-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
Notation:
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In the list below some paragraphs (or lines) are marked either
by a '#' or a '*' or a '?'. A
'*' marks some internal change of which the user doesn't see anything.
'#' denotes a change which is noticeable by the user.
'?' describes a known problem which is not fixed yet.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.7.4 (March 2013) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Fixed CVE-2012-3386 (by using updated automake)
# Fixed bug-gv] Problem after saving gv-settings
# improve wording of gv-update-userconfig manual
# Scrolling and memory access improved
# README.I18N adjusted for libXaw3d 1.6.x
# Fixed GNU gv 3.6.4 - 3.7.3 page selector button geometry bug
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.7.3.90 (March 2012) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Support for libXaw3d-1.6.x
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.7.3 (November 2011) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Updated Translations
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.7.2.90 (October 2011) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
? Reverted fix of debian bug #594991: unexpected scrolling of the TOC widget",
this fixes the following bug:
# Pressng END does not scroll TOC wodget.
# Fixed "Save document" dialog for PDF files
# Fix debian bug 627471: gv: fails to read bounding box (depending on the
command line!), see http://bugs.debian.org/627471 for details
# ignore resource and style files without absolute paths
(in order to improve security)
# Do not install files that re not used
# avoid make distcheck failing because of gv-i18n.h
* Update gnulib, import signal,
# this should fix compiling on Mac OS again
* Improved handling of DSC parse errors
* Varuos code cleanups - for details see either CHANGELOG or the git repotory.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.7.2 (April 2011) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Minor bugfix
? "Fit to window magnification" and "Fit width to window magnification" with
"Automatic resizing" turned on sometime miss rescaling, especially when
changing the orientation or resizing the window. You can force
rescaling by selecting the active "special" scale in the scales menu.
? Interactive prompting for the password of encrypted PDF files do not work
if and only if DSC is turned off. As a workarouund, you can load the file
with DSC turned on and then turn DSC off.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.7.1.90 (April 2011) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Fix Debian bug #594991: unexpected scrolling of the TOC widget
# Fixed file descriptor leak
# Added Dutch, French, Italian and Spanish translation
* Code cleanup
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.7.1 (June 2010) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Fix bug [bug #30081] gv 3.7.0: unable to print/save pdf files.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.7.0 (June 2010) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
* GV 3.6.91 has been released as GV 3.7.0 with no changes but
some minor code cleanups.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.91 (June 2010) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Support starting ghostscript from a safe directory.
# ghostscript is started with -P- if SAFER is enabled.
# ghostscript is started with -dSAFER and -dDELAYSAFER for "pdf2dsc"
and "pdf2ps" if safer is enabled
# Minor bugfixes
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.90 (May 2010) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Fix compiling on Mac OS X
# Support for localised user interfaces
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.9 (April 2010) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Bugfix in gv-update-userconfig
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.8.91 (March 2010) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Fixed compiling on Xaw3d 1.5.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.8.90 (March 2010) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# UTF-8 Support. Read the included file README.I18N for details.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.8 (December 2009) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# GV 3.6.7.90 has been released as GV 3.6.8 with no changes
? "Fit to window magnification" and "Fit width to window magnification" with
"Automatic resizing" turned on sometime miss rescaling, especially when
changing the orientation or resizing the window. You can force
rescaling by selecting the active "special" scale in the scales menu.
? Interactive prompting for the password of encrypted PDF files do not work
if and only if DSC is turned off. As a workarouund, you can load the file
with DSC turned on and then turn DSC off.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.7.90 (December 2009) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Compilation fix for Mac OS X: Requires --enable-SIGCHLD-fallback during
compilation.
# "Fit height to window magnification" --
currently works best with "Automatic resizing" turned off.
With --scale=-1003, you can access the new scale from the command line.
# Improved handling of filename "-" (which means read document from stdin)
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.7 (March 2009) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# GV 3.6.6.92 has been released as GV 3.6.7 with no changes
? "Fit to window magnification" and "Fit width to window magnification" with
"Automatic resizing" turned on sometime miss rescaling, especially when
changing the orientation or resizing the window. You can force
rescaling by selecting the active "special" scale in the scales menu.
