version is based on the GPL Ghostscript 8.15 release. Major changes from
Ghostscript 7.0x include:
* Many printer drivers were added and updated.
* Improved support for running as a job server (-dJOBSERVER)
* Support for DeviceN colorspaces at up to 8 colorants total at 8 bits
per colorant.
* The PDF writer has been considerably improved and implements PDF
1.4 encryption
* Add a new feature to scale PDFs to the current page size.
* Font rendering has been substantially reworked and improved.
* PDF 1.4 transparency rendering is much more likely to be correct
* Improved support for CID font substitution.
* Improved processing of incorrect and broken PDF files, including files
with corrupted xref tables and non-ASCII font names.
* Support for JBIG2-encoded images.
* The usual plethora of bug fixes.
Major changes since 20031116:
- bug fixes in subfont scheme or TrueType fonts with CIDType2 format.
- embedded ICC profile support for JPEG and PNG.
- Accept "unicode" encoding keyword in fontmap files for TrueType and
Type1 fonts.
hugeotp2ocp is a utility that converts OTP files to OCP files used by
Omega. This program can process OTP files requiring more memory than
regular otp2ocp in teTeX can handle.
HLaTeX is a TeX macro package to typeset Hangul documents using LaTeX.
With this package, LaTeX and Lambda can process both EUC-KR and UTF-8
characters.
The FoilTeX is a collection of LaTeX files for making foils. A number
of features are built-in including large sans serif font as normal
font, options for setting normalsize at 20pt (default), 17pt, 25pt or
30pt, new macros for starting new foils, for special environments like
Theorem and Proof, simple macros to control the headline and footline.
With Rokicki's dvips or Y&Y's dvipsone, it will even rotate individual
foils easily.
PassiveTeX is a library of TeX macros which can be used to process an
XML document which results from an XSL transformation to formatting
objects. PassiveTeX provides a rapid development environment for
experimenting with XSL FO, using a reliable pre-existing formatter.
It is more consistent with the tex.buildlink3.mk name. Also, if a package
really needs latex, it just has to set TEX_ACCEPTED to latex distributions
altough today, all TEX_ACCEPTED possibilities are latex distributions
Summary of changes from CHANGES.transfig:
Patchlevel 5-alpha7 (Oct, 27, 2005)
NEW FEATURES
o Updated SVG driver from Martin Kroeker was missing from alpha6
o Another SVG update: Use a font-family list of "Times,Symbol" for symbol
characters - the Times fontface does not contain all elements of the
Symbol font on all platforms
BUGS FIXED:
o Typo in font name (was cmit10, should be cmti10) in MetaPost driver
This bug fix was omitted from alpha6
Patchlevel 5-alpha6 (Oct, 12, 2005)
NEW FEATURES:
o Added -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress option to ghostscript when generating
PDF output to improve quality of bitmap graphics
o Fill patterns now use PostScript Level 2 built-in pattern commands
for Postscript/EPS/PDF and bitmap output
From Konstantin Shemyak
o Updated SVG driver from Martin Kroeker
o New -K option to size bounding box to whole figure when exporting
only certain depths
From Dirk Osswald
BUGS FIXED:
o Typo in font name (was cmit10, should be cmti10) in MetaPost driver
o When all texts were "special" (LaTeX coded) in a figure, ISO
characters weren't encoded in straight PS and PDF output
o Bug in radius for circles in SVG driver (dev/gensvg.c)
o fig2dev.man was missing many papersize options
o Double fclose() in bitmap driver
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Patchlevel 5-alpha5 (April, 26, 2004)
NEW FEATURES:
o Raster picture support added to SVG driver. (In SVG, this translates
to a link to the image file plus rotation/scaling information.
While 'conformant' SVG viewers need only support PNG and JPEG, there
is no a filetype test, as there is no limit on supported formats
in the standard, and e.g. Batik is able to display XBM and GIF in
addition. Added code for rounded boxes (polyline subtype 4).
Added code for boxes, explicit support for polygons. Added
xml-space:preserve qualifier on texts to preserve whitespace. Rewrote
fill pattern handling to generate patterns as needed - adding support
for penwidth and color. Corrected tiling of all shingle patterns and
reversal of horizontal shingles.
From Martin Kroeker
o Better arrowheads in SVG driver. Corrected font family selection.
Corrected (and simplified) calculation of white-tinted fill colors
(and removed the HSV/RGB conversion code).
From Justus Piater
BUGS FIXED:
o Typo in LATEX_AND_XFIG file. Text should be:
\convertMPtoPDF{foo.0}{1}{1}
It was missing parameters {1}{1}
o Depth filter option -D was parsing range (e.g. 40:80) incorrectly
Fix from Justus Piater
o C++ style comments "//" changed to "/* */" in genmp.c
o Integer overflow in computing some spline steps
o \pagestyle{empty} added for epic/eepic driver so it doesn't produce
unnecessary page number when LaTeXing
---------------------------------
Patchlevel 5-alpha4 (Feb 19, 2004)
NEW FEATURES
o Many SVG driver enhancements from Martin Kroeker
(martin@ruby.chemie.uni-freiburg.de)
o New features in EMF driver from ITOH Yasufumi:
support for locale text (if iconv() is available),
arc box, open arc, rotated ellipse, picture,
dash-triple-dotted line style, and all fill patterns.
