October 2003 - ntg-pdftex - NTG Mailing Lists

Re: [pdftex] Building pdfTeX 1.11b fails
by Martin Schroeder 16 Oct '03

16 Oct '03

On 2003-10-14 10:47:40 +0200, Martin Schröder wrote: > On 2003-10-14 08:32:38 +0200, Felix Neubauer wrote: > > ! Sections do not match (file ./tex.ch, l.1280). > > (file ./pdftexdir/tex.pch, l.55). > > tex.pch is screwed. Will fix it. web2c/pdftexdir/tex.pch and web2c/tex.ch in source are out of sync (and in sync in source.development). :-( 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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[Bugfix] /Rotate
by Martin Schroeder 06 Oct '03

06 Oct '03

Hi, we have the first bug(fix) for 1.11a: When included pdfs have the /Rotate key set to 90 or 270, they become displaced. Attached are two files: - rotate.tex Generates a 4 page document where each page is rotated differently, has a cropbox set and marks to measure the displacement. - test.tex Includes all pages of rotated and shows displacement. I've just submitted a bug fix (#4094); please test it. Thanks to Dr. Thomas Risse for submitting the bug. 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

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Speeding up PdfTeX
by Hartmut Henkel 03 Oct '03

03 Oct '03

Hi pdfTeX fans, this is just to announce, that there is another spare time patch for pdfTeX on my home page, which copes with the slow-down of the program, if files with a lot of links are to be processed. I have built in AVL trees for quicker finding of items in the linked object list. Yes, this is the 3rd patch of the AVL-Trilogy :-) It's actually a minor issue, very low amount of changes in the web code. To give you an impression about the speed gain, here are some test run results: with Patch Original -------------------------------------------- 1000 links 44 pages 2.14s 2.61s 2000 links 87 pages 3.42s 4.72s 5000 links 218 pages 7.3s 18s 10000 links 435 pages 14s 63s 20000 links 870 pages 30s 208s 50000 links 2174 pages 80s 1590s You see that the patch is only perceptible/interesting, if .tex files are heavily linked. But this can quite easily happen, if the document is automatically produced, e. g. from some database, and if it contains lots of commodity links. Anyway... The patch (AVL-Patch 3) is on my homepage. I would be glad to know, if anybody has thought about something similar or has tried out the patch. Have fun! Greetings Hartmut ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hartmut Henkel, Oftersheim, Germany http://www.circuitwizard.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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