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diff --git a/systems/doc/pdftex/NEWS b/systems/doc/pdftex/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..3a66ff8dd5 --- /dev/null +++ b/systems/doc/pdftex/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,720 @@ +pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live 2017) +- changes: + - rename envvar SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH_TEX_PRIMITIVES to FORCE_SOURCE_DATE; + no changes in functionality. + - if the \pdfpageattr token list contains the string "/MediaBox", + omitting output of the default /MediaBox. + +- bugfixes: + - \pdflastmatch more reliable when there was no match + +--------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.17 (TeX Live 2016) (May 20, 2016) +- changes: + - if the environment variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH is set, use its value for + the PDF CreationDate and ModDate values, and to seed the trailer /ID. + This by itself should suffice to create reproducible PDFs. The + new primitives below support more granular output tweaks with the + same intent. + - if the environment variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH_TEX_PRIMITIVES is set + to 1, the \year, \day, and \time primitives are also initialized + from the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH value, instead of the current time. + + - new primitive \pdfinfoomitdate to omit CreationDate and ModDate keys. + - new primitive \pdftrailerid to set seed for the trailer /ID + computation; with an empty argument \pdftrailerid{}, the /ID is omitted. + - new primitive \pdfsuppressptexinfo to omit PTEX.* keys from output; + the value is a bitmask: + % 1 -> PTEX.Fullbanner + % 2 -> PTEX.FileName + % 4 -> PTEX.PageNumber + % 8 -> PTEX.InfoDict (/Producer /Creator /CreationDate /ModDate /Trapped) + +- bugfixes: + - do not crash if font size of a vf >= 2048pt. + +--------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015) +- changes: + - support JPEG Exif as well as JFIF. + - do not even warn if \pdfinclusionerrorlevel is negative. + - sync with xpdf 3.04. + +- bugfixes: + - ensure line-ending after a group dict in the output. + +--------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.15 (TeX Live 2014) +- changes: + - sync with Knuth TeX 3.14159265, e-TeX 2.6 + - new warning-suppression parameter \pdfsuppresswarningpagegroup + - new primitives for fake interword spaces: + \pdfinterwordspaceon, \pdfinterwordspaceoff, \pdffakespace + +--------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.14 was released on 2013-05-30 (TeX Live 2013) +- changes: + - sync with e-TeX 2.5 + - better largefile support + +- bugfixes: + - inclusion of particular pdf's failed (http://bugs.debian.org/672951) + +--------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.13 was released on 2012-04-21 (TeX Live 2012) +- changes: + - new warning-suppression parameters + \pdfsuppresswarningdupdest and \pdfsuppresswarningdupmap + +- bugfixes: + - better support for uniABCD and indexXYZ glyph names + - large-file support (from peb) + +--------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.12 was released on 2011-06-20 (TeX Live 2011) +- bugfixes: + - for 16-bit images in PDF 1.4 mode + +--------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.11 was released on 2010-07-28 +- bugfixes: + - ttf2afm reported wrong ItalicAngle for some fonts + - detect/prevent wrong arguments of \pdfsetmatrix [#4301] + - check for pdf nodes in dvi mode + - whitespace should be inserted when concatenating contents stream [#4307] + - pdftex fails to include seemingly good PDF [#4309] + - wrong description of \pdfelapsedtime in manual [#4300] + - \pdfgentounicode conflicts with cmap+\pdffontattr [#4291] + - \rightmarginkern doesn't work for last lines [#4292] + - \pdfximagebbox wrong for PDF files with /Rotate != 0 [#939] + - \leftmarginkern & \rightmarginkern doesn't work with box registers > 255 [#4312] + +- changes: + - pdf inclusion: removed the requirement that named resources must be indirect (#4299) + - added debug messages for pdftex_fail() + +--------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.10 was released on 2009-11-30 +- sync with TL09 +- changes: + - increased sup_dest_names_size + - partial support for TTC + - enable mktexpk by default + - patch #2087: Support for CMap namespace + - \pdfshellescape is 2 if restricted shell escapes are enabled. +- bugfixes: + - segfault when processing certain TTF fonts + - jpg image resolution not set in some cases + - \pdfobj file {foo} for files foo that don't end with '\n' + - bugfix #4289: \primitive\pdfoutput cannot be queried + - bugfix #4288: character width mismatch in font XY.vf ignored + - bugfix #993: "/Names array not sorted correctly" + - bugfix #606: "Forbidden ... while scanning ???" + - bugfix #3253: Bug in Type1 font subsetting + - \show\pdfstartlink is wrong + - pdf_set_rule() uses incorrect variables + - bugfix #2090: enabling LFS breaks PDF inclusion on some systems (warning: not heavily-tested yet) + - t1_log() macro caused problem with some compilers + +-------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.9 was released on 2008-08-16 +- bugfixes: + - pdf inclusion (inconsistent use of -DDISABLE_OUTLINE) + - bug #2068 (cross-platform format dumping/undumping) + - bug #2082 (font_dim[FONTNAME_CODE] not initialized) + - bug #2083 (unchecked assignment) + +-------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.8 was released on 2008-07-10 +- Incorporated synctex +- Incorporated the new version of TeX: 3.1415926 +- The pool file is now compiled in +- Bugfix: + - some large TrueType fonts caused pdftex to segfault (1866) + - fix for copying contents streams of included pdf (1751) + - Fonts from included PDFs for which maplines existed missed their /StemV + values + - \pdflastximagepages was broken for JBIG2 images + - included PDFs with a negative lly in the MediaBox with a depth != 0 with + \pdfximage were wrongly vertically diplaces (936) + - PDF inclusion was broken on ppc-darwin (941) +- pdfTeX uses libpng 1.2.29 + +------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.141592-1.40.7 was released on 2008-02-17 +- Bugfix: + - PDFs > 2GiB (LFS) were still broken on 32-bit systems + +------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.141592-1.40.6 was released on 2008-02-04 +- Bugfixes: + - inclusion of encrypted PDFs was broken (861) + - PDFs > 2GiB (LFS) would be broken, even on 64-bit systems. Now the basic + support for LFS is there, you only need to supply the right compiler flags + (this is not yet done automatically). See build.sh for hints on compiling. + - Page groups in pdfs (see the discussion in the notes vor v1.10a) are now + handled correctly (741) + - When including transparent PNGs pdftex now automatically adds a Page Group + (896) + - broken map files would lead to core dumps + - unusual TrueType fonts would lead to an assertion error (874) + - the null object in the object table was never initialized + - included PDFs with /PieceInfo lost their /LastModified date + - an empty colorstack crashed pdftex (897) +- pdfTeX uses libpng 1.2.24 +- pdfTeX uses xpdf 3.02pl2 + +------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.141592-1.40.5 was released on 2007-07-31 +- Bugfixes: + - calling 'pdftex %' would crash (830) + - fflush the recorder file +- pdfTeX uses xpdf 3.02pl1 + +------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.141592-1.40.4 was released on 2007-07-11 +- Bugfixes: + - It was impossible to set the font Flags to 4 in map entries (762) + - The font Flags of non-embedded fonts were wrong (794) + Now pdfTeX uses the Flags from map entries (if found) or guesses values for + the base14 fonts. It also warns when you not-embedd a font without Flags + - Subsetted fonts still had their private UniqueID copied (774) + - \pdfunescapehex returned a wrong result if the last character was not a + hexadecimal digit and the last hex pair was incomplete (777) + - Copying a box with \pdfstartlink inside produced the same /Link annotation + object multiply, with same object number and identical coordinates on the + page (799) + - When trying to use a font without TFM, without map entry, and no PK font + available, a broken PDF was produced. Now no PDF is generated and the error + messages have been improved (721) + - Problems with vf fonts (722) + - With pdf inclusion the font descriptor could get mixed up and miss some + required keys (810) + - Font expansion led to wrong log output of \kerns (736) + - \pdfprimitive was broken (see + http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2007-April/002860.html) + - The -recorder option of web2c didn't record fonts, included images and some + other files (772) + - Using \pdfximage in IniTeX before \dump caused a crash when the format was + used (824) + - \letterspacefont had some problems (712) + - \letterspacefont and \pdffontexpand had some problems (747) +- Improvements: + - pdf compression is now a bit faster (patch 726) + - the behaviour of TeX when it asks for a file name has been improved (756) +- pdfTeX uses libpng 1.2.18 +- pdfTeX uses xpdf 3.02 + +------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.141592-1.40.3 was