Re: gEDA-user: gerbv 2.0 :^)

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 13:00 -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Jun 13, 2008, at 8:04 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak wrote:
> > Just rendered my current layout with the new version of gerbv.
> > ---> Surprise! The ugly duckling has turned into a GUI beauty!
> > There is transparancy too. Very impressive.
> >
> > Big thanks to everyone on the list who contributed to this  
> > achievement.
> 
>    I second this.  It is gorgeous.  Damn slow, even on a very fast  
> machine (I assume this is Cairo's fault) but gorgeous!

It would be interesting for someone with a Mac to try it with a native
Quartz backend... that is supposed to be quite fast.

I've tried glitz backends for PCB + cairo (still slow), and have even
tried GL primitives directly for drawing lines in PCB... all are just
slow with my Intel graphics card.

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
9, JJ Thomson Avenue,
Cambridge
CB3 0FA

Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!)



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