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		     Release Notes for MagicPoint

			    Sep 21, 2001

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<<<1.09a>>>

New features:
	- The "area" directive: specifying drawing area in the window.
		it can be used for siide-by-side positioning or logo displaying, etc.
	- Enhance "prefix" directive 
		you can specify prefix spacing by percentage of the drawing area width.

Bugs fixed:
	- Security fix:
		fix a seculity hole inherited from xloadimage.
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<<<1.08a>>>

New features:
	- The "charset" directive: you can use iso-8859-[1-4]
	- MNG support: animation without "mark" and "again"
	- Enhancing "mgp2ps"
		* Supporting "cont", "mark", "again"
		* Resizing image

Bugs fixed:
	- Some. :-)

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<<<1.07a>>>

New features:
	- PNG support
	- Adding a dither algorithm to the gradation mechanism
	- Pre-drawing
		(Pages which contain text only is cached before
		displayed.)
	- mgp2ps produces much closer PS image to display image.

Bugs fixed:
	- If bgrad and/or bimage were used, display speed was getting
          slower and slower. This has been fixed.
	- Freeing color resources used anti-alias was wrong.
	  This has been fixed.
	- Cleaned up the code for background image handling.
	- mgp was core-dumped if reloaded during caching. This has 
	  been fixed.
	- Fixed some small bugs.

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