[pdftex] pdftex 1.40.5

John R. Culleton john at wexfordpress.com
Fri Aug 3 14:07:24 CEST 2007


On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Martin Schröder wrote:
> http://sarovar.org/download.php/1180/pdftex-1.40.5.tar.bz2
> http://sarovar.org/download.php/1181/pdftex-1.40.5.tgz
> http://sarovar.org/download.php/1182/pdftex-1.40.5.zip
> http://sarovar.org/download.php/1179/pdftex-1.40.4-1.40.5.diff.gz
>
> The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable
> version:
>
> ===================================================================
>======== pdfTeX 1.40.5
> ===================================================================
>========
>
> This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.40.5, 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.
>
> ===================================================================
>======== Main changes of pdfTeX 1.40.5
> ===================================================================
>========
>
> - Bugfixes:
>   - calling 'pdftex %' would crash (830)
>   - fflush the recorder file
> - pdfTeX uses xpdf 3.02pl1
>
> For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS
>
> ===================================================================
>======== Legal notice / license
> ===================================================================
>========
>
> pdfTeX is copyright (c) 1996-2007 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
>
> ===================================================================
>======== The files / installation
> ===================================================================
>========
>
> 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.
>
> ===================================================================
>======== Mailing lists / web pages:
> ===================================================================
>========
>
>   Mailing list:
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>
>   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.tug.org/tetex/
>     http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes
>     http://www.dante.de/
>     http://tug.org/
>     http://www.pragma-ade.com/
>
> Have fun!
>
> Martin Schröder (martin at pdftex.org) for the pdfTeX team, July 2007
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Congratulations to those who contributed. Has the (excellent) Pdftex 
Manual been updated lately?  My copy is dated April 2005. 

-- 
John Culleton


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