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- PLT: v1.3b release notes. Febuary 7, 1989.
-
- This release contains only two bug fixes. One of the bugs was that if PLT:
- couldn't find the file PLTDATA:pltfontnames, it would try to open a requestor,
- but at that point, the intuition.library had not been opened.
-
- The other "bug" was the way PLT: decided what the maximum page size was on
- printers which use fan fold paper. The printer driver indicates that the page
- size is 0 in that case. Since for several reasons, PLT: needs to know the
- maximum page height, it assumed 10.5 inches. (10.5 instead of 11 to give a
- quarter inch top and bottom margin.) European paper is appearently 12 inches
- however, and this caused a problem. Also, this would have kept people with
- wide carriage printers from printing page sizes greater than size A. PLT:
- now looks for an enviroment variable "PltMaxPageHeight" containing a maximum
- page height. If this environment variable doesn't exist, it assumes 10.5
- inches.
-
- Rich Champeaux (rchampe@hubcap.clemson.edu)
-
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- PLT: v1.3 release notes. November 16, 1989.
-
- New Features:
-
- - Variable page sizes are now allowed. PLT: regonizes standard page sizes
- A - E, as well as page sizes specified by the limits fields on the
- Graphics 2 screen of Preferences.
-
- - Fonts are now disk resident. This allows multiple fonts to be used durring
- a plot and also allow the user to create or modify fonts.
-
- - PLT: defaults in the memory-squander mode but will now automaticly switch
- to the memory conserve mode when available memory falls below 2K. When
- the memory mode is switched, the tree used in the memory-squander mode is
- removed, freeing up space for more lines.
-
- Bug Fixes:
-
- - The line types are now correctly implemented.
-
- - PLT: now places a dot when the pen is lowered and then raised with moving.
-
- - PLT: now correctly reads floating point numbers.
-
- - I think there were a few other bugs that were fixed, but I didn't write
- them down, and I've forgotten what they were.
-
-
- Rich Champeaux (rchampe@hubcap.clemson.edu)
-