released on 2007-02-04 +- bugfix: documents which used type 1 and truetype or opentype fonts resulted in + broken pdfs (729) + +------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.141592-1.40.2 was released on 2007-01-31 +- bugfix: maplines starting with = would not work as advertised +- bugfix: xpdf would complain that PDF 1.7 is too new + +------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.141592-1.40.1 was released on 2007-01-08 +- bugfix: the shell escape function was a bit broken +- bugfix: \pdffontattr gave confusing warnings +- allow JBIG2 images only with PDF >= 1.4 +- allow \pdfglyphtounicode in dvi mode for format generation +- pdfTeX uses libpng 1.2.15 + +------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.141592-1.40.0 was released on 2007-01-01 +- pdfetex (as a separate binary/program) is gone; all extensions are now in + pdftex. The make files still know about the target pdfetex, but it's just a + copy of pdftex +- The sources of TeX, eTeX and pdfTeX have been merged into one file pdftex.web + and one change file pdftex.ch. The sources of TeX and eTeX distributed are + just there for reference +- New features: + - pdfTeX can now generate PDF 1.5 object streams, which leads to smaller + PDFs. This is controlled by setting \pdfobjcompresslevel to a value >0 (3 + compress everything, 2 don't compress /Info, 1 also don't compress embedded + PDFs) and works only with PDF >=1.5 + - pdfTeX now supports another image file format: JBIG2 files (.jbig2) + - the memory allocated for objects and destination names now grows + dynamically + - pdfTeX now generates smaller PDFs since for char positioning the width of + chars (/Widths) is stored with more precision and so the chars must rarely + be positioned separately + - the PK resolution is now taken from the "pk_dpi" parameter in texmf.cnf if + it has not been set in the format file or by the user + - pdfTeX now removes the generated pdf in case of a fatal error + - pdfTeX now sets /ModDate and /Trapped in the InfoDict by default (the + values can be overridden with \pdfinfo) + - the format of warnings and errors issued by pdfTeX has been changed and + unified + - the output of -version has been extended and now includes information about + the libraries actually used, which can be handy when using shared libraries + - rules and their positioning on the page are now inside a qQ group +- New primitives: + - pdfTeX can now handle colourstacks. + - \pdfcolorstackinit + A stack is initialized by \pdfcolorstackinit. It expands to the number of + the new stack. The common case, the traditinal color stack is already + initialized as first stack: \pdfcolorstackinit page direct {0 g 0 G} + The keyword "page" means that this stack is page based. At the start of + the new page, the current stack value is automatically set. + - \pdfcolorstack + \pdfcolorstack <stack number> push {<new color>} + pushes the current value on the stack and sets the <new color>. + \pdfcolorstack <stack number> pop + pops and sets the current stack value. + \pdfcolorstack <stack number> current + sets the current stack value without changing the stack. This is useful + for stacks that are initialized without keyword "page". Thus the page + start setting can be set manually. + \pdfcolorstack <stack number> set {<new color>} + The current value is set to <new color>. + - Transformation matrices can now be manipulated more cleanly: + Currently matrix changes are done and hidden inside \pdfliteral nodes; + pdfTeX doesn't parse its contents and does not know the new settings of the + transform matrix. Thus the new primitives to save pdfTeX from parsing + \pdfliteral contents and to notify pdfTeX about matrix changes to use them + in calculating link and anchor positions. + - \pdfsetmatrix{<a> <b> <c> <d>} + is the equivalent to \pdfliteral{<a> <b> <c> <d> 0 0 cm} + - \pdfsave is the equivalent to \pdfliteral{q} + - \pdfrestore is the equivalent to \pdfliteral{Q} + - \pdfprimitive\TeX-primitive executes the original \TeX-primitive even if + the command has been redefined since. E.g. + \let\relax\undefined\pdfprimitive\relax + expands to \relax. + \ifpdfprimitive\TeX-primitive is true if \TeX-primitive has its original + meaning + - \ifpdfabsnum and \ifpdfabsdim are like \ifnum and \ifdim, but don't care + about negative numbers + - shell escape: if the first character of a filename for \openin, \openout + \input is a pipe symbol (|), the filename is assumed to be a request for a + pipe to a command line that is given in the rest of the filename + - draftmode: With \pdfdraftmode=1 or the commandline switch -draftmode pdfTeX + doesn't write the output pdf and doesn't actually read any images, thus + speeding up compilations when you know you need an extra run but don't care + about the output, e.g. just to get the BibTeX references right + - \pdfpxdimen (introduced in 1.30) is now a real dimension parameter. It + allows one base dimensions on pixels. 