[pdftex] pdftex-1.40.10-RC

Thanh Han The hanthethanh at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 11:17:20 CET 2009


Hi,

pdftex-1.40.10-RC is available at
http://sarovar.org/frs/download.php/1284/pdftex-1.40.10-RC.tar.bz2

This is a maintenance release with mostly bugfixes.

,--------,
| - sync with TL09
| - changes:
|   - increased sup_dest_names_size
|   - partial support for TTC
|   - enable mktexpk by default
|   - patch #2087: Support for CMap namespace
|   - \pdfshellescape is 2 if restricted shell escapes are enabled.
| - bugfixes:
|   - segfault when processing certain TTF fonts
|   - jpg image resolution not set in some cases
|   - \pdfobj file {foo} for files foo that don't end with '\n'
|   - bugfix #4289: \primitive\pdfoutput cannot be queried
|   - bugfix #4288: character width mismatch in font XY.vf ignored
|   - bugfix #993: "/Names array not sorted correctly"
|   - bugfix #606: "Forbidden ... while scanning ???"
|   - bugfix #3253: Bug in Type1 font subsetting
|   - \show\pdfstartlink is wrong
|   - pdf_set_rule() uses incorrect variables
|   - bugfix #2090: enabling LFS breaks PDF inclusion on some systems
(warning: not heavily-tested yet)
|   - t1_log() macro caused problem with some compilers
`--------`

there are still some minor bugs which will not be fixed in 1.40.10 yet, since
this release is to be compatible with TL09.

Regards,
Thanh


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