CTAN package update: pdftex 1.30.3

CTAN Announcements ftpmaint at alan.smcvt.edu
Mon Sep 5 21:30:53 CEST 2005


A package has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon make its
way to your favorite mirror.

Thanks for the update,
Jim Hefferon

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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.

Name of contribution: pdftex 1.30.3
Author's name: Martin Schröder
Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex
Summary description: fixed a bug in \write18
License type: gpl

Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable version:

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                               pdfTeX 1.30.3
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This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.30.3, an extended version of TeX that
can create PDF directly from TeX source files and enhance the result of TeX
typesetting with the help of PDF.

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  Main changes of pdfTeX 1.30.3
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- fixed a bug in \write18
  
For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS

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  Legal notice / license
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pdfTeX is copyright (c) 1996-2005 Han The Thanh, <thanh at pdftex.org>

pdfTeX is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.

For a complete README (with a full discussion of the license)
please look at http://www.pdftex.org/README

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  The files / installation
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You should first try to get a new version of pdfTeX through your
distribution.

If you want to compile it yourself, have a look at http://www.pdftex.org --
there you can find links to the pdfTeX sources on CTAN. And some useful
documentation. 

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  Mailing lists / web pages:
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  Mailing list:
    http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex

  Related web pages:
    http://www.pdftex.org
    http://sarovar.org/projects/pdftex/
    http://www.tug.org/tex-live/
    http://www.tug.org/tetex/
    http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes
    http://www.dante.de/
    http://tug.org/
    http://www.pragma-ade.com/

Have fun!

Martin Schröder (martin at pdftex.org) for the pdfTeX team, September 2005

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