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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/pdflatexpicscale/pdflatexpicscale.tex b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/pdflatexpicscale/pdflatexpicscale.tex index ce15238676b..323d09c7d1c 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/pdflatexpicscale/pdflatexpicscale.tex +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/support/pdflatexpicscale/pdflatexpicscale.tex @@ -1,10 +1,11 @@ \documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage{hologo} % used for LuaTeX, PdfTeX and PdfLaTeX logos \usepackage{graphicx} +\usepackage{textcomp} \usepackage{url} \title{pdflatexpicscale} \author{Peter Willadt\footnote{willadt at t-online.de}} -\date{2016-08-02} +\date{2017-01-23} %version #version \begin{document} \maketitle @@ -25,7 +26,31 @@ and there may be situations where you need e.g. low-res pictures for the web and high-res pictures for print. When there are requirements that force the size of images in our document to change, the fun will probably be gone. -Hopefully TUGboat will accept an article accompanying this description. +There is an article in TUGboat (\url{% + https://www.tug.org/members/TUGboat/tb37-3/tb117willadt.pdf}) accompanying +this package, for now (january, 2017) it is only available to TUG members; a +public release will follow at the beginning of 2018, as with all TUGboat +articles. + + +\subsection{Similiar Work/Prior Art} + +There have been prior attempts to do similiar things. I found +\texttt{degrade.sty}\footnote{see + \url{http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/degrade}} + and an equivalent con\TeX t module, there are at least two threads on + stackexchange\footnote{see + \texttt{http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/14429/\\ +pdftex-reduce-pdf-size-reduce-image-quality} +and +\texttt{http://tex.stackexchange.com/\\questions/2198/how-to-create-small-pdf-files-for-the-internet}} + and there had been, as +I have learned, some work by Axel Berger and others, posted 2011-03-31 on +\texttt{de.comp.text.tex}. + +But what motivated me most to find something better than scaling pictures +individually was seeing that Adobe InDesign\textregistered\ does +scale graphics according to the output intent. \section{Installation} @@ -272,7 +297,12 @@ version of the \LaTeX\ project public license. \section{Bugs, Improvements, and Changes} Please submit bug reports to the package author (me). I will be glad to make -the package better. +the package better.\label{bugs} + +The file version dates of all the files in this package shall be kept +consistent, even if only one of the files changes. pdflatexpicscale.pl, +however, has also a version number. This number will only be changed when +there are functional changes to pdflatexpicscale.pl. \subsection{Changelog} @@ -288,4 +318,14 @@ in the log file. called without arguments. Added the argument \texttt{--help}, both due to suggestions by Karl Berry (thanks a lot). +\paragraph{2016-12-12} Section on similiar work and prior art added (on request). + +\paragraph{2017-01-22} Added url of TUGboat article. + +\paragraph{2017-01-23} Fixed inconsistent version numbers and changed the url +of degrade.sty on recommendation of CTAN board. Added text on versioning at +the beginning of section~\ref{bugs}. Thanks a lot to the always quick action +and helpful and polite hints. + +% for file version please see line 8 \end{document} |