Changes to fig2dev
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Version 3.2
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Patchlevel 8b (Aug 2021)
NEW FEATURES:
o Detect the output language from the output file name.
o On the command line, a minus (-) as input or output file name refers
to standard input or standard output.
BUGS FIXED:
Ticket numbers refer to https://sourceforge.net/p/mcj/tickets/#.
o Correct buffer overflows and segfaults, mainly due to maliciously
crafted input files, tickets #113-117, #122, #123, #125-#135.
o With -Lepic -P, generate a complete tex file.
o Correctly produce a gif if a transparent color is given, ticket #121.
o Return with error if no space is left on the device. Ticket #101.
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Patchlevel 8a (Mar 2021)
BUGS FIXED:
o Allow closed splines with three points.
o Fix build under Darwin.
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Patchlevel 8 (Dec 2020)
NEW FEATURES:
o Use deflate to embed image data into eps output, often substantially
reducing file size.
o Embed pdf files into ps output by converting the pdf to eps.
o Allow negative arrow widths. This might be useful for asymmetric arrow
tips, which can thus be mirrored around the corresponding line.
BUGS FIXED:
Ticket numbers refer to https://sourceforge.net/p/mcj/tickets/#.
o Reject negative text font sizes. Fixes ticket #86.
o Allow fig files ending without previous eol character. Fixes #83, #84.
o Accept text and ellipse angles only within -2*pi to 2*pi. Fixes #76.
o Allow -1 as default TeX font, not only 0. Fixes #71, #75, #81.
o Do not allow ASCII NUL anywhere in input. Fixes #65, #68, #73, #80.
o Use getline() to improve input scanning.
Fixes tickets #58, #59, #61, #62, #67, #78, #79, #82.
o Correctly scan embedded pdfs for /MediaBox value.
o Convert polygons having too few points to polylines. Ticket #56.
o Reject huge arrow types causing integer overflow. Ticket #57.
o Allow Fig v2 text strings ending with multiple ^A. Ticket #55.
o Embed images in pdfs with their original compression type, i.e., leave
the gs switch "-dAutoFilterColorImages" at its default value "true".
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Patchlevel 7b (Nov 2019)
NEW FEATURES:
o A X color database is not needed, but can be provided. The location of
the database can be given at compile time, default /etc/X11/rgb.txt.
BUGS FIXED:
Debian bug numbers refer to https://bugs.debian.org/#.
o Do not clip objects with line-thickness 0 having arrows. Ticket #53.
o Do not segfault on circle/half circle arrowheads with a magnification
larger 42. Always draw circle arrowheads with 40 points. Ticket #52.
o Allow circles or ellipses with negative radii. Ticket #49.
o Avoid "dimension too large error" with tikz output by avoiding
coordinate values smaller than -16383.
o Make tests (test1.c) work with -fsanitize=address compiler option.
o Obey join-style of lines in tikz output.
o Pass utf8-strings to svg output, escape some chars (<>&).
o Accept inclined boxes and change them to polygons. Fixes ticket #43.
o Make tests #27 and #33 work on Mac Darwin, failed due to whitespace
formatting differences. From Hanspeter Niederstrasser. Ticket #40.
o Use only latex, neither etex or tex, to test tikz output. Usage of
etex, after hint from Roland Rosenfeld, closed debian bug 920368.
o For tikz output, do not draw arrows on a single point line.
o Omit spurious showpage when including jpg-file. From Rainer Buchty.
o Correct a few memory leaks and corruptions. See commit d1c54f6.
o Change negative color numbers to default color. Fixes ticket #30.
o A spline with one point would cause segfault. Fixed, see ticket #29.
o Allow one char without newline in the last line of an input file.
Fixes ticket #28.
o Harden input, mainly against files in which an incomplete object would
be created and freeing the object would violate memory, i.e, it may
cause segfault. See, e.g., ticket #27.
o Properly initalize line storage when reading fig files version 1.3.
Would segfault when reading incomplete line and trying to free it.
Fixes ticket #26, debian bug 906743.
o Silently ignore the hundred-first and more comment lines. This
fixes ticket #25 and debian bug 906740.
o Use SetFigFont, not SetFigFontNFSS in pictex output. Fixes
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/transfig/+bug/1359485 .
o Accept blanks in color names (e.g., fig2dev -L eps -g"Misty Rose"..).
o Correct typos in man-pages, debian 30_man_typo.patch.
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Patchlevel 7a (May 2018)
NEW FEATURES:
o Add option -w, wrap (create stand-alone perl file) for Perl/Tk output.
o Distribute the X bitmaps files within fig2dev, no need to install
these files. The files were needed for Tk and Perl/Tk output.
BUGS FIXED:
o Fix regression whereupon flipped ellipses were not read. Ticket #23.
o Distribute i18n files ru_RU.CP1251.ps and uk_UA.KOI8-U.ps.
o Make test "survive debian bug #890016" succeed on 32 bit systems.
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Patchlevel 7 (April 2018)
OPTION LETTER CHANGES:
o Language previous option current option
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cgm -b dummy -a
epic -A scale -d scale
eepic -A scale -d scale
eepicemu -A scale -d scale
gbx -i on|off -v
ibmgl -m mag,xoff,yoff -m mag -x xoff -y yoff
mp -I file -d file
ps -S dummy -o
NEW FEATURES:
o Print language-specific help text by using fig2dev -L lang -h.
o Add option -M, multipage, for MetaPost output language.
o Add option -P, pagemode, and -z to choose a pagesize for pdf output.
o Add option -W (scaling of figures not possible) for tikz.
o Add option -b, border width, for LaTeX output language.
o Add option -f for pstex_t and pdftex_t output language.
o Add uk_UA and ru_RU encodings for PostScript output. Ticket #12.
BUGS FIXED:
o Update help text: Output help for dxf and textyl output language,
add description of -g option for Tk/Tcl and Perl/Tk output, allow -f
option for pstex_t and pdftex_t output language.
Debian bug numbers refer to https://bugs.debian.org/#.
Ticket numbers refer to https://sourceforge.net/p/mcj/tickets/#.
o Sanitize input. Do not segfault on malformed input files. Fixes debian
bugs 881143, 881144, 881396, 890015, 890016, 882021 and also 882022.
o Do not put an %%Orientation: comment into PostScript output. Some
viewers would rotate the resulting file, others not.
o Fix build on NetBSD, which has a _setmode() function different from
_setmode() on Windows. Ticket #17. Also, avoid alloca(). Ticket #16.
o tikz output: Omit the semicolon after \pgftext[..]{...};.
o Define PostScript patterns with larger tiles, may render better. #13
o Fix build in case libXpm is missing. Ticket #15.
o Use netpbm programs instead of ghostscript, to produce smaller files.
o Correctly embed eps files with binary preview (epsi, typically
found on Microsoft systems). Also, allow to embed ps-files. Fixes
debian bug 248807, ticket #8.
o For compilation, do not depend on PATH_MAX being defined.
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Patchlevel 6a (January 2017)
NEW FEATURES:
o Distribute transfig.pdf. No need to build it from the TeX sources.
o Enable reproducible build for svg output.
o Set the creator to fig2dev, not to the path by which fig2dev is
invoked.
BUGS FIXED:
Ticket numbers refer to https://sourceforge.net/p/mcj/tickets/#.
o The svg output now produces correct patterns and pie-wege arcs.
Property names instead of style attributes are used. Hollow arrow
heads are really hollow, not filled with white. In the PostScript
output, this might also clip a bit of the filling underneath an arrow.
o tikz output: Re-use \dimen \XFigu if it is already defined. Ticket #3.
o tikz output: A pattern in an object with line width zero and the
stroke color equal to the fill color would produce a white fill.
The tikz output now does not try to be smart and puts a pattern, even
if the result is equal to a solid fill. Ticket #1.
0 pict2e output: Standalone tex-files always include color.sty. #2.
o pict2e output: A pattern with stroke color equal to fill color is
rendered as a solid fill.
o Compiles when gnu iconv and standard iconv are present.
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Patchlevel 6 (August 2016)
BUGS FIXED:
o Add compile switch --enable-versioning and script update-version_m4,
to create version string from source control system
o tikz output: Support -G (grid) option. Make \XFigwidth and \XFigheight
only scale coordinates, not line widths; Do not set unnecessarily
\color{black} on text.
