CTAN Update: Version 2.00 of TikZ/pgf
CTAN Announcements
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Fri Feb 22 21:22:17 CET 2008
On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Till Tantau submitted version 2.0 of the
TikZ/pgf
package to CTAN.
PGF is a macro package for creating graphics. It is platform- and
format-independent and works together with the most important TeX backend
drivers, including pdftex and dvips. It comes with a user-friedly syntax layer
called TikZ.
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/base
License: lppl
Release notes:
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> This new version of the TikZ and pgf graphic packages comes with a
> large number of new features, too numerous to list them all. Hilights
> are Mark Wibrow's decoration library, Mark's new shapes, the improved
> notations for doing geometric drawings, fadings (the transparency
> version of shadings), easy shadows, improved support for systems like
> xetex, as well as countless bugfixes.
>
> This version *may break existing code* (hence the big version step).
> We tried to make sure that 99% of all code will still work exactly as
> it did before and all larger documents that the developers and some
> volunteers tried still look exactly as they did before, but there a
> number of places where unavoidable changes had to be done. Known
> changes that break existing code:
>
> - There was a bug in the diamond shape that caused it to be twice as
> large as the minimum size required. This has been fixed. However, if
> you code relied on the wrong minimum size handling, your diamond
> shapes will now be too small.
>
> - Snakes are now handled by decorations internally. While this offers
> endless new possibilities, you are no longer allowed to use negative
> values with the after snake gap option. The documentation did neither
> explicitly allow nor forbid this, so some people may have used this.
>
> - The basic layer has been restructured. Some things moved into the
> core, other stuff moved into something new, called modules.
> Typically, you will not notice this at all, but it is imaginable that
> you may need to include a different library or module, now, to
> compile your code.
>
>
> Also note that the PDF-file of the manual has moved to a less obscure
> location: It is now at .../doc/generic/pgf/pgfmanual.pdf (and no
> longer at .../doc/generic/pgf/version-for-pdftex/en/...)
>
>
> Happy TeXing everyone,
> Till
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http://mirror.ctan.org//graphics/pgf/base
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pgf
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team
Rainer Schöpf
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