diff --git a/ANNOUNCEMENT-0.12 b/ANNOUNCEMENT-0.12 index af3e87f..98de12e 100644 --- a/ANNOUNCEMENT-0.12 +++ b/ANNOUNCEMENT-0.12 @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Hello friends of gerbv (and all others too, of course) Time for the twelfth release of the Free Gerber Viewer, aka gerbv, -the "not-as-stable" release. +the "errors-in-your-face" release. There is about two and a half months ago since I made the last release. The need for release has decreased since there are less and less @@ -19,28 +19,35 @@ don't have a chance to be able to see the error message in that split second it appears. Fix that I must. If that happens you have a commandline switch so you can log all error -messages to a file. Put -l or --log=. It's of course +messages to a file. Use -l or --log=. It's of course all described in the man page. -Then there is this improved millimeter handling. The only example I had -using millimeter was broken from my point of view so I ask you to use -it with caution and report all problems to me. Not as tested as I would -like to. +Then there is this improved millimeter handling for gerberfiles. The only +example I had using millimeter was broken from my point of view so I ask +you to use it with caution and report all problems to me. Not as tested +as I would like to. Daniel Dorau has written a short description on how to get Cadsoft's Eagle -to generate proper drill files. And a small Perl script to accompanion that. +to generate proper drill files, and a small Perl script to accompanion that. It's available from the webpage and in the distribution under doc/eagle. -All layers on and off. +Martin Sigrand added two buttons; all layers on and all layers off. + +Two new options in the popup menus; Swap with Above and Swap with Below. +Now you can change the order of the presented layers by pushing them +up or down. Then there are sleeve of bug fixes too including: * Minor compiler warnings using GCC 3.x fixed. -* G55 implemented. Was actually found in an example in the "specification" . -* Building on MacOS X. +* G55 implemented. Was actually found in an example in the "specification". + Reported by Yuri. +* Building on MacOS X. Patch from Charles Lepple. * Some filled polygons could have problems and not being drawn properly. + Reported by Chris Ellec and Bruno Schwander. * 64-bit compilation warnings fixed. -* Some (very few, only seen once by me) ccw arcs could be drawn cw. +* Some ccw arcs could be drawn cw. Reported by Jukka Marin and Charles Lepple. * Plus signs in the coordinates of a drill file properly handled. + Patch from Dan McMahill. The man page is update to reflect all changes in the usage of gerbv.