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- Version 3.3.2 7/7/92
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- 1: Added UTF support for Plan 9. Only signigficant source code changes were
- in dpost.utf (font.h, font.c, dpost.c). Added common/rune.[hc] so code
- can be compiled elsewere. Remove RUNELIB in commmon/rune.h if fullrune(),
- chartorune(), and runetochar() are available on your system. Original
- DWB 3.3 dpost source is in directory dpost. You should select dpost or
- dpost.utf in postscript.mk. Both compile and install a program called
- dpost so don't pick both!
- 2: dpost can read old or UTF troff output. Default is whatever is assigned
- to READING (file common/gen.h). You get one or the other, unless troff
- tells dpost what encoding to use (currently x E UTF).
- 3: Most other translators passed bytes through and so only needed slightly
- modified proglogues and a new encoding scheme (psencoding/UTF.enc). It
- works for Latin1, but still needs a bit more attention. Prologue changes
- were easy and only involved adding lines like,
- /show {show} bind def
- /stringwidth {stringwidth} bind def
- Guarantees text procedures used in prologues aren't operators and can be
- successfully redefined in UTF.enc. Unbinding means a small but probably
- not noticeable speed penalty. You may not want to include those changes
- on other system.
- 4: Operator redefinitions means dpost should work in it's own dictionary
- (rather than userdict). Not implemented yet, but should be easy. Only
- potential problem is with picture inclusion when dpost reads UTF.enc.
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- Version 3.3.2 5/15/92
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- 1: postio now outputs all unrecognized status reports - primarly for spooler
- accounting purposes.
- 2: The makefiles also enable the selection of alternate stream module names
- for streams based DKHOST support in postio.
- 3: dpost now assumes the optional fifth token in a font mounting command
- (e.g. x font 2 R /usr/me/font/R) is the full pathname of the font. troff
- outputs the pathname when a .fp request contains a third argument that
- begins with a / as in .fp 1 R /usr/me/font/R.
- 4: By request Latin1's - character has been changed from minus to the smaller
- hyphen character. Added \(dq and \(bs (for " and \ characters) to devpost
- and devLatin1 tables. Also added \(!! and \(?? to devpost tables.
- 5: Helvetica-Light and Helvetica-LightOblique tables are included as HL and
- HK in devpost and devLatin1, even though fonts aren't generally available.
- Also copy H to HM during an install of devpost and devLatin1 tables.
- 6: LH is a horizontally arranged color Lucent logo with text which replaces the AT&T logo.
- LV is a vertically arranged monochrome AT&T logo with text.
- FA is a horizontally arranged monochrome Lucent logo with text (low res.).
- L1 is a monochrome AT&T logo, no text.
- LA is a monochrome AT&T text.
- 7: Included L1 and LA outlines in devpost and devLatin1. Adjusted LA scaling
- so size of "AT&T" matches what's in LV. Original PostScript came
- from Matthijs Melchior.
- 8: Included the "symmetric clippath" version of roundpage.ps as Nroundpage.ps
- in directory postscript/psfiles. Move it to roundpage.ps if you want it to
- be the default.
- 9: Added a few lines of code to dpost for handling current implementation of
- the portrait/landscape mode macros.
- 10: The man page for download now documents the -r option and notes that -p
- is for Unix 4.0 lp.
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- Version 3.3.1 4/30/91
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- 1: buildtables stuff has been cleaned up and is now a user level command.
- Uses shell.lib files that are installed with font tables. The devpost
- tables were built on a version 47.0 PS-810. The devLatin1 tables were
- built on a version 51.7 PS-820.
- 2: The devLatin1 tables provide support for the ISO Latin1 alphabet on
- PostScript printers.
- 3: All translators support different text font encoding schemes using the
- -E option and *.enc files installed in POSTLIB. The ISO Latin 1 alphabet
- is supported with file /usr/lib/postscript/Latin1.enc.
- 4: printfont prints a table of the available (encoded) characters in one
- or more PostScript fonts. It also understands the -E option.
