VIEWPORT rendering now works for all backends

[mozman]

The VIEWPORT entity rendering in paperspace layouts is now done in the frontend of the drawing add-on:

PyQt Backend:

Matplotlib backend:

The results are more consistent across backends as most of the work is now done by the frontend:

• font rendering, the results by fontTools are much closer to CAD applications than Matplotlib rendering before
• linetype rendering
• hatch pattern rendering

and this is the result of the new native SVG backend:

The release date for version 1.1 isn't set yet, but I think it's worth the wait.

Best regards,
Manfred