October 19, 2000 - Version 0.13.2 This release adds preliminary support for TrueType fonts. Also this release fixes two problems in the makefile that have been causing some people difficulties getting dvipdfm to compile. One of these problems was the test for compress2() (which was incorrect). The second problem occurs because some make implementations don't honor CPPFLAGS. An explicit rule has been added to do so. July 25, 2000 - Version 0.13 This release adds support for 16 bit character sets via Omega's OFM files. The DVI and VF code was made 16 bit clean. I am anxious to hear from Omega users. The release also changes the way encodings are written to the PDF file. The prior method was causing compatibility problems with certain software that tried to merge PDF files. Much of the Type1 font code has been rewritten for this release. The rewritten code allows multiple encodings to be used with the same Type 1 font in the same document so that *all* glyphs (even >256) are available from a Type 1 font. Font subsetting has been improved. In particular, the internal encoding is completely removed if it's not needed. July 8, 2000 - Version 0.12.8 The primary change in this release involves fixing file inclusion so that it works with the older TeXfig style specials used by the psfig macros. Other changes include fixing several bugs in metapost file inclusion, bugs in the parsing of colormaps of PDF files to be embedded, and a bug that could cause characters to disappear under certain conditions. Work on a problem that affects use of XYPIC is in progress. WARNING: THE LATEX SUPPORT FILE NAMED DVIPDFM.DEF HAS CHANGED IN VERSION 0.12 TO BE MORE COMPATIBLE WITH DVIPS AND OTHER DVI DRIVERS. IT CANNOT BE USED WITH EARLIER VERSIONS OF DVIDFPM. HOWEVER, EARLIER VERSIONS OF DVIPDFM.DEF CAN BE USED WITH VERSION 0.12. September 6, 1999 - Version 0.12 Added native support for including MetaPost output. Along with this comes the ability to interpret simple PostScript operators natively. This allows dvipdfm to process DVI files intended for dvips as long as they don't do anything too fancy. The internal mini-PostScript interpreter is good enough to process the "rotate" commands produced by the standard dvips graphics driver. Added support for PostScript files using a helper application such as GhostScript. PostScript files may be included with either the "PSfile" special or the "plotfile" special. Added support for the "standard" color specials. Together with the above list, dvipdfm can now process many DVI files targets for dvips (as long as they use very simple PostScript commands). PostScript code such as that produced by PSTricks is not supported. Added a configuration file for specifying default command line options. August 21, 1999. WARNING: VERSION 0.11 CHANGES THE FORMAT OF THE t1fonts.map FILE. The font code has been reworked in several ways. Version 0.11 does not require AFM files. This is a significant improvement since AFM files are disappearing from major distributions and repositories. Unfortunately, this required a change in the format of the t1fonts.map file. A bit of the font code has been rewritten to provide work-alikes for the "slantfont" and "extendfont" provided by dvips. There are several workarounds for various bugs in Acrobat Reader involving searching for and selecting ligatures and there's also an attempt to address the disappearing Gamma problem. Version 0.11 also adds PNG and thumbnail support. Version 0.11 add support for the HyperTeX (HTML) specials for improved DVI file portability. April 8, 1999. Version 0.10.5 changes the rule code to use a PDF stroke instead of filling a rectangular box. It also omits some unecessary font information from the PDF file for the base 14 PS fonts. This is to produce for slightly smaller PDF files when using these fonts. March 30, 1999. NOTE: VERSION 0.10.4 CHANGES THE NAME/LOCATION OF ITS CONFIGURATION FILES! It also fixes a bug that caused nested virtual fonts to fail and fixes a couple of other fairly insignificant bugs. Version 0.10.0 introduced PK fonts support and support for TPIC special commands to allow some native graphics support (don't you hate distilling those .eps files). December 30, 1998. Version 0.9.0 supports partial font embedding and Flate compression. The page tree and destination tree are shipped out as balanced trees. December 14, 1998. Version 0.8.3 fixes a memory leak in the vf code found by Akiro Kakuto. Another change hopefully makes running ./configure a bit easier. Version 0.8.1 and 0.8.2 fix an overflow in the kerning code which occurs for large horizontal motions. Version 0.8 supports virtual fonts. Much of the code has been reorganized and rewritten. It is nearly an order of magnitude faster than earlier versions. Version 0.8 no longer requires the kpath source tree. Instead it uses an installed version of libkpathsea and its headers. Nov. 28, 1998 Specifying font encoding now supported. There is a font map file for the more common PostScript fonts. Nov. 26, 1998 LaTeX Graphics and hyperref support is now available. See the directory latex-support for information and drivers.