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author | Akira Kakuto <kakuto@fuk.kindai.ac.jp> | 2017-08-13 07:14:48 +0000 |
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committer | Akira Kakuto <kakuto@fuk.kindai.ac.jp> | 2017-08-13 07:14:48 +0000 |
commit | 4b4995cda35627e06c43e25ecbe07c1bc1859bb5 (patch) | |
tree | 143ed02a389bab62f44043a54cbc70f69e312e2f /Build/source/libs/xpdf/xpdf-src/ANNOUNCE | |
parent | 00d00899c484b81967558f43c4fe4a896ffdf610 (diff) |
xpdf 4.00
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diff --git a/Build/source/libs/xpdf/xpdf-src/ANNOUNCE b/Build/source/libs/xpdf/xpdf-src/ANNOUNCE index d21dd9c1934..3274339e19c 100644 --- a/Build/source/libs/xpdf/xpdf-src/ANNOUNCE +++ b/Build/source/libs/xpdf/xpdf-src/ANNOUNCE @@ -1,31 +1,33 @@ -Subject: ANNOUNCE: Xpdf 3.04 - a PDF viewer for X - +Subject: ANNOUNCE: Xpdf 4.00 - a PDF viewer and related tools Glyph & Cog, LLC is pleased to announce a new version of Xpdf, the -open source Portable Document Format (PDF) viewer for X. The Xpdf -project also includes a PDF text extractor, PDF-to-PostScript -converter, and various other utilities. +open source Portable Document Format (PDF) viewer. The Xpdf project +also includes a PDF text extractor, PDF-to-PostScript converter, and +various other utilities. + +*** The Xpdf web site has moved to www.xpdfreader.com *** -Xpdf runs under the X Window System on Unix, and OS/2. The non-X -components (pdftops, pdftotext, etc.) also run on Win32 systems and -should run on pretty much any system with a decent C++ compiler. +Xpdf uses the Qt toolkit and runs on Linux and Windows. The +non-graphical components (pdftops, pdftotext, etc.) run on Linux, +Unix, Windows, MacOSX, and pretty much any other system with a decent +C++ compiler. Major changes: -* New text extractor. -* Added the pdftohtml tool. -* Added the pdftopng tool. -* New trapezoid-based rasterizer core (for performance). +* Complete rewrite of the xpdf GUI, using Qt instead of Motif. +* Multithreaded rasterization in the viewer - pages are now rasterized + in a separate thread so that scrolling and other UI activity is not + blocked. +* Added a linear text selection mode. See the `CHANGES' file for a complete list of changes. Source (C++ and C) is available, and it should be fairly easy to -compile for UNIX, OS/2, and Win32. +compile for Linux and Windows. More information, source code, and precompiled binaries are on the -xpdf web page and ftp site: +xpdf web page: - http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/ - ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/ + http://www.xpdfreader.com/ For information on commercial licensing and consulting, please see the Glyph & Cog web site: |