? Interactive prompting for the password of encrypted PDF files do not work
if and only if DSC is turned off. As a workarouund, you can load the file
with DSC turned on and then turn DSC off.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.6.92 (internal release: March 2009) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Fixed debian bug #516995: Misleading error message when .gv file is not
present [and XUSERFILESEARCHPATH is used]
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.6.91 (February 2009) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Fixed a bug in switching to presentation mode.
# Fixed reset scrolling position in open dialog when changing directories.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.6.90 (January 2009) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# TOC can now display more than about 2000 pages (fixes bug #24069).
# File open dialog can now display more than about 2000 files
(fixes ubuntu bug #274767).
# By pressing "Shift-P" or selecting "State/Presentation Mode", you can
open another instance of GNU gv which is in presentation mode.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.6 (September 2008) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Updated maintainer's e-mail address, otherwise no changes
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.5.92 (September 2008) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# libzio is now used if available during compile time
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.5.91 (September 2008) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# gv-update-userconfig now offers the options -n resp. -N to switch to an
alternative navigation: After each page switch (except if selected by the
page number) the page is scrolled to the top (if switching forward) resp.
the bottom (if switching backward).
# gv-update-userconfig can remove the resources inserted by -n resp. -N with
the new option -s.
# Support for encrypted PDF files. New command line switch
"--password=PASSWORD" for opening encrypted PDFs. If the password
is not supplied via command line, the user will be asked to enter it.
# Support for files > 2GB on file systems with large file support.
? Interactive prompting for the password of encrypted PDF files do not work
if and only if DSC is turned off. As a workarouund, you can load the file
with DSC turned on and then turn DSC off.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.5.90 (August 2008) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# the current coordinate can be saved to a file by the z resp. the u key.
See gv.info for details.
# The return key now scrolls through the whole document vertically.
Unlike the space key no horizontal scrolling is performed. The old function
of the return key is still available through the "Page Down" and the "f" key.
# *.ad and *.dat files are installed to $PREFIX/share/gv
# "ERROR:" and "error:" now also trigger the info popup in error mode
# Xinerama support. It can be configured by the "xinerama"-resource.
Its values can be "On", "Off" or "Auto". "Auto" is the default.
# New helper Script "gv-update-userconfig", which is a simple script to
update an .gv config file to the current version of gv.
# Should build on Solaris now using sun studio 11 compiler
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.5 (July 2008) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# GV 3.6.4.91 has been released as GV 3.6.5 with no changes
? "Fit to window magnification" and "Fit width to window magnification" with
"Automatic resizing" turned on sometime miss rescaling, especially when
changing the orientation or resizing the window. You can force
rescaling by selecting the active "special" scale in the scales menu.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.4.91 (June 2008) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# ~/.gv now contains the version that has saved that configuration.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.4.90 (June 2008) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
* Build-system ensures that the man-page is always up to date
# Fixed some compiler warnings
# Added new widgetless mode, usable via option "--widgetless"
# --help, --usage and --version now work without having an X11 display
# --spartan and --widgetless now use embedded resources. Before this bugfix,
you had to use --style=gv_spartan.dat to use the embedded resource.
# --infoSilent, --infoErrors and --infoAll will control, which ghostscript
messages will lead to an info pop-up window.
The same effect can be reached via a resource "infoVerbose", which values can
be "Silent", "Errors" and "All". It can also be edited via the "gv options"
dialog.
# "Fit to window magnification" and "Fit width to window magnification" --
currently works best with "Automatic resizing" turned off. With --scale=-1000
resp. --scale=-1001, you can access these special scales from the command line.
? "Fit to window magnification" and "Fit width to window magnification" with
"Automatic resizing" turned on sometime miss rescaling, especially when
changing the orientation or resizing the window. You can force
rescaling by selecting the active "special" scale in the scales menu.
# Arbitrary scales are now possible - input them in the gv options dialog
or with --scale=n, where n is a float.
# New fullscreen mode which needs support from the window manager
# New command line switch "--presentation" as a shortcut for
"--fullscreen --noresize --scale=-1000 --widgetless"
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.4 (June 2008) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# GV 3.6.3.90 has been released as GV 3.6.4 with no changes
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.3.90 (May 2008) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# DSC parser now respects the level of BeginDocument/EndDocument
# Possible segfault has been fixed
# Fixed bug #21239: Vlist.c produces garbage if International is set
# Fixed bug #21740: popup windows may partly invisible as not on the screen
# The escape key is now working in more contexts
# The filename can optionally be shown insted of the title
# Fixed bug #23199: No error message for errors in opened file
* Got rid of non-free code.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.3 (June 2007) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# gv is now able to work with latest ghostscript: gs 8.57
# The bug causing the version not to figure in the manual has been
fixed.
