September 2005 - ntg-pdftex - NTG Mailing Lists

new pdftex extensions
by Thanh Han The 14 Sep '05

14 Sep '05

I forgot to mention that the djgpp binaries (for pdfetex only) is also available a pdftex.sarovar.org/djgpp Thanh > Hi, > > I uploaded a patch for various new extensions to pdftex to > pdftex.sarovar.org/src > > Support for extensions for paragraph formatting is already > included in the beta version of microtype. Many thanks to > Robert. > > Thanh

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[ pdftex-Feature Requests-431 ] support for changebar
by noreply＠sarovar.org 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Feature Requests item #431, was opened at 2005-09-12 05:24 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=431&group_id=106 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Rob MacLeod (rsmacleod) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: support for changebar Initial Comment: There appears to be a fix to the problems in pdflatex with the changebar.sty and I wonder if this fix could become part of the standard release. Without this, each time we do a local update (via teTeX and fink) we have to install the patch and do a manual update. We love using pdflatex but not having changebar capability is a real problem for our grant writing activities. Thanks for your support of the system!!! Cheers, Rob (University of Utah) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=431&group_id=106

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[ pdftex-Feature Requests-429 ] Make PDF documents accessible to visually imparied.
by noreply＠sarovar.org 12 Sep '05

12 Sep '05

Feature Requests item #429, was opened at 2005-09-11 18:37 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=429&group_id=106 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Timothy O'Brien (oberon101) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: Make PDF documents accessible to visually imparied. Initial Comment: Adobe Reader has a'reflow' feature that allows visually impaired users to zoom into properly formatted documents and read them without having to move the viewable area back and forth across the page. PDFs made in MikteX eith pdfte are not properly formatted and reflow without interword spacing, redering them unreadable. I contacted the MikteX people and they referred me here. I beleive Scientific Word also uses pdftex with the same result. Any chance this could be fixed? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=496&aid=429&group_id=106

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[ pdftex-Patches-427 ] Character positioning patch
by noreply＠sarovar.org 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Patches item #427, was opened at 2005-09-11 12:39 You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=495&aid=427&group_id=106 Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Hartmut Henkel (hhenkel) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: Character positioning patch Initial Comment: Experimental patch increases resolution of /Widths array by 1 fractional digit, makes corrections of type ")-1(" and ")1(" in the TJ array happen much less often, particularily for CM fonts. Gives e. g. 1 % PDF file size shrink for pdfetex web sources compiled into PDF. Rough patch only, not for production. Testing welcome. Regards, Hartmut ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: http://sarovar.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=495&aid=427&group_id=106

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Re: [NTG-pdftex] pdftex-1.30.2 is broken
by Thanh Han The 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Hi Akira, indeed after applying your patch the problem is gone. Many thanks. Regards, Thanh On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 09:36:05AM +0900, Akira Kakuto wrote: > Hi Thanh, > > > After some tries I found that that when shell_escape is set > > to 'f' then there is a problem with the new version but not > > with the old version. However when it is set to 't' then the > > problem went away in both versions. > > > > Please test by applying (temporarily) the following patch to tex.ch: > > Thanks > Akira > > > --- tex.ch.orig Sat Aug 13 20:47:02 2005 > +++ tex.ch Fri Sep 02 09:26:13 2005 > @@ -4967,7 +4967,7 @@ > end; > pool_ptr:=str_start[str_ptr]; {erase the string} > end > - else begin print("disabled"); > + else begin print("disabled"); pool_ptr:=str_start[str_ptr]; > end; > print_char("."); print_nl(""); print_ln; > end;

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pdftex 1.30.3-rc1
by Martin Schröder 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

http://sarovar.org/download.php/709/pdftex-1.30.3-rc1.tar.bz2 pdfTex itself is unchanged; the only change is the bugfix for \write18 by Akira & Olaf. Best Martin -- http://www.tm.oneiros.de

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Re: [NTG-pdftex] pdftex-1.30.2 is broken
by Akira Kakuto 02 Sep '05

02 Sep '05

Hi Thanh, > After some tries I found that that when shell_escape is set > to 'f' then there is a problem with the new version but not > with the old version. However when it is set to 't' then the > problem went away in both versions. > Please test by applying (temporarily) the following patch to tex.ch: Thanks Akira --- tex.ch.orig Sat Aug 13 20:47:02 2005 +++ tex.ch Fri Sep 02 09:26:13 2005 @@ -4967,7 +4967,7 @@ end; pool_ptr:=str_start[str_ptr]; {erase the string} end - else begin print("disabled"); + else begin print("disabled"); pool_ptr:=str_start[str_ptr]; end; print_char("."); print_nl(""); print_ln; end;

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Re: [NTG-pdftex] pdftex-1.30.2 is broken
by Thanh Han The 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:27:05PM +0200, Martin Schr?der wrote: > On 2005-08-29 15:38:44 -0700, Thanh Han The wrote: > > it seems that pdftex-1.30.2 is broken. When I run it on a > > rather complex document, it couldn't find some files in the > > current directory or in the standard texmf tree. This > > doesn't happen with 1.30.0. I am sorry that I cannot send > > the files to reproduce the bug. The error happens randomly > > and took me a few hours before I tried to run 1.30.0 against > > it. > > Do you have more details? Has anybody else seen the same > problems? Radhakrisnan has experienced the same problem on Mac OSX, with pdftex binaries built from sources. Plus another guy with Linux Redhat i386. I have been gazing at the diff in sources in 1.30.0 and 1.30.2, but couldn't find anything that seem suspicious. I will try to make some set of log files from kpathsea for comparison. Maybe Olaf or Karl can find something wrong. Thanh

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Re: [NTG-pdftex] pdftex-1.30.2 is broken
by Thanh Han The 01 Sep '05

01 Sep '05

Hi Martin, I uploaded the log files to pdftex.sarovar.org/misc/log.zip After some tries I found that that when shell_escape is set to 'f' then there is a problem with the new version but not with the old version. However when it is set to 't' then the problem went away in both versions. Maybe the old version should fail as well and this is not a new bug but a bug discovery in the old version :) kpathsea experts probably can tell more what went wrong. Thanh On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 05:24:24PM +0200, The Thanh Han wrote: > On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 01:27:05PM +0200, Martin Schr?der wrote: > > On 2005-08-29 15:38:44 -0700, Thanh Han The wrote: > > > it seems that pdftex-1.30.2 is broken. When I run it on a > > > rather complex document, it couldn't find some files in the > > > current directory or in the standard texmf tree. This > > > doesn't happen with 1.30.0. I am sorry that I cannot send > > > the files to reproduce the bug. The error happens randomly > > > and took me a few hours before I tried to run 1.30.0 against > > > it. > > > > Do you have more details? Has anybody else seen the same > > problems? > > Radhakrisnan has experienced the same problem on Mac OSX, > with pdftex binaries built from sources. Plus another guy > with Linux Redhat i386. > > I have been gazing at the diff in sources in 1.30.0 and > 1.30.2, but couldn't find anything that seem suspicious. > > I will try to make some set of log files from kpathsea for > comparison. Maybe Olaf or Karl can find something wrong. > > Thanh

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