Asymptote: 2.84 Released

Asymptote https://asymptote.sourceforge.io is a powerful descriptive vector graphics language for technical drawing, inspired by MetaPost but with an improved C++-like syntax. Asymptote provides for figures the same high-quality level of typesetting that LaTeX does for scientific text.

PDF image compression is now disabled by default for alternative output formats. The default UNIX postscript and PDF viewers were changed to evince. Makefile dependencies were fixed. A Qt compatibility bug was fixed in Xasy. A bug in XDR reads was fixed. A runtime error in the TexHead arrow was fixed. An inversion bug was fixed in the geometry module. A division by zero error in the vectorfield function was fixed. An option to display environment settings was added. The default labelmargin function now accounts for the pen linewidth. The resolution of the wall clock timer was improved.