From Roland Rosenfeld <roland@spinnaker.de>
o Correct comment string in man page fig2ps2tex.1
o Distribute autotest file lookup_X_color.at - only useful for hacking
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Patchlevel 6-rc (July 2016)
CHANGE OF THE PACKAGE NAME TO FIG2DEV
The package is now called fig2dev, because this is the main component
of the package. Transfig is considered obsolete.
BUGS FIXED:
o Compiles on darwin.
From Brian V. Smith:
o Changed object defs from O_ to OBJ_ because O_TEXT conflicts
with system typedef (debian 37_OBJ_typedef.patch)
o Remove unused charset variables cs and ca from genibmgl.c
(debian 38_unusedcharset.patch)
o Build with make CFLAGS="-Werror -Wpedantic -Wformat -Wformat-security'
o On lines with Round or Projecting cap style and arrowheads, the line
endpoint stuck out beyond the arrowhead (this was fixed in
xfig 3.2.5c, but not here until now; debian 41_arrowhead.patch)
o Changed .ce (center lines) to .RS (right-justify) in fig2ps2tex man
page file because of issues when generating HTML (From Eric Raymond)
(debian 36_manpage_ce2RS.patch)
o Quotes added to output file name for several formats in case there
are blanks in the name (debian 39_gs_quote.patch)
o For PDF output, changed -dColorImageFilter from /FlateEncode to
/DCTEncode for lossy compression (smaller pdf files)
(debian 40_ColorImageFilter.patch)
o Update help for PDF options (debian 42_PDF_help.patch)
From Roland Rosenfeld. Bug numbers refer to https://bugs.debian.org/#.
o Remove bashisms in fig2ps2tex script. Reported from
Chris Lamb <chris@chris-lamb.co.uk>. Fixes debian bug 480615.
o Include sys/stat.h in genps.c. Reported from Steven Chamberlain
<steven@pyro.eu.org>. Debian bug 654767. (28_fix_chmod...patch)
o Distribute the man page transig.1. (34_transfig.1.patch)
o Do not report user information in ps files. Debian bug 316382
(04_displaywho.patch)
o Set locale to C. Debian bug 45378 (05_locale_patch).
o Support pdftex in transfig (20_transfig_pdftex.patch). Reported by
Jindrich Makovicka <makovick@gmail.com>.
o Fix some typos (22_typos.patch, 35_manpage_typos.patch).
o Honor environment variable SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH, for reproducible
builds. Debian bug 819911. From Alexis Bienvenüe <pado@passoire.fr>.
(33_honour_SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH.patch).
o Enable fonts >= 42 pt, needs \usepackage{type1cm}. Bug 343139,
(09_maxfontsize.patch).
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Patchlevel 6-beta (April 2016)
NEW FEATURES:
o New pict2e and tikz output language, for use with TeX/LaTeX.
o Compile with ./configure; make; make install.
Optionally, use make check; make installcheck.
o By default, transfig is not built.
BUGS FIXED:
o Swap patterns in PostScript output, were upside down.
o Silence most compiler warnings.
o Update man-pages and help text.
o Accurately position arrowheads, flush with line, in PostScript output.
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Patchlevel 5e (August 2013)
BUGS FIXED:
o HTML map output was limited to 100 links.
Fix by Jan van Dijk
o Updated for compatibility to PNG 1.5
From Matthias Scheler
o Was adding "showpage" command when producing bitmap formats from intermediate EPS.
This produced "illegal" PNG and JPEG files with extra, blank image.
o Maximum width of included image in PS/EPS output increased from 8192 to 16384
o Precision of some PIC objects increased from %.2f to %.3f
o Double close of output file when ghostscript fails. Original bug report from
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/728825
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Patchlevel 5d (July 23, 2010)
BUGS FIXED:
o reduces some compilation warnings (fix from Debian)
o made PostScript output DSC 3.0 compliant to work with CUPS
patch from Ian Dall (see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/558380)
o Changed STOCK_LAST from 17 to 19 in fig2dev/dev/genemf.c
o Questionable copy of one data type to another in genemf.c
o Uninitialized linew_spec in genepic.c
o Changed definition of command for short slanted lines in genlatex.c
o Added check for existance of arrows in SVG line generator
o Removed %%Page: directive from included JPEG files in PostScript/EPS output
o bound.c was passing pointers to int instead of double to arc_tangent
o put_msg function uses proper varargs now
o Option for debug comments in GBX output is "yes" or "no", not "on" or "off"
o Added help (-h) info for GBX output
o In version 1.4 of the PNG library dither was removed so fig2dev now uses
quantize when importing PNG images with palettes
o put_msg was declared twice (fig2dev/dev/genemf.c)
o Added xlink namespace for images in SVG export
o SVG output for imported images didn't form href link properly
o PIC floating point numbers were only 2 decimal places - now 3 (Debian bug #611948)
Fix thanks to Roger Leigh (Debian Project)
o PIC output text had leading blanks (Debian bug #611977)
Fix thanks to Roger Leigh (Debian Project)
o LaTeX commands for small and tiny dots missing "." (e.g. \small.)
from Thomas Loimer
NEW FEATURES:
o New PSTricks driver from Gene Ressler (see man fig2dev for info)
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Patchlevel 5c (Jan 4, 2010)
BUGS FIXED:
o transfig command was hardwired for "tex" for "make all" directive and
removing files with "make clean" directive in creating Makefile
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Patchlevel 5b (Jun 2, 2009)
NEW FEATURES:
o -a option added to PostScript and PICTeX languages to NOT include user's
login name in output
o Gerber (RS-247-X for CAD drawings for printed circuits) export language from Edward Grace
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Patchlevel 5a (Jun 1, 2009)
NEW FEATURES:
o 22 new arrowhead types
o HTML map now produces reference to .png file instead of .gif
BUGS FIXED:
o CreationDate in pictex output was either wrong or caused segfault
o bugs fixed in SVG Driver:
- blue component of shaded colors was always zero
- line protruding beyond arrowhead on long arrows
- wrong position of back arrowhead on double-headed arrows
- fill patterns either missing or using incorrect linewidth
- lowercase greek phi did not match its X11 counterpart
from Martin Kroeker
o dubious printf(j++,j++) in MP driver
o missing #includes in MP driver
o added !defined(__FreeBSD) to fig2dev.h def for sys_nerr and errno
From Eric Scott
o added -quiet options to giftopnm and ppmtopcs in reading GIF files
From Eric Scott
o Typo in LaTeX driver when generating arc-box. "iut" should be "put"
o extraneous stroke:black in svg header removed along with stroke color
for text, since the text fill color does the whole job
o fig2dev produces more correctly structured PostScript. Files get printed via
CUPS on PostScript printers. When viewing a .ps-file in gv you can go to the
last page and back and to the last page again without getting PostScript errors.
From Ronald Lembcke
o Renamed the macro \SetFigFont to \SetFigFontNFSS if NFSS is #defined to alleviate
some problems. From Roland Rosenfeld.
o Grid in metric mode was incorrectly scaled
o Removes any %EOF or %%EOF from imported EPS pictures before exporting.
Also doesn't add %EOF when importing JPEG file now.
o Missing call to get local time before converting to string in genpictex.c
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Patchlevel 5 (Feb 27, 2007)
NEW FEATURES:
o SVG driver adds color and pattern filling to arcs
from Martin Kroeker
BUGS FIXED:
o bug which made arrowheads too short fixed
o SVG driver corrects the ugly arrowheads on stick arrows
from Martin Kroeker
o EMF driver would crash when fed stdin
from Martin Kroeker
o Unhandled case for linetypes in latex driver
o CUPS didn't like the order of some of the Postscript header
from Ian Dall
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Patchlevel 5-alpha7 (Oct, 27, 2005)
NEW FEATURES
o Updated SVG driver from Martin Kroeker was missing from alpha6
o Another SVG update: Use a font-family list of "Times,Symbol" for symbol
characters - the Times fontface does not contain all elements of the
Symbol font on all platforms
BUGS FIXED:
o Typo in font name (was cmit10, should be cmti10) in MetaPost driver
This bug fix was omitted from alpha6
Patchlevel 5-alpha6 (Oct, 12, 2005)
NEW FEATURES:
o Added -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress option to ghostscript when generating
PDF output to improve quality of bitmap graphics
o Fill patterns now use PostScript Level 2 built-in pattern commands
for Postscript/EPS/PDF and bitmap output
From Konstantin Shemyak
o Updated SVG driver from Martin Kroeker
o New -K option to size bounding box to whole figure when exporting
only certain depths
From Dirk Osswald
BUGS FIXED:
o Typo in font name (was cmit10, should be cmti10) in MetaPost driver
o When all texts were "special" (LaTeX coded) in a figure, ISO
characters weren't encoded in straight PS and PDF output
o Bug in radius for circles in SVG driver (dev/gensvg.c)
o fig2dev.man was missing many papersize options
o Double fclose() in bitmap driver
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Patchlevel 5-alpha5 (April, 26, 2004)
NEW FEATURES:
o Raster picture support added to SVG driver. (In SVG, this translates
to a link to the image file plus rotation/scaling information.
