This is a bug fix release still related to bug #1769858. Please install it if you have got a recent version of pstricks on your computer and you can see discrepancies between what jPicEdt displays and the resulting PS (or PDF) file when drawing filled Bezier curves (this does not happen with non-filled curves).

This fixes bug 1769858 related to improper formatting of pscustom objects, which would lead to spurious straight segments...

This is the final stable release to the 1.4.x branch. It is still Java 1.4 compliant, and incorporates a few extra bug fixes since 1.4-pre5. Download it here and try it now! Next development branch has already started as 1.5-preX: it will be Java 1.5 compliant, and will include both a Postscript and an xFig parser.

Codevelopper Mathieu Perez redesigned jPicEdt's web site from scratch, giving it not only a brand new skin, but also offering us developpers the possibility to update you in realtime about jPicEdt' progress with more ease and reliability. Great job, mathieu!

This is a bug-fix release to 1.4-pre4 which may now be considered production-stable (a stable release will thus be released based on this one by the end of the month). It is still Java 1.4 compliant. Most significant changes since 1.3.2 include (see also CHANGES.txt):

• new objects: parallelograms, extensible Bezier curves, smooth-polygon and interpolating curves (aka pscurve), parallelograms, circles/arcs drawn using three points lying on the contour, polydots with every style attribute supported by PSTricks.
• except where filling and stroking with colours is concerned, all these objects are available in the LaTeX-picture and Eepic format as well, possibly using emulated lines and arcs.
• new editing capabilities: rotations, including text ; shearing (ellipses) ; Bezier curves special editing tool ; PSTricks custom parameters.
• improved code efficiency and API reliability for those willing to write BSH macros ; bunch of new BSH scripts, including a new plugin to plot functions from an equation;
• improved object painting, especially where editing is concerned.
• JPIC-XML: this is jPicEdt's native format, inspired from (though not compatible with) SVG-XML. This suppresses the need for special formatting comments in LaTeX files, and as a result greatly simplifies the implementation of LaTeX/PStricks/eepic/... formatters.
• A very comprehensive german translation, including the on-line help.

For those of you willing to install this release alongside a 1.3.2 release: you may need to delete or rename your .jpicedt preferences directory, otherwise jPicEdt might get confused on start-up, since many things have changed since relase 1.3.2.
For those living on the edge, up-to-date CVS snapshots may still be downloaded here.

We've added a FAQ to the "Miscellaneous" heading.

This is where to look to get the latest CVS snapshots, bugs report,...
As always, jPicEdt's website can be reached through the redirection URL www.jpicedt.org Please use this new URL rather than the static one, as jPicEdt's website might have to move again in the following months.

My best thanks go to Jean-Paul Bachman, our network engineer, for courtesy accepting to host jPicEdt on www.ensea.fr/staff/ before we moved to SourceForge.net.