Changes:
- remove code suppressing char orphan in xetexko
- remove obsolete files from luatexko
- provides [nounfonts] option in luatexko.sty
- remove hyperref outuni routine from luatexko.sty
- remove plain tex latin font setting in xetexko-space.sty and
luatexko.{tex,lua}
- consider some chinese center-aligned full stop in xetexko-space
- introduced hanjahook.sty. updated xetexko-dotemph and hangulhook
Changelog:
1.5.0
Added Save As action and dialog for saving the differences to a PDF file.
1.3.0
Added support for -a, --appearance, -t, --text command line options to
set the initial comparison mode.
1.2.3
Added a mention of comparepdf in the About box.
I was unaware of version up.
* Fix html2psrc path in patch-aa
Changelog:
051211 1.0b5 Bug fixes. Added -M option.
091021 1.0b6 "Security" fix. Changed behavior for SSI, to avoid having
arbitrary readable files disclosed on a web server that uses
html2ps in a web application (cgi script etc), allowing HTML
files to be uploaded for conversion. Setting up a service like
this is begging for trouble in my opinion. (Is /bin/cat also
a vulnerability, since one can use it in a web app, allowing
uploading arbitrary parameters to it?)
100507 1.0b7 Fixed a bug introduced by the previous bug fix...
--------------------
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5.0
- Documentation updates.
- Localization update (STR #3865)
- Needed to limit TLS to v1.0 on some versions of Mac OS X.
- The snmp backend did not work with some printers.
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5rc1
- Compile fixes (STR #3849, STR #3850)
- The scheduler didn't check for empty values for several configuration
directives (STR #3861)
- ipptool didn't generate valid XML when a test was skipped.
- Added additional error checking to the 1284 device ID code (STR #3858)
- Fixed some compatibility issues migrating from the old usblp backend
to the libusb backend (STR #3860)
- Fixed the wake-from-sleep printing behavior on Mac OS X.
- The scheduler incorrectly allowed jobs to be held from a terminating
state.
- The cups-driverd program could crash when a PPD was renamed.
- The dnssd backend took too long to discover printers on large or busy
networks with the new default timeout used by lpinfo and the web
interface. This resulted in "lost" printers.
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b2
- Documentation updates.
- Localization updates (STR #3845)
- Compiler warning cleanup.
- Fixed PIE support for Linux (STR #3846)
- Made httpSetTimeout API public and use it in the IPP backend to avoid
timeout errors.
- The scheduler incorrectly set the "authenticated" printer-type bit for
remote queues using authentication.
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.5b1
- The CUPS library now supports per-connection HTTP timeouts and
callbacks.
- The CUPS library now supports (limited) SSL/TLS X.509 certificate
validation and revocation (STR #1616)
- Updated the PostScript filter to support IncludeFeature in more
circumstances (STR #3417)
- The schedule did not correctly parse some IPv6 addresses and masks in
the cupsd.conf file (STR #3533)
- Fixed a case-insensitive string comparison issue for locales that do
not treat "I" and "i" as equivalent (STR #3800)
- The scheduler reported an incorrect job-printer-uri value when sharing
was not enabled (STR #3639)
- The scheduler now allows the ServerAlias directive to contain multiple
hostnames separated by spaces or commas (STR #3813)
- The scheduler now sets the process group for child processes and
manages the group (STR #2829)
- Fixed some minor issues discovered by a Coverity scan (STR #3838)
- The scheduler now more carefully creates and removes configuration,
cache, and state files (STR #3715)
- The lpadmin command now allows default option values to be deleted
(STR #2959)
- The lpadmin command now allows the cupsIPPSupplies and
cupsSNMPSupplies keywords to be set in a PPD file (STR #3825)
- Moving a held job no longer releases it (STR #3839)
- Restored support for GNU TLS and OpenSSL with threading enabled
(STR #3605)
- Fixed a confusing error message from cups-polld (STR #3806)
- Increased the default RIPCache value to 128MB (STR #3535)
- MIME errors are now routed to the error_log file (STR #2410)
- Updated PDF filter to support new Ghostscript ps2write device
(STR #3766)
- Updated PDF filter to support new Poppler option to preserve page
sizes in PDF files when the user has not selected a particular media
size (STR #3689)
- Added new PWG Raster filter for IPP Everywhere printer support.