While 'conformant' SVG viewers need only support PNG and JPEG, there
is no a filetype test, as there is no limit on supported formats
in the standard, and e.g. Batik is able to display XBM and GIF in
addition. Added code for rounded boxes (polyline subtype 4).
Added code for boxes, explicit support for polygons. Added
xml-space:preserve qualifier on texts to preserve whitespace. Rewrote
fill pattern handling to generate patterns as needed - adding support
for penwidth and color. Corrected tiling of all shingle patterns and
reversal of horizontal shingles.
From Martin Kroeker
o Better arrowheads in SVG driver. Corrected font family selection.
Corrected (and simplified) calculation of white-tinted fill colors
(and removed the HSV/RGB conversion code).
From Justus Piater
BUGS FIXED:
o Typo in LATEX_AND_XFIG file. Text should be:
\convertMPtoPDF{foo.0}{1}{1}
It was missing parameters {1}{1}
o Depth filter option -D was parsing range (e.g. 40:80) incorrectly
Fix from Justus Piater
o C++ style comments "//" changed to "/* */" in genmp.c
o Integer overflow in computing some spline steps
o \pagestyle{empty} added for epic/eepic driver so it doesn't produce
unnecessary page number when LaTeXing
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Patchlevel 5-alpha4 (Feb 19, 2004)
NEW FEATURES
o Many SVG driver enhancements from Martin Kroeker
(martin@ruby.chemie.uni-freiburg.de)
o New features in EMF driver from ITOH Yasufumi:
support for locale text (if iconv() is available),
arc box, open arc, rotated ellipse, picture,
dash-triple-dotted line style, and all fill patterns.
BUGS FIXED
o "cleandir" directive missing from doc/manual/Makefile
o Added note about requiring dummy argument for -R option
o SVG driver bug fixes: semicolon missing in CSS properties, multiline
string problem, width, height and viewbox attributes now relative to
figure bounds instead of pagesize. Fixes from Justus Piater.
o Font info was put in the pstex file even when there were only special
texts.
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Patchlevel 5-alpha3 (Dec 9, 2003)
NEW FEATURES
o Global option "-Z maxdim" to scale figure so that largest dimension
(width or height) is maxdim inches
o Shapepar driver to generate shaped paragraphs for LaTeX (-L shape)
from Christian Gollwitzer
o I18N support postscript file installation moved to fig2dev/dev
directory and installed with InstallNonExecFile (imake directive)
o options -dAutoFilterColorImages=false and -dColorImageFilter=/FlateEncode
added to ghostscript call when exporting to pdf to improve image
quality during compression
o "Epoch" added to rpm spec
o New HP/GL2 driver from Glenn Burkhardt with paper size selection,
offset, centering and orientation options
BUGS FIXED
o comments about BINDIR added to fig2dev/Imakefile and transfig/Imakefile
so user can easily change installation directory of both programs
o MKDIRHIER used in Imakefile for installing support files instead of mkdir
o commands like \\small used instead of SetFigFont for thick and thin
dots for LaTeX export
From Bo Thilde
o removed typedefs of uint, ushort and ulong from genemf.h because
systems should already have those defined
o SVG driver not mentioned in fig2dev.1 (.man)
o shortened two fprintf calls in gensvg.c for HP-UX which can't handle
long strings
o If an imported picture path points to some directory which is not the
current directory, and there exists a picture file of the same name in
the current directory, and the correct file is not compressed, fig2dev
would use the file in the current directory because it stripped off
the path first. This was fixed by looking for the uncompressed name
first.
o Color values should be divided by 255, not 256 to produce values from
0 to 1.0 in LaTeX, Tk and PostScript drivers, and readpng and readpcx
utilities
o Increased precision of arc angles from %.1f to %.4f in PS/EPS/PDF
driver
o Postscript support files now installed with r/w permissions only (was
r/w/x)
o Metapost (mp) driver now generates all Fig styles of arrowheads
From Tim Braun
o Bug in pic preamble - default font size either 0 or garbage
o PDF not rotated anymore for landscape mode (similar to eps)
o fontmag not set when magnification was read from Fig file
o When there were only LaTeX special texts without backslashes (\) and
no other objects in the figure, a bounding box of 0 width was produced
for EPS, PS and PSTEX output.
o Added ZLIBDIR variable in fig2dev/Imakefile to specify zlib directory
if different from standard location
o pstex_t export lacked border option (-b) to align LaTeX text when
pstex figure specified border (also fixed in xfig Combined PS/LaTeX)
o warnings in gentpic.c caused failure of gcc on hppa architecture under
Debian
o cleaned up lots of implicit declarations of functions/procs
o transfig: the "psfig" language was missing from the list of languages,
making things go out of sync past "ps".
o transfig: "transfig -L pstex" was generating rules for ps not eps
o slight margin added to text bounds
o an incorrect printf specification (%d instead of %ld) in gemp.c
o "#include <varargs.h>" no longer needed (and is unsupported by gcc 3.3)
o Not a bug, really but a workaround for programs that generate Fig files
with arcs that have coincident start and end points with the intent
of making a circle (TCM apparently does this). Without this
workaround, such arcs have the same start and end angle, which
ghostcript and probably other PostScript interpreters take to mean
"don't draw anything". This fix adds 0.01 degrees to the end angle
if it is identical to the start angle.
o Exporting a file with a picture containing a path with blanks failed
o Incorrect ISO translation was:
"\\.S", /* latin capital letter S with dot above */
Should be:
"\\.Z", /* latin capital letter Z with dot above */
o LaTeX: Correction to the ISO-8859-2 ogonek diacritic mark now uses \k
instead of cedilla (\c). If the macro \k isn't defined in your
situation or you don't see the ogonek then define the macro: \def\k#1{\c{#1}}
before the \begin{document}.
From Jerzy Sobczyk
o Bug in user-defined colors when exporting to CGM. If color numbers
weren't contiguous, e.g. 32, 34, then it couldn't find color 34.
o glyphs in the Symbol font that have descenders weren't taken into
account when calculating text bounds
o missing blue and extra brown color in LaTeX driver
o \smash directive added back to text objects in eepic driver (was removed
in 3.2.4)
o Quotes in FIG2DEV_LIBDIR definition (fig2dev/Imakefile) interferred when
using $DESTDIR
o Comments not inserted in EMF output anymore (not valid in language)
o float/int mixup in printf in pic driver for font size caused default
font size to be 0
o bug in hp/gl (ibmgl) driver produced incorrect JCL code to enter HP/GL
mode when using -k option
o point size factor changed from 72.27 to 72 points per inch as specified
by HP tech notes
o change in 3.2.4 which included all "special" (LaTeX) texts in the
bounding box that don't have any backslashes ("\") in them failed to
take into account inline equations using the "$". Now those special
texts are also excluded from the bounding box calculation.
o various man page format errors fixed
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Patchlevel 4 (December 2002)
NEW FEATURES
o SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) driver from Anthony Starks, modified
by Brian Smith and greatly enhanced by Martin Kroeker
o ASCII and Binary (TIFF) preview bitmap options for PostScript and EPS
export. The latter is useful for Microsoft products which require a
TIFF preview to display EPS on the screen. Use -A for ASCII preview,
use -C for color TIFF or -T for monochrome TIFF preview. These all
require ghostscript to work. If you don't have ghostscript, the
export will continue without a preview.
o JPEG encoding (DCT) now used for EPS/PostScript output. This greatly
reduces the size of the generated PostScript. Gleaned with permission
from jpeg2ps program written by Thomas Merz.
