Release 0.3.2

Changes

• Replaced an assert in the CHSET loading code with a parser check to get better error messages on corrupt files.

Release 0.3.1

Changes

• Minor improvements to the CLI experience
• Converting (B)IMC files now requires a --format argument

Release 0.3

• adds an HTML export (sdo-tool --format html <file>)
• adds support for images in the PDF export
• can use mapping tables next to font files (e.g. GRIECH.TXT)
• multiple bugs fixes

See https://xiphoseer.github.io/sdo-tool/changelog for details.

Release 0.2

This is the first full release of the SDO-Toolbox. There should be no more "dump" sub-command. If you find any trace of it, please file an issue.

New tools

Use sdo-tool <file> [out] to convert a single Signum Document or font file. Add --format pdf for a PDF file, --format png for a sequence of PNGs. Otherwise, it prints markup to the console.

Use sdo-batch <script> for generating a PDF from multiple source file or to embed page numbers or an outline. This remains to be documented.

Use st-convert <file> to decode ATARI ASCII to UTF-8 files

Use chset-kb <FONT>.E24 to generate a font keyboard image

2020-09-12-Preview

This release includes the first major feature: Printing documents to a sequence of png-Images using the printer fonts.

Use the sdo-tool FILE.SDO dump --out some/path command to use it

Initial public release

This is the first public version of the Signum! Document Toolbox.

Features

• Load Signum! 1/2 documents (*.SDO, sdoc0001)
  • Print all kinds of data from the files to a console, but most importantly
  • Print a list of charset names
  • Print some global formatting options
  • Print a list of pages with additional formatting information
  • Print text to the console, including page breaks, and some HTML-like format annotations
    • Fonts that match the default ATARI keys are translated to the appropriate unicode characters
    • Documents that use only the ANTIKRO font have working space detection. This is a WIP
  • Print a list of image names
• Load Signum! editor charsets (*.E24, eset0001)
  • Print height and width for each character
  • Print ASCII art for each character bitmap
• Load Signum! images (*.IMC, bimc0002)
  • Produce a PNG for monochrome images exported from a document
  • NOTE: It's a tiny step from there to exporting images from a document on the fly.