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From: Nicolas Robert <nicolas.robert.19000@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl
Subject: Announce: pix v0.4 released
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2025 19:30:32 +0000
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Version 0.4 of pix, Tcl wrapper around Pixie
(https://github.com/treeform/pixie), a full-featured 2D graphics library
written in Nim has been released.

Compatibility :
Tcl/Tk 8.6 & 9.0

Platforms :
- MacOS (x64 / arm64)
- Windows x64
- Linux x64

Note: I have mainly tested this package on Windows and MacOs x64
with version 8.6.14 and 9.0.1 of Tcl/Tk, it should work on Linux and
MacOS arm (I hope so!)

Features:
- Typesetting and rasterising text, including styled rich text via
spans.
- Drawing paths, shapes and curves with even-odd and non-zero windings.
- Supported file formats are PNG, BMP, JPG, SVG (pretty limited for SVG
file)
- Complex masking: Subtract, Intersect, Exclude.
- ...

For my part, I mainly use this library to find out whether point
coordinates are on or outside curves (bezier, circle, etc ...) in order
to display them in real time on an image.

See https://github.com/nico-robert/pix for more information and the
“Releases” section to download binaries for the platforms mentioned
above.

Best regards,
Nicolas

Ps: Many thanks to the Nim community for their invaluable advice, and
also to the members of TCT, Jan for his advice on switching to Tcl/Tk9
stubs and Ashok, who once again took to his diving mask and immersed
himself in my code to check its syntax.