# The SIGINT signal is now masked (ignored) by gv.
# gv no more segfaults when reading a configuration file as produced by
State -> Setup Options -> Save
# gv should compile in non-GNU system that doesnt have glib2. The
`getopt' gnulib module has been imported to fix this.
# gv now correctly adjust the page index window after PAGE-UP and
PAGE-DOWN events.
# gv is now able to open files with minus character beginning
filenames.
# X resources related bugs has been fixed. gv is now able to get
resources from the display database, user file, gv system database
and command line doing the Right Thing (TM).
# gv is now able to correctly understand DocumentMedia and other DSC
directives that uses postscript strings. It was not possible with
previous versions due to a bug in the postscript names scanning
routine.
* Vulnerability CVE-2006-5864 has been fixed.
* gs is now invoked with `-dFIXEDMEDIA'
* The internal gettext implementation has been renamed to `ps_gettext'
to avoid collisions with the builtin `gettext' function.
* --quiet and --noquiet now works as expected.
? There are troubles with 64 bits machines: the use of x-pointers to
store data should be eliminated in subsequent versions.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.2 (14 December 2006) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
? There are troubles with 64 bits machines: the use of x-pointers to
store data should be eliminated from the sources.
? It is not possible to zoom when viewing PDF 1.4 files. PDF 1.5 files are
not supported at all.
? The quality of postcript files generated by saving PDF files is poor.
? See http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gv for more known bugs on
this release.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.1 (?? December 2004) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# New set of command line arguments. This solves the horrid bug on
gv 3.6.0 that made such release nearly unusable. See the
documentation for details about the new argument list.
# The "Reopen" entry on the File menu has been renamed to "Reload" in
order to be coherent with the "Reload" button.
# The distributed package structure have been fixed, now conforming a
legal GNU source package.
# The delete key now work as expected, that is, it deletes the next
character rather the last character when typed on text entries.
# Dot files are not shown by default on file selection forms.
# If you try to open an empty file you get a coherent error
message.
# New manual page
* Most of the Debian patches has been applied to gv:
162830_scanf.diff (Fix a security risk involving buffer overflows)
167029_argv.diff (Fix an access beyond end of array on process.c)
206008_flicker.diff (Add double-buffering to pixmap operations)
223556_hidden_dir.diff (Do not show dot files on file listings)
250854_tmp_umask.diff (Tempfiles should not be created worldreadable)
252548_errno.diff (Wrong error message while opening empty files)
179643_bad_dsc.diff (Make DSC parsing case-insensitive)
159433_delete_key.diff (Change behaviour of Delete key on text entries)
* The gs command used for PDF to PostScript conversion has been fixed to allow
document saving.
? It is not possible to zoom when viewing PDF 1.4 files. PDF 1.5 files are
not supported at all.
? The quality of postcript files generated by saving PDF files is poor.
? See http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=gv for more known bugs on
this release.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.6.0 (20 November 2004) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# New configuration/compilation/installation using GNU Autotools
# Documentation is now distributed in texinfo format.
# "Redisplay" button has been renamed to "Reload".
# Some GNU standard command line arguments are supported now:
--help, --usage and --version.
# Antialiasing is now used by default.
# Solved bug #11014: gv is capable to open files with spaces (or other
harm character) in the filename.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.5.8 (21 June 1997) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Bugfix: The command line option "-geometry" didn't work correctly
(neither did the GV.Geometry resource).
# Bugfix: Use a LabeledLineTextField instead of a LabeledTextField
for the "Screen Size" in the "Setup Options".
# Keep the number of the displayed page "in sight" in the table
of contents if the geometry of the main window changes.
# Automatically use "Fixed Size" if a fixed window width or height
is prescribed by the "-geometry" command line option or the
"GV.geometry" resource.
# Kill ghostscript processes in zoom windows immediately after the
page is rendered and not when the window is closed.
