[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] Text2Skin 1.0 final

[Sascha Volkenandt <lists@magoa.net>]

Hi list,

finally, there is the final 1.0 release of Text2Skin.

This release shall mark a temporary Feature-Freeze, since I assume some users 
will still find some bugs in  this version. Those will be fixed in the 1.0.x 
series. After that, there will be most likely a 1.1.x unstable series, in 
which new features will be added (i.e. better support for high-color capable 
soft-out-plugins).

Website:
http://www.magoa.net/linux/index.php?view=text2skin

DeepBlue-Skin (Stefan Schenk):
http://vdr.pfroen.de

Enigma-Skin (Andreas Brugger):
http://www.vdrskins.org/vdrskins/index.php?cat=10208

Andreas Weinberger's Skins:
http://sandra.smue.org/vdr/

Mandaxy-Skin (Mysterix @ vdr-portal)
http://www.mandaxy.de/Mandaxy-0.2.tar.gz

Incomplete Skins converted by myself:
http://www.magoa.net/linux/contrib/Aluminium-1.0-demo.tar.bz2
http://www.magoa.net/linux/contrib/HighTech256-1.0-demo.tar.bz2
http://www.magoa.net/linux/contrib/EgalSimple-1.0-demo.tar.bz2

KEY-FEATURES
 * Redesigned, XML-based rendering engine (no additional xml-libs required!)
 * Support for Functions and assembled texts
 * New format allows differenciated skin-designs including logos
 * TrueType-Font Support (thanks to Lars Tegeler)
 * On-the-fly image scaling and reducing (thanks to Lars Tegeler)
 * Blinking and scrolling text items
  * Functions to support extended logo rendering

There is a perl-script included in the contrib/ subdirectory, which will 
convert a pre-XML Skin to the new, XML-based format. Be aware that the script 
is neither complete nor perfect. If you want to convert a skin, please refer 
to the reference (which is also available online) and to already-converted 
skins for examples.

Greetings,
Sascha