CTAN package update: pdftex-1.40.8

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Fri Jul 11 19:35:12 CEST 2008


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

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: pdftex-1.40.8
Author's name: Han The Thanh
Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex
Summary description: A new stable release of pdftex
License type: gpl

Announcement text: 
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The pdfTeX team announces the release of a new stable version:                                       

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                               pdfTeX 1.40.8
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This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.40.8, 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 1.40.8
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- Incorporated synctex
- Incorporated the new version of TeX: 3.1415926
- The pool file is now compiled in
- some bugfixes

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) 1996-2008 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://foundry.supelec.fr/scm/?group_id=23
    http://www.tug.org/tex-live/
    http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes
    http://www.dante.de/
    http://tug.org/
    http://www.pragma-ade.com/

The pdfTeX team, Jul 2008

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   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/pdftex
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pdftex
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
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