[pdftex] pdftex 1.21a

[Ulrich Dirr]

Hi,

mmh, I'm wondering if you do develop extra versions besides Thanh's? Or did
you miss the v1.20c changes by him? I didn't find anything in your NEWS
file about this (you moved from v1.20b to v1.21a). And I definitively need
these ... ;-(

Best regards,
Ulrich Dirr

Martin Schroeder wrote:
> The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable version:
> 
>
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                             pdfTeX 1.21a
>
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> 
> This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.21a, 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 change of pdfTeX 1.21a:
>
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> 
> - ttf2afm 1.0:
>     - added support for refering to glyphs via unicode in encoding files
(ie
>       'uniXXX')
>     - added some more info to the AFM output
>     - some minor bug fixes
>     - a short documentation available
> 
> - pdftex now understand forms 'uniXXXX' in encoding files (only makes
sense
>   with TrueType fonts)
> 
> - added subset tag for TrueType fonts
> 
> - Fixed a bug in the scanning of map lines introduced in the the fix of
bug
>   #242 in 1.20b.
> 
> - Fixed three problems in xpdf; xpdf is now 3.00pl3
> 
> - \ifeof18 is a simple method to test if \write18 is enabled.
> 
> - a few extensions in pdfxtex:
>     - \pdflastximagecolordepth returns the last color depth
>     - \pdfximage supports a keyword "colorspace" following an object
number
>       representing a ColorSpace object
>     - \pdfstrcmp compares two strings
>     - \pdfescapestring/\pdflastescapedstring provide a mean to escape
string
>     -
\pdffirstlineheight/\pdflastlinedepth/\pdfeachlineheight/\pdfeachlinedepth
>       allow fixing line dimen 
>     - patches from Taco
>         - px dimen unit
>         - tagcode patch
>         - quitvmode patch
> 
> 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) 1996-2005 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 or want precompiled binaries, have a
> look at http://www.pdftex.org -- there you can find links to the pdfTeX
> sources on CTAN and precompiled binaries for most operating systems. And
> some useful documentation.
> 
>
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>   Mailing lists / web pages:
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> 
> Have fun!
> 
> Martin Schröder (ms at pdftex.org) for the pdfTeX team, February 2005
> -- 
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