Stuart, The new release of gerbv is a vast improvement over the previous version. I especially like the interface improvements. The only downside that I noticed was the appearance of vertical lines in sliced PCB polygons when "high quality" rendering is selected. These artifacts did not appear in Normal or Fast modes.
-DC On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 21:38:03 -0500 (EST), Stuart Brorson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > ------------ _______________________________________________ geda-dev mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev
