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DC Member Programs and Projects / Waveme: Free timing diagram drawing tool

« Last post by wnitzan on October 05, 2016, 11:07 AM »

A free, GUI-based, digital and analog (mixed-signal) timing diagram drawing software for Windows 10 (and Linux via Wine).
Intended primarily for documentation purposes, electronic hardware designers can use Waveme to draw a timing diagram,
and then export it to an image file (BMP, PNG, SVG or TIFF) or a PDF document.

Waveme can be used to draw waveforms, gaps, arrows, labels, value-lines and time axis (see attached images).
Both, digital and analog signals can be drawn.
Highly customizable, with a wealth of keyboard shortcuts.

Website:
waveme.weebly.com

Waveme is distributed as a portable 64-bit single-file executable - it doesn't require installation.

Please note that because it is an unsigned executable file, a browser will issue you a warning, and it might be flagged by antivirus programs.
Avoid false-positive, by always confirming with Google's www.virustotal.com.

Hope you find it useful!

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Webcam Video Diary / Recording video chat (Skype/Google)?

« Last post by wnitzan on January 15, 2012, 02:34 PM »

Thank you for making such valuable programs available to the public.

Do you plan on extending the program to record a video chat,
e.g. while using Skype or Google?

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Living Room / Re: KVM switch w/DVI?

« Last post by wnitzan on February 22, 2008, 10:05 AM »

I've been using an

Avocent 2SVDVI10-001

DVI/USB KVM for a few months now.

It's working great for both 1600x1200 display and USB peripherals, but it's relatively expensive.
If you buy it, read the first review on newegg.com for how to use it correctly.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Features request: uncompressed file format and faster auto capture

« Last post by wnitzan on September 11, 2007, 01:47 PM »

Hi Mouser,

Thank you for considering adding these options.

A simple uncompressed format allows me access to the actual RGB screen data, for further processing.

Capturing at a fast rate is useful for screens with windows showing video or animation. I tried this option with hardware acceleration turned off (as you recommended), and it seems to be working fine.
I agree with f0dder that faster capture is best achieved with no compression at all.

Could anyone recommend a screencast software that stores the captured video as successive individual files instead of or in addition to AVI or flash?

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Screenshot Captor / Features request: uncompressed file format and faster auto capture

« Last post by wnitzan on September 10, 2007, 07:05 PM »

Thank you for making SC. It's vast but the good UI and help make it easy to find your way around.

There are 2 feature enhancements I'm interested in:
1. The option of saving images in an uncompressed format, BMP and PPM.
2. Auto-capture faster than once per second. Though, I'm not sure how fast is feasible... 

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General Review Discussion / Re: Free PDF tools review?

« Last post by wnitzan on April 12, 2007, 02:08 PM »

I use 4 PDF related programs, in concert:

1. GhostScript engine (free)
www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost

I have both the GPL and AFPL versions (you'll see why in a second). They usually get updated soon one after the other, but sometimes not.

2. CutePDF Writer (free)
www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

This is a printer driver (like many others) to print from any program into a PDF doc. It needs a PS2PDF converter, such as GhostScript.

3. PDFill (free and paid)
www.pdfill.com

PDFill has two parts, one free and one that costs $20, both rely on the free AFPL GhostScript engine (and it must be the AFPL version, not the GPL). PDFill detects whether an AFPL version is already installed, or else offers to download and install it for you, albeit an older version than what you can download and install yourself. So, I would install the newer version of AFPL GhostScript first, and PDFill afterward.

The free part is a GUI with 12 tools that merge, split, reorder pages, add watermarks, encrypt, convert to and from image files, and add header/footer info.

The paid part is a PDF editor ($20) that can be used to fill out and *save* PDF forms (what other readers won't let you do), add text and graphics annotations, and create your own PDF forms. It also allows you to add editable fields on top of a not editable PDF doc, so that you can fill in fields on a non-interactive form (instead of printing, filling it by hand, scanning and then sending it out).

4. PDF Image Extraction Wizard (free)
www.rlvision.com/pdfwiz/about.asp

This tool can extract all the images in a PDF doc.

Hope this helps...