1px defaults to 1bp (or 72dpi), but + can be changed with the \pdfpxdimen primitive: + \pdfpxdimen=1in % 1 dpi + \divide\pdfpxdimen by 96 % 96 dpi + \hsize=1200px + Now \hsize is (1in/96)*1200 + - \pdflastlink returns the object number of the last \pdfstartlink + - \pdfsavepos now works in DVI mode +- Fonts: + - support for subfonts: This creates all needed map entries for subfonts + automatically and handles Unicode mappings + - ToUnicode entries for Type1 fonts (patch 580) +- HZ: + - added patch 462: HZ font expansion in autoexpand mode now produces smaller + pdf files, as it works by modififying the text matrix for single fonts + instead of embedding many expanded font versions. Therefore HZ now can be + used also for TrueType fonts and even for non-embedded fonts (e.g. + Times-Roman) +- Bugfixes: + - the PDF statistics in the log are now correct + - added JFIF detection patch to writejpg.c (bug 548) + - bugfix: invalid pdf created if font name contains space (509) + - bugfix: truetype OS/2 v3 fonts (594) + - bugfix: Type1C (CFF) fonts of embedded pdfs didn't get replaced +- pdfTeX uses libpng 1.2.14 + +------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.141592-1.30.6 was released on 2006-02-16 +- bugfix: updated xpdf to 3.01pl2 + +------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.141592-1.30.5 was released on 2005-12-04 +- bugfix: \pdfximage prints the file name twice (bug 441) +- bugfix: buffer overflow with \pdfmatch (bug 444) +- bugfix: updated xpdf to 3.01pl1 + +------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.141592-1.30.4 was released on 2005-10-17 +- bugfix: whitespaces in filenames didn't work on Unix anymore (bug 377) +- bugfix: two \immediates cancel themselves (bug 437) +- bugfix: wrong file name in error messages of image inclusion (bug 435) + +------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.141592-1.30.3 was released on 2005-09-04 +- bugfix: \write18 + +------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.141592-1.30.2 was released on 2005-08-25 +- fixed some build problems and minor bugs introduced in 1.30.1 + +------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.141592-1.30.1 was released on 2005-08-21 +- the eTeX extensions can now be enabled with the cmdline switch -etex +- pdfTeX uses xpdf 3.01 + +------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.141592-1.30.0 was released on 2005-08-01 +- pdfxtex (introduced with 1.20a) is gone; all extensions are now in pdf(e)tex. +- Some primitives have been renamed; the old names will still work, but are + deprecated and some give a warning that they are obsolete: + \pdfoptionpdfminorversion -> \pdfminorversion + \pdfoptionalwaysusepdfpagebox -> \pdfforcepagebox + \pdfoptionpdfinclusionerrorlevel -> \pdfinclusionerrorlevel +- pdftex knows two new units: + - new Didot (1nd=0.375mm) + - new Cicero (1nc=12nd) +- New primitives: + - Inclusion of pngs has been greatly improved: It now does + - alpha channel and transparency (only if %!PDF >=1.4) + - 16-bit colour (only if %!PDF >=1.5); this must be enabled by setting + \pdfimagehicolor to 1. + - gamma correction; this must be enabled by setting \pdfimageapplygamma to + 1. The device gamma is taken from \pdfgamma. If no embedded value can be + found in the png image, then the value of \pdfimagegamma is used instead. + - fast direct embedding of png streams, if their structure allows this; the + automatic fall-back is to decompress and re-compress as before. + - pdfTeX now has an interface to the precise system time (if available) as an + aid in benchmarking TeX macro code. + - \pdfelapsedtime is a read-only integer that (initially) returns the + amount of time passed since the start of this run. This amount is given + in `scaled seconds': the value 65536 counts as one second. If more time + has passed than 32767 seconds, (2^31)-1 will be returned. + - \pdfresettimer updates the internal timer, such that subsequent calls to + \pdfelapsedtime will restart from 0. + - pdfTeX can now generate random numbers: + - \pdfuniformdeviate <count> generates a uniformly distributed random + integer value between 0 (inclusive) and <count> (exclusive). + - \pdfnormaldeviate expands to a random integer value with a mean of 0 and + a unit of 65536. + - \pdfrandomseed allows access