1.12.0

Annotated Release Notes

New features and improvements

• The layout command now properly handles the tight special case by fitting the page size around the existing geometries, accommodating for a margin if provided (#556)
• Added new units (yd, mi, and km) (#541)
• Added inch unit as a synonym to in, useful for expressions (in which in is a reserved keyword) (#541)
• Migrated to PySide6 (from PySide2), which simplifies installation on Apple silicon Macs (#552, #559, #567)

Bug fixes

• Fixed a viewer issue where page width/height of 0 would lead to errors and a blank display (#555)
• Fixed a viewer issue where fitting the view to the document would not adjust when page size changes (vsketch only) (#564)

API changes

• Added vpype.format_length() to convert pixel length into human-readable string with units (#541)

Other changes

• Updated svgelements to 1.8.4, which fixes issue with some SVG constructs used by Matplotlib exports (#549)
• Poetry 1.2 or later is not required (developer only) (#541)
• A justfile is now provided for most common operations (install, build the documentation, etc.) (#541)
• Migrated to Plausible.io (from Google Analytics) for vpype.readthedocs.io (#546)