What's new in pstoedit 3.70
Jan 2, 2015
- some code improvements as suggested by Coverity. See current Coverity status here: https://scan.coverity.com/projects/498
- removed the -DBUGGYGPP compile flag since now g++ can compile the code without it. The former work-arounds are still there but will be removed later.
- enabled more warnings when compiling with g++ and fixed some resulting warnings.
- changed the autoconf part to better support the inclusion of libzip for the pptx driver.
- included a lot of documentation corrections contributed by Peter Dyballa. Many thanks!
- using non case sensitive comparison when determining the target format from the file suffix.
- using more STL classes instead of older private replacements (string and vector). In this context also some hard coded limits were removed.
- fixed an assertion violation when using -ssp and a closepath occurred.
- added the dump of the font name for the DXF format.
- prototype of a "simulate fill" option for emulating filling by stroking. This is based on fillpoly.c from the hp2xx project. Thanks also to Gary Langthorne for pointing out this option. This is still kind of experimental.
New in pstoedit 3.62 (Aug 16, 2014)
- new backend generating PowerPoint pptx files contributed by Scott Pakin. Big thanks!!! This backend uses the zip library http://www.nih.at/libzip/ .
- improved handling of composite fonts, especially those having FMapType other than 2
- fixed a bug in detecting rectangles.
- improved bounding box tracing in case of text (but it is still not perfect).
- changed the creation of filenames when using the -split option. Related to that there is new option -pagenumberformat. See manual for more details.
- fixed a bug in passing generic libplot arguments to the libplot drivers.
- improved support for 64-bit systems related the integration of pstoedit to gsview.
- include a version info resource in pstoedit's windows exe and DLLs.
- include a work-around for a Hurd specific problem with dlclose.
New in pstoedit 3.61 (Nov 6, 2012)
- fixed a bug in handling of -page option
- improved support for 64-bit systems related to different version of ghostscript
- added some features for supporting the LaOS project (http://www.laoslaser.org/)
New in pstoedit 3.50 (Aug 11, 2009)
- added an option (-gs) to specify the full path to GhostScript (under Windows - either the .exe or the DLL). This can be used by portable applications to direct pstoedit to use a specific GhostScript version.
- Stanislav Brabec contributed several improvements to the PCB driver. See http://www.penguin.cz/~utx/pstoedit-pcb/ on how these can be useful.
- Scott Pakin submitted several improvements to the mpost driver and the font substitution mechanism.
- new driver for .vtk files e.g. for ParaView - http://www.paraview.org/ - but this is still a very basic version. Thanks to Mitesh Patel for initiating and testing.
- new driver for cairo (http://cairographics.org/ ) contributed by Dan McMahill. This driver generates C-code which can be compiled and linked against the cairo libraries. See the contrib/cairo directory for an example.
- several improvements on the DXF driver as suggested and sponsored by Markus Meyer.
- because pstoedit may write its output to stdout, all output written by GhostScript to stdout is now redirected to stderr in order to avoid mixed output.
- added a -q option to suppress the initial startup message of pstoedit. This can by useful when being called via a pipe, e.g. from inkscape. However, note that this does not suppress all output written to stderr - see also note above.
- John Bowman fixed a number of problems related to clipping and image support for the Asymptote backend.
- fixed a compilation problem with g++ V4.x.
- new driver for gcode (.ngc files) (tested with emc see http://linuxcnc.org). Contributed by Lawrence Glaister.
- some adaptations for newer versions of libming
- fixed a line width problem for xfig format.
- corrected the broken pstoedit.m4 - thanks to Ian Abbott
- some minor code beautifying.