de·caff DXF Viewer Changelog

What's new in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.54

Apr 25, 2016
  • Bug fixes:
  • IMAGE fallback now obeys image's clip bounds.
  • Incomplete MTEXT is positioned differently.
  • Spline LEADER created differently.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.40 (Oct 24, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed: Reading of very large handle values was failing.
  • Corrected spline clamping for insane splines.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.38 (Aug 11, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • The content of invisible VIEWPORTs was not shown before, but it seems that it stays visible even if the VIEWPORT is not.
  • Nested VIEWPORTs with frozen layers handle layer visibility don't combine the visibility settings as implemented in former viewer versions.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.34 (Jul 13, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Changed LEADER color handling.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.32 (Jun 15, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed handling of multiline attributes.
  • Improved symbol font handling.
  • Improved TTF scaling.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.31 (May 26, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed LEADER arrow sometimes missing.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.28 (Apr 30, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Some 3D files were only displayed as 2D.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.27 (Apr 21, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Further corrections of SPLINEs with unusually high knot multiplicity count.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.26 (Apr 16, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed incorrect handling of SPLINEs with unusually high knot multiplicity count which made this SPLINEs disappear.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.25 (Feb 27, 2015)

  • Features:
  • Sped up resource loading.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.24 (Feb 27, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed incorrect image clipping.
  • Features:
  • Sped up loading of files with many images.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.23 (Feb 18, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed image handling when images are clipped.
  • Features:
  • Sped up loading of files with large images.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.22 (Feb 13, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed thread creation problems under Windows for files loading too many images.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.21 (Feb 9, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Restored error message for missing or broken DXF file in applet.
  • Features:
  • Minor speed improvements.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.20 (Jan 22, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed animation duration not obeyed for layer animation.
  • Features:
  • Beneath paths and URLs defining DXF files to be loaded on start-up the viewer now accepts also a directory as command line parameter. For the given directory an open file dialog is displayed.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.19 (Jan 22, 2015)

  • Bug fixes;
  • Fixed wrong clipping of faces in perspective view.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.18 (Jan 22, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed duplicate history entries.
  • Fixed duplicate entity pick results for extruded entities.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.17 (Jan 19, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed exception when setting reduce mode.
  • Improvements:
  • Minor drawing speedup.
  • Minor debugging speedup.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.16 (Dec 11, 2014)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed memory leak problem introduced in previous release

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.15 (Dec 6, 2014)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed incorrect drawing of some filled entities.
  • Fixed possible NPE during preview creation.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.10 (Oct 10, 2014)

  • Bugfix:
  • Added workaround to reenable dropping URL.
  • Fixed HATCH border handling for textbox boundaries.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.09 (Sep 4, 2014)

  • Bug fix:
  • Further improvements for REGION entity.
  • Fixed sometimes slightly incorrect TEXT placement.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.05 (Jul 9, 2014)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Improved selection of initial view.
  • Fixed possible IllegalArgumentException.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.02 (Jun 4, 2014)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed context menus missing in toolbar.
  • Fixed sometimes wrong text search in view ports.
  • Fixed missing layouts when tab order is not unique.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.01 (May 27, 2014)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Improved handling of supplementary Unicode characters.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.21.00 (Mar 22, 2014)

  • Features:
  • Added restart option for improved memory settings, see Options>Settings>Miscellaneous>Restart the viewer with improved memory settings?
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed HATCH boundary seed points association.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.20.24 (Mar 12, 2014)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Added missing popup menus on Windows platform.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.20.23 (Mar 11, 2014)

  • Improvements:
  • Improved speed and reliability for creating hatch lines from HATCH entities.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.20.22 (Feb 27, 2014)

  • Bug Fixes:
  • Improved support for HATCH entities with multiple open lines.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.20.21 (Jan 10, 2014)

  • Features:
  • DXF VIEWs and VPORTs are now displayed in 3Dby default, but you may change this in the settings.
  • Fit to window uses an improved algorithm for perspective views.
  • User settings may now be exported and imported. See the description dxf.default.prefs property to learn how you can make use of this to have your own standard settings in a multi-user environment.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.20.20 (Dec 23, 2013)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed misplaced texts when TEXT entity is mirrored and aligned.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.20.19 (Dec 18, 2013)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Turned off Drag&Drop from tabs as it creates problems on all platforms.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.20.18 (Dec 6, 2013)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed file tabs no longer working on Windows platforms. This fix temporarily disables drag&drop from the tabs.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.20.17 (Dec 3, 2013)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed missing menu on view component.
  • Fixed bad choice for close tab keyboard shortcut.
  • Features:
  • May drag filename or image (for the latter hold the shift key) from tab.
  • Flat x-y views now display the model position under the mouse in the status bar

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.20.16 (Dec 3, 2013)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed possible overflow errors during hatch creation.
  • Features:
  • Added Edit menu with clipboard actions.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.20.15 (Nov 25, 2013)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed error in WIPEOUT bounds calculation, resulting in wrong initial view.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.20.14 (Nov 23, 2013)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed rounding problem for HATCH border, resulting in distorted hatches under special circumstances.
  • Fixed missing MTEXT when dedicated EED is set but does not contain extended text data.
  • Fixed NullPointerException for IMAGE entity if image was missing.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.20.13 (Nov 22, 2013)

  • Features:
  • Added support for overall transparency of images. Support for transparent pixels in the given image was already working before, but DXF can define a global transparency for images which is now also supported.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.20.12 (Nov 16, 2013)

  • Features:
  • Added preview for DXF files in file chooser dialog. Depending on the size of your files calculating previews might be challenging for your machine. If you encounter problems you can switch off previews in the settings (to be found in the Miscellaneous tab).

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.20.09 (Oct 28, 2013)

  • Bug fixes:
  • A bug in calculating bounding boxes of narrow and wide texts resulted in wrong alignment and wrapping of these texts.
  • Justified texts are no longer justified in the last line of a paragraph.
  • Property values shown for dimensions had missing i18n.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.20.08 (Oct 22, 2013)

  • Features:
  • The viewer now supports setting whether faces are drawn filled or unfilled.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.20.07 (Oct 3, 2013)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Overworked bigfont character selection which sometimes used wrong characters.
  • Features:
  • Now the viewer accepts DXF files starting with a byte order mark (bom). As a bom basically is not allowed according to the spec (AutoCAD will reject such files), a warning is issued

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.20.06 (Sep 3, 2013)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed sometimes incorrect text line distance.
  • Fixed incorrect rendering of SHX sub shapes.
  • Improved distributed text handling.
  • Fixed potential problems in paragraphs with block alignment.
  • Fixed missing columns in SHX file display.
  • Added missing reaction to coordinate system settings.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.20.05 (Jul 2, 2013)

  • Added support for SHAPE and ACIDBLOCKREFERENCE entities.
  • Improved font handling.

New in de·caff DXF Viewer 2.00p85 (Mar 5, 2010)

  • Corrected bug in bigfont support where bigfonts were wronly mapped.