> tag
  • convert everything to iso-8859-1 so that at least some non-ascii is supported (patches welcome for something more comprehensive).

Modules

AxPoint XML to PDF Slideshow generator