Application Details:
Version: | 10.4.32 |
License: | Free to use and share |
URL: | https://www.pentalogix.com/ |
Votes: | 0 |
Latest Rating: | Garbage |
Latest Wine Version Tested: | 1.4 |
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What works
Install works.
Application launches and runs.
What does not
To open a Gerber file, the user has to first enter an asterisk (*) in the Open dialog and press Enter, otherwise ViewMate will only look for .bin files. Or the user could rename their Gerber file(s) to *.bin in advance.
There is very visible flickering when dragging the mask/layout around. When printing (via CUPS), the vias are jagged and pixelated, as opposed at the rest of the higher-rez printed circuit layout. This can also be observed when printing to (a PostScript) file. It's possible to manually go File -- Print To ".bmp" File -- Print Frame... and then specify a 1200 dpi under Options, but for some reason the resultant file will not just have 1200, but also be a much larger image than the actual circuit. Even subsequently opening this image with a third party graphics editor (e.g. the GIMP) in order to crop the huge empty top and right margins away is VERY slow and consumes a huge amount of memory. Once that is done however, a good image remains with none of the aforementioned via jagginess, and that image can then be saved as a b/w .png and/or printed for use with the toner transfer method (in fairness, maybe the huge margin was also due to something odd with the single Gerber file I tested).
Workarounds
What was not tested
Multi-layer gerber files. Anything except opening a single Gerber file, looking at it and printing it.
Hardware tested
Graphics:
Additional Comments
Operating system | Test date | Wine version | Installs? | Runs? | Used Workaround? | Rating | Submitter | ||
Show | Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | May 20 2012 | 1.4 | No | Not installable | Garbage | an anonymous user | ||
Current | Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid" i386 (+ variants like Kubuntu) | Apr 19 2009 | 1.1.19 | Yes | Yes | Bronze | an anonymous user |
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