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diff --git a/Build/source/texk/dvipdfm/README b/Build/source/texk/dvipdfm/README deleted file mode 100644 index 7ee29041a79..00000000000 --- a/Build/source/texk/dvipdfm/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,67 +0,0 @@ - This is dvipdfm, a DVI to PDF translator. I wrote this mainly as -exercise to get at the features of PDF I wanted to experiment with. You're -probably wondering why I don't use PDFTeX. I am a bit of a purist and I -would rather use TeX unmodified as Donald Knuth left it. -You can get it or the manual from - - http://odo.kettering.edu/dvipdfm - -or if you prefer FTP: - - ftp://ftp.kettering.edu/pub/outgoing/mwicks/dvipdfm - - - Features: - - TeX \special's that approximate the functionality - of the PostScript pdfmarks used by Adobe's - Acrobat Distiller. Links, outlines, articles, and named - destinations are supported, for example. - - - Ability to include PDF, JPEG, PNG, MetaPost, and self-contained - (e.g., eps) PostScript (with help from an external program) files as - embedded images. For PDF files, only the first page is included. - Resources will be embedded from the original file as necessary. - File inclusion does not work for PDF files that store the page - contents in several segments in an array. - - - Support for several \special standards for - DVI file portability. - - - Support for thumbnails (with a little help from GhostScript). - - - Re-encoding support for PostScript fonts. dvipdfm - uses the same .enc files as dvips. The mapfile is different. - - - Virtual font support. - - - Support for arbitrary linear graphics transformations. - Any material on the page can be scaled and rotated. - - - An internal color stack accessible via \special's. - - - Beginning of page (BOP) and end of page (EOP) - \special's for placing arbitrary PDF stream - graphics on every page. - - - Partial font embedding and Flate compression - for reduced file size. - - - Balanced page tree and dest tree to improve reader - speed on very large documents. - - Limitations (at present): - - - Contents streams consisting of multiple parts cannot be embedded. - - All instances of the same Type1 font must have the same encoding. - - Additional Information: - - There is a dvipdfm e-mail list. To join, send -e-mail to majordomo@gaspra.kettering.edu containing -the line: - - subscribe dvipdfm - - Mark A. Wicks - Kettering University - mwicks@kettering.edu |