- 5: grabit and hardcopy are two new programs that may be of interest to the
- more serious PostScript programmer. grabit resembles ==, but produces
- output that's usally easier to read. hardcopy redirects output from
- PostScript file output operators (or procedures) to paper. It's useful
- if you don't have direct access to a printer.
- 6: Prologues and programs are stored together. Other common PostScript files
- are now in the psfiles directory.
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- Verions 3.3 4/16/90
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- 1: The package is now included in DWB. Version numbers are a bit misleading.
- The one in postscript.mk refers to the DWB package.
- 2: dpost (and troff) now read ASCII font tables. makedev and the old binary
- format are gone.
- 3: The devpost directory came directly from the DWB package. The font tables
- originally distributed with this package are in directory devopost. They
- are not installed. If possible we recommend you use the devpost tables.
- The old tables can be installed by adding devopost to the TARGETS list in
- file postscript.mk.
- 4: dpost recognizes two new fields in font tables. Entries for the full
- PostScript font look like,
- fontname Times-Roman
- The fontname field is helps manage host resident fonts, the DocumentFonts
- comment, and is used to define font name abbreviations like the ones in
- dpost.ps. A font table entry that looks like,
- named in prologue
- disables the runtime abbreviation for the font - dpost assumes it's already
- in the prologue.
- 5: Extra font tables included in DWB 3.0's devpost font collection are in
- directory devpost.add. They included here, but should probably not be
- used.
- 6: Bracket building has been fixed and tested on a wide range of PostScript
- printers. It will likely still not work on many clones. Real problem
- appears to be with Adobe's braceleftbt character.
- 7: Most of the special tuning code for device emulation has been removed.
- Emulation still works, but there may be cases where it's not as good as
- earlier versions.
- 8: Several problems with color and reverse video printing have been fixed.
- 9: buildtables directory has been cleanup up. The template files in directory
- buildtables/devpost.data were used to build the devpost tables.
- 10: postplot and download are two new programs. postplot is for the System V
- plot package only. Both were written for the Unix 4.0 lp package.
- 11: postgif is also relatively new - it came from Chi Choy.
- 12: The translators now rotate clockwise when printing in landscape mode. If
- you want the old behavior set ROTATION to -1 in postscript.mk.
- 13: forms.ps has been cleaned up some. Better behavior when you print 2
- landscape pages on one sheet.
- 14: Handling of Datakit code for System V has been changed some. Makefiles
- now expect to find libdk.a and dk.h in standard places (e.g /usr/lib and
- /usr/include). Set DKHOST to TRUE in postscript.mk to get Datakit support
- on System V.
- If you're stuck and need to have things behave as they did in the past
- take a look at file postio/postio.mk. Define DKHOSTDIR and uncomment
- three lines and the behavior should be close to what it was.
- 15: Picture inclusion and color macros are gone. They're included in the DWB
- package, and not here.
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- Version 3.2 11/27/89
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- 1: Implemented height and slant requests in dpost.
- 2: Modified the behavior of all translators so save objects are no longer left
- on the stack. The original implementation was a mistake and occasionally
- (e.g. picture inclusion with forms.ps) resulted in invalid restores.
- 3: Fixed the mistake in the external declaration of mesg in postio/slowsend.c.
- 4: The malloc() call in postdmd (routine dimensions()) is only made if patterns
- is positive.
- 5: Changed definition of De in draw.ps so savematrix is loaded with the CTM
- whenever De is executed. Original implementation didn't work with forms.ps
- because the CTM is changed with each page image. (4/29/89)
- 6: Flush stdout when postio is invoked with the -t option - just convenient
- not necessary. (4/30/89)
- 7: Included a man page for the picture inclusion macros - file man/mpictures.5.
- (5/6/89)
- 8: Added BoundingBox code to dpost - still needs to go in other translators.
- Most of the work is done in common/bbox.c. (5/7/89)
- 9: Fiddled with the bracket building stuff in dpost.ps so things finally look
- decent. Was particularly bad on the typesetter.
- 10: dpost now generates a PageBoundingBox comment and ps_include.c accepts
- the comment. Added -B option to enable/disable the BoundingBox calculations.
