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CTAN Update: bmeps
by CTAN Announcements 06 Jan '07

06 Jan '07

On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Dirk Krause submitted version 2.0.0 of the bmeps package. Location on CTAN: /support/bmeps Summary description: Converter from PNG/JPEG/Tgb81AIFF/NetPBM to EPS and PDF License type: bsd Announcement text: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The bmeps program was rewritten completely. > Advantages from a users point of view: > - Bmeps can produce PS/EPS and PDF now. > - Easier configuration. Simply type > bmeps -leps2 input.png output.eps > instead of the former > bmeps -p 2 -c -e r8 input.png output.eps > - Better compression: > - Use of the multiple data sources feature > allows run-length compression of horizontal > lines in the same color. Previous versions > allowed run-length compression only for > gray lines. > - Pass-through of JPEG files. If bmeps successfully > analyzes a JPEG file it uses the file contents > directly as DCT-encoded data and only adds > ASCII-Hex- or ASCII85-encoding. If the analysis > function fails the program uses the JPEG library > to read the image and uses the combination of > run-length-, flate- and ASCII-Hex/ASCII85-encoding > to produce output. > Advantages from my point of view: > - Using the dklibs libary set allows to combine > different encoding/compression methods easier than > in previous versions of bmeps. > - Grouping image reading functions in a separated > library (dkbif library from the dklibs library set) > makes it easier to add new file types. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/bmeps . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=bmeps (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: dvisvgm 0.4.3
by CTAN Announcements 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Martin Gieseking submitted an update to the dvisvgm package. Dvisvgm is a command line utility that converts TeX DVI files to the XML-based Scalable Vector Graphics format. The initial (limited) realease 0.3 provides basic functionality that will be extended in future versions. Users will need a working TeX installation including the kpathsea library and Type 1 versions of the fonts used in the DVI file. Dvisvgm has been successfully tested with both teTeX and MikTeX. Location on CTAN: /dviware/dvisvgm Summary description: minor update of dvisvgm License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is a minor dvisvgm update. I have added support for MiKTeX 2.5 and fixed a compilation issue caused by a freetype API change. Precompiled binaries for Windows can be downloaded from the project page http://dvisvgm.sourceforge.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvisvgm . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=dvisvgm (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: pdftex.def v0.04b
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Heiko Oberdiek submitted a new version of pdftex.def Location on CTAN: graphics/pdftex/pdftex.def License: LPPL Latest changes: % 2007/01/01 v0.04a (HO) % * Support of color stack, introduced in pdfTeX 1.40.0. % * Support of transform matrix commands of pdfTeX 1.40.0. % * The argument for option `page' can be a register. * Internal change: Switching of color stacks is easier by using @pdfcolorstack for the stack number. Thus this command should be redefined, if someone wants to use another color stack (e.g. for footnotes). main@pdfcolorstack should not be changed for this purpose. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This file is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pdftex/pdftex.def . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=pdftex-def (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: tabularht v2.3, pdfcolmk v1.0
by CTAN Announcements 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Heiko Oberdiek submitted an update to the oberdiek bundle. Location on CTAN:macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/ License: LPPL > Changes: > * tabularht v2.3: > * Documentation fix. > * Fix in code of option vlines. > * pdfcolmk v1.0: > * If pdftex.def >= 2007/01/01 v0.04a is used with > pdfTeX 1.40.0, then package pdfcolmk is obsolete. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This bundle is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=oberdiek (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN package update: pdftex 1.40.0
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Thank you, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ......................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: pdftex 1.40.0 Author's name: Martin Schröder Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex Summary description: A new version of pdftex License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable version: =========================================================================== pdfTeX 1.40.0 =========================================================================== This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.40.0, 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 1.40.0 =========================================================================== - pdfetex (as a separate binary/program) is gone; all extensions are now in pdftex. The make files still know about the target pdfetex, but it's just a copy of pdftex - The sources of TeX, eTeX and pdfTeX have been merged into one file pdftex.web and one change file pdftex.ch. The sources of TeX and eTeX distributed