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Re: [pdftex] pdftex-0.12a
by Martin Schröder 25 Feb '04

25 Feb '04

On 2004-02-25 15:53:02 +0530, The Thanh Han wrote: > (changes have been also submitted to texlive sources) - the version is 1.12a-beta-20040225, not 0.12a - NEWS is not updated - hz.ch and misc.ch have no copyright header Regards Martin -- Martin Schröder, ms(a)artcom-gmbh.de ArtCom GmbH, Lise-Meitner-Str 5, 28359 Bremen, Germany Voice +49 421 20419-44 / Fax +49 421 20419-10 http://www.artcom-gmbh.de

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Meeting in Darmstadt
by Martin Schröder 17 Feb '04

17 Feb '04

Hi, it seems that most of us will be in Darmstadt for the DANTE meeting. I suggest a meeting of pdfTeX developers. Wednesday? Best regards Martin -- Martin Schröder, ms(a)artcom-gmbh.de ArtCom GmbH, Lise-Meitner-Str 5, 28359 Bremen, Germany Voice +49 421 20419-44 / Fax +49 421 20419-10 http://www.artcom-gmbh.de

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ptex entries
by Hans Hagen 16 Feb '04

16 Feb '04

Hi Martin, If we move the ptex entries to the info dict, they will be visible in the document properties (full acrobat) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE/POD/CTS Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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encoding vectors
by Hans Hagen 15 Feb '04

15 Feb '04

Hi, I occasionally run into (commercial) fonts that have gaps in their encoding vector. For instance, no 'sfthyphen', or no fi/fl/ffl/ffi ligatures. Of course one can handcraft a vector, but to keep thinsg simple I wonder how complicated it would be to have a fall back, say: - if no sfthyphen is present, then take the hyphen - if no fi ligature is present, output an f and i and cross your fingers for proper font based kerning If you look into the texnansi vector, yuo will notice that esp this sfthyphen has resulted in either taking or not taking a slot. Of course another option could be to patch afmtotfm to do a more rigourous check (remove ligs that are not in the font, remap sfthyphen). Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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bug in pdf inclusion / pdfetex
by Hans Hagen 11 Feb '04

11 Feb '04

Hi Fabrice, The latest binary you sent me fails on some pdf inclusion in a manual i'm currently upgrading. Is there a way to trap the bug trace in windows? I get this pop up screen which i cannot cut and paste. figures : dimensions of ./cols-002.pdf loaded from figurefile itself ./cols-002.pdf <./cols-002.pdf return code : 65280 run time : 5 seconds It's hard to create a test file because deleting a page changes the location of the error. BTW, the fact that the latest pdftex includes all file at the end Transcript written on error.log. ./cols-001.pdf ./cols-001.pdf ./cols-001.pdf ./cols-001.pdf ./cols-002.pdf ./cols-002.pdf ./cols-002.pdf ./cols-002.pdf ./cols-003.pdf ./cols-003.pdf ./cols-003.pdf ./cols-003.pdf ./cols-004.pdf ./cols-004.pdf ./cols-004.pdf ./cols-004.pdf ./cols-005.pdf etc is a drastic change and presumes that the files didn't change; i happen to have situations where the files are generated run time and therefore change -) not in this case but ... was something changed to the \immediate? Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Re: [NTG-pdftex] pdftex-1.11b uniqueresname bug
by Hans Hagen 11 Feb '04