- -Bon to enable and -Boff to disable. On by default now, but that may change.
- Add similar code to the rest of the translators (6/20/89).
- 11: Fixed ps_include.c so it properly handles %%BeginGlobal and %%EndGlobal.
- Added braces and compare page.start to page.end instead of 0.
- 12: Added xymove(hpos, vpos) for \X'PS ...' request - near the end of devcntrl().
- Must output position info for following PostScript.
- 13: Added a call to endtext() immediately before the oput() call for \N'...'
- requests. Without it spacing often messed up with -e2 but not -e0.
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- Version 3.1 11/15/88
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- 1: postio can run as one or two processes (-R option) and can establish an
- interactive connection with a postscript printer (-i option). Parsing of
- status reports has been improved. The status query mechanism can be disabled
- using the -q option. An exit status of 1 implies a system error (eg. can't
- open the line) while 2 usually means there was an error in the PostScript
- file. By default postio runs as a single process. The -B, -R, and -q options
- can be used to speed things up some. A version of the program (previously
- supplied in postio.tmp) that can help if you seem to be having flow control
- problems can be obtained using the -S option. It's not generally recommended
- and should only be used as a last resort!
- 2: Several widthshow encoding schemes have been added to dpost and can reduce
- print time by 20% or more. The method used to encode lines of text can be
- changed on the command line using the -e option. Level 0 produces output
- essentially identical to previous versions of dpost. The default can be
- changed by modifying the definition of ENCODING in ./Makefile. At present
- only level 0 is thoroughly tested, although level 2 (ie. -e2) may be the
- default and is undoubtedly worth a try.
- 3: dpost now supports color selection and reverse video. Access in troff is via
- the stand-alone macro package ./macros/color. Examples are,
- .so /usr/lib/macros/color
- .CL red "this prints in red"
- .CL "white on black" "and this prints white text on a black background"
- The postscript procedures that handle color and reverse video can be found
- in ./postscript/color.ps. Additional colors can be added to the colordict
- dictionary defined in ./postscript/color.ps.
- 4: The dpost drawing routines have been improved and have been moved from the
- prologue (ie. ./postscript/dpost.ps) to ./postscript/draw.ps. That file is
- only included if needed. Drawing routines now support the ability to group
- a series of drawing commands together as a single path. May be useful for
- future versions of pic that wish to fill regions with colors or gray levels.
- Access is via the new "x X BeginPath" and "x X DrawPath" device control
- commands. In addition there's some complicated PostScript code in file
- ./postscript/baseline.ps, that can be used to set text along an arbitrary
- curve. It's terribly confusing and I doubt anyone will have the patience to
- bother to figure it out.
- 5: A simple picture packing troff preprocessor (picpack) has been included and
- the code needed to recover pictures and text has been added to dpost. The
- program is designed to supplement to the original picture inclusion mechanism,
- and should ONLY be used when absolutely necessary. Using dpost to pull picture
- files into a document is strongly recommended and will always be the more
- efficient and portable approach. picpack simply provides a way to combine
- pictures and text in a single file before dpost is executed. It may help in
- a distributed printing environment where the user runs everything through
- troff while a spooling daemon (eg. lp) handles the postprocessing. There
- are serious disadvantages to this approach, with perhaps the most important
- being that troff output files (when picpack is used) will likely result in
- files that can no longer be reliably passed through other important post-
- processors like proof.
- 6: Code to handle host resident PostScript fonts in dpost has been tested and
- finally works. The -H option points dpost to a host resident font directory,
- which by default is NULL. Host resident font files stored in that directory
- must be assigned a name that corresponds to the one or two character troff
- font name. Width tables must also be built (see buildtables/README), the new
- binary font files must be installed in /usr/lib/font/devpost, and a mapping
- definition from troff's name to the PostScript font name must be added to
- ./postscript/dpost.ps.
- 7: The default pattern length in postdmd has been reduced to from 10 to 6 bytes.
