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-October 19, 2000 - Version 0.13.2
-
- This release adds preliminary support for TrueType fonts.
-
- Also this release fixes two problems in the makefile that have been
-causing some people difficulties getting dvipdfm to compile. One of these
-problems was the test for compress2() (which was incorrect). The second
-problem occurs because some make implementations don't honor CPPFLAGS. An
-explicit rule has been added to do so.
-
-
-July 25, 2000 - Version 0.13
-
- This release adds support for 16 bit character sets via Omega's OFM
-files. The DVI and VF code was made 16 bit clean. I am anxious
-to hear from Omega users.
-
- The release also changes the way encodings are written to the PDF file.
-The prior method was causing compatibility problems with certain software
-that tried to merge PDF files.
-
- Much of the Type1 font code has been rewritten for this release. The
-rewritten code allows multiple encodings to be used with the same Type 1
-font in the same document so that *all* glyphs (even >256) are available
-from a Type 1 font. Font subsetting has been improved. In particular, the
-internal encoding is completely removed if it's not needed.
-
-July 8, 2000 - Version 0.12.8
-
- The primary change in this release involves fixing file inclusion
-so that it works with the older TeXfig style specials used by the
-psfig macros. Other changes include fixing several bugs in metapost
-file inclusion, bugs in the parsing of colormaps of PDF files to be
-embedded, and a bug that could cause characters to disappear under
-certain conditions. Work on a problem that affects use of XYPIC
-is in progress.
-
- WARNING: THE LATEX SUPPORT FILE NAMED DVIPDFM.DEF HAS CHANGED IN VERSION
- 0.12 TO BE MORE COMPATIBLE WITH DVIPS AND OTHER DVI DRIVERS. IT
- CANNOT BE USED WITH EARLIER VERSIONS OF DVIDFPM. HOWEVER,
- EARLIER VERSIONS OF DVIPDFM.DEF CAN BE USED WITH VERSION 0.12.
-
-September 6, 1999 - Version 0.12
-
- Added native support for including MetaPost output. Along with this
- comes the ability to interpret simple PostScript operators natively.
- This allows dvipdfm to process DVI files intended for dvips as long as
- they don't do anything too fancy. The internal mini-PostScript
- interpreter is good enough to process the "rotate" commands produced by
- the standard dvips graphics driver.
-
- Added support for PostScript files using a helper application such as
- GhostScript. PostScript files may be included with either the "PSfile"
- special or the "plotfile" special.
-
- Added support for the "standard" color specials. Together with the above
- list, dvipdfm can now process many DVI files targets for dvips (as long
- as they use very simple PostScript commands). PostScript code such as
- that produced by PSTricks is not supported.
-
- Added a configuration file for specifying default command line options.
-
-August 21, 1999.
-
- WARNING: VERSION 0.11 CHANGES THE FORMAT OF THE t1fonts.map FILE.
-
- The font code has been reworked in several ways. Version 0.11 does not
-require AFM files. This is a significant improvement since AFM files are
-disappearing from major distributions and repositories. Unfortunately, this
-required a change in the format of the t1fonts.map file.
-
- A bit of the font code has been rewritten to provide work-alikes for the
-"slantfont" and "extendfont" provided by dvips. There are several
-workarounds for various bugs in Acrobat Reader involving searching for and
-selecting ligatures and there's also an attempt to address the disappearing
-Gamma problem.
-
- Version 0.11 also adds PNG and thumbnail support.
-
- Version 0.11 add support for the HyperTeX (HTML) specials for improved
-DVI file portability.
-
-April 8, 1999.
-
- Version 0.10.5 changes the rule code to use a PDF stroke instead
-of filling a rectangular box. It also omits some unecessary
-font information from the PDF file for the base 14 PS fonts.
-This is to produce for slightly smaller PDF files when using
-these fonts.
-
-March 30, 1999.
-
- NOTE: VERSION 0.10.4 CHANGES THE NAME/LOCATION OF ITS CONFIGURATION FILES!
-
- It also fixes a bug that caused nested virtual fonts to fail and fixes a couple of other
- fairly insignificant bugs.
-
- Version 0.10.0 introduced PK fonts support and support
- for TPIC special commands to allow some native graphics
- support (don't you hate distilling those .eps files).
-
-December 30, 1998.
- Version 0.9.0 supports partial font embedding and Flate compression. The
- page tree and destination tree are shipped out as balanced trees.
-
-December 14, 1998.
- Version 0.8.3 fixes a memory leak in the vf code found by Akiro Kakuto.
- Another change hopefully makes running ./configure a bit easier.
-
- Version 0.8.1 and 0.8.2 fix an overflow in the kerning code
- which occurs for large horizontal motions.
-
- Version 0.8 supports virtual fonts. Much of the code has been
- reorganized and rewritten. It is nearly an order of magnitude faster than
- earlier versions. Version 0.8 no longer requires the kpath source
- tree. Instead it uses an installed version of libkpathsea and its
- headers.
-
-Nov. 28, 1998
- Specifying font encoding now supported. There is a font map file for
- the more common PostScript fonts.
-
-Nov. 26, 1998
-
- LaTeX Graphics and hyperref support is now available. See the directory
- latex-support for information and drivers.