- Added job-uuid, printer-uuid, and subscription-uuid attributes.
- Added support for the cupsSingleFile PPD keyword.
- Dropped support for the printer-state-history attribute (STR #3654)
- Added support for a new cupsIPPSupplies keyword in PPD files to allow
drivers to disable IPP supply level reporting.
- Added support for a new cupsFilter2 keyword in PPD files to allow for
the propagation of the actual MIME media type produced by a filter.
- The scheduler did not always get the correct Kerberos username when
authenticating (STR #3670)
- Added new cupsRasterOpenIO function and CUPS_RASTER_WRITE_PWG to the
CUPS imaging library to support printing to IPP Everywhere raster
printers.
- The scheduler now provides default values for the pages-per-minute and
pages-per-minute-color attributes for PPD files that lack a
Throughput keyword.
- Email notifications did not work on Mac OS X.
- The cupstestppd program now shows an error for files missing a
CloseGroup keyword (STR #3668)
- Name resolution errors no longer cause queues to stop (STR #3719,
STR #3753)
- Added a new cups-exec helper program that applies security profiles
to filters, port monitors, backends, CGI programs, and mini-daemons.
- The web interface can now be disabled using the WebInterface directive
in cupsd.conf (STR #2625)
- The scheduler now provides privacy controls for jobs and subscriptions
(STR #2969)
- Added new cupsArrayNew3 API which offers memory management of array
elements.
- Added several new color spaces to the CUPS raster format (STR #3419)
- The Validate-Job operation now uses the same policy as Print-Job by
default.
- CUPS now uses iconv to implement all of its character encoding
support (STR #3097)
- The scheduler now implements the Cancel-Jobs, Cancel-My-Jobs, and
Close-Job operations along with the job-ids operation attribute from
PWG 5100.11.
- The main CUPS header (<cups/cups.h>) no longer includes the PPD header
(<cups/ppd.h>).
- The scheduler and CUPS API now support the print-quality job template
attribute.
- The scheduler no longer supports the old Mac OS X Server quota
plugin.
- The scheduler now allows writing to /Users/Shared from print filters
on Mac OS X.
- CUPS no longer supports the old ~/.cupsrc or ~/.lpoptions files from
CUPS 1.1.x. The ~/.cups/client.conf and ~/.cups/lpoptions files that
were introduced in CUPS 1.2 must now be used.
- The ipptest tool is now a first-class user program and has several
improvements along with new documentation (STR #3484)
- The cupstestppd tool now warns about non-unique filenames and
provides a way to ignore all filename warnings.
- Dropped support for the recoverable: and recovered: message prefixes.
- The scheduler now requires that filters and backends have group write
permissions disabled.
- The PPD compiler now checks for overlapping filenames when writing
PPD files.
- The HP-GL/2 filter is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3322)
- The SCSI backend is no longer included with CUPS (STR #3500)
print/p5-LaTeX-Driver from 0.08nb3 to 0.10.
pkgsrc changes:
- fix whitespaces in Makefile.PL patch
Upstream changes:
#------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Version 0.10 - 2011-09-18
#------------------------------------------------------------------------
* use system tmp directory rather than hardcoded /tmp
* Makefile.PL exits if latex binary is not found (rather than dieing
#------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Version 0.09 - 2011-08-18
#------------------------------------------------------------------------
* Tidied up for perlcritic
This package provides advanced facilities for inline and display
quotations. It is designed for a wide range of tasks ranging from the
most simple applications to the more complex demands of formal
quotations. The facilities include commands, environments, and
user-definable 'smart quotes' which dynamically adjust to their context.
Quotation marks are switched automatically if quotations are nested and
they can be adjusted to the current language if the babel package is
available. There are additional facilities designed to cope with the
more specific demands of academic writing, especially in the humanities
and the social sciences. All quote styles as well as the optional active
quotes are freely configurable. The package is dependent on e-TeX, and
requires the author's etoolbox package.
The package enhances the quality of tables in LaTeX, providing extra
commands as well as behind-the-scenes optimisation. Guidelines are given
as to what constitutes a good table in this context. From version 1.61,
the package offers longtable compatibility.
Generally longtable is a little easier to use and more flexible, but
supertabular has its place, since it will work in a few situations where
longtable won't.
