What is V?

All patches are against stock V 1.16 and affect the X11 version.

We have:

• All of these in 1
  (This is kind of pointless with two such small patches...)
  Last updated: August 27, 1997
• printer
  This patch allows a filename of the format |command to be passed, and the command will be executed, taking the printer output on stdin (so |lpr will finally work!
  Third release: August 27, 1997
  Second release: July 31, 1997
  First release: June 25, 1997
• vpsdc
  This patch causes the pen width to be affected by the Mult/Div scaling factor that scales points when drawing to the printer canvas. The most beneficial part of this is the capability to draw very thin lines, such as for a grid.
  Second release: June 25, 1997

V 1.17 has been released, and the above patches are included in it.

I also have plans for some more additions/changes:

• GTK support (It's prettier than Athena)
  (It looks like Mr. Wampler will beat me to this, since he has slated it for V 1.18)
• Improved (actual?) font support for X display
• Font printing for the aforementioned improved font stuff
• Maybe fixing some other little things in the PostScript DC, in particular improving the scaling stuff altogether to make control more complete

Why am I doing this?
No particular reason, other than I'm writing a program in V, and I keep running into some usability stuff. So, I am trying to contribute back and make it work/look/feel better. Not being able to print Really Thin Lines is a royal pain, for instance. Especially when working with cross-stitch charts, as I am doing with said application.

Of course, the colossal problem of being unable to print directly was also a Royal Pain, but it has been addressed in the above patch.

• Resources:
  • VGUI mailing list information and archive
  • Autoconf patches for V 1.15
• Programs using V:
  • AlgAE (algorithm animation application
  • APSCU32 (the model railroading scale conversion utility)
  • FREEdraft (2-D cad/modeller)
  • NewsWire (web-based news ticker-tape)
  • PonyProg (read and write every serial device)
  • vpatview (counted cross-stitch pattern viewer)