Dia v. 0.96 released
The Dia developers are proud to release version 0.96 of the popular diagramming tool Dia. Dia is a tool for making diagrams and schematic illustrations for articles, books, documentation, modelling and other uses, inspired by Visio, but with a simple and intuitive interface. This version introduces import and export of Visio VDX files, improves the font rendering, adds a sheet of BPMN objects, and has numerous other fixes and improvements.
Visio VDX interoperability has been added by Ian Redfern. It is still in a beta stage, but should help those in diverse environments or who want to migrate away from Visio. The font width issues that have plagued Dia the last several releases should now be fixed, both for zooming and for printing. We have also changed to the GtkAction framework in preparation for a tool-bar option. Anthony Molinaro has provided a set of objects for Business Process Modelling (BPMN). Bug fixes and improvements too numerous to mention have been applied in many places, making this a quite stable release.
Linux users of earlier versions should take note that text widths may change significantly when updating to 0.96. However, text widths should be more stable between zoom levels and different export options now. Plug-in writers should take note that the plug-in API has changed slightly.
You can download the source release at
http://download.gnome.org/sources/dia/0.96/