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- Subject: ANNOUNCE: xpdf 0.90 - a PDF viewer for X
-
-
- I've just released a new version of xpdf, my Portable Document Format
- (PDF) viewer for X.
-
- Xpdf runs under the X Window System on Unix, VMS, and OS/2. The non-X
- components of the package (pdftops, pdftotext, etc.) also run on Win32
- systems.
-
- *** NEW -- Anti-aliased fonts!
- *** This release uses t1lib to render embedded Type 1/1C fonts (and
- *** the base 14 fonts).
-
- Other noticeable changes:
-
- * Added "backward" and "forward" buttons.
- * Added fit-page and fit-page-width zoom factors.
- * Type 1C fonts are converted to Type 1 and embedded in PostScript.
- * Support vertical Japanese text.
- * Added Japanese text support (EUC-JP) to pdftotext.
- * Initial support for PDF 1.3.
-
- See the `CHANGES' file for a complete list.
-
- Source (C++ and C) is available, and it should be fairly easy to
- compile for UNIX, VMS, OS/2, and Win32.
-
- More information, source code, and precompiled binaries are on the
- xpdf web page and ftp site:
-
- http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
- ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/
-
- Source and Linux binaries are on sunsite.unc.edu, currently in
- the incoming directory, but they will be moved to:
-
- ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/apps/graphics/viewers/X
-
- The following will be available soon --
-
- RPM packages for RedHat 5.x Linux systems:
- ftp://contrib.redhat.com/
-
- Decryption patches:
- ftp://ftp.sci.usq.edu.au/pub/linux/xpdf/
-
- Decryption-enabled Linux binaries:
- ftp://ftp.replay.com/pub/replay/linux/redhat/
-
- - Derek
-