Gerbv has come a long way in the last few weeks. We're poised to do a general release of gerbv-2.0.0, which is a major overhaul of gerbv-1.X. I attach our release announcement below for you to see what's new.
Before the general release, we are anxious to have some beta testers take gerbv-2.0.0 out for a test drive. Therefore, we are asking folks who read geda-dev to please take this opportunity to download the next-gen gerbv, try it out, and give us feedback. You may download gerbv-2.0.0-beta from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gerbv/ While you're there, please check out the new screenshots showing all the excellent new features added by the gerbv team. We are very interested in hearing about any bugs or misfeatures you encounter while trying out gerbv-2.0.0-beta. If you experience any problems with the new gerbv, please either post your complaints on this list, or e-mail me directly at sdb (shift 2) cloud (period) net. Thanks for checking out the new gerbv! Stuart --------------- <gerbv-2.0.0 release announcement> -------------- Hello! This is to announce the beta test release of gerbv-2.0.0! Release 2.0.0 represents a a whole new look for gerbv. Most importantly, the layer control GUI has been made much more powerful through the outstanding work of Julian Lamb. Julian has also re-worked the GUI's button and menus to make them more convenient to use. We are certain that you will find gerbv-2.0.0 even easier to use than before because of Julian's amazing work! Other changes include: * Julian Lamb incorporated the cairo graphics library into gerbv, thereby enabling export to a variety of different output file formats, including PDF, PS, SVG, and PNG. (GDK rendering remains available as a configure option for older Linux systems.) * Drill parser rewrite by Joerg Wunsch giving better support for internationalization and formats. * Added report windows showing statistics of Gerber and drill codes used (as well as CAM errors) by Stuart Brorson. * Parser improvements from Stefan Petersen and Julian Lamb. * Aperture handling improvements from Stefan Petersen. * A new unit test suite (and nightly test runs) by Dan McMahill. * Improved autodetection of file-type by Stuart Brorson. * Improvements in the graphical rendering of pick-and-place files. * Export of images from the command line (cairo only). * Complete implementation of the Gerber spec. * Open multiple layers at once in File->Open dialog. This is a beta test release to the denizens of geda-dev. We would appreciate it if you could take some time to download the beta test release of gerbv-2.0.0-beta and take it for at test drive. If you find any bugs, please report them on the gerbv.sf.net bug tracker (or email one of the gerbv developers). The homepage for gerbv still lives on SourceForge: http://gerbv.sourceforge.net/. There you will find a bug database, a feature request database, the CVS repo and a commit mailinglist. To download gerbv-2.0.0-beta, go to http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gerbv/ and grab gerbv-2.0.0-beta.tar.gz To install gerbv do this: 1. tar zxf gerbv-2.0.0-beta.tar.gz 2. cd gerbv-2.0.0-beta 3. ./configure 4. make && make install Interesting configure options are: --help : Lists all configure options. --disable-cairo : Use GDK instead of cairo for graphics rendering. --disable-exportpng : Disable compilation of export of PNGs. --prefix=<dir> : Install to dir <prefix>. --with-maxfiles : Set maximal number of files (default 20). --enable-unit-mm : Change default unit in status bar to mm from inch. Thank you for trying out gerbv-2.0.0-beta! -- The gerb team --------------- </gerbv-2.0.0 release announcement> -------------- _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