CUPS-PDF is a PDF writer backend for CUPS.
It is designed to produce PDF files in a heterogeneous network by providing a
PDF printer on the central fileserver. It will convert files printed to its
queue in CUPS to PDF and put them in a per-user-based directory structure.
It can execute post-processing scripts, e.g. to allow mailing the results
to the user.
The package provides the \collect@body command (as in amsmath), as well
as a \long version \Collect@Body, for collecting the body text of an
environment. These commands are used to define a new author interface to
creating new environments. For example: \NewEnviron{test} wraps the
entire environment body in square brackets, doing the right thing in
ignoring leading and trailing spaces.
The package is a free-standing part of the preview-latex bundle. The
package provides the support preview-latex needs, when it chooses the
matter it will preview. The output may reasonably be expected to have
other uses, as in html translators, etc.
Fixes multiple vulnerabilites
Change list too long to include here, see http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/CHANGES
(file does not note what changes were included in 3.02pl1 - 3.02pl4 and which
are new for 3.03)
* Set LICENSE.
* Make pkglint happy
Changelog:
Summary of changes in enscript version 1.6.5.2:
* Fix CFG_FATAL macro in util.c; this prevents a segmentation fault
when the configuration file contains unknown parameters. (Savannah
bug #28769)
* Fix segmentation fault with line lengths over 90 characters.
(Savannah bug #29198)
Summary of changes in enscript version 1.6.5.1:
* Typo corrections in the manual pages.
* Reorganise source tree to use a single ChangeLog file.
* Actually ship f90.st in the tarball.
* Reorganise INSTALL and README.
Noteworthy changes in enscript version 1.6.5:
* New maintainer.
* Licensing change: GNU Enscript is now distributed under version 3 or
later of the GNU GPL.
* Build system fixes - distcheck now passes.
* At least four security bug fixes:
- CAN-2004-1184
- CAN-2004-1185
- CAN-2004-1186
- CVE-2008-3863, CVE-2008-4306
* Syntax highlighting fixes.
- shell escaping rules from Shawn McMahon.
- JavaScript regexps now recognised.
- New highlighting rules for Fortran 90 from David Bowler.
See changelogs for more detailed notes.
CJK is a macro package for LaTeX, providing simultaneous support for
various Asian scripts in many encodings (including Unicode): Chinese
(both traditional and simplified), Japanese, Korean, and Thai. A
special add-on feature is an interface to the Emacs editor
(cjk-enc.el) which gives simultaneous, easy-to-use support to a bunch
of other scripts in addition to the above: Cyrillic, Greek,
Latin-based scripts, Russian, and Vietnamese.
ThaiLaTeX enables typesetting Thai with standard LaTeX document classes.
It is designed to become a part of babel, and may be used as such after
a (small) patch to babel itself.
Notable changes:
* Documentation has been restructured.
* Added new package options: entrycounter, counterwithin,
subentrycounter, sort, seeautonumberlist, savewrites, and
compatible-2.07.
* \printglossary sets \currentglossary to the current glossary's
label. (Allows custom glossary styles access to the glossary
type.)
* Modified internal workings of acronyms.
Based on patches from Nicolas Thauvin.
Changes:
* bookmarks for all overlays
* corrected bug preventing correct use of \cite in slides with overlays.
* corrected reinitialization problem of the current color when
option "colorlinks" is true
* Now, counters are not incremented inside overlays. Added macros to support
this. Labels should no longer reported multiply defined in overlays either.
* Prosper now supports Adobe distiller for transforming PS files into PDF
files
A class that produces overhead slides (transparencies), with many
facilities. The class requires availability of the fancybox package.
Seminar is also the basis of other classes, such as prosper. In fact,
seminar is not nowadays reckoned a good basis for a presentation --
users are advised to use more recent classes such as powerdot or beamer,
both of which are tuned to 21st-century presentation styles. Note that
the seminar distribution relies on the xcomment package, which was once
part of the bundle, but now has a separate existence.
This package contains material presented in the book
Guide To LaTeX, 4th Edition
Helmut Kopka and Patrick W. Daly
Addison-Wesley, 2003
as code, sample figures, processed files, as well as solutions
to the exercises.
