http://sarovar.org/download.php/637/pdftex-1.30.0-rc1.zip
Here's a beta of the release announcement:
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The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable version:
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pdfTeX 1.30.0-rc1
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This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.30.0-rc1, 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.
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Main changes of pdfTeX 1.30.0-rc1
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- pdfxtex (introduced with 1.20a) is gone; all extensions are now in
pdf(e)tex.
- Some primitives have been renamed; the old names will still work, but are
deprecated and give a warning that they are obsolete:
\pdfoptionpdfminorversion -> \pdfminorversion
\pdfoptionalwaysusepdfpagebox -> \pdfforcepagebox
\pdfoptionpdfinclusionerrorlevel -> \pdfinclusionerrorlevel
- pdftex knows two new units:
- new Didot (1nd=0.375mm)
- new Cicero (1nc=12nd)
- Inclusion of pngs has been greatly improved: It now does
- alpha channel and transparency (only if %!PDF >=1.4)
- 16-bit colour (only if %!PDF >=1.5); this must be enabled by setting
\pdfimagehicolor to 1.
- gamma correction; this must be enabled by setting \pdfimageapplygamma
to 1. The device gamma is taken from \pdfgamma. If no embedded value
can be found in the png image, then the value of \pdfimagegamma is used
instead.
- fast direct embedding of png streams, if their structure allows this;
the automatic fall-back is to decompress and re-compress as before.
- New primitives: pdfTeX now has an interface to the precise system time
(if available) as an aid in benchmarking TeX macro code.
- \elapsedtime is a read-only integer that (initially) returns the amount
of time passed since the start of this run. This amount is given in
`scaled seconds': the value 65536 counts as one second. If more time
has passed than 32767 seconds, (2^31)-1 will be returned.
- \resettime updates the internal timer, such that subsequent calls to
\elapsedtime will restart from 0.
- New primitive \pdfxformname <object number>, which expands to the number
in the corresponding form XObject name.
- New primitives \leftmarginkern <box number> and \rightmarginkern <box
number> that tell the margin kern at the left and right side of the
horizontal list stored in box <box number>.
- New primitive \pdfpkmode, which is a token register that sets the MF mode for
pixel font generation. The contents of this register is dumped into the
format, so one can (optionally) preset it e.g. in part of
pdftexconfig.tex.
- The effects of font expansion can now be logged:
There is now a new integer variable \pdftracingfonts. It is zero by
default, then we get a log (with fontexpansion) like this
...\tenrm t
...\tenrm (+20) e
Without font expansion, this default should be compatible with TeX's
original log output.
If \pdftracingfonts is set to 1 (or greater), we get a more verbose log:
...\xivtt (cmtt10@14.0pt) t
...\xivtt (cmtt10+20@14.0pt) e
See also bug 304.
- Numerous bugfixes
For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS
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