# Disallow the "Misc Menu" in zoom windows.
# Define and change the default resources "GV*dirs", "GV*filter" and
"GV*filters" in source/Imakefile and source/descrip.mms since they
are Unix/VMS specific.
# Remove the "GV.geometry: +10+10" resource from the default resource
files.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.5.3 (9 June 1997) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Bugfix: Fixed compilation problems on Solaris.
[ thanks to Yamamoto Hirotaka <ymmt@lute.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp> for
sending a patch ]
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.5.2 (7 June 1997) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Bugfix: Zooming didn't work for large magnifications.
# Bugfix: "Redisplay" still jumped back to the first page when the
file changed. How funny ...
# Bugfix: "Auto Center" didn't work as it should.
# Bugfix: Removed a debugging printf(...) call from the zoom code.
# Bugfix: Removed some drawing flaws in the Vlist widget (table of
contents).
# Bugfix: Show caret in the print confirmation dialog and set the
insert position to the end of the print command.
# Bugfix: Action GV_Resizing() didn't work.
# Bugfix: File Selection Popup allowed weird things after not being
able to access a directory.
# Added a keyboard scrolling "Eye Guide": when scrolling a temporary
border is drawn around the previously visible area. The feature may
be disabled in the "Setup Options".
# Changed the keyboard bindings in the main window.
This was necessary to fully take advantage of the capabilities of
the new action GV_Page() which is now responsible for navigating
with keyboard events through the document.
People will hate me for doing that, but it was overdue ...
Some examples:
- Allow to move through a document by using a single key.
For instance the key "Space" scrolls in vertical strips and
jumps to the next page if the bottom/right edge of a page is
reached. ("BackSpace" reverses this operation).
- Allow to move to a page by typing its page number on the keypad,
followed by pressing "Enter" on the keypad.
Pressing (Keypad +) or (Keypad -) followed by (Keypad Enter)
does the obvioys thing.
# Clicking on the ">>" button in the main window with mouse
button 1,2,3 jumps +1,+5,+10 pages.
Analogously for the "<<" button ...
# Take care that the mark highlighting the current page in the
table of contents always remains visible.
# Added command line option "-v" to display version information.
# Highlight the "Dismiss" button in zoom windows and let pressing
"Return" close the window.
# Let the table of contents not become to broad for exorbitantly long
page labels.
# Removed the action GV_HandleEOF() and its key binding to key "E".
* Changed resource syntax "*.Translations" to "*.baseTranslations" to
allow overriding event bindings in user resource files.
* Made USE_FALLBACK_STYLES the default.
* Replaced the actions GV_Scroll(),GV_Next(),GV_Previous(),GV_Show(),
GV_Center() and GV_Redisplay() by the more flexible action GV_Page().
* Bugfix: Correct header "error.h" for Linux/Alpha.
* Bugfix: Corrected a typo in source/Imakefile that caused the
"fallbackPageMedia" not to be recognized correctly.
* Added possibility to install documentation via "make install.doc".
* Removed the directory 'old' from the distribution.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.4.12 (1 June 1997) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Bugfix: Zooming didn't work correctly in non portrait orientations.
# Bugfix: "Update File" jumped back to the first page.
# Bugfix: "Redisplay" jumped back to the first page when the file
changed.
# Bugfix: When compiling USE_FALLBACK_STYLES didn't work as intended.
# Bugfix: Command line options -watch and -nowatch didn't work.
# Bugfix: The "watchFile" resource was not taken into account properly.
# Bugfix: Viewing gzipped non-DSC files didn't work.
# Bugfix: Wrong postscript coordinates were shown in the main window when
using non portrait orientation.
# Compatibility: Allow the command line options
-letter -tabloid, -ledger, -legal, -statement, -executive, -a0, -a1,
-a2, -a3, -a4, -a5, -b4, -b5, -folio, -quarto, -10x14
for backwards compatibility as an undocumented feature.
# Compatibility: Allow the command line option "-magstep <n>" as synonym
for "-scale <n>" for compatibility reasons but as an undocumented
feature.
