Fourth alpha just released. Still for testing purposes only. This version: several Windows Seven bugs fixed; can customise grids and free hand shapes using widgets; can change the angles of arcs using their handlers; can reuse and create templates; the PSTricks parameter 'showpoints' supported for Bézier curves. Test it!
One more alpha version is expected to (re-)support PSTricks import. Then, beta versions will be prepared to fix issues.

Third alpha just released. Still for testing purposes only. I was pretty busy these last weeks so that this release does not contain a lot of improvements: can rotate shapes; can customise axes; can customise the drawings' properties. Another alpha is expected in a couple of weeks.

Second alpha just released. Still for testing purposes only (piece of advice ;)). A lot of bugs were fixed, can join/separate shapes, can customise arrows, better text thumbnail resolution, progress bars,...
A third alpha is expected in 4 weeks.

Whooooooooooo! Finally a release. It's about time. Ok ok, this is not a stable release but a preview for testing purposes only. LaTeXDraw 3.0.0 alpha 1 has been released with a lot of improvements such a native support of LaTeX text, pdf export on Macos has been fixed, etc.
You can get the files and the release note there: Download alpha 1.
There is still a lot of features not yet re-introduced in 3.0.0 (for your memory: LaTeXDraw has been completely rewritten for the 3.0.0 version), such as: it is not possible to rotate shapes yet; no PSTricks import; no recent files; some widgets are still missing for modifying some shapes' attributes; etc.
You can report any problem there or there.
I will release a new alpha version at the end of February.

More than one year without any release and post... Shame on me. LaTeXDraw 3.0 in on the road and a first beta should be released before the end of this year. This release takes a lot of time because I am completely rewritting LaTeXDraw: the code of 2.0 is really awful and I wanted to integrate the results of my PhD into LaTeXDraw in order to improve this last.
The most important feature of LaTeXDraw 3.0 will be the native support of LaTeX text. It means that you will be able to write LaTeX text as in your favourite LaTeX editor. The text will be rendered in LaTeXDraw as in your final pdf or ps document. For example, in the following screen-shot I added a text in the drawing and typed a formula.

Once typed, the text is compiled in LaTeX to be rendered in LaTeXDraw: This idea is strongly inspired by Lyx ;). Of course, if you want to use LaTeX commands coming from various packages, you can add \usepackage{} commands as it is already possible in LaTeXDraw 2.0.
You can also discover in the screen-shots others new features; but I will speak about them in next posts soon.

This release fixes some issues, notably a problem occuring while exporting as pdf (again...) using pdfcrop. This release is close to the 2.0.7 release because of the Debian feature freeze that will occur soon.

This release fixes the issue that did not allow the export as pdf documents on Windows. By the way on Windows, to export as pdf using pdfcrop you need a perl interpreter installed such as strawberryperl (http://strawberryperl.com/).

About the problem concerning a text that contains special characters (for instance &), latexdraw will not escape these characters for two simple reasons: 1) a text shape in latexdraw must be formatted in latex since latexdraw is not an interface to latex as lyx. 2) If we escape special characters, how will we be able to use these special characters, for instance to create a tabular?

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This release fixes some problems. It also allows to export a drawing using pdflatex and pdfcrop; this feature allows to crop the generated pdf document.

This release fixes some problems related to the pdf export: freezes occured on XP/Vista while exporting, weird pdf/ps title, etc.). It also brings the Polish localisation; thanks Szemek for that!