Nathive source under GPL and 0.811 alpha released

24 November 2008

Hello, I'm pleased to let you know that Nathive image editor project has released new alpha version (0.811) with changes detailed below and, most important, source code under the terms of GNU GPLv3 Free Software License.

The community grows and the project continues to make progress towards our goals. Also in this release we upgraded support to six languages: chinese, english, german, hungarian, polish and spanish. In addition, from now, development versions will be uploaded continously for enhance cooperation.

Want to be part of the community? There are many ways to contribute: as C developer, translator, artist, Php/Python web programmer, or simply telling us your ideas. Nathive is a colaborative project so, we are waiting to you.

We would be grateful if you help us to spread the word by distributing this announcement.

New on 0.811 alpha

• Licensed under GPL!
• New file dialog.
• Templates.
• Pixels, centimenters and inches units.
• Units modify options.
• DPI resolution with predefined values.
• No background.
• About dialog.
• Auto-hide scrolls.
• Statusbar reorder and improve.
• Resolved some bugs.

Still work WRONG on 0.811 alpha

• Object auto-resize is not implemented (yet), so all new objects has document size and could give slow feel on move.
• Picker tool is based on early versions, so do not follow objects move.
• Save is based on early versions, so only output in ./output.png and export opacity grid too.
• Other bugs.

Still NOT work in 0.811 alpha

• Preferences edit-save.
• Copy-reorder-delete objects.
• Visual tool interface.
• Undo/redo.
• Zoom.
• Mask.
• Select and picker secondary tool function.
• Palette change buttons.
• Much more...