As a result of this, the jpeg library is no longer needed, although xfig
still needs it for JPEG support.
o Background (-g) option for tk export honored now
o Additional JPEG file format (EXIF) added. These usually come from
digital cameras.
o -N Option to convert colors to grayscale on export.
o -b option for CGM export to produce binary CGM using ralcgm. You must,
of course have ralcgm installed on your system to use this.
o Translations of LATEX.AND.XFIG document into two popular Chinese
encodings (GB2312 and Big5). These are called LATEX.AND.XFIG.zh_CN
and LATEX.AND.XFIG.zh_TW respectively.
From Mendel Chan
o The default for multi-page output (PostScript) is to NOT overlap pages
now. This is to allow multiple, independent pages of figures.
The -O option has been added to force page overlap, e.g. to cut and
paste pages together to make posters (the original use for multipage).
o Added EMF (Enhanced MetaFile) conversion genemf.c
from Mike Schrick (based on the CGM driver from Philippe Bekaert
o New grid option (-G) to draw grid on page. Specify minor and/or major
tick spacing in one of several units. For example, "-G .25:1cm" draws
a thin, gray line every .25 cm and a thicker gray line every 1 cm.
Specifying "-G 1in" draws a thin line every 1 inch. See man pages for
all units. Fractions may be used, e.g. -G 1/16:1/2in will make a thin
line every 1/16 (0.0625) inch and a thick line every 1/2 (0.5) inch.
Only implemented in PostScript, EPS, PDF, and bitmap (GIF, JPEG, etc)
drivers for now.
o Perk/Tk driver from Slaven Rezic (rezic@onlineoffice.de)
o Added options -B and -R to the EPS driver. This enables the user to
clip out a region for display in the EPS file. Very convenient when
using xfig via pstoedit as a postprocessor of ps files and one wants
to maintain the preview of the file in lyx. See the man for additional
information. From Morten S. Nielsen <msn@ipt.dtu.dk>
o New PostScript DSC directives to specify page size. Doesn't select
tray, which is device dependent, but works better with ghostscript,
ghostview and other PostScript interpreters.
o fig2dev now includes all "special" (LaTeX) texts that don't have any
backslashes ("\") in them in the bounding box.
o genepic and genpictex drivers updated for I18N (internationalization)
From T. Sato
o Glyphs for Hungarian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak and Slovenian
are essentially the same as Czech (ISO-Latin 2) so symbolic links are
created for those .ps files (hu_HU.ps, pl_PL.ps, ro_RO.ps, sk_SK.ps
and sl_SI.ps are linked to cs_CZ.ps)
o fig2dev prepends any path included in the .fig filename to imported
image file paths (only if imported image path isn't already absolute).
o transfig now reports when it is renaming an existing makefile or TeX
macro file to a backup (e.g. Makefile to Makefile~)
o now uses Thomas Merz' jpeg2ps for imported jpeg files when exporting
to PS/EPS. This is much more compact than the runlength encoding
which is used for other bitmaps. Many thanks to Thomas for his
permission to use jpeg2ps.
o New option for binary CGM export. The ralcgm program is required for
this option. See ftp://ftp.cc.rl.ac.uk/pub/graphics/ralcgm/
o New -E option to set encoding for pictex, latex, pstex_t and epic
text to ISO8859-1 (the default) or ISO8859-2
o Added "install.all" option to make to install man pages in addition to
executables etc.
o If output file ends in ".fig", fig2dev prints error message to stderr
and exits.
o New encoding option (-E) for ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-2 from Tomas Kopal
o Exporting to tk now supports imported PPM images in addition to GIF
and XPM
o Comments added to EPS and PostScript output so MetaPost can group parts of
figure according to depths. From Klaus Guntermann.
o New -F, -R and -t options for epic output (do "fig2dev -h" for info).
From Gabriel Zachmann.
BUGS FIXED
o When importing multiple GIF or PCX images, fig2dev would segfault on
Linux. This happened for two reasons: the GIF file was closed and
reopened, which would result in a different file structure being
closed by the calling routine, and a palette was being allocated for
the PCX image and never used.
o In multi-page mode for PDF export, figure was shifted up too far.
o The color gold was in the wrong place for LaTeX special text.
o Various extraneous variables removed
o In multipage mode (PostScript export), if the figure is smaller than
0.1 page, nothing was generated or printed.
o When exporting to EPS, the multipage flag was not cleared after
reading the file (options are set before reading file).
o Bug in the -D option (export or exclude certain depths) where it
wouldn't accept 0 as a depth specifier.
o Extra "char *c" definition in fig2dev/dev/readeps.c
o Possible data type problem with result of floor() in readeps.c - now
coerced with (int)
o fig2dev would sometimes emit the "transparentimage" for JPEG images
(it's only for GIF with a transparent color)
o Minor adjustment made in tk driver which fixes problem where objects
extend beyond the canvas, when the objects are very far away from the
origin (50 inches or more)
o Line join was not explicitely set to "miter" and line cap was not set
to "butt" explicitely at the beginning. This caused problems if the
figure was imported into another figure because settings from
importing document were used
o PNGINC Imakefile variable wasn't used
o Minimum length (MIN_LEN) for "LaTeX short lines" was calculated
incorrectly (was using 13 pixels instead of 13 points as per Lamport)
Also, actual length of line was compared instead of horizontal
component (or vertical component for vertical lines)
Fixed by Jacques Lefrere
o The lines in three patterns: 45 degrees left, 45 degrees right and
45 degrees crosshatch were too close together compared to the xfig
(on-screen) version
o Pagesize may have been one pixel too small when exporting to PDF
o Text font sizes for latex, pic and tpic output were incorrectly scaled
for metric Fig files (their units are points, not inches or cm)
o Added "&& !defined(__CYGWIN__) && !defined(__DARWIN__)" to declaration
of sys_errlist[], errno and sys_nerr. The __DARWIN__ is for Mac OSX
using X.
o Font size was incorrect for CGM output when exporting Fig 2.x files
o Bug introduced in 3.2.3d shifted rotated imported pictures
o Missing % from \end{picture} in generated latex code. This caused bad
extra spacing when the generated file is \input into a minipage or a
framebox, for instance.
Fix from Matthias Koeppe
o Not really a bug, but the text() proc in fig2dev/dev/gengcm.c was
renamed to cgm_text because of a bug in IBM's compiler which turns
text() into a .text assembler directive
o Options (fig2dev -h) incorrectly had "-p name" for pstex options
instead of pstex_t
o Updated language options in transfig to current set in fig2dev
o Incorrect adjustment of scale and canvas offset for tk and ptk
(perl/tk) export
o In the PIC driver, the macro PICFONTMAG should return int, but was
returning double, which then trashed following arguments to fprintf.
o Extraneous semi-colon (;) after closing brace } and/or empty default
case (no trailing semi-colon) causes HP ANSI compiler to complain
o Moved landscape rotation of page and Y-flip scaling inside
%%BeginPageSetup %%EndPageSetup block according to DSC, which says
that page orientation code should be there.
o ANSI style prototype for rgb2luminance did not match proc declaration
o When a compound object included lines that have arrowheads and large
coordinates (>= 100000), an incorrect bounding box was produced.
This same bug was in xfig 3.2.3d and earlier.
o Output file was being closed twice in CGM and PDF driver, causing
segfault on some systems.
o In the eepic driver, the thickness of a line may be incorrect if it a
has backward arrowhead of different thickness.
-----------------------------
Patchlevel 3d: (May 29, 2001)
NEW FEATURES
o MetaPost driver (-L mp or -L mmp) ported from fig2MP by Klaus
Guntermann (guntermann@iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de). fig2MP was
written by Dane Dwyer (dwyer@geisel.csl.uiuc.edu)
o Support for importing PNG image files added
o Transparent color in imported GIF files now honored
o You may use "-M -" to send the Makefile output to standard output from
TransFig, and "-T -" to send the Texfile to standard output.
o (The following feature was really added in 3.2.3, but I forgot to update
this file): -S option added for smoothing bitmap output.
o (The following feature was really added in 3.2.3b, but ... you know...):
eps added as a language for TransFig
o Support for Czech font encoding for PostScript (cs_CZ.ps)
From Radim Gelner <gelnerr@suse.cz>
BUGS FIXED
o #ifdef JPEG added in usage message for JPEG options
o Resolution variable (ppi) needed to be double. This caused roundoff
and overflow errors in several drivers.
o Comments longer than 200 characters in Fig files caused segfault.