are just there for reference - New features: - pdfTeX can now generate PDF 1.5 object streams, which leads to smaller PDFs. This is controlled by setting pdfobjcompresslevel to a value >0 (3 compress everything, 2 don't compress /Info, 1 also don't compress embedded PDFs) and works only with PDF >=1.5 - pdfTeX now supports another image file format: JBIG2 files (.jbig2) - the memory allocated for objects and destination names now grows dynamically - pdfTeX now generates smaller PDFs since for char positioning the width of chars (/Widths) is stored with more precision and so the chars must rarely be positioned separately - the PK resolution is now taken from the pk_dpi parameter in texmf.cnf if it has not been set in the format file or by the user - pdfTeX now removes the generated pdf in case of a fatal error - pdfTeX now sets /ModDate and /Trapped in the InfoDict by default (the values can be overridden with pdfinfo) - the format of warnings and errors issued by pdfTeX has been changed and unified - the output of -version has been extended and now includes information about the libraries actually used, which can be handy when using shared libraries - rules and their positioning on the page are now inside a qQ group - New primitives: - pdfTeX can now handle colourstacks. - pdfcolorstackinit A stack is initialized by pdfcolorstackinit. It expands to the number of the new stack. The common case, the traditinal color stack is already initialized as first stack: pdfcolorstackinit page direct {0 g 0 G} The keyword page means that this stack is page based. At the start of the new page, the current stack value is automatically set. - pdfcolorstack pdfcolorstack <stack number> push {<new color>} pushes the current value on the stack and sets the <new color>. pdfcolorstack <stack number> pop pops and sets the current stack value. pdfcolorstack <stack number> current sets the current stack value without changing the stack. This is useful for stacks that are initialized without keyword page. Thus the page start setting can be set manually. pdfcolorstack <stack number> set {<new color>} The current value is set to <new color>. - Transformation matrices can now be manipulated more cleanly: Currently matrix changes are done and hidden inside pdfliteral nodes; pdfTeX doesn't parse its contents and does not know the new settings of the transform matrix. Thus the new primitives to save pdfTeX from parsing pdfliteral contents and to notify pdfTeX about matrix changes to use them in calculating link and anchor positions. - pdfsetmatrix{<a> <b> <c> <d>} is the equivalent to pdfliteral{<a> <b> <c> <d> 0 0 cm} - pdfsave is the equivalent to pdfliteral{q} - pdfrestore is the equivalent to pdfliteral{Q} - pdfprimitiveTeX-primitive executes the original TeX-primitive even if the command has been redefined since. E.g. let elaxundefinedpdfprimitive elax expands to elax. ifpdfprimitiveTeX-primitive is true if TeX-primitive has its original meaning - ifpdfabsnum and ifpdfabsdim are like ifnum and ifdim, but don't care about negative numbers - shell escape: if the first character of a filename for openin, openout input is a pipe symbol (|), the filename is assumed to be a request for a pipe to a command line that is given in the rest of the filename - draftmode: With pdfdraftmode=1 or the commandline switch -draftmode pdfTeX doesn't write the output pdf and doesn't actually read any images, thus speeding up compilations when you know you need an extra run but don't care about the output, e.g. just to get the BibTeX references right - pdfpxdimen (introduced in 1.30) is now a real dimension parameter. It allows one base dimensions on pixels. 1px defaults to 1bp (or 72dpi), but can be changed with the pdfpxdimen primitive: pdfpxdimen=1in % 1 dpi dividepdfpxdimen by 96 % 96 dpi hsize=1200px Now hsize is (1in/96)*1200 - pdflastlink returns the object number of the last pdfstartlink - pdfsavepos now works in DVI mode - Fonts: - support for subfonts: This creates all needed map entries for subfonts automatically and handles Unicode mappings - ToUnicode entries for Type1 fonts (patch 580) - HZ: - added patch 462: HZ font expansion in autoexpand mode now produces smaller pdf files, as it works by modififying the text matrix for single fonts instead of embedding many expanded font versions. Therefore HZ now can be used also for TrueType fonts and even for non-embedded fonts (e.g. Times-Roman) - Bugfixes: - the PDF statistics in the log are now correct - added JFIF detection patch to writejpg.c (bug 548) - bugfix: invalid pdf created if font name contains space (509) - bugfix: truetype OS/2 v3 fonts (594) - bugfix: Type1C (CFF) fonts of embedded pdfs didn't get replaced For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS =========================================================================== Legal notice / license =========================================================================== pdfTeX is copyright (c) 1996-2007 Han The Thanh, <thanh(a)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: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex Related web pages: http://www.pdftex.org http://sarovar.org/projects/pdftex/ 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(a)pdftex.org) for the pdfTeX team, January 2007 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/pdftex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=pdftex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN has a new package: refreshpdf
by CTAN Announcements 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

