On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, Han The Thanh submitted an update to the

pdftex

package.

Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex Summary description: A new stable release of pdftex License type: gpl

Announcement text: ----------------------------------------------------------------------

The pdfTeX team announces the release of a new stable version:

=========================================================================== pdfTeX 1.40.9 ===========================================================================

This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.40.9, 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 1.40.9 ===========================================================================

some bugfixes only

For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS

=========================================================================== Legal notice / license ===========================================================================

pdfTeX is copyright (c) 1996-2008 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.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes http://www.dante.de/ http://tug.org/ http://www.pragma-ade.com/

The pdfTeX team, August 2008

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Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf