- GSEXE was not set during build, causing
fig2dev -L pdf part.fig part.pdf
to fail like this:
sh: -q: not found
Error in ghostcript command
command was: -q -sAutoRotatePages=None -dAutoFilterColorImages=false -dColorImageFilter=/DCTEncode -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -o 'part.pdf' -
Reported by: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk>
MFH: 2018q3
- OPTION LETTER CHANGES:
Language previous option current option
------------------------------------------------------------
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.
Fig2dev is a set of tools for creating TeX documents with graphics
which are portable, in the sense that they can be printed in a wide
variety of environments.
Drivers currently exist for the following graphics languages:
AutoCad slide, BOX, (E)EPIC macros, LaTeX picture environment,
PIC, PiCTeX, PNG, PostScript, Encapsulated Postscript, GIF,
IBM-GL, JPEG, PCX, MF (METAFONT), TeXtyl, TIFF, TPIC, XBM (X11
Bitmap), XPM (X11 Pixmap), and TK (tcl/tk). Fig2dev can be
configured with a subset of these drivers.
WWW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xfig
This port will replace print/transfig after a bit of testing.
