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@@ -106,30 +106,29 @@ checked for when epspdf starts:</p>
already part of MiKTeX and of TeX Live for Windows, and packaged
for most Linux distributions.</li>
-<li>Optional: pdftops from the <a
- href="http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/">xpdf suite</a> or from the <a
- href="http://poppler.freedesktop.org/">Poppler utilities</a>, or as
- a package from your Linux distribution. Pdftops may do a better job
- than Ghostscript of preserving scalable fonts when converting from
- pdf to ps, although Ghostscript is steadily improving in this
- respect. Included in TeX Live for Windows.</li>
+<li>Optional: pdftops from
+ the <a href="http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/">xpdf suite</a> or from
+ the <a href="http://poppler.freedesktop.org/">Poppler
+ utilities</a>, or as a package from your Linux
+ distribution. Pdftops may do a better job than Ghostscript of
+ preserving scalable fonts when converting from pdf to ps, although
+ Ghostscript is steadily improving in this respect. Included in TeX
+ Live for Windows and in recent versions of MiKTeX. If you have an
+ old MiKTeX and a copy of pdftops.exe, then you can point epspdf to
+ this file from within the GUI. You need to do this only once.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.tcl.tk/">Tcl/Tk</a> for the GUI
- interface. Versions 8.4 through 8.6 have been tested. Packaged for
- many or most Linux distributions, and also available from <a
- href="http://www.activestate.com/activetcl">ActiveState</a>. Alternatively,
- a single-file TclKit runtime will do. The <a
- href="http://wiki.tcl.tk/52">TclKit</a> page contains various
- links for precompiled binaries.</li>
+ interface. Version 8.6 has been tested. Packaged for many or most
+ Linux distributions, and also available
+ from <a href="http://www.activestate.com/activetcl">ActiveState</a>.
+ Alternatively, a single-file TclKit runtime will
+ do. The <a href="http://wiki.tcl.tk/52">TclKit</a> page contains
+ various links to precompiled binaries.</li>
<li>Optional: viewers for PostScript and pdf</li>
</ul>
-<p>If you have MiKTeX and a copy of pdftops.exe, then you can point
-epspdf to this file from within the GUI. You need to do this only
-once.</p>
-
<h2><a name="install" />Installation</h2>
<p>If you have a sufficiently recent standalone TeX Live and have a
@@ -144,31 +143,31 @@ once.</p>
<h3>Windows setup program</h3>
<p>This is a conventional Windows installer. If it does not find
-texlua.exe on the searchpath then it gives a warning and a opportunity to
-abort. It creates a shortcut to the epspdftk GUI and it also creates
-an uninstaller.</p>
+texlua.exe on the searchpath then it gives a warning and a
+opportunity to abort. Note though that texlua only needs to be
+available at runtime. It creates a shortcut to the epspdftk GUI and
+it also creates an uninstaller.</p>
<p>It installs epspdftk in the form of a so-called
<em>starpack</em>, which consists of the epspdftk script and a
-Tcl/Tk runtime, combined into a single executable. For version 0.6.1,
-the Tcl/Tk 8.5 runtime is from the <a
-href="http://tclkits.rkeene.org/fossil/wiki/Downloads"> KitCreator
-project</a>. The command-line script epspdf.tlu remains a separate
-file.</p>
+Tcl/Tk runtime, combined into a single executable. The Tcl/Tk 8.6
+runtime is from <a href="http://www.patthoyts.tk/tclkit/"> Patrick
+Thoyts&rsquo; bleeding edge builds</a>. The command-line
+script epspdf.tlu remains a separate file.</p>
-<p>This installer has been created with <a
-href="http://nsis.sourceforge.net/">NSIS</a>.</p>
+<p>This installer has been created
+with <a href="http://nsis.sourceforge.net/">NSIS</a> on Linux.</p>
<h3>Windows zipfile</h3>
<p>Download the epspdf zip file, unpack it somewhere and create a
-batchfile epspdf.bat such as</p>
+batchfile epspdf.cmd such as</p>
<pre>
texlua "&lt;path_to_epspdf.tlu&gt;" %*
</pre>
-<p>for epspdf.tlu, and a batchfile epspdftk.bat</p>
+<p>for epspdf.tlu, and a batchfile epspdftk.cmd</p>
<pre>
wish "&lt;path_to_epspdftk.tcl&gt;" %1
@@ -180,20 +179,20 @@ wish "&lt;path_to_epspdftk.tcl&gt;" %1
be interpreted as startup directory for the file browser. Make
sure that wish and these batchfiles are on your searchpath.</p>
-<p>Epspdf[tk] has been tested with Windows XP, Windows 7 and
-Windows 8.</p>
+<p>The current epspdf[tk] has been tested with Windows 7 and
+Windows 10.</p>
<h2><a name="files" />Files</h2>
<ul>
- <li><a href="epspdf.0.6.2.tgz">epspdf.0.6.2.tgz</a> preferred for Unix
+ <li><a href="epspdf.0.6.3.tgz">epspdf.0.6.3.tgz</a> preferred for Unix
and Mac OS X</li>
-<li><a href="epspdf.0.6.2.zip">epspdf.0.6.2.zip</a> preferred for
+<li><a href="epspdf.0.6.3.zip">epspdf.0.6.3.zip</a> preferred for
Windows if you don't want to use the installer below</li>
-<li><a href="epspdf.0.6.2.exe">epspdf.0.6.2.exe</a> Windows setup
+<li><a href="epspdf.0.6.3.exe">epspdf.0.6.3.exe</a> Windows setup
program which installs epspdf with a built-in Tcl/Tk runtime: no
dependencies beyond a TeX Live- or MiKTeX installation.</li>
@@ -203,7 +202,12 @@ Windows if you don't want to use the installer below</li>
<ul>
-<li>0.6.2 Current version. Small compatibility fix for luatex &ge;
+<li>0.6.3 Current version. The LuaTeX code which is generated for
+ some pdf-to-pdf conversions (page selection and cropping) is now
+ compatible with LaTeX versions through 0.95 and should work with
+ TeX Live 2016 and earlier.</li>
+
+<li>0.6.2 Small compatibility fix for luatex &ge;
0.81.</li>
<li>0.6.1 Bug fixes, see Changelog; support for later Ghostscript
@@ -218,5 +222,5 @@ Ruby-based versions</a></li>
<hr />
-<p class="fineprint">Last revised: November 1, 2015</p>
+<p class="fineprint">Last revised: May 2, 2016</p>
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