Survex 1.0.2 released

[Olly Betts]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 05:29:36PM +0000, Olly Betts wrote:
> I took a look at Carto's .plt file reading routine, and it ignores most of
> the information in the plot file.  So I've added very rudimentary support for
> producing .plt files to cad3d - the files produced contain only what Carto
> looks for, and I very much doubt Compass can read them.  If you're using
> Carto, give it a try and let me know how well it works.

Unfortunately there's a bug (uninitialised hash table).  The code just happens
to work on Linux, but the MS Windows version crashes if --plt is used.

I'll release 1.0.3 very shortly to fix this, and it'll include a few other
changes I've been working on.  You might want to wait if you've not downloaded
1.0.2 yet.

And a quick poll - the font used with dot-matrix and PCL printers can be rather
faint, especially on an old dot-matrix with a well-used ribbon.  I came across
another suitable font with most of the characters needed, and have converted it
to the format Survex uses.  But I'm undecided if it's better or not.  Opinions?
You can compare the two here:

http://www.survex.com/~olly/survex-fonts.html

Cheers,
Olly