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