Comments may now be of unlimited length.
o some bitmap files for tk driver had double brackets "{"
o The CGM driver didn't check if the "from" input was from stdin or a
file and segfaulted.
o Spline objects with trailing blanks (in file) made next object read
incorrectly.
o Bounding box incorrectly counted line thickness in imported picture
objects (they don't use the line thickness)
o The amount to shift a figure to 0,0 was rounded to integer, which
caused some figures to be clipped by the bounding box. This affected
eps and bitmap output.
o The ibmgl driver output NaNs because of a double/int mixup with printf
o Certain punctuation characters with descenders weren't taken into
account for text bounds.
o An extra page was generated for pdf output.
o Every object had 0.0000 coordinates when exporting to the MetaFont
driver.
o fig2dev would crash when reading FIG 3.1 files that have splines. The
problem was that the "points" component of the spline structure is in
a different position than in the line structure, causing arrow_bound
to use the wrong data.
o "%Page:" DSC comment is not generated generated for EPS now
o Trailing blank in spline object (after control points) caused problem
when reading Fig file
o TransFig didn't check whether Texfile or Makefile could be opened for
writing, causing segfault
o AutoRotatePages now set to None when using ghostscript to export PDF
o Changed explicit "ln -s" to use $(LN) for making symlinks during
install (fig2dev/Imakefile)
------------------------------
Patchlevel 3c (July 25, 2000)
BUGS FIXED
o TransFig manual Makefile now calls ../../fig2dev/fig2dev preventing
the Catch-22 problem of having to install TransFig before you can
compile it
o fig2dev/dev/genpdf.c needs "#include <signal.h>" for some systems
o Added -m 644 to "install" directives in Imakefile to make updates
easier in future (no read-only files)
o LaTeX and pstex_t driver produced bogus \unitlength and \dashbox
values
o File ko_KR.ujis.ps removed because it is not needed
------------------------------
Patchlevel 3b (July 19, 2000)
N.B. There was no transfig 3.2.3a - I want to keep the release number identical
to that of the corresponding xfig.
NEW FEATURES
o X11 Color database ASCII file (/usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt) is now used,
removing the need for the dbm_xxx functions.
o The \special code for colors in genlatex (LaTeX driver) replaced with
the \color code to be compatible with pdflatex and not require dvips
From Klaus Guntermann (guntermann@iti.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de)
o PCX image reader now handles 24-bit color which means that TIFF images
(which are converted to PCX first) may also be 24-bit
BUGS FIXED
o Exporting to PDF now sets bounding box to figure bounds instead of page
o Explicitely sets color to black before importing eps file in case that
file doesn't select a color
o Changed error message in epic driver from "Unknown style" to "Only
solid, dashed, and dotted line styles supported by epic(eepic)"
o Apostrophes (') in text are now escaped in CGM driver
from David Billinghurst (David.Billinghurst@riotinto.com.au)
o One of the header values for TIFF files was incorrect (was "DD",
should be "II")
o -f (font) option wasn't parsed correctly, which caused segfault
o Bug in handling imported xpm file colors in certain formats
o Multiple variables with same name in different drivers now declared
"static"
o In multi-page mode, redundant "Page: 1 1" was generated
o Unnecessary scaling in the pattern definitions removed (pdf/ps/eps
drivers)
o Total page number calculation was incorrect for multi-page PostScript
output
o Toplevel Imakefile referred to "make" instead of "$(MAKE)"
o Text object read routine had extra variable in scanf
o Error in calculation of arc arrowhead occluding underlying line; could
cause asin domain error
o Possible error in reading imported GIF colormap
o calc_arrow() didn't set nboundpts (number of points in bounding box)
if line having arrowhead had zero length
o Bug in Imakefile - jpeglib.h file couldn't be found for JPEG code if
USEXPM was not enabled.
o "Special" LaTeX text not included in bounding box anymore - this had
caused positioning problems with the LaTeX special text and figure
o "hyphen" was misspelled as "hypen" the character encoding for the
PostScript (and EPS/PDF) driver.
o One of the two TIFF file header types was incorrect
o Segfault when exporting to GIF if Fig file specified "none" for GIF
transparency
o Duplicate JPEG information in fig2dev/Imakefile
o If output from fig2dev was standard output, bitmap export formats
failed because of bad argument to ghostscript
o -P option description for PostScript removed from fig2dev man pages
o Error parsing certain color specs for XPM files
o Tightly curved, wide splines were sometimes "spikey"
o Bounding box wasn't taking arrowhead width(s) into account
o free_text now uses free() instead of less standard cfree()
o Changed last references to sys_errlist to use strerror()
o Bug in referencing imported xbm files in tk driver fixed
o Temporary file not closed before deleting in read_gif() and read_ppm()
o Formatting "%lf" in printf calls should be "%f"
o Prepended $(DESTDIR) to $(XFIGLIBDIR) and $(FIG2DEV_DIR) directory
variables in Imakefile to be portable
o Cleaned up extraneous and erroneous rules in fig2dev/Imakefile
from Pierre Humblet (Pierre.Humblet@eurecom.fr)
o Removed calls to external programs "cat" and "ps2pdf" to make more
portable to Cygwin environment
o fig2dev now uses gunzip instead of uncompress to uncompress .Z files
to be more portable for Cygwin environment
o Papersize sometimes truncated when reading Fig file (e.g. would get
"Lette" instead of "Letter")
----------------------------
Patchlevel 3 (Jan 14, 2000)
[N.B. There was no transfig/fig2dev 3.2 patchlevel 2]
NEW FEATURES
o Adapted the transfig manual from LaTeX 2.09 to LaTeX 2e and uses
Times/Helvetica/Courier instead of Computer Modern fonts.
From Roland Rosenfeld (roland@spinnaker.de)
o If DBM file for RGB databse does not exist, read "rgb.txt" instead.
o If a file such as /usr/local/lib/fig2dev/A3.ps exists, insert it
when generating PostScript output to select paper tray, for example.
o Messages from bitmap output (GIF, JPEG, etc) are captured and printed
if there is any error during the export
o New PDF driver (uses ps2pdf from the ghostscript distribution)
o New CGM driver (Computer Graphics Metafile) from Philippe Bekaert
(Philippe.Bekaert@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
o More page sizes (Japanese JIS B0-B10 and ISO A0-A9)
o Autocad Slide format called "sld" now instead of "acad"
(e.g. fig2dev -L sld ...)
o -L eps is required for Encapsulated PostScript now, instead of fig2dev
just using the -P (add showpage) option to distinguish EPS from PS
o The compile-time symbol EPSF in fig2dev/Imakefile has been changed:
comment out the DDLATEX2E_GRAPHICS = ... line if you don't want to use
the standard graphics package distributed w/ LaTeX2e
Uncomment the DDEPSFIG = ... line if you want to use the deprecated
epsfig macros distributed w/ LaTeX2e (DDLATEX2E_GRAPHICS must also be
defined)
o The default is now to compile for DVIPS
o Arc-boxes available for LaTeX now
from C. Scott Ananian <cananian@lesser-magoo.lcs.mit.edu>
o New import picture formats supported - TIFF and PPM
BUGS FIXED
o clipping and background filling incorrect for some Postscript/EPS
output
o pstex driver now uses EPS driver for figure part instead of PostScript
for proper bounding box and orientation (this is what caused rotation
of the figure relative to the LaTeX text part when the Fig file spec-
ified Landscape)
o TransFig now takes -L eps for Encapsulated PostScript language
o Imported EPS file bounding box wasn't read correctly
o readjpg.c and readjpg.o included in fig2dev/dev/Imakefile even without
JPEG support
o calloc() declaration wrong for some systems (fig2dev/read.c)
o Bug in importing EPS files - strange aspect ratios resulted
o Used "True" and "False" instead of "TRUE" and "FALSE" in several
driver files. Have converted all TRUE to True and FALSE to False
o Some applications don't set clipping path when they import EPSF file,
and not only the background of the figure but whole paper may be
painted with the -g (background) option.
o BitmapSuccess and BitmapFileInvalid were not defined in
fig2dev/dev/genxbm.c
o Digital's compiler doesn't like "{ }" as initializer (genps.c)
o Declarations of malloc() and calloc() removed from alloc.h, as they
are declared in <stdlib.h>
o Arrowheads didn't quite extend far enough
o Extra parenthesis in shell script when exporting to SLD, XBM, and XPM
o splines were interpolated slightly differently than in xfig
o Add description about "-j" option to help message (when I18N is enabled)
o if imported PCX image file couldn't be opened, fig2dev tried to close
the file, which is a bad thing
o %%EndProlog has been removed since it was not needed and there was
never a %%BeginProlog
o needed pi.h for gentk.c (tk driver)
o bzero macro defined globally now (wasn't defined in readpcx.c) for
those systems which don't have it (it is defined to use memset)
o didn't include "pi.h" in dev/gentk.c for machines that don't have M_PI
o Moved JPEGLIBDIR and JPEGINCDIR definition closer to the top in the
fig2dev/Imakefile
o Output to GIF, JPEG, etc. (bitmap formats) didn't work properly if the
destination was stdout
o "make install" changed because some systems' install program can only
take one file at a time
o Added a "newpath" command after the initial clip command for PostScript
output just in case an object is drawn without a preceding newpath
o M_2PI was redefined without first being #undef'd
o the "-" character in Fig files should really be a hyphen, not a dash as
it was encoded for PostScript output. This is fixed thanks to info
from Robert Maier.
o Splines didn't come out exactly as they did in xfig.
o In transfig, character used instead of int when checking for EOF on
file. From Geoff Keating (geoffk@ozemail.com.au)
o %%EndDocument only written for imported EPS files (not XPM, etc)
From Dick Wesseling (ftu@fi.UU.nl)
o Added "if defined(FreeBSDArchitecture)" to include -lcompat library
o Changed fig2dev.h to always include <sys/param.h>
o Bounding box variables were uninitialized
o Cleaned up error reporting of line numbers in Fig file
o Text bounding calculations ignored the "include" directive for center-
and right-justified text, which is used to flag whether text should be
included in the bounding area. This would affect the LaTeX, PicTex,
PSTeX, TexTyl, and IBMGL drivers.
From Anton Wilder <a.j.wilder@swansea.ac.uk>
o Clipping for arrowheads so that thick lines wouldn't "protrude" through
the arrow tip modified so that it works properly with ghostscript 5.50.
o Allocation error in reading some pcx files
----------------------------
Patchlevel 1 (July 1, 1998)
NEW FEATURES
o New driver for tk (tcl/tk) - Generates canvas objects and canvas.
from Mike Markowski (mm@udel.edu)
o -h option to print all options for all output languages
o Japanese text support for LaTeX output
from T. Sato (VEF00200@niftyserve.or.jp)
BUGS FIXED
o XPMLIB renamed to XPMLIBS in Imakefile because of conflict with
XFree86 variable name in xmkmf config files
o Fixed bug in JPEGINCDIR path when relative path is used (when
USEINSTALLEDJPEG is *not* used) - the dev directory is one level
deeper so "../" is prepended for that case
o The rest of the scaling problems for latex fixed :-)
from Hans Werner Strube (strube@physik3.gwdg.de)
o Two bugs fixed in eepic driver
1) -l option didn't work because DPI was 0 when line width was
defined
2) -W option produced 0 line widths because of a bad fprintf
o Dash length incorrect by factor of 80 for LaTeX output
o I18N support added for LaTeX output
o Incorrect amount of memory allocated for reading eps pictures
o Bug in provided strstr() (only used if you've uncommented
#define NOSTRSTR in the Imakefile)
o Fixed M_PI incompatibility with RedHat 5.0
o moved convert_names procedure from readxpm.c into genps.c since only
genps.c needs it. Removed readxpm.c as a result.
o added missing PCX import driver
o metric scaling for latex part fixed
From Martin Pahl <pahl@tnt.uni-hannover.de>
o Some Linuxes need -lgdbm instead of -ldbm (fig2dev/Imakefile)
o transparent color for GIF was not passed (new option -t)
o multiple co-incident points in splines caused problems on some
machines (this patch was in the old spline model but failed to make
it to the X-Spline model)
o endpoints of splines were missing sometimes
o new #ifdef for glibc which already has sys_errlist defined
o conflict with definition M_PI (3.14159....) on RedHat systems fixed
o "Ledger" paper size removed from list of paper sizes. It is really
"Tabloid" size in landscape mode.
o arrowheads were too far back from end of line
o dash length for lines were too large in LaTeX output
o fig2dev can now be used in a pipe (e.g. cat x.fig | fig2dev -L ps ...)
was attempting to rewind file before
o error in I18N defines in fig2dev/Imakefile
o bug fixes and modernization of Metafont driver by Mats Bengtsson
<mats.bengtsson@s3.kth.se>
o removed stricmp() function in dev/genepic.c because strcasecmp() is
equivalent
o newpath command given in PostScript output after imported EPS pic to
prevent bounding box being drawn
===============================================================================
Version 3.2 (first release Aug 22, 1997)
===============================================================================
NEW FEATURES
o flag in transfig/Imakefile to use "\usepackage" for LaTeX2e instead of
"\documentstyle" for LaTeX209. See README file.
o fig2dev now handles the bitmap formats (GIF, JPEG etc) instead of xfig,
so there is more consistent output. Requires the (free) netpbm package.
See the README file.
o tiff (no compression) and AutoCad (acad) output languages added
o image quality (0-100) is selectable for JPEG export (-q option)
o PNG export driver added
BUGS FIXED
o changed XPM variables to default X include/library in fig2dev/Imakefile
o remove PageSize comment if EPS (no showpage)
o bug in colormap for imported grayscale JPEG files
o "rs gr" sequence after imported eps file changed to "restore grestore"
in case imported eps file had defined either "rs" or "gr"
o There was a bug in the EPIC driver when drawing backward arrows - in
several places in genepic.c draw_arrow_head is called with unconverted
coordinates, which leads to totally displaced arrows.
from Heiko Schroeder (heiko@linux.local.de)
o cleanup of dictionary wrapped around imported EPS files
from Franz Koch (franz.koch@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de)
o pic output didn't produce dashed or dotted arc
o metric flag incorrectly parsed
o strcasecmp and strncasecmp bugs (s2 != '\0' and s2 == '\0' should
be *s2 ...)
o error in JPEGINCDIR in fig2dev/Imakefile
o rec_array wasn't being freed in gendev_objects (fig2dev.c)
o thicklines not being set properly for LaTeX output
o two-point splines looped infinitely on some machines
fixed by Jeff Dairiki <dairiki@kalman.apl.washington.edu>
o arrowheads weren't correct on tight arcs in eepic output
fixed by Wolfgang Reissenberger <reissenb@veilchen.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de>
o TransFig now uses \usepackage instead of \documentstyle, which is old
From Klaus Georg Barthelmann (barthel@Informatik.Uni-Mainz.DE)
o fill pattern of rotated ellipses was rotated itself
o Ledger/Tabloid sizes reversed (Tabloid is 11x17", Ledger is 17x11")
o bounding box of text more accurate for text with/without descenders
o added USEINLINE variable in Imakefile to use compiler inline functions
o removed ANSI prototypes from spline routines in trans_spline.c
------------------------------
Version 3.2 Beta (Jan 9, 1997)
------------------------------
NEW FEATURES
o multi-page, paper size, magnification and transparent color stored in Fig
file now. (transparent color is only used by xfig when exporting
to GIF format)
o comment that Redhat Linux users may have to change DBMLIB to -ldb in
fig2dev/Imakefile
o figures in landscape are only rotated when showpage command is NOT used
(-P). This is because it doesn't need to be rotated for EPS,
o previous spline models (interpolated splines and approximated splines) are
replaced by one single model (x-splines) which allows the user to mix
interpolated and approximated control points (see the "FORMAT3.2" file
from the "xfig" package for details).