The package defines an environment that only typesets specified
environments within its scope. So, for example, if you want nothing but
the figure and table environments in your document, you can enclose the
whole document with an xcomment environment that excludes everything
but. This is a lot easier than excluding the chunks of text between the
environments you want, or creating an entire document containing only
those environments. The package was previously part of the seminar
bundle for typesetting presentations.
2up.tex/2up.sty allows one to print a document two-up, with
considerable flexibility as to paper size and layout. It produces a
standard dvi file, and does not involve an additional dvi or
PostScript filter. It should work with most TeX macro packages.
Defines an array/matrix-type environment that is used with the subfigure
package to automate the placement of subfigures (or tables or text). The
subfigures are placed left-to-right, top- to-bottom.
A package defining many macros for items of significance in statistical
presentations. An updated, but incompatible, version of the package is
available: statex2.
Provides a command to print a number with (potentially different)
separators every three digits in the parts either side of the decimal
point (the point itself is also configurable). The macro is fully
expandable and not fragile (unless one of the separators is). There is
also a command \sepnumform, that may be used when defining \the<counter>
macros.
Makes the numbers of \section commands come out with a trailing dot.
Includes a command whereby the same can be made to happen with other
sectioning commands.
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.8
- The scheduler would delete job data files when restarted (STR #3880)
- The network backends could crash if a printer returned a value of 0
for the maximum capacity for a supply (STR #3875)
CHANGES IN CUPS V1.4.7
- Documentation changes (STR #3710, STR #3720, STR #3745, STR #3750,
STR #3757, STR #3758, STR #3782, STR #3826, STR #3829, STR #3837)
- Web interface fixes (STR #3412, STR #3345, STR #3455, STR #3707,
STR #3755, STR #3769, STR #3783)
- Configure script fixes (STR #3659, STR #3691)
- Compilation fixes (STR #3718, STR #3771, STR #3774)
- The imageto* filters could crash with bad GIF files (STR #3867)
- The scheduler might leave old job data files in the spool directory
(STR #3795)
- CUPS did not work with locales using the ASCII character set
(STR #3832)
- httpAddrString() did not return a URI-style IPv6 numeric address
(STR #3814)
- Fixed an issue when reading compressed CUPS raster streams (STR #3812)
- Fixed an issue with PostScript printer auto-configuration (STR #3443)
- Fixed some compatibility issues with the libusb-based USB backend
(STR #3799)
- The network backends no longer try to collect SNMP supply and status
information for raw queues (STR #3809)
- The DBUS notifier did not report job state changes (STR #3805)
- The scheduler did not always report that the "normal" print-quality
value was supported (STR #3803)
- The gziptoany filter did not report the correct error if it was unable
to write the uncompressed document to the next filter or backend in
the chain (STR #3797)
- The Epson and Oki 9-pin drivers had a bad resolution option
(STR #3798)
- The scheduler did not always register the correct default ICC profile
on Mac OS X.
- The scheduler did not use the job owner when authorizing access for
the CUPS-Get-Document operation, preventing non-admins from accessing
their own jobs.
- CUPS did not work with some printers that incorrectly implemented the
HTTP/1.1 standard (STR #3778, STR #3791)
- The scheduler did not retry fax jobs properly.
