Release 0.0.5

ANNOUNCEMENT-0.0.5

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+Hello fellows
+
+it's time for the next release of Gerber Viewer, aka gerbv, 
+the "drill file support"-release.
+
+Last relase I promised drill file support. Now it's here.
+By adding the drill file support I was forced to do some 
+cleaning up of the code, so there are great many changes
+since last relase. I want to thank my friend Andreas 
+Andersson aka Pitch for the drill file support and ideas.
+
+Some menu alternatives and speed keys changed with the 
+addition of drill support. Especially to note; you have to
+use -d|--drill= to define a drill file at the command line.
+Default is Gerber file. More on that is in the man page.
+
+I have changed how arcs are handled. Before I did a lot of 
+calculations during (re)drawing of arcs. That has moved to 
+the parsing stage now, which hopefully brings some increase
+in speed when redrawing. Now multi quadrant arcs are also 
+drawn, though it has been very little tested. Be carefull.
+
+The arc calculation changes also meant that the API on the 
+Scheme side of things changed, hopefully to the better.
+
+If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel, you are now able to
+zoom in and out with it. 
+
+There are also some bugs removed and some bugs added. The 
+biggest bug (pointed out by Dan Christian, thanks!) caused
+random dots to be plotted out.
+
+For next release I think I will do some more GUI hacks. Or
+maybe Aperture Macro support. That is can of worm waiting 
+to happen.
+
+Comments, patches and suggestions are, as always, very welcome.
+
+Homepage for gerbv is still http://gerbv.sourceforge.net/
+
+To download gerbv goto 
+	http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gerbv/
+and grab gerbv-0.0.5.tar.gz
+
+To install the program do
+1. gzip -dc gerbv-0.0.5.tar.gz | tar xf -
+2. cd gerbv-0.0.5
+3. ./configure
+4. make install
+
+Interesting configure options are:
+--help          : Lists all options
+--disable-batch : Disable compilation of Guile/Scheme backends
+--prefix=<dir>  : Install from dir <prefix>
+
+
+What's new in 0.0.5
+- Drill file support (biggest addition ever)
+- Zoom in and out with scroll wheel
+- Reorganisation of source
+- Arc calculation moved from drawing stage to parsing stage
+- Multi quadrant arcs supported
+- API changes in the Scheme interface
+- Bugs squashed and added

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   standard) and RS-274X is basically the addition of apertures in
   RS-274X. It might be possible to make an RS-274X file out of 
   an RS-274D file and an aperture list.
+<p>
+  gerbv also supports drill files. The format supported are known under
+  names as NC-drill or Excellon. The format are a bit undefined and
+  different EDA-vendors implement it different. But basically you need
+  to have the tools definition in the file, then the parser is quite
+  tolerant. The different holes are shown as dots in the (scaled) correct
+  size.
 <p>
   The different layers of the PCB are separated into different files. 
   gerbv can load all files at the same time, though it can currently not show 
@@ -45,12 +52,12 @@
 
   gerbv is dependent on a couple of different external libraries:
 <ul>
-<li> <a href="http://www.gtk.org/">GTK+</a>, the graphical toolkit.
+<li> <a href="http://www.gtk.org/">GTK+</a>, the graphical toolkit (required).
 
 <li><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/guile.html">Guile</a>, 
-     an embeddable Scheme interpretator. 
+     an embeddable Scheme interpretator (optional). 
 <li>getopt_long from the GNU project. gerbv can do without getopt_long
-    long options to the program will hence not be available.
+    long options to the program will hence not be available (optional).
 </ul>
 gerbv is basically known to compile on all system which the above 
 mentioned libraries compile on, basically all flavors of *ix. It
@@ -75,6 +82,10 @@ original authors (which are listed in respective files)
 
 <h3>News</h3>
 <ul>
+<li> 2001-11-14 : Fifth relase (0.0.5) Available      
+     <a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gerbv/gerbv-0.0.5.tar.gz">here</a>.
+     Announcement is readable <a href="ANNOUNCEMENT-0.0.5">here</a>.
+
 <li> 2001-10-27 : Fourth release (0.0.4). Available      
      <a href="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gerbv/gerbv-0.0.4.tar.gz">here</a>.
      Announcement is readable <a href="ANNOUNCEMENT-0.0.4">here</a>.
@@ -108,6 +119,7 @@ original authors (which are listed in respective files)
 <ul>
 <li> Parses a lot of Gerbers. Considered usable with the excepetion for the
   aperture macros.
+<li> Drill file support(NC drill/Excellon).
 <li> Panning  and zooming
 <li> Several files can be loaded and switched between
 <li> Different loaded files are shown in different colors
@@ -118,7 +130,6 @@ original authors (which are listed in respective files)
 
 <h4>What is missing:</h4>
 <ul>
-<li> Multi quadrant arcs are not drawn properly(red lines will be drawn)
 <li> Aperture macros (red dots shows where they should be)
 <li> Setting color on layer
 <li> Show several files at the same time
@@ -127,15 +138,6 @@ original authors (which are listed in respective files)
 <li> Surely other things I currently forgotten
 </ul>
 
-<h4>Planned fixes (besides missing stuff)</h4>
-<ul> 
-<li> Parser should return a calculated arc center point (currently 
-     done when drawing)
-<li> Send filename to scheme function when running batch mode
-</ul> 
-
-</ul>
-
 
 <h3>Install</h3>
 <ul>
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 <h3>Contact information</h3>
-<A href="http://sourceforge.net"> 
-<IMG src="http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=33921"
-  width="88" height="31" border="0" alt="SourceForge Logo"></A> <p>
-
   Stefan Petersen<br>
   E-mail: <a href="mailto:spe@stacken.kth.se">spe@stacken.kth.se</a><br>
   Web: <a href="http://gerbv.sourceforge.net/">
        http://gerbv.sourceforge.net/</a><br>
 
+<A href="http://sourceforge.net"> 
+<IMG src="http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=33921"
+  width="88" height="31" border="0" alt="SourceForge Logo"></A> <p>
+
 
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