BUGS FIXED
o added second % to %%BeginDocument and %%EndDocument
o garbage values for arrowhead produced when last two points in line were at
same coordinate
o bug in reading multi-line text object
o showpage now follows restore as per standard
from Christopher R. Wren (chris@wren.cambridge.ma.us)
===============================================================================
Version 3.1
===============================================================================
Patchlevel 2a (Jun 4, 1996)
NEW FEATURES
o only need to change XPM defines in fig2dev/Imakefile
o if your system has the strerror() function (doesn't have sys_errlist) then
comment out NEED_STRERROR with an XCOMM comment.
o new option for PostScript output, "-e" to force figure to edge (flush-left).
Useful when the figure was saved with Centering on.
o point objects (POLYLINE with only one point) have thickness now and will be
filled circles if cap style is rounded. PostScript output only.
o -A option to scale arrowhead sizes for epic driver
o can rotate all text (not just left justified) in LaTeX now using \rotatebox.
The old restriction is not needed because the epsfig package is
required to include ps_tex_t files anyway.
o new line types - Dash-dot (_.) Dash-dot-dot (_..) and Dash-dot-dot-dot (_...)
o new paper sizes: "Tabloid", "Ledger", "B", "C", "D", "E", "A0", "A1", "A2",
"A3", "A4" and "B5". See man fig2dev (-z option) for sizes in
inches and cm
BUGS FIXED
o double colon (::) needed for .man installation in Imakefiles
o linewidth wasn't working correctly in epic/eepic driver
from Andre Eickler (eickler@db.fmi.uni-passau.de)
o some versions of imake don't like null parameters in SpecialObjectRule in
Imakefile - changed to "NullParameter"
o the text alignment problem in LaTeX output has been fixed (genlatex.c)
From Francky Leyn (Francky.Leyn@esat.kuleuven.ac.be)
o if the endpoints of a POLYLINE are coincident, the line join parameter will
be used to join them (xfig already showed this behavior)
o redefined $(XPMINCDIR) to $(XPMINC) because some compilers have trouble with
header search path with empty "-I"
o incorrect directory specified for xpm.h in fig2dev/dev/genps.c and readxpm.c
o changed "ln -s" commands in Imakefiles to "-ln -s" so make will continue if
symlinks are already in place
o back arrows incorrect for splines and lines in epic driver
o figure was clipped to pagesize even in EPS mode
o if paper size specified as "Ledger" in landscape mode fig2dev switches to
"Tabloid" paper size and vice versa (Tabloid in portrait mode switches
to Ledger)
o segfault when importing jpeg picture with grayscale colormap fixed
o colormap must be saved before jpeg_finish_decompress or
jpeg_destroy_decompress are called in read_JPEG_file()
o #include <jpeglib.h> changed to #include "jpeglib.h" to ensure corrrect path
used to find header file
o moved %Magnification information in PostScript output after %%BoundingBox
(caused problems for some programs interpreting DSC PostScript)
o incorrect spline line thickness when multiple splines are used
o arrowheads caused DOMAIN error for asin on very small arcs
o include ctype.h in fig2dev.h for isascii() and isxdigit() macros
o removed redundant #ifdef NOSTRSTR from strstr.c because that file is only
compiled if system has no strstr()
o error when using first user-defined color (color 32)
o fabs(), sin(), cos(), atan() and acos() redefined in genlatex.c, genpictex.c,
genpstex.c and gentextyl.c
o error message about being unable to open eps file was mis-formatted
o multiple whitespace following "(atend)" in EPS file parsed correctly now
from T. Sato (VEF00200@niftyserve.or.jp)
o extraneous variable in fprintf in genps.c
from T. Sato
o extraneous % in fprintf in genepic.c (set_pattern)
o multi-page option shifted all pages incorrectly
o error in scanf format string for reading text from old (Fig 1.3) files
from T. Sato
o error in fprintf format string for virtual font in gentpic driver
from T. Sato
o erroneous "extern" declarations for cur_capstyle and cur_joinstyle in two
dev/genps.c functions
o bug in skip_comment() which prevented some machines from seeing the end of
file, giving erroneous "Incorrect format" error
---------------------------
Patchlevel 2 (Aug 16, 1995)
New Features:
o JPEG (JFIF) pictures objects supported for PostScript output
o %Magnification: comment added to PostScript output showing magnification
o the points of arrow heads don't protrude past the endpoints of the object
Bugs Fixed:
o the radius of arc-box corners is limited to the half of the smaller of the
two sides of the box to avoid PostScript errors
o pstex driver incorrectly omitted postscript text in pstex output
o set_linewidth was passed double instead of int from fdraw_arrow_head
in genepic.c
o length of dotted line dots too small for high resolution printers
o recursion bug fixed where run-time would increase exponentially with nesting
of compound objects
o %%BeginDocument:/EndDocument now surrounds imported EPS files
o open arrowheads on arcs were overwritten by arc lines
o bug in pattern fill code which made patterns appear solid black when
using dvips
Thanks to Tomas Rokicki (rokicki@CS.Stanford.EDU) for finding the fix
o line thickness wasn't adjusted for new resolution in epic, eepic, pic, tpic
and pictex drivers
o dash length incorrect for Fig 3.x files in pic and pictex drivers
o -s option to fix text pointsize wasn't being honored
o documentation typo with regard to rigid text. Rigid text means that the font
size doesn't change when text is inside a compound object and that
object is scaled in xfig. Not used for fig2dev.
o certain machines don't handle atan2(y,0.0) so arcs with endpoints having the
same x value were incorrectly calculated
o some machines don't calculate hypot(x,y) correctly so changed to sqrt(x*x+y*y)
in arc_bound()
o bug in calculating BoundingBox for PostScript in compound objects
o cleared up confusion about -DNFSS and -DEPSF. Here is the final word:
Add -DNFSS to DEFINES list to use NFSS2 font selection for LaTeX texts
Add -DEPSF to DEFINES list to use epsfig macros as distributed w/ LaTeX2e
Hint: Users of LaTeX2e will probably want to include both of these
options; users of LaTeX 2.09 will probably want to include neither.
o new tints added (fill values 21-40) and arrowhead types for epic driver
from Andre Eickler (eickler@db.fmi.uni-passau.de)
o pattern fill seg faulted for epic/eepic output (only PostScript has patterns)
o sanity check for font number
o font name "Modern" changed to more correct "Sans Serif" in documentation
o MetaFont driver only sent output to stdout
o version information (fig2dev -V) said "TransFig" instead of "fig2dev"
o getopt.c not needed for Solaris - #if (defined(...)) added in Imakefile
for this
o removed duplicate #define of FALSE, TRUE and DEFAULT_FONT_SIZE in various
drivers
---------------------------
Patchlevel 1 (Jan 24, 1995)
Bugs Fixed:
o eps files with binary data (!) now handled correctly
o -f option to PostScript driver with unknown PostScript font name caused
seg fault
o increased resolution of unitlength specifier in latex/epic drivers - was
rounding 0.00083333 to 0.0008.
o dash length not set correctly for epic driver
o area fill values incorrectly interpreted for some drivers other than
PostScript - this also made fig2dev outpus spurious %s%s(%d%d)}
for epic/eepic
o linejoin set instead of linecap in postscript output
o sets linecap to ROUND for ellipses and closed splines with dotted lines
o defines showpage as null for included EPS files instead of removing the
word "showpage" from them
o definition for XCOMM in Imakefiles for those running R4
o bug in freeing xpm image structure incompatible pointer type
o bug in fig2dev/Imakefile variable for including -ldbm explicitly
o removed -lnsl option from fig2dev/dev/Imakefile - imake files should
automatically add this to the Makefile for Solaris (SVR4) systems
o note added to README that you must do "make" before "make install"
o bug in reading text for linux os - text size was set to 0
o bcopy changed to memcpy call in dev/readpics.c
o SVR4 condition added to transfig/transfig.h for including string.h
o variable in fig2dev/Imakefile and fig2dev/dev/Imakefile for include
directory for xpm files if your xpm headers are not in the default X11
include directory
--------------------------
Patchlevel 0 (Jan 9, 1995)
o NOTE: An error in xfig version 3.0.0 incorrectly positioned objects on the
canvas when reading older fig files. New objects entered with 3.0 are
correctly positioned.
I apologize for the inconvenience.