- The scheduler now recognizes an empty cupsCommands PPD keyword as
meaning that CUPS commands are not supported for a printer (STR #3773)
- Fixed a crash bug in the scheduler when the application/octet-stream
MIME type was not defined (STR #3690)
- Polled printers were advertised more slowly than necessary (STR #3574)
- cupsResolveConflicts() did not handle resolving multiple UIConstraints
issues (STR #3705)
- The SetEnv and PassEnv directives had no effect (STR #3664)
- The web interface no longer tries to use multi-part delivery when
adding printers (STR #3455)
- The libusb-based USB backend printed slowly to the LaserJet 1300 and
other printers (STR #3405)
- "lp" and "lpr" failed to print with Kerberos enabled (STR #3768)
- The cupsctl program now displays an error if you try to directly set
the Port or Listen directives (STR #3749)
- PPD files with "*JobPatchFile: bla" no longer fail to load in relaxed
conformance mode (STR #3747)
- The scheduler generated a bad notify-text string for printer state
change notifications (STR #3739)
- The scheduler incorrectly updated printers.conf when it really needed
to update classes.conf or remote.cache (STR #3726)
- Hardwired remote printers with options did not work (STR #3717)
- Accessing the CUPS web interface using a CNAME-based hostname would
sometimes fail due to redirection to the actual hostname (STR #3701)
- Subscription events had a misspelled attribute (STR #3693)
- "make check" failed if LC_MESSAGES was set (STR #3765)
- Fixed the configure script to always look for the pkg-config script
(STR #3761)
- The scheduler now only looks up interface hostnames if HostNameLookups
are enabled (STR #3737)
- Fixed a compilation problem on DragonFly BSD (STR #3738)
- The default PageLogFormat value had the username and job ID swapped
from CUPS 1.3.x (STR #3727)
- The scheduler could crash if a browsed printer times out while a job
is printing (STR #3754)
- The scheduler incorrectly mapped custom page sizes to standard sizes
(STR #3764)
- cupsfilter and pstops did not map IPP attributes to PPD options due to
a change in cupsMarkOptions (STR #3756)
- The scheduler did not always show the most recent status message from
the print filters (STR #3731)
- The PostScript filter did not apply the mirror and number-up options
properly, leading to offset and clipped output (STR #3732)
- The network backends always reported "low toner" or "out of toner"
states, even for inkjet printers (STR #3733)
Prawn 0.12.0:
We continue our trek to Prawn 1.0 with 0.12.0. This release fixes many bugs
and adds some new features. A full list of changes is available via `git log
0.11.1..0.12.0`.
Features / Enhancements
* Rewrite project README [Gregory Brown]
* Speed improvements to text kerning [Jan De Poorter]
* Snapshotting now preserves your bounding box [Brad Ediger]
* Allow Document#float to teleport across pages and return to starting page
[Brad Ediger]
* number_pages now defaults to numbering every page [Matthew Rudy Jacobs]
* Your bounding box is now reset when starting a new page with a different
size or layout [Brad Ediger]
Major Bugfixes
* Fix multi-page templates (#199) [Chase M. Gray / Jonathan Greenberg]
* Make tables work in stretchy bounding boxes (#235) [Jan De Poorter / Brad
Ediger]
* Fix TTF font metrics when a TTF font has a nonzero width for newlines (#245)
[daduke / Katsuya Hidaka / Brad Ediger]
* Fix kerning bug on line width calculations (#251) [vspan / Brad Ediger]
* Fix images in stretchy bounding boxes creating a new page (#241) [Brad Ediger]
* Fix character_spacing to work based on character count, not byte length
(#253) [Katsuya Hidaka / Brad Ediger]
* Fix NoMethodError under $KCODE==¡Èu¡É [Michael Klein]
* Fix extra page break created when spans were used at the top of a page
(#255) [Sean Russell / Brad Ediger]
* Fix problem with table cell backgrounds overlapping other cell¡Çs borders by
drawing all backgrounds before any borders (#226) [Kenta Murata / Brad
Ediger]
* Remove old examples that were duplicated by our new manual (Micha«³l Witrant)
Tables: use an epsilon to compare floating-point values [Kenta Murata]
from Nicolas Thauvin.
Version 1.10.1
- Prefetching fonts to group calls to kpsewhich (starts faster)
- Made scroll buttons preemptive (stop displaying)
- Fix install path of dlladvi
- Fix compatibility of event loop with new version of graphics
Version 1.10
- Updated the doc
- Bytecode version uses a library dlladvi.so
- Changed configuration to use 4.0 of camlimages
- Dynamics libraries loaded last (provided by Stefan Potyra)
Version 1.9
- EPS files are read by advi and sent to gs
- splash.dvi is now distributed and correctly installed
- examples are distributed but not compiled by default
- added conf/jpfonts.conf in the disbribution
- gs path is now set by configure
- Added support for gzip and bzip2 compressed files.
- Fixed advi.man (provided mostly by Debian managers).
- Included security patches (provided by Debian managers).
Version 1.8
Rendering EPS files with gs by default.
PGF patches for pstrick support of PDF macros in advi.sty
Bug fixes.
Version 1.7
2005/09/02
Having Active-DVI compatible with the new Graphics library.
2004/12/07
Getting rid of the new warnings of the Caml compiler.
