Hello fellows it's time for the next release of Gerber Viewer, aka gerbv, the "drill file support"-release. Last relase I promised drill file support. Now it's here. By adding the drill file support I was forced to do some cleaning up of the code, so there are great many changes since last relase. I want to thank my friend Andreas Andersson aka Pitch for the drill file support and ideas. Some menu alternatives and speed keys changed with the addition of drill support. Especially to note; you have to use -d|--drill= to define a drill file at the command line. Default is Gerber file. More on that is in the man page. I have changed how arcs are handled. Before I did a lot of calculations during (re)drawing of arcs. That has moved to the parsing stage now, which hopefully brings some increase in speed when redrawing. Now multi quadrant arcs are also drawn, though it has been very little tested. Be carefull. The arc calculation changes also meant that the API on the Scheme side of things changed, hopefully to the better. If you have a mouse with a scroll wheel, you are now able to zoom in and out with it. There are also some bugs removed and some bugs added. The biggest bug (pointed out by Dan Christian, thanks!) caused random dots to be plotted out. For next release I think I will do some more GUI hacks. Or maybe Aperture Macro support. That is can of worm waiting to happen. Comments, patches and suggestions are, as always, very welcome. Homepage for gerbv is still http://gerbv.sourceforge.net/ To download gerbv goto http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/gerbv/ and grab gerbv-0.0.5.tar.gz To install the program do 1. gzip -dc gerbv-0.0.5.tar.gz | tar xf - 2. cd gerbv-0.0.5 3. ./configure 4. make install Interesting configure options are: --help : Lists all options --disable-batch : Disable compilation of Guile/Scheme backends --prefix=