On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 Martin Schroeder submitted a new version 1.21a of pdftex.
Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex Summary description: 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. License type: gpl
=========================================================================== Main change of pdfTeX 1.21a: ===========================================================================
- 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
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Thanks for the update.
For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf