Xar Format Document Change Log

Date Change Description
19th July 2007 Various spelling and grammatical errors corrected.
14th September 2007 Added details of new records:
TAG_TEXT_SPECIAL_HYPHEN
TAG_TEXT_SOFT_RETURN
TAG_TEXT_SPACE_BEFORE
TAG_TEXT_SPACE_AFTER
TAG_TEXT_EXTRA_TT_FONT_DEF
TAG_TEXT_EXTRA_ATM_FONT_DEF
TAG_TEXT_EXTRA_FONT_INFO
Added details to various other record descriptions, in particular TAG_TEXT_RULER and TAG_FONT_DEF_XXX.
9th January 2007 Added details of new records:
TAG_DEFINEBITMAP_PNG_REAL
TAG_CLIPVIEW_PATH
TAG_TEXT_STRING_POS
TAG_TEXT_LINESPACE_LEADING
TAG_TEXT_TAB
TAG_TEXT_LEFT_INDENT
TAG_TEXT_FIRST_INDENT
TAG_TEXT_RIGHT_INDENT
TAG_TEXT_RULER
TAG_TEXT_STORY_HEIGHT_INFO
TAG_TEXT_STORY_LINK_INFO
TAG_TEXT_STORY_TRANSLATION_INFO

Added details of new flags in TAG_SPREADINFORMATION.
19th October 2006 Corrected descriptions of simple ellipse and rectangle records.
4th September 2006 Corrected values for winding rule attribute.
2nd August 2006 Added details of TAG_DOCUMENTINFORMATION record.
2nd August 2006 Modified note concerning use of path record variants.
24th July 2006 Added details of documents containing multiple spreads TAG_CURRENTATTRIBUTES_PHASE2, TAG_SPREAD_PHASE2 and TAG_PRINTERSETTINGS_PHASE2.

Added notes about attribute optimisation in Xara programs.

Added details of TAG_SPREAD_FLASHPROPS.
13th June 2006 Removed Plugin Filter specific information.
4th January 2006 Improved description of colour component values.
Improved description of path record variants.
1st December 2005 Fixed TAG_PATH_FLAGS and TAG_PATH_RELATIVE descriptions to not include a count of the items in the record.
23rd November 2005 Expanded details of effect attributes, live effects, locked effects, feather effects and group transparency.
Updated Contents table.
10th November 2005 Added details of object bounds record.
Added descriptions of bitmap effects
4th November 2005 Edited general descriptions and background material to be more up-to-date.
Expanded description of embedded bitmap records and XPE
Expanded description of Import / Export filters / converters
1st November 2005 Details of Xara Xtreme group transparency.
4th July 2005 Replaced diagrams of fill attributes.
Added bevel type descriptions and examples.
Added more detail to XPE bitmap definition records.
Added copyright and usage requirements to XarLib sections and XaraX filter sections.
30th June 2005 Corrected values for line cap and line join attributes.
Corrected order of coordinates in all bitmap and fractal fill and transparency attributes.
Added note about inversion of alpha in 32 bpp RGBA PNGs.
25th February 2005 Added detailed description of transparency types.
13th January 2005 New XaraX import/export filters page.
Moved link to XPFilter archive.
11th January 2005 Moved download link for XarLib library.
Added download link for XPFilter archive.
Updated the guidelines for implementors.
3rd December 2004 Clarified description of path verb values.
Added download link for XarLib library.
4th November 2004 Removed broken links from TAG_VARIABLEWIDTHFUNC, TAG_STROKEDEFINITION and TAG_STROKEAIRBRUSH in Appendix A and labelled them as not currently used.
2nd November 2004 Added Change Log page

Updated definition of MATRIX structure and transformation functions in description of Transformed Path records


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