BKchem!

This is a quick-bugfix release. I have found a bug that prevents reading of some files back to BKChem. It occurs when there are some atoms with font size set to different value than is the standard. I have also fixed an encoding related bug in dialogs in the localized build. Because I have finished work on Cairo export plugin yesterday, I am releasing it together with this release. It works only on Linux (as there is no Cairo for Windows and you have to have pycairo-0.5.1 installed (look here http://cairographics.org/snapshots
and here http://cairographics.org/download
for sources. It provides very nice PDF and PNG export and supports (unlike the piddle based plugins export of unicode strings. As usually, more info in progress.log progress.log, downloads on the download page .

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