Squib CHANGELOG

v0.5.0

Embedding of SVGs and PNGs into text! See README, text_options.rb, and embed_text.rb, and API documentation. This was a finnicky feature, so feedback and bug reports are welcome. (#30)

Known issues

Embedding icons for right-aligned and center-aligned is wrong for the first icon (#46). This is likely a Pango bug - I'm working on getting that fixed. There is a workaround.

SVG backend support! You can now set the deck's back end to work with SVGs instead of images, making the resulting PDFs vectorized. (You can still save to PNGs too.) This was a big change for Squib, and it's got at least one known issue and probably a few more here and there. See discussion on the README for more details.
Added config option for antialiasing method. My benchmarks showed that 'best' is only 10% slower than 'fast' on extremely alias-intensive tasks, so 'best' is the Squib default now.
Bugfix: Stray stroke on circles after text (#35)
Bugfix: Progress bar increment error (#34)

Known issues

Masking SVGs onto an SVG backend will rasterize as an intermediate step. (#43)
Compatibility change: gradient coordinates for the mask option in svg and png commands are relative to the given x,y - NOT to card as it was before.

Masks! The png and svg commands can be used as if they are a mask, so you can color the icon with any color you like. Can be handy for switching to black-and-white, or for reusing the same image but different colors across cards.
Gradients! Can now specify linear or radial gradients anywhere you specify colors. See README and samples/gradients.rb for more details.
Number padding! save_png will now pad zeros on the filenames for friendlier sorting. You can also specify your own with count_format using the classical format string from Ruby's Kernel::sprintf (mostly just C-style format strings). Default: '%02d'. The prefix:` option is still there too.
Added unit conversion to Squib::New and save_pdf
Added arbitrary paper sizes to save_pdf
Added new sample table for color viewing constants in samples/colors.rb

Special thanks to Shalom Craimer for the idea and proof-of-concept on gradient and mask features!

Added showcase feature to create a fancy-looking 3D reflection to showcase your cards. Documented, tested, and added a sample for it.
Added a basic Rakefile, documented in README.
Some internal refactoring, better testing, and more documentation with layouts

Added save_sheet command that saves a range into PNG sheets, complete with trim, gap, margin, columns, and sometimes automagically computed rows. See samples/saves.rb.
Unit conversion! Now you can write "2in" and it will convert based on the current dpi. save_pdf not supported (yet).
png now supports resizing, but warns you about it since it's non-ideal. Documented in yard, tested.
Added sample unicode.rb to show lots of game-related unicode characters
More obsessive automated testing and continuous integration work.

Added a csv command that works just like xslx. Uses Ruby's CSV inside, with some extra checking and warnings.
Custom layouts now support loading & merging multiple Yaml files! Updated README, docs, and sample to document it.
Built-in layouts! Currently we support hand.yml and playing-card.yml. Documented in the layouts.rb sample.
text now returns the ink extent rectangle of the rendered text. Updated docs and sample to document it.
Samples now show that you can use text instead of symbols for things like center
Improved logging, and documentation on increasing logger verboseness
Better regression testing technique that tracks when a sample has changed.
Bumped version of Cairo to ~> 1.14

Added a font size override so you can vary the font size with the same style across strings more easily
Added text autoscale sample
Added extends to custom layouts, allowing ways to modify parent data instead of just overriding it.
Upgraded ruby-progressbar version
Added text rotation (thanks novalis!)
Fixed a mapping problem with triangles (thanks novalis!)
Fixed global hint togglability