# Fix manpage so that 'apropos postscript' lists gv.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.4.3 (26 April 1997) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Fix a missing dependancy in the Imakefile which caused
'gv_intern_res_unix.h' not to be created sometimes.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.4.2 (26 April 1997) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Fix a bug which caused 'Segmentation Faults' when performing
certain operations after starting gv with a file name on the
command line.
# Add the automatic decompression feature for VMS.
[thanks to Tim Adye (adye@v2.rl.ac.uk) for sending a patch]
# Replace the concept of "magsteps" by "scales" and "scale bases".
This also caused the "-dpi", "-xdpi" and "-ydpi" option to
vanish.
# Allow to specify additional scales, scale bases and paper sizes
in the option popups.
# Allow to provide the screen size to view documents in their natural
size.
# Change the way how gv handles resource files.
A full set of required resources is now always compiled into the
executable, system and user specific resource files contain by
default only the very limited set of resources which may be
interesting to change by non gv-developers.
This has the side effect that
- the chance of gv complaining about no or incompatible
resources is minimized.
- security sensitive resources (those of type 'GVintern') can
now be treated in a unified way without loss of security
and may also be specified in the system specific resource file.
# When opening/saving a file pressing 'Return' now rescans the
directory if the provided path doesn't seem to be a file but
a directory.
# Add the command line otions '-pixmap' and '-nopixmap' to trigger
the value of the 'useBackingPixmap' resource (which, in this turn,
became a resource of gv).
# Remove the "-letter", "-a4" etc. page media options.
Instead the option "-media <media>" should be used.
# Allow to compile style files into the executable (currently this only
affects gv_spartan.dat).
# The 'Uncompress' text field in the options window didn't show a
cursor.
# For a given papersize or bounding box the displayed area was a little
too small; one or two postscript points were omitted.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.2.4 (15 April 1997) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Let gv handle gzipped, zipped or compressed files (this feature is
not available on VMS).
# Create another options window for ghostscript specific settings.
In the 'State' menu there are now entries 'gv Options' and
'Ghostscript options'.
# Make the on-screen menu that pops up when clicking with the third
mouse button on the displayed page configurable via the 'miscMenu'
resource.
# Let gv (optionally) show the name of the displayed file in the
window title bar.
# Add an entry "BBox" to the PageMedia menu and use the document's
bounding box information even if it is not an EPSF.
# Define the command line option '-spartan' as a shortcut for
'-style gv_spartan.dat'.
# Add 'Toggle even marks', 'Toggle odd marks', 'Toggle current mark'
and 'Unmark all' entries to the 'Page' menu.
# Add 'Automatic resizing' entry to the 'State' menu.
# Remove the 'Update File' button from the main window and add
an entry 'Update' to the 'File' menu instead.
# Fix a memory bug that caused seg faults when scanning documents
specifying more than one papersize in the context of
'%%DocumentPaperSizes:' comments.
This bug was in there since the dawn of time ....
# Rename the macro definition 'O_NONE' to something which is not used
on AIX.
[thanks to Larry Schwimmer <rosebud@cyclone.Stanford.EDU>].
# Use fork() instead of vfork() (except on VMS).
[thanks again to Larry Schwimmer <rosebud@cyclone.Stanford.EDU>].
# Change the test for SunOS in the Imakefile.
[thanks once more to Larry Schwimmer <rosebud@cyclone.Stanford.EDU>].
# Include a code modification to avoid Bus error crashs on HP/UX 9.07.
[thanks to Christian Illinger <illinger@lepsi.in2p3.fr>]
# The list of top- and sub-directories was not scrollable in horizontal
direction.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.1.6 (8 April 1997) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Fix the 'Filters' menu which was broken in 3.1.4 (showed entries
with all spaces removed).
* Redefine 'InstallProgram' in the source/Imakefile to respect BINDIR
and GV_BINDIR (which was a problem on Solaris).
# On VMS use a smaller font in the 'Path' field of the file selection
popup.
# Let the file selection window grow in width when the path or filter
becomes longer.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.1.4 (6 April 1997) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Tim Adye (adye@v2.rl.ac.uk) and William Bader (william@nscs.fast.net)
sent me a large patch which has been merged into this version.
Their changes include:
- an excellent improvement to the postcript scanner which allows
to ignore bogus 'End of File' (EOF) comments.
The main effect is that if you have a document which embeds
other documents without the proper 'BeginDocument', 'EndDocument'
comments then the chances are good that they can still be
previewed.
