Change log

1.7 (2021-06-10)

Important: for a regular installation, vpype must now be installed/updated with the following command (see details below):

pip install -U vpype[all]

New features and improvements:

  • Installing the viewer (show command) and its dependencies is now optional (#254)

    The all extra must now be provided to pip for a complete install:

    pip install -U vpype[all]  # the viewer is fully installed
    pip install -U vpype       # the viewer and its dependencies are NOT installed
    

    Forgoing the viewer considerably reduces the number of required dependencies and may be useful for embedded (e.g. Raspberry Pi) or server installs of vpype, when the show command is not necessary. Note that the Windows installer is not affected by this change.

  • Added an optional, global optimization feature to linemerge (#266, thanks to @tatarize)

    This feature is enabled by adding the --two-opt option. Since it considerably increases the processing time, it should primarily be used for special cases such as plotting the same file multiple times.

Bug fixes:

  • Fixed broken Windows installer (#285)

  • Fixed an issue where read would crash with empty <polygon> tags and similar degenerate geometries (#260)

  • Fixed an issue where linesimplify would skip layers containing a single line (#280)

  • Fixed an issue where floating point value could be generated for HPGL VS commands (#286)

Other changes:

  • Updated to Click 8.0.1 (#282)

1.6 (2021-03-10)

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)

1.5.1 (2021-02-19)

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)

1.5 (2021-02-16)

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)

1.4 (2021-02-08)

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)

1.3 (2021-01-27)

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)

1.2.1 (2020-12-26)

Hot fix:

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

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)

1.1 (2020-12-10)

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)

1.0 (2020-11-29)

  • Initial release