Thursday, May 24, 2007

ICE 1.2 Final is now available

Source code is available from http://ice.usq.edu.au/svn/ice/trunk/ (Revision 7024)
The binaries are available from http://ice.usq.edu.au/trac/browser/ice/downloads/latest/binaries

Main new features and improvements

Installation improvements

  1. Functionality added to self update on demand (Windows only).

  2. Config editor made simpler:

    • repository configuration can be done using a URL

    • help added to the editor

    • ICE detects version of OpenOffice.org to use for the given operating system.

    • ~ (tilde) can be used to set the users home directory.

    • no need to restart ICE after saving changes.

Rendering improvements

Since ICE is now using an event-based, SAX approach in Python to render the HTML as apposed to the XSLT approach, as a result performance has improved and the following improvements have been made:

  1. Tables on list styles supported

  2. table following a blockquote style supported

  3. lists inside definition lists supported

  4. tables in slides supported

  5. the fault with pre-formatted text not rendering return characters correctly resolved

  6. non breaking spaces added to empty table cells as the CSS for this is not yet fully supported (this can be over written)

  7. links to bookmark can be automatically turned into page references for Books

  8. images are not resized if within 10% of the actual inserted image (this was implement to resolve OOo getting the image size wrong)

  9. Book rendering copy and paste method dropped in favor of using the file insert method

  10. MathType objects now supported in Books

  11. low quality images are converted to jpgs for the web before being resized, this is to avoid loss of quality - NEW (1.2 RC2)

  12. documents can start on either an odd or even page for Books - NEW (1.2 RC2)

  13. books always end on an even page - NEW (1.2 final)

  14. HTML render uses the native word processor bold and italic character formatting, for example bold is transformed into the HTML element b - NEW (1.2 final)

and more.

File manager improvements

Files ICE knows about are opened using the operating systems default editor.

ICE opens the directory if it doesn't know the file type.

Other changes

IMS manifest.xml file renamed to imsmanifest.xml for the zipped package export.

Files in the root media folder within a package are not added to the navigation (useful for multi-media files like Breeze).

Known resolved bugs

Fixed in ICE 1.2 RC2

Resized images not exporting.

Fixed in ICE 1.2 Final

Files with the status "added" can't be moved/renamed.

Unused images left in the Subversion properties causing documents not to sync.

Bulleted lists in Books with MS Word documents display as numbered lists in the PDF.

Every odd paragraph missing from HTML slide.

more infomation

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