espresso

Monday, December 05, 2005 8:47 PM

- espresso project has been accepted by the sourceforge staff

- espresso e' stato accettato tra i progetti di sourceforge

- output objects (pdf, text, box, etc.) may be set as visible or not, using the "Visible" attribute ('1' means visible)

- as the mascara scripting language was removed, now espresso supports only XML definitions to describe the documents

- support for image files (jpeg)
- images are stored to temporary PDF files for a faster reuse

- main PDF engine is ready. it's support graphic primitives, some barcode simbologies, fonts and text

- support for multiple Output engines (via Perl "require"). now espresso could output PDF, raster, etc. limited only by Oe availability

- new functions for the 'base' plugin (rnd, sgn, sqr, instr, lcase, ucase, pcase, len, iif)

- optimized SplitArgs() to get command arguments (thx to E.Z.)
- added 'box' command