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-Release notes for version 1.10 of the dvipng package:
+Release notes for version 1.9 of the dvipng package:
This program makes PNG graphics from DVI files as obtained from TeX
and its relatives.
-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.
+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.
+TrueType fonts have been tested somewhat more, and the ttfonts.map
+file is now used, if present on the system.
-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.
+It also fixes a few bugs, most notably a version problem with
+Freetype<2.1.8, and a graphics inclusion bug for non-.-paths.
Report any bugs you find, see README for instructions.