CTAN update: BaKoMa TeX 8.10 - Caching imported graphics and slide backgrounds.
CTAN Announcements
ctan-ann at dante.de
Thu Aug 16 22:35:06 CEST 2007
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007 at 15:26 +0400, Basil Malyshev submitted an
update to the
bakoma
package.
Location on CTAN: systems/win32/bakoma
Announcement text:
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> General improvement in BaKoMa TeX 8.10 is caching
> included graphics and slide background (PowerDot package).
> This feature improves editing/browsing documents with many included figures.
> This feature is supported in TeXWord and DVI Viewer.
>
> Caching is enabled by default.
>
> Caching imported graphics and slide background
> may be enabled/disabled independently by new options of <b>View</b> menu:
>
> * 'Use Imported Graphics Cache' - new option.
> This feature enables caching graphics imported by \includegraphics.
> It is nice choose instead of disabling imported images or draft option.
> * 'Use Slide Background Cache (PowerDot)' - new option.
> This feature enables caching slide background drawn by presentation
> packages.
> Currently, this feature has effect only for PowerDot package.
> * 'Imported Graphics Appearance' - renamed 'Figures/Bounding Boxes'.
> It was renamed to be more consistent with new options.
>
> More details about changes and another bug fixing see at:
> <
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/changes7.html
> >
>
> -------------------- About BaKoMa TeX 8.10 ------------------
>
> BaKoMa TeX 8.10 supports two coexisting IDE:
> 1) BaKoMa TeX Word - True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor.
> 2) Text Editor + DVI Viewer - Clasical IDE.
> They are high compatible, so that you can choose what to use
> depend on kind of a document or stage of work under a document.
>
> About BaKoMa TeX Word.
>
> BaKoMa TeX Word is True WYSIWYG LaTeX Editor.
>
> The word `True' is used to highlight two following facts:
>
> 1) It is True WYSIWYG Editor.
> It means that display shows precisely the same what will be printed.
> It looks such that you edit your document immediately in DVI Viewer.
>
> 2) It is True LaTeX Editor.
> It edits LaTeX source text without any import/export procedure.
> It means that you can load and edit any LaTeX 2e document.
>
> BaKoMa TeX Word is built on top of BaKoMa TeX graphic engine and
> consequently it inherits all features of BaKoMa TeX related
> with import graphics, font support, and document export.
>
> It supports processors:
> (1) Standard TeX and (2) e-TeX.
> Other processors such as Omega may be added in future.
>
> It imports:
> EPS, PDF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, PCX,
> MSP, BMP, WMF, EMF, FIG, HPGL, and DXY.
> It supports fonts:
> OpenType (OTF/TTF), TrueType, PostScript Type1 (including MM),
> PostScript Type 3, and TeX PK/VF.
> It exports:
> DVI, PDF, SVG, PS, PNG (with HTML wrapper), and HTML (TeX4HT).
>
> It includes built-in PostScript interpreter accessible via DVIPS
> compatible special interface that supports such macro packages as:
> PSTricks, PSFrag, graphics (psfig), draftcopy,
> PowerDot, Prosper, Beamer, etc.
>
> Most important application of BaKoMa TeX Word is
> final step corrections of LaTeX papers before publishing.
>
> Editing slides in WYSIWYG interface
> (with such packages as PowerDot, Prosper, Beamer, etc.)
> is another impressive feature of `BaKoMa TeX Word'.
>
> TeXWord dramatically simplifies editing complex formulas and tables.
>
> TeXWord is transparent for cooperation.
> TeXWord don't use additional macro packages.
> It uses only standard LaTeX packages, so that documents made up
> in TeXWord may be compiled in any LaTeX setup without any adaptation.
> In other side, TeXWord can handle arbitrary LaTeX documents.
> So, that your coleagues may even don't know that you use
> powerful WYSIWYG tool to edit your part of common work.
>
> Beginner users of LaTeX may consider TeXWord as
> good start point for learning LaTeX together with writing papers.
>
> More information about `BaKoMa TeX Word' is at:
> <
> http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/programs/texword.html>
>
> Some snapshots are available at:
> <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/snapshots/>
>
> Root of BaKoMa TeX distributions is at:
> <http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/bakoma/>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
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