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diff --git a/Build/source/texk/dvipng/RELEASE b/Build/source/texk/dvipng/RELEASE index ea0665aeecf..393590cbfa7 100644 --- a/Build/source/texk/dvipng/RELEASE +++ b/Build/source/texk/dvipng/RELEASE @@ -1,18 +1,28 @@ -Release notes for version 1.9 of the dvipng package: +Release notes for version 1.10 of the dvipng package: This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX and its relatives. -The 1.9 release adds CJK (Chinese, Japanese and Korean) support, more -specifically it adds support for the subfonts used in the CJK-latex -package. +From v 1.10, dvipng will be available under the LGPL rather than the +GPL. This is because the GPL restricts inclusion in some rendering +systems out there. I have decided to change to LGPL because a) there +are other possible albeit slower conversion paths from DVI to PNG, and +b) dvipng has been available (pre-release and release) for five years +now, which should be enough of a head start for the GNU community. -TrueType fonts have been tested somewhat more, and the ttfonts.map -file is now used, if present on the system. -It also fixes a few bugs, most notably a version problem with -Freetype<2.1.8, and a graphics inclusion bug for non-.-paths. +The main code addition is limited support for literal PostScript +specials, using gs. For example, most of the PSTricks package can now +be rendered using dvipng. Unfortunately, dvipng can only handle +drawing PostScript code at the moment, not PostScript code intended to +make dvips + gs scale, rotate, or move DVI glyphs (characters). This +is because the graphics state cannot be communicated back to dvipng +from gs. So no guarantees. Also, the performance in terms of runtime +could be better. + +Other changes include internal changes to the DVI stack, DVI flags, +some build issues on AIX and glyph-index-checking fixes. Report any bugs you find, see README for instructions. |