to the current seed value. + - \pdfsetrandomseed <count> sets the random seed to a specific value. + - \pdfnoligatures\f disables ligatures for the loaded font \f. + - Escaping strings: + - \pdfescapestring{<a>} escapes the string <a> so that it can be used as + PDF string. + - \pdfescapename{<a>} escapes the string <a> so that it can be used as PDF + name. + - \pdfescapehex{<a>} converts the string <a> to uppercase hexadecimal + representation. + - \pdfunescapehex{<b>} reverses the effect of \pdfescapehex + - \pdfcreationdate expands to the date string that pdfTeX uses in the info + dict as default. + - \pdffilemoddate{<file>} expands to the modification date of <file> in the + same format as \pdfcreationdate (PDF date format). + - \pdffilesize{<file>} expands to the size of <file> as string. + - \pdfmdfivesum{<abc>} or \pdfmdfivesum file {<file>} calculates the md5 + sum (of a string or a file) and converts it to uppercase hexadecimal format + (same as \pdfescapehex). + - \pdffiledump [offset <int>] [length <int>] <general text> + Expands to a hex dump of the file given in <general text>, starting at + given offset or 0 with given length. + - \pdfshellescape is a read-only integer that is 1 if \write18 is enabled, 0 + otherwise. + - \pdfxformname <object number>, which expands to the number in the + corresponding form XObject name. + - \leftmarginkern <box number> and \rightmarginkern <box number> tell the + margin kern at the left and right side of the horizontal list stored in box + <box number>. + - \pdfpkmode is a token register that sets the MF mode for pixel font + generation. The contents of this register is dumped into the format, so one + can (optionally) preset it e.g. in part of pdftexconfig.tex. + - \pdftracingfonts: An integer variable controlling the tracing of font + expansion. It is zero by default; then we get a log (with fontexpansion) + like this + ...\tenrm t + ...\tenrm (+20) e + Without font expansion, this default should be compatible with TeX's + original log output. + If \pdftracingfonts is set to 1 (or greater), we get a more verbose log: + ...\xivtt (cmtt10@14.0pt) t + ...\xivtt (cmtt10+20@14.0pt) e + See also bug 304. +- New experimental primitives: + - \pdfmatch [icase] [subcount <number>}] {<pattern>}{<string>} + Implements pattern matching using the POSIX regex. + It returns the same values as \pdfstrcmp, but with the following semantics: + -1: error case (invalid pattern, ...) + 0: no match + 1: match found + Options: + * icase: case insensitive matching + * subcount: it sets the table size for found subpatterns. + A number "-1" resets the table size to the start default. + - \pdflastmatch <number> + The result of \pdfmatch is stored in an array. The entry "0" contains the + match, the following entries submatches. The positions of the matches are + also available. They are encoded: + <position> "->" <match string> + The position "-1" with an empty string indicates that this entry is not + set. + - \pdfstrcmp{<a>}{<b>} compares two strings and returns the strings "0" if + <a> equals <b>, "-1" if <a> is less than <b>, "1" if <a> is greater than + <b> +- The primitive \pdfmovechars has been removed (bug 294) +- Bugfixes: + - empty strings are not supressed anymore (bug 335) + - \unhboxing and character protusion didn't work well together (bug 292) + - --jobname didn't work if there was no filename at all (bug 302) + - Some problem with fonts on solaris (bug 315) + - Dangling font objects with non-replacable fonts (bug 311). + - \pdfxform didn't work with box>255 (bug 310) + - cmap: unicode ???? is mapped to multiple glyphs (bug 306). +- pdfTeX uses zlib 1.2.3 + +------------------------------------------------ +pdfTeX 3.141592-1.21a was released on 2005-02-04 +- ttf2afm 1.0: + - added support for refering to glyphs via unicode in encoding files (ie 'uniXXX') + - added some more info to the AFM output + - some minor bug fixes + - a short documentation available +- pdftex now understand forms 'uniXXXX' in encoding files (only makes sense + with TrueType fonts) +- added subset tag for TrueType fonts +- PDF strings are now printed as following: + (This is a string) -> (This is a string) + This is a string -> (This is a string) + <a1b245c1a2...> -> <a1b245c1a2...