CTAN Update: pdftex 1.40.4
CTAN Announcements
ctan-ann at dante.de
Wed Jul 11 23:24:26 CEST 2007
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 at 15:51 +0200, Martin Schröder submitted a new
version of the
pdftex
package.
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 1.40.4
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This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.40.4, 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 1.40.4
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- Bugfixes:
- It was impossible to set the font Flags to 4 in map entries (762)
- The font Flags of non-embedded fonts were wrong (794)
Now pdfTeX uses the Flags from map entries (if found) or guesses values
for the base14 fonts. It also warns when you not-embedd a font without
Flags
- Subsetted fonts still had their private UniqueID copied (774)
- \pdfunescapehex returned a wrong result if the last character was not a
hexadecimal digit and the last hex pair was incomplete (777)
- Copying a box with \pdfstartlink inside produced the same /Link
annotation object multiply, with same object number and identical
coordinates on the page (799)
- When trying to use a font without TFM, without map entry, and no PK
font available, a broken PDF was produced. Now no PDF is generated and
the error messages have been improved (721)
- \pdfprimitive was broken (see
http://www.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-pdftex/2007-April/002860.html)
- The -recorder option of web2c didn't record fonts, included
images and
some other files (772)
- Using \pdfximage in IniTeX before \dump caused a crash when the format
was used (824)
- Improvements:
- pdf compression is now a bit faster (patch 726)
- the behaviour of TeX when it asks for a file name has been improved
(756)
- pdfTeX uses libpng 1.2.18
- pdfTeX uses xpdf 3.02
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 2.1 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://foundry.supelec.fr/scm/?group_id=23
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, July 2007
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
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