CTAN package update: pdftex 1.40.3

CTAN Announcements ftpmaint at alan.smcvt.edu
Sun Feb 4 23:18:14 CET 2007


The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at
your favorite mirror.

Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: pdftex 1.40.3
Author's name: Martin Schröder
Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex
Summary description: A new version of pdftex
License type: gpl

Announcement text: 
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The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable version:

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                               pdfTeX 1.40.3
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This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.40.3, 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 1.40.3
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- bugfix: document which used type 1 and truetype or opentype fonts
  resulted in broken pdfs (729)

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) 1996-2007 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, February 2007
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