> +- check for double newline char to get rid of empty lines in PDF output +- Fixed a bug in the scanning of map lines introduced in the fix of bug #242 in + 1.20b. +- Fixed three problems in xpdf; xpdf is now 3.00pl3 +- \ifeof18 is a simple method to test if \write18 is enabled. +- a few extensions in pdfxtex: + - \pdflastximagecolordepth returns the last color depth + - \pdfximage supports a keyword "colorspace" following an object number + representing a ColorSpace object + - \pdfstrcmp compares two strings + - \pdfescapestring/\pdflastescapedstring provide a way to escape string + - \pdffirstlineheight/\pdflastlinedepth/\pdfeachlineheight/\pdfeachlinedepth + allow fixing line dimen + - patches from Taco + - px dimen unit + - tagcode patch + - quitvmode patch + +------------------------------------------------ +pdfTeX 3.141592-1.20b was released on 2004-12-22 +- Fixed some minor bugs, mostly with hz +- The info line "output format initialized to PDF/DVI" isn't shown anymore, as + this info wasn't reliable (bug 112). +- Now the PDF-related statistics (PDF objects...) in the .log file is only + shown in PDF output mode. It start with a line "PDF statistics:". +- \pdfimageresolution is not limited to 2400 [dpi] anymore, can now be between + 0 and 65535 [dpi]. +- pdfTeX uses xpdf 3.00pl2 +- pdfTeX uses libpng 1.2.8, which fixes some png-related bugs. + +------------------------------------------------ +pdfTeX 3.141592-1.20a was released on 2004-09-06 +- There is a new program pdfxtex, which contains experimental features which + might end up in pdftex in the future. +- Most distributions now use eTeX as the default engine, so when you call + pdftex you will get pdfeTeX. Most distributions now also use pdfTeX as the + default engine, so when you call latex you will get pdfeTeX running LaTeX.:-) +- We are setting up pdfTeX as a project at sarovar + (http://sarovar.org/projects/pdftex/). Please report bugs etc. through the + site. +- Support for the file pdftex.cfg is gone completely. All parameters that had + previously been set by it can be set through primitives; their values are + dumped to the format file. +- The searchpath for encoding and mapfiles has been changed. + See http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2004-January/004734.html and + http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2004-January/004791.html +- eTeX is now version 2.2, incorporating the last changes to TeX (3.141592). +- New options for \pdfmapfile: + General functionality: Map items (map files, new: also single map lines; see + \pdfmapline) are put in list of pending map items. During the next shipout, + pending map items are sequentially scanned for their map entries, and an + internal map entry database is updated, using the modes below. Then the list + of pending map items is cleared. Map entries of fonts already in use are left + untouched. New: All \pdfmapfile and \pdfmapline commands can also be given + after shipout of the first page. + - \pdfmapfile {foo.map} clears the list of pending map items and starts a new + list with the only pending file foo.map. When the map entry lines of + foo.map are scanned, duplicate map entries are ignored and a warning is + issued. This is the old behaviour. + - \pdfmapfile {+foo.map} puts foo.map in the list of pending map items. When + the map entry lines of foo.map are scanned, duplicate map entries are + ignored and a warning is issued. + - \pdfmapfile {=foo.map} puts foo.map in the list of pending map items. When + foo.map is scanned, matching map entries in database are replaced by new + entries from foo.map. + - \pdfmapfile {-foo.map} puts foo.map in the list of pending map items. When + foo.map is scanned, matching map entries are deleted from database. + - \pdfmapfile {} clears the list of pending map items. It does not affect map + entries already registered into the database. This is the old behaviour. +- New command \pdfmapline {line}. It's like \pdfmapfile but here you can set + single map lines like in the map files directly. The modifiers (+-=) have the + same effect as with \pdfmapfile. +- Simplified the handling of the 14 Type 1 "standard fonts" (Times, + Helvetica...): They are now more or less handled like any other Type 1 font. + See http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2004-July/000648.html +- hz: So far the font expansion feature required that the user must be able to + create expanded tfms (eg cmr10+10.tfm). Now font expansion can be used + without creating these tfms. + See http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2004-May/000504.html +- hz: Changed \pdffontexpand primitive --> the expand factor is now fixed to + 1000 and the argument is ignored. This will lead to spurious texts of "1000" + in your output if you compile old documents. +- New command \pdftexbanner which returns a string with the full banner of the + current binary (e.g. "This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.20a (Web2C 7.5.3) + kpathsea version 