The update below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror.
Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: pdftex 1.40.5 Author's name: Martin Schröder Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex Summary description: A new version of pdftex License type: gpl
Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- he 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@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://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@pdftex.org) for the pdfTeX team, July 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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