CTAN package update: pdftex 1.40.7
Date: February 17, 2008 3:45:38 PM CET
The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should be at
your favorite mirror real soon now.
Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: pdftex 1.40.7
Author's name: Martin Schröder
Location on CTAN: /systems/pdftex
Summary description: A new version of pdftex
License type: gpl
Announcement text:
The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable version: =========================================================================== pdfTeX 1.40.7 =========================================================================== This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.40.7, 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. =========================================================================== Main changes of pdfTeX 1.40.7 =========================================================================== - Bugfix: - PDFs > 2GiB (LFS) were still broken on 32-bit systems For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS =========================================================================== Legal notice / license =========================================================================== pdfTeX is copyright (c) 1996-2008 Han The Thanh, <thanh at pdftex.org> pdfTeX is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For a complete README (with a full discussion of the license) please look at http://www.pdftex.org/README =========================================================================== The files / installation =========================================================================== You should first try to get a new version of pdfTeX through your distribution. If you want to compile it yourself, have a look at http://www.pdftex.org -- there you can find links to the pdfTeX sources on CTAN. And some useful documentation. =========================================================================== Mailing lists / web pages: =========================================================================== Mailing list: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex Related web pages: http://www.pdftex.org http://sarovar.org/projects/pdftex/ http://foundry.supelec.fr/scm/?group_id=23 http://www.tug.org/tex-live/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes http://www.dante.de/ http://tug.org/ http://www.pragma-ade.com/ Have fun! Martin Schröder (martin at pdftex.org) for the pdfTeX team, February 2008
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/pdftex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pdftex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable version: =========================================================================== pdfTeX 1.40.7 =========================================================================== This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.40.7, 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. =========================================================================== Main changes of pdfTeX 1.40.7 =========================================================================== - Bugfix: - PDFs > 2GiB (LFS) were still broken on 32-bit systems For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS =========================================================================== Legal notice / license =========================================================================== pdfTeX is copyright (c) 1996-2008 Han The Thanh, <thanh at pdftex.org> pdfTeX is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. For a complete README (with a full discussion of the license) please look at http://www.pdftex.org/README =========================================================================== The files / installation =========================================================================== You should first try to get a new version of pdfTeX through your distribution. If you want to compile it yourself, have a look at http://www.pdftex.org -- there you can find links to the pdfTeX sources on CTAN. And some useful documentation. =========================================================================== Mailing lists / web pages: =========================================================================== Mailing list: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex Related web pages: http://www.pdftex.org http://sarovar.org/projects/pdftex/ http://foundry.supelec.fr/scm/?group_id=23 http://www.tug.org/tex-live/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes http://www.dante.de/ http://tug.org/ http://www.pragma-ade.com/ Have fun! Martin Schröder (martin at pdftex.org) for the pdfTeX team, February 2008
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/pdftex . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/pdftex (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
pdftex – A TeX extension for direct creation of PDF
An extension of TeX which can directly generate PDF documents as well as DVI output. All current free TeX distributions including TeX Live, MacTeX and MiKTeX include pdfTeX (Plain TeX) and pdfLaTeX (LaTeX), among many other formats based on the pdfTeX engine.
Package | pdftex |
Copyright | Hàn Thế Thành |
Maintainer | The pdfTeX Team The TeX Live Team Hàn Thế Thành |
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