February 2004 - ntg-pdftex - NTG Mailing Lists

feature request
by Hans Hagen 24 Mar '04

24 Mar '04

Hi, Since not-found-mapfiles now quit pdftex, i'd like to see something \ifpdfmapfile filename<space or \relax delimited like input> \else \fi or maybe better, something: \pdfmapfilemode with 0 = quit on error 1 = warning on error 2 = ignore error 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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bug or intended behaviour
by Hans Hagen 12 Mar '04

12 Mar '04

Hi, Why does \immediate\pdfliteral code end up as typeset text? \pdfcompresslevel0 \starttext \immediate\pdfliteral{\letterpercent [start]} \pdfliteral{\letterpercent (start)} test \pdfliteral{\letterpercent (stop)} \immediate\pdfliteral{\letterpercent [stop]} \stoptext if this is intended behaviour, it should be documented as such and 'frozen'. Also, the fact that a \pdfliteral ends up on a new line in the output should become a frozen (intended) and documented feature (unless we introduce \pdfcomment). [in pdf everything between % and endofline is comment!] Also, technically one may put text before the %PDF, but afaik we don't have a way of doing that 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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feature request
by Hans Hagen 12 Mar '04

12 Mar '04

Hi, Is it possible to have a primitive \pdfcurrentannot which is set to to the object number of the current annotation (i.e. the next \pdflastannot) 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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pdf versions and so
by Hans Hagen 12 Mar '04

12 Mar '04

Hi, How about adding \pdfbinary == number (0=unknown, 1=web2c, 2=miktex) sometimes this is handy to know 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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error / bug ?
by Hans Hagen 09 Mar '04

09 Mar '04

Hi, Error: was built without decryption support. Error: Couldn't read xref table .... ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished! Is this new/intended behaviour? 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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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: > I put a new release of pdftex at > http://vntex.sourceforge.net/private/thanh/pdftex/ Is this supposed the a full release or only a beta? The binaries call themselves beta... 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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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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