Changelog for pstoedit

Changelog for pstoedit:

New or changed in 3.12:

small bug fix in the meta post backend (blank font names) and in the fontmap.mpost file.
several bug fixes and code reorganization in the subpath simulation part.
sub path simulation is now available for all backends, not just xfig. However, this was not tested very intensively so far. It works quite well with xfig and tgif.
bug fix for related to the usage of "-f gs:...".
small bug fix in the metapost driver and some additions to the fontmap.mpost file.
added a setglobal also for the "non -nb" case to pstoedit.pro to cope with gs5.82.
bux fix in documentation (-fontmap instead of -mapfile).
added some support for easier retrieval of dash patterns from within backends.
extended the check for "mergable" path to include also eofilled pathes and made pathsCanBeMerged virtual so it can be overloaded by a specific backend.
changed again the version of drvbase. This means that all plugins need to be updated (just the .dll not the keys). Otherwise you will get an error message.
bug fix in the EMF driver of the plugins.dll and importps.dll regarding the handling of closepath.
added an option to the xfig backend to set the paper width (-f "xfig:-depth depth in inches")
added an option to the ps2ai driver (-88) to activate the AI-88 format instead of the AI-3 format
added a fontmap.win in the misc directory as an example for a Windows fontmap file. (-fontmap option)

New or changed in 3.11:

improved handling of TrueType fonts under Windows 9x/NT. Pstoedit can now deal with TrueType fonts if GhostScript is configured for TrueType support.
fixed an incompatibility with older version of GhostScript
fixed a bug that was caused when the GS_LIB variable was set.
added a new backend for the libplot (GNU plotutils) library () (GNU MetaFiles). This allows to use the additional format drivers of the GNU plotting utilities.
Burkhard Plaum (plaum@IPF.Uni-Stuttgart.de) added support for complex filled paths (paths consisting of an arbitraty sequence of moveto, lineto and curveto in combination with fill and eofill) to the xfig backend. In future, this will be made available to other backend that don't support such pathes as well. In order to activate this feature you need to specify the -ssp (simulate sub paths) option.
changed again the version of drvbase due to the support for complex paths. This means that all plugins need to be updated (just the .dll not the keys). Otherwise you will get an error message.
improved the EMF driver in the importps.dll. I now generates much more compact EMF files.
Added a general option for specifying a file containing a font mapping (document font -> font in target format). So far this was just used in the mpost backend but this is now available for general usage. See the misc directory in the source distribution for an example.
removed the STL dependency in the mport driver. This driver can now be compiled as well without having the STL.
some internal code reorganization.
fixed a bug in the test target of the makefile

New or changed in 3.10:

replaced the -dNOBIND with -dDELAYBIND (Russell Lang pointed this out). This should avoid problems with files that redefine standards PostScript operators with totally different semantics, e.g. lt (less than) to mean lineto. If you notice different results than before use the -nb option to switch back to the previous style (-dNOBIND) and send an example to the author, please.
changed the version of drvbase due to a new virtual function. This means that all plugins need to be updated (just the .dll not the keys).
added a check for a failure in the constructor of drvWMF.
fixed a compilation problem for systems that don't support shared libraries and some warnings issued by the IRIX C++ compiler.
added the PIC backend contributed by Egil Kvaleberg (egil@kvaleberg.no)
added the backend for the Killustrator format - contributed by Kai-Uwe Sattler (kus@iti.cs.uni-magdeburg.de)
added some files missing for the compilation under Windows and adapted the makefile.
changed the way the gsview32.ini file is searched.
pstoedit now also uses the GS_LIB path from the gsview32.ini file ( GhostscriptInclude entry). This was done because in some situations the gswin32.dll could not find its own init files.
activated the (dead) -s option again which allows to specify a scaling factor for the output. At the moment it is just active for the idraw backend.
added a MetaPost backend provided by Scott Pakin.
changed the source code to be compilable against the ANSI iostream header files. This was needed because the metapost backend uses STL and the standard string class and thus the ANSI headers are needed.
In this version the drvbase class was changed. This means that you need to get a new version of the plugin.dll if you have a previous version. Otherwise you will get an error message.

New or changed in 3.03:

better handling of "extreme" dash patterns. If the ratio on/off is > 100 then the line is treated as solid now.
source code available now.

New or changed in 3.02:

new driver for the AI (Adobe Illustrator) format. This is not a real native pstoedit driver but instead just a conversion to the AI format using the ps2ai.ps that comes with every installation of GhostScript. It is included to provide the same "look-and-feel" for the conversion to AI. The additional benefit is that this conversion is now available also via the "convert-to-vector" menu of Gsview. However, lot's of files don't convert nicely or at all using ps2ai.ps. So a native pstoedit driver would be much better. Anyone out there to take this ? The AI format is usable for example by Mayura Draw (http://www.mayura.com ). Also a driver to the Mayura native format would be nice.
However, this new driver relies on a slightly modified ps2ai.ps which hopefully will go into the next version of GhostScript.
Added the handling of GhostScript output in the case the pstoedit.dll is used by gsview. Now also messages from GhostScript can be seen in the Gsview message box.

New or changed in 3.01:

Added a work-around for files redefining "length"
extended the trouble-shooting section in the manual.

