[pdftex] New stable release of tex2pdf 3.1

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The tex2pdf team is really pleased to announce the new stable release
of tex2pdf. (tex2pdf 3.1)

DOWNLOADS

You can download tex2pdf 3.1 from
http://download.berlios.de/tex2pdf/tex2pdf-3.1b.tar.gz

NEW FEATURES

* Support for figures with dots in their filename

* Support for multiline TeX tags and embedded TeX tags

* Introduced parameter 'lyx_exec' to allow different lyx exec
  (rc_version=7)

* Added .tif to bitmap extension

* makeindex options: added parameter makeindex_opts. This allows to pass
  to makeindex other flags. Similar to pdftex_opts

* gloss support: added parameter gloss. It runs bibtex on file.gls to
  obtain a glossary. It works similar to bibtex parameter

* Added support for authorindex. It runs the perl script authorindex
  to obtain an author index.

* ppower suppport: add ppower option flag to postprocess the resulting
  pdf file with ppower. (ppower4 beta is recommended)

* added support for metapost files

* added support for multimetapost files

* support of gzipped EPS images

BUG FIXES

A lot of bugs have been fixed. For further information please check the
following address:

http://tex2pdf.berlios.de/changelog.html


INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION

Unpack the tar archive with tar -xfz FILENAME
Then read the README file in the archive for more information.

Please after you have installed tex2pdf 3.1, do not forget to run 

$tex2pdf --configure

to be sure that new default parameters are set to proper values

FORTHCOMING FEATURES
New features are scheduled to be implemented in forthcoming versions of
tex2pdf. Several latex packages are claiming for tex2pdf support.
Hopefully, the following latex packages will be supported in next
beta release:

*bibtopics

*bibunits

*chapterbib


If you find a bug in tex2pdf 3.1 please do not hesitate contact us by
e-mailing tex2pdf developer mailing lists 
(mailto:tex2pdf-devel at lists.berlios.de)

Any comments, feature requests or problems are welcome and we really
appreciate your feedback. For further information, please check the
tex2pdf home page at http://tex2pdf.berlios.de/