11 Feb '04

At 21:23 03/02/2004, Hartmut Henkel wrote: >Pdftex produces broken PDF when its HZ implementation is used with >\pdfuniqueresname = 1, like it is set in example.tex. Then xpdf issues >errors, e. g.: > >Error: Unknown font tag 'F54?:E3_+10' > >Reason is, that in the page contents stream there is e. g. some > >/F54?:E3_+10 > >but the page resources look like > >/Font << ... /F54+10?:E3_ ... > >The font_tag "+10" and resname_prefix "?:E3_" are swapped (and it's no >prefix anyway, more like an inbetweenfix). This can easily be cured by >just swapping two lines in pdftex.ch, then it's a postfix :-) > >--- pdftex.ch-orig Mon Oct 6 10:38:51 2003 >+++ pdftex.ch Tue Feb 3 20:47:41 2004 >@@ -1590,8 +1590,8 @@ > pdf_begin_text; > pdf_print("/F"); > pdf_print_int(k); >- pdf_print_resname_prefix; > pdf_print_font_tag(f); >+ pdf_print_resname_prefix; > pdf_out(" "); > pdf_print_bp(font_size[f]); > pdf_print(" Tf"); > >Seems to work then. Have fun! i wonder, doesn't it make sense to limit that /F^!*D^$@)!@($^ kind of names to /<characters and numbers> Hans

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pdftex.cfg (was: pdf(e)tex status)
by Martin Schröder 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

On 2004-01-29 01:15:49 +0100, Staszek Wawrykiewicz wrote: > can you tell me about the status of expected changes to pdf(e)tex? Stasz, I want to fix the cfg problem in the next release (1.12a, planned for early February). > Just to recall, here is the current problem: > how to avoid reading pdftex.cfg while running pdf(e)tex --ini As I recall the main problem was not that a cfg was found and read but that it wasn't found and pdftex failed. I just want to make a missing cfg a non-fatal error. > I would vote for dumping the *default* output to the format, say > latex will use \pdfoutput=0, pdflatex will use \pdfoutput=1 Good idea. > So latex etc. could be linked just to pdfetex, without any other > command line switch (anyway not yet available). For such command&format > I'd suggest not reading pdftex.cfg at all (it sets things rather > concerned to pdf output). > > pdftex.cfg should be left as it is for commands&formats > which use pdf output by default. Just to avoid a mess with new > command line parameters for pdf(e)tex, more config files, > and... for transparent use as (e)tex replacement as the main > engine (actually not true). True. > Ps. I'm overflooded by spam mails, often sent from your, Sebastian > and other people addresses... Yes. Spammers like to fake their addresses and use publically known addresses. Unfortunately ours are all over the web. :-( Use SpamAssassin with procmail. :-( Best regards Martin -- Martin Schröder, ms(a)artcom-gmbh.de ArtCom GmbH, Lise-Meitner-Str 5, 28359 Bremen, Germany Voice +49 421 20419-44 / Fax +49 421 20419-10 http://www.artcom-gmbh.de

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Fwd: feature request llx etc
by Hans Hagen 23 Jan '04

23 Jan '04

>Hi Martin, > >Occasionally we need to have access to the llx/lly coordinates of a >graphic; in EPS this is no problem, but ... > >how about providing \pdfxformllx\xformid (etc: llx, lly, ulx, uly) > >(background: Ross/Wendy/Me are working on label overlay features [there >is/will be a plug in for AI to provide some of the info needed] and fro >that we need to have access to the "origin" > >Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma(a)wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Xpdf 3.00 - a PDF viewer for X
by Martin Schröder 23 Jan '04

23 Jan '04

This means pdf1.5 is on the horizon and will be in 1.2 (which should be there before BachoTeX). Best regards Martin -- Martin Schröder, ms(a)artcom-gmbh.de ArtCom GmbH, Lise-Meitner-Str 5, 28359 Bremen, Germany Voice +49 421 20419-44 / Fax +49 421 20419-10 http://www.artcom-gmbh.de

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pdftex.cfg (was: Latest pdftex binaries)
by Martin Schröder 19 Jan '04

19 Jan '04

On 2004-01-18 18:25:48 +0100, Hans Hagen wrote: > So, martin: is there any reason for an abort when no config is found? > Defaulting to outut_format 0 also honors Staszeks wish to default to dvi I don't see any; in fact I think it's a bug to abort when no config can be found. I'll fix it. Best regards Martin -- Martin Schröder, ms(a)artcom-gmbh.de ArtCom GmbH, Lise-Meitner-Str 5, 28359 Bremen, Germany Voice +49 421 20419-44 / Fax +49 421 20419-10 http://www.artcom-gmbh.de

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