And believe me, there are many such documents ....
This feature can be turned on/off by means of the '-eof' and
'-noeof' command line option or via an entry in the 'State'
menu or via ... .
- a 'confirm quit' popup which (by default) shows up when trying
to leave gv while PDF to PS conversions are still in progress.
- a signal handler to clean up ghostscript subprocesses when
gv receives a SIGQUIT, SIGINT or SIGTERM signal.
SIGHUP causes gv to display a new version of the current
if it exists.
- an FAQ which is now part of the documentation.
- better name suggestions when saving data.
- and about 3681 other improvements which are not mentioned here.
# More work on the postscript scanner: increase initial buffer size
and adjust its size increment when reallocation is needed.
Also increase the anumber of bytes read in one turn.
This reduces memory reallocation and memory shifting to a minimum.
# Fix a bug in the postscript scanner which caused faulty behaviour
when reading lines longer than about 100kB.
# Add a "Next Page" and "Previous Page" button to the main window.
# Further extend the "Options" menu.
# Add a "Watch file" feature which checks the displayed file
periodically if activated. If the document changes the new version
is displayed.
# Add a menu "State" to the main window which holds entries
previously found in the "File" menu without having anything to do
with any file.
# Add Mouse bindings for two button mice: actions bound to the third
button can be accessed by using the second button while pressing
the Shift key.
# Include some 'memmove()' replacement for systems which don't
provide this function. The code will be activated by defining
'USE_MEMMOVE_CODE' in the configuration file 'confg.Unix'.
# Use the 'Vlist' widget (instead of the 'List' widget) to display files
and directories in the file selection popup.
# Add scrolllbars to the file selection popup.
They are not needed since scrolling can be done directly
in the windows of the file and directory lists by using the
event sequence 'button down, move mouse, button release'.
However, the scrollbars reappeared since the mails
asking why the lists cannot be scrolled start to fill my hard disc.
# Fix the 'A' key (for antialiasing) which stopped working recently.
# *Try* to provide some more helpful message when gv detects
incompatible resources.
# Change the format of the manpage.
* Change 'ifdef _DECC' to 'if defined (__DECC) && defined (VMS)'
in error.c.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.0.4 (1 April 1997) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Allow to choose and save a default filter from within the options
menu.
# Add the filter 'GV*filter: no .*' to the user resource file.
This defines the filter 'no .*' as default when opening the file
selection popup.
# Fix the 'two-pixel' bug that caused the page marks to overlap with
the indicator for the current page.
# Correct syntax in Imakefile which was not understood by non-'GNU makes'.
* Avoid unnecessary drawing of shadows in the table of contents.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.0.0 (31 March 1997) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Provide a new 'Look and Feel' by using
- 'feather touch' buttons, toggles and menus instead of the standard
ones with raised shadows.
- a new table of contents. Apart from looking better this has the side
effect that the table of contents can now be scrolled in the same
way as the main window, the zoom window and the file and directory
lists in the File Selection popup (it should be clear now that
I don't like Scrollbars :-).
# Redo the File Selection popup. Changes include but are not limited to
- the addition of a menu with pre-definable directories.
- the removal of the 'Tmp' and 'Home' buttons. The functionality
offered by these two buttons is now available via the 'Directories'
menu.
- the addition of a menu with pre-definable filters.
# Add all relevant preferences to the 'Options' popup so that users
don't have to mess around with resource files in order to change
some options.
# Add an 'Antialias' entry to the 'File' menu.
# Allow for multiple wildcards '%s' in the print command. Each such
wildcard will be replaced by the file to be printed.
# Add a bugfix for the bugfix added to cure some problems when
scanning postscript files with incorrect structuring comments.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 2.9.4 (20 March 1997) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Add another mouse binding in the main window.
A double click with the left mouse button in the left/right half
of the shown page causes the previous/next page to be displayed.
# Add yet another mouse binding in the main window.
A click with the right mouse button pops up a small menu offering
a few standard action.
# Allow gv to either respect or ignore document structuring comments
when opening a file. This should be helpful when viewing documents
with faulty structuring comments.
To toggle between these two states a new menu entry has been added to
the 'File' menu.
A keyboard binding to toggle DSC parsing on and off has beem added as
well. By default the key is 'I'.
Alternatively the new command line options '-dsc' and '-nodsc' may be
used.
# Keep the point located in the center of the visible area of the
displayed page centered when changing the magnification or
orientation.
# Add resources 'minimumWidth' and 'minimumHeight' to allow users
to specify a size beyond which gv will never shrink so that all
controls and titles remain accessible when changing the magnification
or the page media or ...
For both resources the default value is 400.
# Merge in a few patches enlarging and correcting the set of allowed
papersizes.
[ thanks to Andreas Schott (schott@rzg.mpg.de) ]
# Add Keyboard binding to toggle antialiasing on and off.
By default the key 'A' is used.
# Add Keyboard binding to toggle the resize behaviour of the main window
between 'Fixed Size' and 'Variable Size'.
By default the key 'Z' is used.
# Update the documentation. The new sections mainly cover resources
and key and mouse bindings.
# Fix a bug that causes gv to crash when the current page media
is 'Bounding Box' and the user disables automatic page media
selection.
# Fix a bug that causes wrong page media selection when changing
from a document with document specific papersizes to one without
document specific papersizes (or vice versa).
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 2.7.6 (1 November 1996) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# 'Upgrade' postscript scanner to be able to read buggy Windows NT
generated postscript files.
Mark Pfeifer (pfeiferm%ppddev@comet.cmis.abbott.com) found that
Windows NT generates files which show some non-comment postscript
code after the '%%EndSetup' and before the first page comment
'%%Page: x y'.
# VMS: Built in Rick Dyson's (dyson@blanc.physics.uiowa.edu) two small
changes for the Xmu library to allow compilation with DECC 5.2.
Note that these changes do not affect the sources of gv itself,
it's only the VMS specific archive xmu_4.zip which was modified.
# Use my own scrollbar widget to avoid problems people encounter with
hacked Xaw3d libraries.
# Make 'make depend' cleaner.
[thanks to Thomas Gellekum (thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de)]
# Include Xfuncs.h in ps.c and Ghostview.c to avoid unresolved memmove()
on SunOS
[thanks to Harald Boehme (boehme@informatik.hu-berlin.de)]
# VMS: Fix a problem which reapperared in 2.7 b5 and caused certain file
formats (non LF_STREAM,CR_STREAM) not to be read correctly.
[thanks to Tim Adye (adye@v2.rl.ac.uk)]
# Correct wrong URL in the documentation.
[thanks to Helmut Geyer (hardy@lynx.ps.uci.edu)]
# Change some resource bindings s that gv works on SunOS.
[thanks to Matthias Klose (doko@cs.tu-berlin.de)]
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 2.7 b5 ( 1 August 1996) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Add doc/gv.man, doc/gv.ps, doc/gv.html to provide at least some
documentation about gv's command line options.
# Unix: Fixed the 'Update File' button (everything related to updating
the displayed file when the modification date changed didn't work
correctly).
[thanks to Lars Bruecher (bruecher@dipmza.physik.uni-mainz.de) for
telling me about the bug]
# Fixed 'Reopen'. After reopening a (changed) file gv displayed the first
page instead of the current page.
[thanks to Lars Bruecher (bruecher@dipmza.physik.uni-mainz.de) for
telling me about the bug]
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 2.7 b4 (31 July 1996) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Fixed extracting pages
[thanks to Arne Mueller (amuelle3@gwdg.de) for telling me about the bug]
# Allow for a possible extra byte in front of the "%!PS-Adobe-" identifier
at the beginning of the file for comaptibility reasons.
[thanks to Ronan Melennec (MELENNEC_Ronan@cena.dgac.fr) for suggesting
this change]
# Fixed errorneous detection of the "-arguments <arguments>" command-line
option.
[thanks to Dr. Gunnar Ribitzki (ribitzki@clri6f.gsi.de) for his patch]
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 2.7 b3 (15 June 1996) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# Fixed code for appending <lf>s at the end of ps-sections of <cr>
oriented files on Unix systems (thanks to Tim Adye (adye@v2.rl.ac.uk)).
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 2.7 b2 (8 June 1996) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
# VMS: use explicit ftell() calls in ps.c to get reliable file positions
whenever possible (thanks to Tim Adye (adye@v2.rl.ac.uk)).
