vpype 1.6.0

New features and improvements:

• Added new text command (#226, #227)
  This command renders text using Hershey fonts. It can create text blocks with wrapping, custom alignment, and optional justification. A set of Hershey fonts is included.
  Notes:

  • This feature was previously partially available via the vpype-text plug-in, which is now deprecated. The plug-in should no longer be used, and, if present, uninstalled.
  • The implementation of this feature as well as the set of Hershey font is based on the axi project -- thanks @fogleman!

• Added squiggles command for a "shaky hand" or "liquid-like" styling (#217)

• Added probabilistic mode to lmove, lcopy, and ldelete to enable various random coloring effects (#220)

Bug fixes:

• Fixed missing documentation for the reverse command (#217)

API changes:

• Added vpype.FONT_NAMES, vpype.text_line, and vpype.text_block for Hershey-font-based text rendering (#226, #227)

Other changes:

• Dropped support for Python 3.6 (#207)

vpype 1.5.1

Bug fixes:

• Fixed a shader compilation issue arising on some Windows configuration (#210)
• Fixed UI glitches when using both non-HiDPI and HiDPI (a.k.a Retina) monitors (#211)

vpype 1.5.0

Note: This is the last version of vpype to support Python 3.6.

New features and improvements:

• Viewer improvements:

  • Added rulers with dynamic scale to the display (can be optionally hidden) (#199)

  • Added metric and imperial unit system (in addition to pixels), used by the rulers and the mouse coordinates display (#199, #205)

  • Adjusted the size of the mouse coordinates text on Windows (#199)

  • Added support to adjust the scale of the UI via ~/.vpype.toml (#203)

    This is achieved by adding the following lines to your ~/.vpype.toml file:

    [viewer]
    ui_scale_factor = 1.5

    A value of 1.5 may be useful on some Windows configurations where the default UI is very small.

Bug fixes:

• Fixed issue on Linux where show would revert to the classic viewer due to a libX11 discovery issue (#206)

API changes:

• Renamed vpype.CONFIG_MANAGER in favour of vpype.config_manager (existing name kept for compatibility) (#202)

vpype 1.4.0

New features and improvements:

• Python 3.9.1 (or later) is finally supported and now is the recommended version (#115)
• Viewer improvements:
  • The viewer will now keep the page fitted to the window when resizing, until manually zoomed and/or panned (#193)
  • Significantly optimized launch and setting changes times (#184, #195)

Bug fixes:

• Various documentation fixes and improvements:
  • improved the layout command's help text
  • improved the cookbook section on using GNU parallel (#108)
  • fixed typos related to the layout command in the cookbook (#186, thanks to @f4nu)

API changes:

• Added support for a sidebar in the viewer (#194)

vpype 1.3.0

New features and improvements:

• Added new layout command (#168)

  This command automates the page layout process on a specified the page size by centering the geometries (with
  customizable horizontal and vertical alignment) and optionally fitting to specified margins. It intends to supersede
  write's layout options (i.e. --page-size and --center) in more intuitive way. In particular this command
  acts on the pipeline rather than on the output file so its effect can be previewed with the show command.

• (Beta) Complete rewrite of the viewer underlying the show command (#163)

  • fully hardware-accelerated rendering engine
  • smooth zooming and panning, with touchpad and mouse support
  • preview mode with adjustable pen width and opacity
  • outline mode with optional colorful and point display
  • optional pen-up trajectories display
  • per-layer visibility control
  • interactively adjustable display settings

  Note: This new viewer is a beta feature and will evolve in future versions. Your feedback is welcome. The current, matplotlib-based viewer is still available using show --classic.

• Added support for arbitrary paper size to write's HPGL output (configuration for the Calcomp Designmate included, check the documentation for details) (#178)

• Added large format paper sizes (A2, A1, A0) (#144)

• The splitall command will now filter out segments with identical end-points (#146)

• Minor loading time improvement (#133)

Bug fixes:

• Various documentation fixes (#170, #172, thanks to @theomega)

API changes:

• Added the new viewer engine and Qt-based GUI (#163)

vpype 1.2.1

1.2.1 (2020-12-26)

Hot fix:

• Fixed systematic crash with read command due to bad dependency version (#140)

vpype 1.2.0

1.2 (2020-12-17)

New features and improvements:

• A Windows installer is now available (#120)
• HPGL output: --page-size is no longer mandatory and write will try to infer which paper to use based on the current page size (#132)
• Added reverse command (#129)

Bug fixes:

• Fixed crash for SVG with element (#127)
• Fixed an issue where output HPGL file could be empty (#132)

vpype 1.1.0

New features and improvements:

• Added snap command (#110)
• Invisible SVG elements are now discarded (#103)
• Add support for angle units (affects rotate, skew, and arc commands, --radian option is removed) (#111)

Bug fixes:

• Fixed installation issue on Windows ("Numpy sanity check RuntimeError") (#119)
• Fixed write to cap SVG width and height to a minimum of 1px (#102)
• Fixed grouping of stat command in vpype --help

API changes:

• Added vpype_cli.execute() to execute a vpype pipeline from Python (#104)
• Added vpype.convert_angle() and vpype.AngleType (#111)

vpype 1.0.0

• Initial release