3.5.3") +- The PTEX.FullBanner key is now inserted in the document info dict instead of + the catalog. Newer versions of Acrobat display it. +- Now includes support for encTeX. +- Extended \pdfannot to use reserveobjnum/useobjnum + See http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2004-March/000424.html +- Bugfix: pdfTeX would read an .xpdfrc when including pdfs. + See http://tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2004-March/004835.html +- Bugfix: The strings in /ID would sometimes be empty. +- Bugfix: Even when mapfiles or encodings or PostScript font files were + missing, pdfTeX still produced a (most often corrupt) pdf. Now it aborts with + an error in these cases. +- numerous small bugfixes. +- pdfTeX now uses the GNU libavl from Ben Pfaff for managing of fontmap + entries. +- pdfTeX uses zlib 1.2.1 +- pdfTeX uses xpdf 3.00 +- pdfTeX uses libpng 1.2.7 + +------------------------------------------------ +pdfTeX 3.141592-1.11b was released on 2003-10-06 +- Bugfix: The handling of /Rotate produced displaced images when /Rotate was 90 + or 270. + +------------------------------------------------ +pdfTeX 3.141592-1.11a was released on 2003-08-02 +- New command \pdftrailer analogue to \pdfcatalog whose argument ends up in the + trailer dictionary. +- The behaviour when an included pdf has a newer version than the one specified + with \pdfoptionpdfminorversion can be controlled by the new internal integer + \pdfoptionpdfinclusionerrorlevel: If it's 0, pdfTeX gives only a warning; if + it's 1, it raises an error. + This can also be set in pdftex.cfg with pdf_inclusion_errorlevel +- The syntax for outlines has been extended to allow attributes: + <outline spec> --> <attr spec> <action spec> [count <number>] <general text> + See http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2003-June/000165.html +- The syntax of \pdfobj has been extended: + \pdfobj <object type spec> (h, v, m) + <object type spec> --> reserveobjnum + | [useobjnum <number>] [<attr spec>] [stream [<attr spec>]] <object contents> + <object contents> --> <file spec> + | <general text> + When the optional keyword `reserveobjnum' and `useobjnum' is not given, the + behaviour is unchanged. + See also http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/pdftex/2003-March/003814.html +- Bugfix: /CreationDate didn't care for the timezone and could be fooled. + See http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2003-July/000223.html +- Bugfix: The translation of 8-bit characters in included pdfs that had their + eighth bit set sometimes got wrong because of a missing typecast. + See http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2003-July/000216.html +- Bugfix: pdfTeX -ini would crash with a minimal file because it didn't read + it's config and so didn't know anything about fonts. + See http://tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2003-July/004262.html +- Bugfix: \pdfstartlink would produce spurious /NewWindow entries. Also the + syntax of <action spec> and <goto-action spec> has been cleaned up. + See http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2003-June/000167.html +- Bugfix: \pdffontattr was not used for T3 fonts. + See http://tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2003-June/004127.html +- Bugfix: The cropbox of an included pdf would sometimes not be used. + See http://tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2003-May/004037.html +- pdfTeX uses xpdf 2.02 + +------------------------------------------------ +pdfTeX 3.141592-1.10b was released on 2003-02-26 +- The numbers in transformation matrices are allways written with maximum + precision (see http://tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2003-February/003596.html). +- Incorporated the new version of TeX: 3.141592 +- Bugfix: Numbers in pdfs would sometimes be just a wee bit of (changed + implementation of pdftoepdf.convertNumToPDF). +- Bugfix: When setting the /Producer, /Creator or /CreationDate keys with + \pdfinfo pdfTeX would also insert default values which caused duplicate keys + in the info dict (see + http://tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2003-February/003524.html). +- The reading of mapfiles is much faster (see + http://tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2002-July/002843.html). +- Bugfix: AR5 had problems with the CTM when displaying in "fit visible" mode + (see http://tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2002-May/002688.html). +- Bugfix: str_in_str had wrong indices (see + http://tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2002-March/002367.html). +- Bugfix: