Weekly Reports (2021)

Weekly Report (September 27 - October 3)

Wohooo! Last week we’ve got one big and important improvement merged to the main code - support for RTL in Text Layer (PR #2232)! Much thanks to Rodolfo Ribeiro Gomes for implementation!

That means now it can properly display text in Arabic and other languages that use right-to-left writing direction.

Please notice that if you use a string which mixes RTL and LTR text, then you might need to set a “Direction” parameter in Text Layer to indicate the proper order.

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Other changes:

  • [Image import] Fix selection operation after image import - now parent group is selected, not the image layer inside (#2339).
  • [Image import] Fixed issue with images imported upside-down (#2333).
  • [Skeleton Tool] Fix loading of preference value for “Default bone width” parameter (#2343).
  • [Skeleton Tool] Code cleanup and refactoring (#2325).
  • [UI] Fix again dialog responses (#2329).
  • [UI] Skeleton Deformation: improve “Bones” parameter tooltip/description (#2332).
  • [Code cleanup] Fixed crash of test on Void Linux (#2265).
  • [Code cleanup] Minor cleanup in ValueDescBoneSetParent action (#2331).
  • [Code cleanup] Add explicit namespace “synfigapp” for Action macros (#2334).
  • [Code cleanup] Minor cleanup on SynfigCommandLineParser (#2335).

In this report we would like to feature a motion graphics work made by @microvswind in Synfig.

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You can check more of his works in this forum thread.

And that’s all for today! Thanks to everyone who helps to make Synfig better!

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