A new package has been put on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror. Happy new year, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College ............................................................................... The following information was provided by our fellow contributor: Name of contribution: refreshpdf Author's name: Claus Gerhardt Location on CTAN: /support/refreshpdf Summary description: Refreshpdf refreshes a pdf file opened in Acrobat (Mac OS X) License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Refreshpdf is an Applescript that takes the path of a pdf file as argument and then opens the file in Acrobat. If the file is already open in Acrobat, then Acrobat is told to close and reopen the file and to go to the same page that was displayed in the closed file. The Applescript can also be called from the command line by a shell script refreshpdf. Refreshpdf only works on MacOS X. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/refreshpdf . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=refreshpdf (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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CTAN update: pst-optic
by CTAN Announcements 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Herbert Voss submitted an update to the pst-optic PSTricks related package for drawing both reflective and refractive optics diagrams. Location on CTAN: /graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-optic License type: lppl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- version 0.96 of pst-optic has a new macro psprism which allows to draw a prism with light rays and calculated refractions. please replace all files with the existing ones. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pstricks/contrib/pst-optic . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pst-optic (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: classico
by CTAN Announcements 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

On Wed, 27 Dec 2006, Bob Tennent submitted the new classico package, providing four type-1 fonts with metrics and LaTeX support files. Location on CTAN: /fonts/urw/classico Summary description: URW Classico type-1 fonts and support files License type: nocommercial Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The archive provides four type-1 fonts with metrics and LaTeX support files. URW Classico is a clone of the Optima typeface, a very well-known sans serif face designed by Hermann Zapf. The fonts were made available for non-commercial distribution at www.artifex.com. The support files were generated using fontinst. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/urw/classico . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=classico (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN update: visualtex
by CTAN Announcements 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Alex Romanenko submitted an update to the visualtex package. Visual-TeX is a TeX-oriented text editor which uses Neil Hodgson's Scintilla editing component as source code editor, and a TeX lexer by the package author. The editor has several valuable TeX-specific features, including forward search capability from YAP. Location on CTAN: systems/win32/visualtex License type: gpl Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- In ver 3.12: Fixed bug: after playing tex macro editor's window is focused correctly. Fixed bug: correct automatic scrolling is added. Fixed bug: incorrect editor macro executing is removed. Added feature: KBDC module of layout convertion ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/visualtex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=visualtex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _______________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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CTAN has a new package: TeX-GYRE fonts
by CTAN Announcements 28 Dec '06

28 Dec '06

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Staszek Wawrykiewicz submitted a new package tex-gyre to CTAN. Location on CTAN: fonts/tex-gyre License: gfsl -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Package: TeX Gyre Bonum font > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > Version: 1.000 > Date: 14 XII 2006 > License: > This work is released under the GUST Font License > This work has the LPPL maintenance status maintained. > The Current Maintainer of this work is Bogusl{}aw Jackowski > and Janusz M. Nowacki. > > The TeX Gyre Bonum family of fonts is based on the URW Bookman L family > (designed by Alexander Phemister), but heavily extended. The constituent > 4 standard faces contain nearly 1200 glyphs each and are available in > Postscript, TeX and Open Type formats. Please note that with the release > of this family the QuasiBookman fonts became obsolete. > The Vietnamese and Cyrillic characters were added > by Han The Thanh and Valek Filippov, respectively. > > =========== > Package: TeX Gyre Schola font > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > Version: 0.995 > Date: 14 XII 2006 > License: > This work is released under the GUST Font License > This work has the LPPL maintenance status maintained. > The Current Maintainer of this work is Bogusl{}aw Jackowski > and Janusz M. Nowacki. > > The TeX Gyre Schola family of fonts is based on the URW Century > Schoolbook L family (designed by Morris Fuller Benton), but > heavily extended. The constituent 4 standard faces contain > nearly 1200 glyphs each and are available in Postscript, TeX > and Open Type formats. The Vietnamese and Cyrillic characters > were added by Han The Thanh and Valek Filippov, respectively. > > ============ > Package: TeX Gyre Pagella font > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > Version: 1.000 > Date: 27 X 2006 > License: > This work is released under the GUST Font License > This work has the LPPL maintenance status maintained. > The Current Maintainer of this work is Bogusl{}aw Jackowski > and Janusz M. Nowacki. > > The TeX Gyre Pagella family of fonts is based on the URW Palladio L > family (designed by Hermann Zapf), but heavily extended. The > constituent 4 standard faces contain nearly 1200 glyphs each and are > available in Postscript, TeX and Open Type formats. > The Vietnamese and Cyrillic characters were added by Han The Thanh > and Valek Filippov, respectively. > Please note that with the release of this family the QuasiPalatino > fonts became obsolete. > > =========== > Package: TeX Gyre Termes font > Authors: Bogusl{}aw Jackowski and Janusz M. Nowacki > Version: 1.000 > Date: 27 X 2006 > License: > This work is released under the GUST Font License > This work has the LPPL maintenance status maintained. > The Current Maintainer of this work is Bogusl{}aw Jackowski > and Janusz M. Nowacki. > > The TeX Gyre Termes is based on the URW Nimbus Roman No9 L family > (designed by Stanley Morison together with Starling Burgess and > Victor Lardent), but heavily extended. The constituent 4 standard > faces contain nearly 1200 glyphs each and are available in Postscript, > TeX and Open Type formats. > The Vietnamese and Cyrillic characters were added > by Han The Thanh and Valek Filippov, respectively. > Please note that Termes obsoletes the QuasiTimes fonts. ----------------------------------------------------------- This package is located at http://dante.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/tex-gyre . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=tex-gyre (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . _____________________________________________________________ Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf

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