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This release enhances text capabilities.

Changes:

• new command textappend
• new command info. Example: info label.width {Some text}
• font Lines and font LinesMono: new style pen (thickness taken from pen stroke width)
• deprecated output type rmapi removed: use --type rmdoc or --type rm instead, rmapi supports both

This is a release for reMarkable Paper Pro users. The reMarkable notebooks support colours.

Changes:

• rm output colours: black, grey or white, blue/inkblue, red/inkred. New: green, yellow, cyan, magenta and (highlighter colours) pink, lightgray, lightgreen and lightyellow. Drawj2d will map darkgray to black, darkgreen to green, orange to yellow, darkorange to red, brown to gray, violet and purple to magenta and any other colour to black, grey or white depending on the brightness.
• rm output: image scan.png will use the current pen colour
• new command doubleline

This is a maintenance release. For reMarkable users there is a new output type rmdoc (web transfer).

Changes:

• new output file type rmdoc (reMarkable notebook files in a zip)
• fix font command (issue with variables)

This release brings improvements for reMarkable users. The reMarkable notebooks support export colours. The single line font supports Greek glyphs (and Basic Latin, Latin-1, Latvian, Polish, Russian letters) and there is a monospaced variant.

Changes:

• font Lines plain: accented glyphs Greek
• font Lines plain: few glyphs and spaces improved
• font LinesMono added
• rm output export colours (inkblue/blue, inkred/red)

This is a maintenance release. It works on Java 17.

Changes:

• fix line width after image pdf (freehep-pdf output issue)
• java 17 compatibility (unchanged minimum java 8)
• library update: svgsalamander, evalex, pdfrenderer

This release increases pdf accuracy and brings commands for hatching curved shapes. An output type wpng for png with white background and no transparency has been added. For reMarkable users there is a new output type rmn (RCU).

Changes:

• new output file type wpng for png with white background and no transparency
• new output file type rmn (notebook files in a tar)
• new command arc2 (arc defined by starting, tangential and end points)
• new commands geom.topolyline quadcurve|cubiccurve|arc|arc2
• new command herepolar (rp)
• new dimline styles: arrow|none
• command pen enhanced: returns previous "colour style width"
• increased pdf accuracy (mode freeHep), relevant if coordinate origin has an offset
• library update: evalex

This release brings improvements for reMarkable users. The image command writes smaller rM notebook files. The single line font supports all Basic Latin and Latin-1 glyphs (and Greek, Latvian, Polish, Russian letters).

Changes:

• image file.pdf (-T rm,bgd): draw single lines (instead of outlines)
• image file.svg (-T rm,bgd): draw single lines (instead of outlines)
• image scan.png (-T rm): approximate image with fewer lines, adjust line width to resolution
• font Lines plain: latin-1 completed
• fix line width for rm output
• library update: svgsalamander

This is a maintenance release. It adds more glyphs to the single line font.

Changes:

• font Lines plain: latin-1 letters completed and glyphs for symbols
• font Lines italic: latin-1 letters completed
• fix hatchpolygon issue (incomplete hatching)

This is a maintenance release. It adds Polish and Latvian glyphs to the single line font.

Changes:

• improve font command: remember style
• font Lines: glyphs for Polish and Latvian
• font Lines italic: glyphs for Polish and Latvian
• fix --outfile for backend rmapi

This is a convenience release for reMarkable users. The new output type rmapi makes transferring a drawing to the device straightforward, just upload the resulting zip file to the cloud storage using rMAPI.

Changes:

• new output file type rmapi (suffix .zip) for the reMarkable tablet.
• font Lines: glyphs for '≤', '≥'

This release adds a single line font.

Changes:

• font Lines: line font covering most western (latin base and latin-1), greek and russian letters
• font Lines italic: cursive line font covering latin (base and latin-1) letters

This release adds an output type reMarkable (rm).

Changes:

• new output file type rm (reMarkable paper tablet)
• increased render quality on screen
• command geom.topolygon enhanced
• library update: pdfrenderer

This release introduces dimension lines with architectural ticks.

Changes:

• dimension line options: arrows|ticks|dots
• commands enhanced: geom.length, (hatch/fill)rectmid, geom.tox/y, movetox/y
• compress tiff output
• library update: jfreesvg, svgsalamander

This release adds the output type hcl. Thus drawj2d can write its own input format.

Changes:

• new output file type hcl (Drawj2d)

This release lets you pass command line arguments to the drawing.

Changes:

• variable $argv holds arguments passed to the drawing script
• library update: pdfrenderer

This is a maintenance release.

Changes:

• new command geom.intersectcircleline
• library update: evalex

This release improves formatting of numbers. [format "%.2f m" 1.2] transforms to "1.20 m". Similarily dimline {0 0} {1.33333 0} %.2f will draw the dimension line with the label "1.33".

Changes:

• new command format for printf-styled number formatting (%f, %e, %g, %d)
• commands (tex)dimline*, (tex)dimangle, (tex)force* extended: optional label parameter may contain %f place-holder and space sign (within quotes)
• library update: evalex

This is a maintenance release.

Changes:

• new commands rectmid, fillrectmid, hatchrectmid
• library updates: pdfrenderer, orsonpdf, jfreesvg
• java 11 compatibility, requires java 8

This release adds the output type drawing exchange format (dxf) .

Changes:

• new output file type dxf (drawing exchange format)
• fall-back modes for pdf (orsonpdf) and svg (jfreesvg)
• licence update to GPL3+
• library updates: evalex, jlatexmath, svgsalamander, pdfrenderer

This release enhances the image command for importing svg files.

Changes:

• command image enhanced: reads svg files.
• library update: evalex

This release adds commands to hatch shapes.

Changes:

• new command hatch
• new commands hatchpolygon, hatchrectangle, hatchbox, hatchrod
• new commands hatchcircle, hatchellipse, hatchsegment, hatchsector
• new command geom.topolygon
• command block enhanced: blocks encapsulate [force]unitlength.

This release works on Java 9 (in addition to JRE 7 and JRE 8).

Changes:

• new command geom.intersectcircles
• fix command dxf: text rotation
• remove depreciated command names
• library updates: pdfrenderer, evalex
• java 9 compatibility

This is a maintenance release. It improves the dxf CAD-file import.

Changes:

• command dxf enhanced: exclude layers, support for inserts (blocks), better text
• command stat.moment enhanced
• command label enhanced: directions BW, BC (baseline west, center)
• output format bgd supports image command

This release enhances the image command for importing pdf files. It also improves the math expression evaluator.

Changes:

• command image enhanced: reads pdf files.
• command expr enhanced: unary minus. E.g. [expr -sqrt(3)]
• new command geom.half (½)
• command p now shortcut for geom.polar

This release improves typesetting quality.

Changes:

• typesetting of characters with diacritics (umlaut, accent)
• command font enhanced: font size as float value, 0.1mm steps
• library update: JLaTeXMath (release 1.0.6)