BUGS FIXED
o "cleandir" directive missing from doc/manual/Makefile
o Added note about requiring dummy argument for -R option
o SVG driver bug fixes: semicolon missing in CSS properties, multiline
string problem, width, height and viewbox attributes now relative to
figure bounds instead of pagesize. Fixes from Justus Piater.
o Font info was put in the pstex file even when there were only special
texts.
---------------------------------
Patchlevel 5-alpha3 (Dec 9, 2003)
NEW FEATURES
o Global option "-Z maxdim" to scale figure so that largest dimension
(width or height) is maxdim inches
o Shapepar driver to generate shaped paragraphs for LaTeX (-L shape)
from Christian Gollwitzer
o I18N support postscript file installation moved to fig2dev/dev
directory and installed with InstallNonExecFile (imake directive)
o options -dAutoFilterColorImages=false and -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode
added to ghostscript call when exporting to pdf to improve image
quality during compression
o "Epoch" added to rpm spec
o New HP/GL2 driver from Glenn Burkhardt with paper size selection,
offset, centering and orientation options
BUGS FIXED
o comments about BINDIR added to fig2dev/Imakefile and transfig/Imakefile
so user can easily change installation directory of both programs
o MKDIRHIER used in Imakefile for installing support files instead of mkdir
o commands like \\small used instead of SetFigFont for thick and thin
dots for LaTeX export
From Bo Thilde
o removed typedefs of uint, ushort and ulong from genemf.h because
systems should already have those defined
o SVG driver not mentioned in fig2dev.1 (.man)
o shortened two fprintf calls in gensvg.c for HP-UX which can't handle
long strings
o If an imported picture path points to some directory which is not the
current directory, and there exists a picture file of the same name in
the current directory, and the correct file is not compressed, fig2dev
would use the file in the current directory because it stripped off
the path first. This was fixed by looking for the uncompressed name
first.
o Color values should be divided by 255, not 256 to produce values from
0 to 1.0 in LaTeX, Tk and PostScript drivers, and readpng and readpcx
utilities
o Increased precision of arc angles from %.1f to %.4f in PS/EPS/PDF
driver
o Postscript support files now installed with r/w permissions only (was
r/w/x)
o Metapost (mp) driver now generates all Fig styles of arrowheads
From Tim Braun
o Bug in pic preamble - default font size either 0 or garbage
o PDF not rotated anymore for landscape mode (similar to eps)
o fontmag not set when magnification was read from Fig file
o When there were only LaTeX special texts without backslashes (\) and
no other objects in the figure, a bounding box of 0 width was produced
for EPS, PS and PSTEX output.
o Added ZLIBDIR variable in fig2dev/Imakefile to specify zlib directory
if different from standard location
o pstex_t export lacked border option (-b) to align LaTeX text when
pstex figure specified border (also fixed in xfig Combined PS/LaTeX)
o warnings in gentpic.c caused failure of gcc on hppa architecture under
Debian
o cleaned up lots of implicit declarations of functions/procs
o transfig: the "psfig" language was missing from the list of languages,
making things go out of sync past "ps".
o transfig: "transfig -L pstex" was generating rules for ps not eps
o slight margin added to text bounds
o an incorrect printf specification (%d instead of %ld) in gemp.c
o "#include <varargs.h>" no longer needed (and is unsupported by gcc 3.3)
o Not a bug, really but a workaround for programs that generate Fig files
with arcs that have coincident start and end points with the intent
of making a circle (TCM apparently does this). Without this
workaround, such arcs have the same start and end angle, which
ghostcript and probably other PostScript interpreters take to mean
"don't draw anything". This fix adds 0.01 degrees to the end angle
if it is identical to the start angle.
o Exporting a file with a picture containing a path with blanks failed
o Incorrect ISO translation was:
"\\.S", /* latin capital letter S with dot above */
Should be:
"\\.Z", /* latin capital letter Z with dot above */
o LaTeX: Correction to the ISO-8859-2 ogonek diacritic mark now uses \k
instead of cedilla (\c). If the macro \k isn't defined in your
situation or you don't see the ogonek then define the macro: \def\k#1{\c{#1}}
before the \begin{document}.
From Jerzy Sobczyk
o Bug in user-defined colors when exporting to CGM. If color numbers
weren't contiguous, e.g. 32, 34, then it couldn't find color 34.
o glyphs in the Symbol font that have descenders weren't taken into
account when calculating text bounds
o missing blue and extra brown color in LaTeX driver
o \smash directive added back to text objects in eepic driver (was removed
in 3.2.4)
o Quotes in FIG2DEV_LIBDIR definition (fig2dev/Imakefile) interferred when
using $DESTDIR
o Comments not inserted in EMF output anymore (not valid in language)
o float/int mixup in printf in pic driver for font size caused default
font size to be 0
o bug in hp/gl (ibmgl) driver produced incorrect JCL code to enter HP/GL
mode when using -k option
o point size factor changed from 72.27 to 72 points per inch as specified
by HP tech notes
o change in 3.2.4 which included all "special" (LaTeX) texts in the
bounding box that don't have any backslashes ("\") in them failed to
take into account inline equations using the "$". Now those special
texts are also excluded from the bounding box calculation.
o various man page format errors fixed