- Printers with fast processors (eg. PS-810s) often benefit from a further
- reduction, while optimal performance on slower printers (eg PS-800s) may
- require larger pattern sizes. The pattern length can be set using the -b
- option. Increasing the pattern size usually increases the size of the output
- file.
- 8: Line drawing in posttek and postbgi includes code that automatically ties
- lines to device space coordinates when you select a non-zero width. Helps
- eliminate the variation in line thickness that many observed. The default
- line width in posttek and postbgi is still 0 (which gets 1 pixel). If you
- want a different default change the definition of variable linewidth in files
- ./postscript/posttek.ps and ./postscript/postbgi.ps.
- 9: Defocused lines in posttek have been fixed.
- 10: postbgi now supports color and can be used to translate most PRISM (color
- BGI) jobs. Special device specific tuning needed for many PRISM jobs can be
- enabled by using the -P"/prism true" option. Missing pieces (eg. subroutines)
- needed for translating PRISM jobs, have also been implemented.
- 11: postreverse can reverse the pages in documents that conform to Adobe's 1.0
- or 2.0 file structuring conventions, and it works with all the translators in
- this package. The new version is backwards compatible, but files produced by
- the new translators should not be passed through old versions of postreverse.
- The likely result will be no output at all. If you choose to do a partial
- installation put the new postreverse up first!
- 12: All translators attempt to conform to Adobe's Version 2.0 file structuring
- conventions. dpost output falls short, but only in the interest of efficiency.
- Passing dpost output through postreverse (perhaps with the -r option) produces
- a minimally conforming PostScript file.
- 13: All the translators now support three options that pass arbitrary PostScript
- through to the output file. The -P and -C options add a string and the
- contents of a file respectively immediately after the prologue. It's assumed
- whatever is added is legitimate PostScript - there is no checking. In each
- case the added PostScript code becomes part of the job's global environment.
- The -R option can be used to request special action (eg. manualfeed) on a
- global or page basis. The argument should be "request", "request:page", or
- "request:page:file". If page is given as 0 or omitted the request applies
- globally. If file is omitted the lookup is in /usr/lib/postscript/ps.requests.
- The collection of recognized requests can be modified or extended by changing
- /usr/lib/postscript/ps.requests.
- 14: PostScript code (from Johnathan Shopiro) that produces bolder versions of the
- Courier fonts has been included in file postscript/fatcourier.ps. The file
- can be added to individual prologue files (eg. dpost.ps) or pulled in as
- needed using the -C option.
- 15: postmd is a new program that can be used to display a large matrix as a gray
- scale image. May help if you're looking for patterns in a large matrix. A very
- optimistic estimate suggests you can display up to a 600x600 matrix (with five
- different shades of gray) on 300dpi printer using 8.5x11 inch paper.
- 16: What's available in buildtables has been cleaned up and works well with the
- new version of postio. It can be used to have PostScript printers build troff
- width tables for both printer and host resident fonts.
- 17: The PostScript bind operator has been applied to all procedures that are
- expected to be executed more than once. Redefined save and restore procedures
- are no longer needed and saverestore.ps is not included in this package.
- 18: The bizarre PostScript code used to get to the upper left corner of a page
- in old versions of dpost.ps and postprint.ps has been replaced by something
- that's at least slightly more comprehensible. All prologues have also been
- changed so picture inclusion (eg. including a pic picture that's been run
- through troff and dpost) should work better than previous versions. Still
- missing (from most translators) is the %%BoundingBox comment and even when
- it's put out (by postdmd) only the dimensions are correct - sorry!
- 19: The careless mistake in the DKHOST section of postio that some noticed belongs
- to me (not Allan Buckwalter) and has now been fixed.
- 20: By default all prologues still use the current clipping path to determine page
- dimensions, but that behavior can be disabled by setting boolean useclippath
- (in each prologue) to false. In that case the page dimensions will be taken
- from array pagebbox, which by default is initialized to 8x11 inch paper. The
- -P options (in each translator) can change useclippth and pagebbox.
- 21: New in the misc directory is sample lp support from Maryann Csaszar and a
- simple program that converts host resident font files obtained from a Macintosh
- to a format that works on Unix.
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