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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/dvips/NEWS b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/dvips/NEWS new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..5389f7c95bd --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/dvips/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +$Id: NEWS 46759 2018-02-27 23:14:55Z karl $ +This file records noteworthy changes. (Public domain.) + +dvips 5.998 (TeX Live 2018): + New JFM (Japanese font metrics) spec supported; compiler portability fixes. + +dvips 5.997 (TeX Live 2017): + Make the last papersize special win, to match dvipdfmx; the -L0 option + or L0 config restores the previous behavior of the first special winning. + +dvips 5.996 (TeX Live 2016): + afm2tfm 8.4: only adjust heights of base characters upward for accent + position, and new option -a to omit all adjustments. + +dvips 5.995 (TeX Live 2015): + Remove psfig support, as it is nonfree. + +dvips 5.994 (TeX Live 2014): + Omit UniqueID from subsets. + +dvips 5.993 (TeX Live 2013): + `m' value <= 0 now means no limit on vm. + +dvips 5.992 (TeX Live 2012): + `c' config file include directive. + +dvips 5.991 (TeX Live 2011): + Type 1 parsing bug fixes. + Integer overflow bug fix. + +dvips 5.99 (TeX Live 2010): + Use the type1 path to search for Type 1 fonts. + Support for Japanese pTeX. + Numeric overflow and sprintf checks. + Reformat sources. + + +dvips 5.86 notes: + Minor improvements to epsf style file. + Another patch to t1part.c to make it more liberal in accepting pfb/pfa + font files. + Added PS reencoding reimplementation by Rob Hutchings. + Added 'F' in config file to send controlD. + Added quick exit if -? or -v. + Improved tex.lpro to fix a bug that showed up in distiller. + Improved tex.lpro to work around a problem in certain Windows + environments. + Made dvips complain if it had to section a document. + Eliminated use-after-free bug in hps.c. + Fixed a problem in t1part for the Euro fonts with partial font downloading. + Fixed a big problem in t1part for some font downloading due to + uninitialized allocations. + Added `unknown' paper size back to config.ps. + Made t1part munge the UniqueID to prevent cache problems in Acrobat and + other programs. + Fixed parsing error when whitespace following '<' in psfonts.map. + Made '<<' work correctly (disable partial font downloading for that + particular font) in psfonts.map. + +dvips 5.74 notes: + + The epsf.sty and epsf.tex files are now in the public domain. + The t1part.c has been updated to support binary files with + multiple binary sections. + +dvips 5.72 notes: + + Bug fix in t1part.c??? I hope so! + + Debugging now turned on by default. No real reason to turn it off. + (Too many Linux versions of dvips without debugging have been + distributed, and it makes it very difficult to help the users with + their problems . . .) + +dvips 5.62 notes: + + The makefile and config.ps and MakeTeXPK need to be modified to fit + your site! diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/dvips/README b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/dvips/README new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..8f373b1a033 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/dvips/README @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +$Id: README 17566 2010-03-26 17:29:02Z karl $ +This directory contains Dvips, Tom Rokicki's dvips, a DVI-to-PostScript +translator. It requires the Kpathsea library for path searching. + +See `NEWS' for changes by release, `ChangeLog` for all changes. +See `../kpathsea/BUGS' for details on reporting bugs. + +Dvips is free software; Tom's original files are public domain. The +files Karl wrote (originally for the Free Software Foundation) are +covered by the GNU General Public License -- see the files COPYING*. +------------------------------------------------------------------------- +The documentation is in the file dvips.texi. + +You can read and run the file testdata/dvipstst.tex that to test some +basic capabilities of dvips. Some of the other files in testdata: +intoverflow.dvi (CVE-2010-0739) +vfnameoverflow.dvi (CVE-2010-0827) +See also the *.test* scripts. + +If you enjoy using dvips, you will probably enjoy being a member of +the TeX Users Group. To join or contribute to TUG, see http://tug.org. + +This is a list of people who have contributed substantially to dvips. +I'm sure I've forgotten many. Thanks to all! + +Karl Berry +Peter Breitenlohner +P. W. Daly +Mark Doyle +Edward J. Groth +James Hafner +John Hobby +Rob Hutchings +David Jones +Akira Kakuto +Donald E. Knuth +Russell Lang +Sergey Lesenko +Art Ogawa +Melissa O'Neill +Sebastian Rahtz +Andrew Trevorrow +Staszek Wawrykiewicz |