***** This is the only reason why the file protocol number has changed.
Bugs Fixed:
o error when figure was larger or partially off the page and user did not
select multipage option (-M)
o newline() declared twice (inconsistently) in dev/gentpic.c
o errors in read.c for linux machines - caused font size 0
o Linux machines need LOCAL_LDFLAGS = -ldbm in fig2dev/Imakefile
o sys/types.h needed in dev/readpics.c for BSD machines
===============================================================================
Version 3.0
===============================================================================
Transfig version 3.0.0 (Dec 22, 1994)
New Features:
o MetaFont driver added (from fig2mf)
from Anthony Starks (ajs@merck.com)
o "-n name" option to specify filename for PostScript Title (e.g. when using
stdin)
o -x <offset> and -y <offset> options for PostScript output to shift figure on
page.
o fig2dev/dev/Imakefile settings to:
1. Use LaTeX2e commands for setting fonts. As LaTeX2e will become the
official release by spring this year (we redefined the start of
spring to be the date the LaTeX is released). This is a subtle
problem in the outcome of transfig, but some old font changing
commands behave differnet now.
2. To use the \epsfig-package distributed with LaTeX2e instead
of \special{psfile... for included PS-figures.
They use two new defines in the dev/Imakefile: -DNFSS for 1., -DEPSF for 2.
From Hendrik G. Seliger (hank@blimp.automat.uni-essen.de)
o arrow heads are pointed now for PostScript (they were blunt before)
o EPS Objects have been generalized to Picture Objects. Currently EPS, XBM
XPM (X11 color pixmap) and GIF formats are recognized.
Compressed (.Z) and gzipped (.z or .gz) files are also handled.
o new command-line option '-z' for PostScript output used to select a paper
size from the list of A4, B5, Letter, Legal.
from Jon Roma (roma@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu)
o change to the pstex driver so that when it sees text with a LaTeX font it
handles it using the LaTeX text object routine, but not treating it
as "special" text. This allows the pstex driver to take the "hint"
the since the user is using LaTeX font specifiers, those should be
used. The only people who could be adversely affected by the change
would be those using LaTeX font names as convenient synonyms for
PS font names who would now get LaTeX fonts instead. Probably not
a problem.
from Micah Beck (beck@cs.utk.ecu)
o fig2ps2tex.sh for systems which don't have csh or dc. Uses bc and awk.
from Dave Raymond (raymond@kestrel.nmt.edu)
o changes to the file format (protocol). See *xfig* Doc/FORMAT3.0 for details.
Transfig will still read older Fig file formats.
Here are the features involving change to the protocol:
o portrait/landscape, justification (center or flush left) and metric/inches
indicators saved with figure file so is not necessary to supply the
command-line args to specify them. However they will override the file
specification if given.
o separate border and fill colors.
o resolution is increased from 80 ppi to 1200 ppi. This decreases jaggies.
A side effect is that fig2dev can now read Fig files of any resolution.
o there are now 32 colors - new ones are: gold, three shades each of blue,
green, cyan, red, magenta, brown and pink.
o in addition, there are now user-definable colors which are stored in the
figure file as pseudo-objects of type 0 which define the rgb values
in hexadecimal. The color numbers range from 32 to 543 for a maximum
of 512 user-defined colors.
o more fill options - colors transition from black to full saturation
(shades) and on to full white (tints, i.e. pastels).
Or you can use one of 16 fill patterns - diagonal lines, bricks,
shingles, crosshatch etc.
o three line-join styles: miter (current style), round and bevel (see
PostScript or Xlib reference for description)
o three line-cap styles: butt (current style), round and projecting (see
PostScript or Xlib reference for description)
Bugs fixed:
o circles/ellipses paths weren't being closed in postscript output - gap closed
o "%%Page: 1 1" added for single-page output for Document Structuring Compliancy
(previously, Page: comment only appeared in multi-page figures)
o coord_system was declared extern in fig2dev/fig2dev.h. This was incorrect.
o even/odd rule fill now used for filled objects as per xfig (PostScript)
o typo in fig2dev/dev/Imakefile said include -DA4d instead of -DA4 for A4 paper
o all orientations of rotated/flipped EPS objects correctly done now
o man pages for transfig claims to be able to read postscript files - this was
never finished so it has been removed from the man pages.
o dotted lines with very small length caused SIGFPE
o typo in error message about unknown option
o added check for #if defined(SVR4) in addition to defined(SYSV)
o misplaced ';' in fig2dev.c gendev_null() proc
o added static declarations in genlatex.c genpictex.c and gentextyl.c
o better bounding box calculation
from Uwe Bonnes (bon@lte.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de)
o Tpic TeX font position 5 was "sl" (slanted) which doesn't exist
from Edward Wang (edward@cs.berkeley.edu)
===============================================================================
Version 2.1
===============================================================================
Transfig version 2.1.8 (Oct 1, 1993)
New Features:
Bugs fixed:
o thick line threshold increased from 1 to 2 for latex lines
o save/restore wraps EPS objects now
o specifing nonexistant font with -f caused coredump
from Gordon W. Ross (gwr@jericho.mc.com)
o newpath command given before EPS object for PostScript output
o moved definition of SetFigFont to better place
from Bernd Raichle (raichle@isr.uni-stuttgart.de)
o #included sys/types for BSD4_3 systems in genps.c
o bug in eepic output - SetFigFont was being defined inside a \put
from Vivek Khera (khera@cs.duke.edu)
o BoundingBox for EPS objects can be floating values
o shortened file name (fig2dev/dev/)def_setfigfont.c to setfigfont.c
o distribution version of fig2dev/dev/Makefile had (def_)setfigfont.c
instead of (def_)setfigfont.o in LIBOBJS definition
o SUBDIR fig2dev/dev was missing from top-level Imakefile caused problems
where make would say something like "No rule to make target
dev/libtransfig.a"
----------------------
Transfig version 2.1.7
o no longer writes over input file if there is an error in the command line
o added "%%Orientation: Landscape" comment for PostScript output in landscape
orientation
o moved definition of SetFigFont from transfig into genpstex.c so that there
is no need to run transfig for pstex output
o script pic2tpic was generating \ss instead of \sf for \fH
from Mark Roth (mroth@afit.af.mil)
o changed header for Encapsulated postscript files from "%!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF"
to "%!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-2.0" which allows FrameMaker and ghostview to
read them properly.
from Vivek Khera (khera@cs.duke.edu)
o check for #ifdef SYSV to include string.h instead of strings.h in
fig2dev/dev/genibmgl.c
o changed EXTRA_LIBRARIES to SYS_LIBRARIES in fig2dev/Imakefile so wouldn't
clobber system-dependent flags in EXTRA_LIBRARIES
o fprintf and 'else' missing from genepic which caused incorrect information
to be generated when drawing arcs using epic output
o removed dependencies on the X libraries (Imakefiles and Makefiles)
o SGI machines had trouble with hypot() which caused arrow heads to mess up
from Malcolm Davis (davis@nod.bms.com)
o Flipped EPS objects were incorrectly flipped on output
from Brian Boyter (boyter@pyrdc.va.pyramid.com)
o POLYLINES were being drawn in sections (10 points per section) which
resulted in incorrect dashed line lengths and only one section
filled if area fill was on
from Peter Egelberg (egel@neural.se)
o added Sequent machines and Suns with SunOs < 4.1 to list of machines that
don't have strstr()
from Scott Erikson (sources@ics.uci.edu)
o removed PATCHLEVEL from patchlevel.h file - version number is complete with
three parts (e.g. 2.1.6)
o removed "extern coord_system" from fig2dev.h (wasn't used by fig2dev)
o SPECIAL_CHAR split into three strings for systems which can't handle one
o -P flag dissappeared from eepic output language - reinstated
-------------
Version 2.1.6
o Courier-BoldItalic changed to Courier-BoldOblique for PostScript fonts
o "if" statement replaces copysign() call since some machines don't have it
o some backslashes ('\') corrected in printf statements in transfig/mkfile.c and
fig2dev/iso2tex.c
o changed header for postscript files from "%!" to "%!PS-Adobe-2.0" when using
-P (showpage) option and "%!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF" otherwise (Encapsulated)
o corrupt transfig/Imakefile and typo (SCRS instead of SRCS)
o some variables (cur_thickness and coord_system) were multiply defined in
various drivers in fig2dev/dev - made those static
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