decimal_digits defaulted to 0, which caused problems with included + images when including pdfs (see + http://tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2003-February/003518.html). + It now defaults to 4. +- Bugfix: the type of included images was decided based only on the extensions; + now pdfTeX looks for magic bytes at the start of files (see + http://tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2003-February/003519.html) + +----------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.14159-1.10a was released on 2003-01-16 +- pdfTeX is now able to produce pdf1.4 (which is also the default) and has + almost complete support for including pdf1.4 files: + - Additional attributes like MetaData are copied from included pdfs. + - Currently the Page Group attribute (see sections 7.3.6 and 7.5.5 of the pdf + 1.4 reference) of included pdfs is NOT copied (as we don't know how to + handle this when imposing pdfs). + This means including pdfs with transparency features will work as long as + the included pdf doesn't use Page Groups; if it does, the result might not + be what is expected (One application known to use Page Groups is Adobe + Illustrator v9++). The distributed pdfTeX binaries will give a warning + about any occurance of a Page Group in an included pdf and ignore the Page + Group (thus producing syntactically correct pdfs but probably not the + intended output). + Acrobat 5++ and newer versions of Jaws display files without Page Groups + correctly, so this might not really be a problem. + See pdftoepdf.cc for preprocessor flags which allow this behaviour to be + changed (copying the Page Group (most likely producing incorrect pdf) or + treating Page Groups as errors). +- The new primitive \pdfoptionpdfminorversion sets the pdf version of the + generated file and the latest allowed pdf version of included pdfs: + \pdfoptionpdfminorversion=3 + tells pdfTeX to set the pdf version to 1.3 and allows only included pdfs with + versions <= 1.3 . + The default for \pdfoptionpdfminorversion is 4 for pdf 1.4 + This must appear before any data is written to the generated pdf file, so + you should put it at the very start of your files. + This can also be set in pdftex.cfg with pdf_minorversion +- It is now possible to specify the pdf page box to use when including pdfs. + The syntax has been extended: + \pdfximage [<image attr spec>] <general text> (h, v, m) + <image attr spec> --> [<rule spec>] [<attr spec>] [<page spec>] [<pdf box spec>] + <pdf box spec> --> mediabox|cropbox|bleedbox|trimbox|artbox + The default is cropbox (which defaults to mediabox), to be compatible with + previous versions of pdfTeX. + The page box specified at \pdfximage can be globally overridden with the + config parameter always_use_pdfpagebox and the command + \pdfoptionalwaysusepdfpagebox <integer>, where 0 is the default (use whatever + is specified with \pdfximage), 1 is media, 2 is crop, 3 is bleed, 4 is trim + and 5 is artbox. This can only be set once per object, i.e. the value used at + \pdfximage is remembered. + See the pdf reference for an explanation of the boxes. +- The support for the inclusion of jpeg images has been extended to allow the + inclusion of JPEG/Exif files which are produced by digital photo cameras + (thanks to Hartmut Henkel). +- The support for the inclusion of tif images has been removed as it was of + limited use (it worked only for gray-scale and rgb images) and produced wrong + results (all other images types where treated as rgb images). + Tif images can be converted on *nix on-the-fly to pngs with the help of + ImageMagick, epstopdf.sty or pdftex.def v0.4 or newer, and this rule: + \DeclareGraphicsRule{.tif}{png}{.png}{`convert #1 `basename #1 .tif`.png} +- The extensions for pdf encryption have been removed, since they make the + pdfTeX code overly complex. Those needing pdf encryption are encouraged to + produce a standalone program for encrypting pdfs. +- pdfTeX now writes a usage statistic about the pdfTeX specific memory to the + log. +- numerous bugfixes, most of them in the inclusion of pdfs. +- pdfTeX uses xpdf 2.01 +- pdfTeX uses libpng 1.2.5 + +--------------------------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20011127-ojmw was released on 2002-01-29 + +---------------------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20010806 was released on 2001-08-06 + +---------------------------------------------------------------- +pdfTeX 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20010804 was released on 2001-08-04 + +(This file public domain.) +// vim: tw=79:ts=2:expandtab:autoindent |