* Update MASTER_SITES.
Changelog:
* New scripts introduced.
* MIDI input and output are improved.
* Some notation improvements.
* Some new signs are introduced.
* Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm is fully supported.
* and so on. see NEWS.txt.
Adobe Reader is part of the Adobe Acrobat family of software, which lets
you view, distribute, and print documents in Portable Document Format
(PDF)--regardless of the computer, operating system, fonts, or application
used to create the original file. PDF files retain all the formatting,
fonts, and graphics of the original document, and virtually any
PostScript(TM) document can be converted into a PDF file.
Changes:
* xetex.ch (pack_buffered_name): Adapt to modified ../tex.ch.
(read_font_info): Cast print_c_string() arg to string.
* xetex.ch: Reformulate to not depend on eTeX_version_string.
* XeTeXFontInst.h: Fix prototype for xmalloc().
* XeTeXFontMgr_FC.cpp, XeTeX_ext.c: Move (nested) extern
declaration of gFreeTypeLibrary from here ...
* XeTeX_ext.h: ... to here.
* XeTeXOTLayoutEngine.{cpp,h}: Drop support for ICU < 4.2.
Changes:
- luatex now uses the standard synctex files.
- The default form margin is now zero (was 1bp before).
- New function node.currentattr() queries the current active attribute list.
- Lua font loading; ignore unknown enumeration keys in MathConstants.
- JPEG 2000 image support.
- Bug fixes.
Changes:
* Trailing comments and whitespace omitted from config values.
* Add .tlu to type lua suffixes, and .dfont to truetype suffixes.
* Prefix program_invocation{,_short}_name with kpse_.
* Finally remove kpse_set_progname (deprecated since 1998).
Changes:
* scrkfloa.dtx: new values for option "captions"
* scrkbase.dtx: fix: \Family@@Numical@@Key --> \Family@@String@@Key
* scrkbase.dtx: \FamilyStringKey and \FamilyNumericalKey fixed (thanks
to Michael Pock)
* scrkfloa.dtx: new options `captions=top', `captions=bot',
`captions=figureabove', `captions=figurebelow' new commands
`\captionaboveof' and `\captionsbelowof'
* tocbasic.dtx: options "atbegin" and "atend" added to \DeclareNewTOC
* scrklang.dtx: scrlttr2 supports language naustrian
Changelog:
1.2.2
Tiny change in how command line arguments are handled. This should make
things work with both English and non-English locales on Windows.
1.2.1
Minor improvement with focus control for Previous and Next buttons.
Acknowledged Steven Lee for building Windows binaries and Dirk Loss for
building Mac OS X binaries in the About box.
1.2.0
Got rid of old text comparison mode.
Various small user interface improvements.
Fixed a subtle bug that meant the combine text highlighting setting
wasn't saved and restored correctly.
Verbasef allows you to input (subsections of a) file, print them in
verbatim mode, while automatically breaking up the inputted lines into
pieces of a given length, which are output as figures. These figures are
posted using the [H] specification, which forces LaTeX to place the
figure at the spot of invocation, rather than floating the figures to
the top of the next page. The package requires the verbatim, here and
vrbexin packages.
from upstream but I couldn't locate it) to fix possible injection
of shell commands in print requests which would be executed as
the "lp" user
bump PKGREV
changes: bugfixes
pkgsrc change: set --enable-cms in frontend components if it was
set in the base pkg -- the layout of some classes depends on this
definition, and inconsistencies can lead to crashes
(see poppler bug #35381)
= Prawn: Fast, Nimble PDF Generation For Ruby
Prawn is a PDF writing library for Ruby designed to be tiny, fast, and nimble,
just like the majestic sea creature.
Development on this library was initially made possible thanks to
the many people who donated to the Ruby Mendicant project:
http://rubymendicant.wikidot.com
The project is currently maintained by Gregory Brown, with lots of help from
Prawn's core developers and the community.
The PDF::Reader library implements a PDF parser conforming as much as
possible to the PDF specification from Adobe.
It provides programmatic access to the contents of a PDF file with
a high degree of flexibility.
The PDF 1.7 specification is a weighty document and not all aspects
are currently supported. I welcome submission of PDF files that
exhibit unsupported aspects of the spec to assist with improving out
support.
