[Processing] Updates and Release 0108

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Good evening Processing people,

Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day and the NCAA tournament here in the
States, we’ve just released Processing 0108. It can be downloaded from
the usual location:

                  http://processing.org/download/

We thought it would be a good time to send an update on our progress,
because we miss you and haven’t had a chance to write since 2005.
Besides, December was ten whole releases ago.

The past few months have brought with it lots of interesting additions
to your favorite (or at least our favorite) programming environment:

PDF EXPORT
In addition to rendering 2D, 3D and 3D with OpenGL acceleration, we’ve
added automatic PDF export for your Processing sketches. This means that
you can just say size(400, 400, PDF, “awesome.pdf”) at the beginning
of your sketch to have it render in full resolution vector goodness.
As an added bonus, you can use different sizes than 400×400, and even
name it something awesomer than “awesome.pdf”.

DXF EXPORT
For the artichokes and others of the CAD persuasion, you can also
capture lines and triangles from your 3D sketches to a DXF file,
suitable for import into your favorite modeling application. Just
imagine, Peter Cho’s “Letter K” example rendered on the stereo
lithography machine or the laser cutter.

COLOR PICKER
A built-in color picker has been added to the Tools menu. No longer
do you have to purchase a copy of Photoshop(r) or Illustrator(r) just
to have a decent color picker for your Processing sketches. Think of
the money you’ll save.

BOOKING
Casey continues work on the Processing book and the drafts are just
as quickly devoured by red pens. The pages make their way between
East and West coasts with the help of the U.S. Postal Service (pray
for them), and at least for the time being, Casey is still willing
to talk to Ben.

THE BUGS KEEP ON COMIN’, AND SO DO THE FIXES
We’ve ironed out some weird issues with saving of sketches that showed
up in some of the recent releases. These were found and squashed with
the help of the intrepid bug finders (only slightly different from
“disgruntled beta users”) on the “discourse” section of the site.
Other fixes include such a range of things that we couldn’t include
them here lest this message wind up quarrantined in your spam folder.
In the meantime, you can get the lowdown on the last few months here:
http://processing.org/download/revisions.txt

WORKING THE NET
The Processing website has gone through a major revision at the
hands of Lenny Burdette, building on the work of Florian Jenett.
It looks the same, but is different on the inside. If you’re teaching
a course or holding an event that is Processing-related, please add
it to the website. Click on the “Add Happening” or “Add Course” links
on the home page. Also check out the sites for “Processing Hacks”
and “Processing Blogs”, developed by members of the community:
http://www.processinghacks.com/
http://www.processingblogs.org/
The del.icio.us tag “processing.org” is another good source for
Processing updates:
http://del.icio.us/tag/Processing.org

DISCOURSIVE
As always, the real party can be found on the Discourse section of
the site, http://processing.org/discourse/. This is where questions
are answered, war stories are shared, and final projects are saved.

We hope you’ll have a drink for us this St. Patrick’s Day weekend,
and in the meantime we’ll be thinking of you all,

Ben & Casey