New or changed in 3.00:

Eliminated compatibility problem with GhostScript 5.xx
packed most stuff into a pstoedit.dll under windows. This dll can now be called by gsview. pstoedit.exe is just a small program calling the pstoedit.dll
additional drivers can now be put into separate plugin-libraries. See the manual for availability of such drivers.
pstoedit now calls GhostScript via the DLL interface under Windows. Thanks to Russell Lang for his help regarding this.
new HPGL driver contributed by Peter Katzmann p.katzmann@thiesen.com
fix of a bug in pstoedit.ph which caused an infinite loop.
some changes in pstoedit.ph to cope with changes in newer version of ghostscript.
fix of s small bug in drvidraw by Jorge A. Gautier jgautier@netcom.com
include a new Java GUI contributed by Leszek Piotrowicz leszek@sopot.rodan.pl
new backend for Tcl/Tk contributed by Chris Cox ccox@airmail.net
new internal architecture which now allows link time and run-time loading of backends.
temporarily dropped support for the OS/2 MET backend (the author was not able to adapt the backend to the new architecture so far),
rewrite of the WMF backend by Thorsten Behrens Thorsten_Behrens@public.uni-hamburg.de and Bjoern Petersen. The first version of this driver relied on Borland 5.0 and thus was not portable to other compilers. Now it uses the pure Windows API and thus compiles also with Visual C++
added a new "gs" pseudo backend which runs GhostScript with a given GhostScript output device, e.g. -f gs:pdfwrite runs the GhostScript PDF writer.
added a -v (for verbose) option
added a -split option to split the output into individual files for each page
Bug fix: a default font specified using -df was not used in the xfig backend
workarounds for two bugs on djgpp (binary open and tempnam)
-f ps supports emission of curvetos (proposal and partial patch from
Erik Lundh Erik.Lundh@compelcon.se)
PostScript output now generates some DSC comments. At least GhostView understands the output.
xfig output is compatible with new format of xfig 3.2
xfig output now creates x-splines
image support for xfig done by Leszek Piotrowicz leszek@sopot.rodan.pl
image support for Framemaker-MIF format
added support for dashes for Framemaker-MIF format
fixed a problem with detection of not available files (MSVC only)
Changed some code in drvbase.h in order to work around a not implemented feature of the HP-CC compiler.
Fixed a problem that causes Turbo C++ to hang (compiler problem)
changed usage of deviceinfo to currentpagedevice for better compatibility with newer version of GhostScript (thanks to Peter L. Deutsch for the hint).
fixed a bug caused by explicit HWResolution settings from with .ps file (font sizes were wrong)

New or changed in 2.60:

New backend for idraw contributed by Scott Pakin
Internal redesign in order to support the usage of the drivers from other programs, not just from pstoedit.
Full implementation of kshow, xshow, yshow, xyshow
Added -psargs option and removed -rnnxnn option
Added -include option
Fixed the linecap and linejoin problem for MIF
Port to RiscOS done by Rob Warner
winp2eap.def missing in distribution
Fixed a problem with .ps files that redefined showpage themselves
Fixed some problems related to the 'string' operator. Some PostScript programs used to redefine 'string'.
Fixed a portabiltiy problem for DecAlpha
Fixed some OS/2 compilation problems
Fixed some DEC compilation problems
Fixed a problem that caused pstoedit to 'draw' each character when running gs3.5x
Added support for Frame-specific encoding of special characters
Fixed an encoding bug for PDF (minus was defined twice)

New or changed in 2.50:

New backend for WMF, contributed by Jens Weber ( wr@lzh1.lzh.de )
Windows GUI, contributed by Jens Weber ( wr@lzh1.lzh.de )
direct handling of .pdf files (as input) (Thanks to ghostscript and the -dNOBIND option !!)
fixed a bug caused by ignoring the textmatrix
changed the pdf output so that xpdf accepts it
Fonts not supported by the selected backend, are now "drawn" automatically, as if the option -dt was given for them.
implemented the different show's for pdf
handling of reencoded fonts.
support for dashed lines (so far for cgm, xfig, and pdf only)
added workaround for bug in libg++ on some linux systems (Thanks to derekn@vw.ece.cmu.edu (Derek B. Noonburg) and rd@berlepsch.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de (Rainer Dorsch) for taking care of this linux specific problem and the workaround)
fixed a bug with ordering of text and lines
replaced usage of tmpnam by tempnam so the user can control the place where temp files are allocated. (via TMPDIR under *nix, TMP or TEMP under DOS/Win)
Bold was not treated correctly in MIF backend
Gnuplot backend could not be called
zero length text caused problems with some backends
^M caused problems with some backends.
handling filenames containing \
fixed compile errors with some compilers in drvjava.cc
added support for linecaps in PDF backend

New or changed in 2.41:

changed makefile for DOS
fixed problem in pdf backend with '\' characters
fixed a problem with linewidth (all backends)
three new backends from Glenn Lewis
- LWO (LightWave 3D)
- RIB (RenderMan)
- RPL (Real3D)
Piet van Oostrum fixed two problems in the pdf backend.
Added -f "pdf:-e encoding" as a temporary fix to the problem of different font encodings. See also pstoedit.man.
Added some heuristic to calculate the MediaBox for PDF.
Removed writing of comments to PDF because of problems with xpdf.
Integrated some new features of the cd1.2 library for the CGM backend.
Added a backend to generate a Java(tm) applet
Some changes to compile without warnings

New or changed in 2.40:

a GNUplot backend contributed by Carsten Hammer
a first DXF backend contributed by Carsten Hammer ( a more complete version will be available in one of the next release. If you have urgent need for it contact Wolfgang.Glunz@mchp.siemens.de )
a OS/2 Metafile backend contributed by Christoph Jaeschke
a PDF backend
no shell script anymore. Pure C++ programm.
also runs on DOS, OS/2.
tgif backend extended to support rotated text. (needs tgif version >= 3.0 pl 7 )
some bug fixes