* Use read() instead of fread() in ps.c to unify VMS and Unix code.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 2.7 b1 (2 June 1996) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
This version
# offers an improved PDF capability:
a) Page numbers are shown, allowing to freely move through the
document.
b) Saving marked pages of a PDF file (or the whole file) is now a
valid operation. The file will first be converted to postscript,
then the pages are extracted and saved to the destination file.
Since the PDF->PS conversion takes a considerable amount of time
it is done "in the background" to not block the user interface.
c) Printing marked pages of a PDF file (or the whole file) is now
also a valid option. The marked pages are first saved in
postscript format, then they are printed. Printing is also done
"in the background" due to the involved PDF->PS conversion.
# provides an additional layout of the main window for those who want
to minimize the on-screen-area consumption of gv. To use it start
gv by executing
$ gv -style gv_spartan.dat
The file gv_spartan.dat contains a layout description which omits
some of the buttons shown in the standard version and which uses
a different on-screen arrangement of the remaining widgets.
# provides an option to reverse the scrolling behaviour in the main
window.
# widens the class of previewable postscript documents by
a) removing the constraint that lines shouldn't have more than
255 characters.
b) allowing LF, CR and CR LF as line terminators.
# removes the concept of a "forced" orientation and media. Instead the
orientation and papersize menus offer the "Automatic" entry, which,
if selected, advices gv to use the orientation and media extracted
from the DSC comments.
# uses a different algorithm for smoothing the scrolling process in the
main window. The new method is based on taking an average of the last
few motion events.
# handles some resources more restrictive for security reasons.
Those resources are prefixed by "GVintern" and may only be set
via a command line option or in the resource file "~/.gv"
(or "DECW$USER_DEFAULTS:GV.DAT" on VMS).
Affected are, for instance, "GVintern.printCommand" and
"GVintern.gsArguments". After installation the file "gv_intern_res.dat"
contains a complete list of these resources.
# uses by default a Pixmap instead of requesting Backing Store from
the X Server (GV*useBackingPixmap: True).
# uses an improved version of the FileSelection Widget.
# fixes a bug in the file selection widget which causes a crash
on OpenVMS VAX.
# doesn't show tons of String-to-Pixmap conversion warnings on
Motif displays anymore.
# corrects a bug in the layout of the main window which caused a wrong
horizontal scaling behaviour.
# fixes a bug which caused the comment '%%Pages: 0" to appear in saved
postscript files.
# fixes problematic file inclusion macros in "paths.h" which caused
errors for a lot of people.
ñ%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GhostView-VMS 2.3 (1 March 1996) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
1) New platform (linux)
2) New widgets: Clip,Frame,Aaa
3) New Layout
4) New method to define regions to be magnified by zoom popups.
5) New Zoom Popups (scrollable)
6) New Bugfixes
7) New Bugs
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GhostView-VMS 2.1 (18 January 1996) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
1) added "basic" PDF support. PDF files are handled in the same way
as unstructured PS files now.
2) fixed a quite large memory leak which appeared in the VMS_DIR.C code.
3) added the -landscape,-portrait, -seascape and -upsidedown options
which somehow got lost in previous versions.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GhostView-VMS 2.0.3 (1 February 1995) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
1) callback 'cb_moveSlider' in file CALLBACKS.C calls 'XtCallActionProc'
which is buggy in the VMS/X11R4 implemetation and causes a crash
at startup -> fixed
Related problem appears in ACTIONS.C when in action_panner
XtRemoveCallback(pageview,XtNreportCallback,...) is called.
Also a problem only on R4 ... -> fixed
(thanks to Martin Zinser who provided an account on an X11R4 machine,
so that the tests could be made).
2) color specifications of type 'rgb:x/y/z' do not work on VMS/X11R4.
They got replaced in the resource files by specifications of
type 'grayX'.
3) some ps-formatters include the 'end' command in the last page,
not in the trailer. These may cause ghostscript to break if
switching from the last page to another page.
Therefore the compile time option 'GV_RESTART_IF_BUSY' has been
introduced (see CONFIG.H).
Enabling this option may help but will slow down performance for
many correctly formatted files also.
By default this options is not activated.
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GhostView-VMS 2.0 (1 January 1995) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
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