History of txt2pdf v. 3.4

05/15/2000 version 3.4

  • Encoding support: WinAnsiEncoding, MacRomanEncoding, MacExpertEncoding, PDFDocEncoding and the Unix default
  • Cyrillic note in the contributed directory from Ilya Naumov
04/25/2000 version 3.3
  • Full Screen page mode support
  • Possibility to select the page layout from Single Page (deafult), One Column, Two Column Left, Two column Right
03/10/2000 version 3.2
  • All the transaction effects supported by PDF format: split, blinds, box, wipe, dissolve, glitter
  • STDIN and STDOUT support
01/25/2000 version 3.1
  • Dissolve transaction effect support
  • Deleted lf_extra feature: now you can convert e.g. on Linux textual document from Unix, Windows, Mac.
  • Text-Flowchart: an 'ASCII Flowchart maker' perl module created by Jim Thomason
  • Tested on HP-UX 10.20 by Dierk Laub
01/01/2000 version 3.0
  • Background and foreground layer support.
    You can create a layer under and up your text, where you can insert frases or designs (usign PDF syntax)
  • new paper format support: tabloid, ledger, legal, statement, executive
  • TXT2PDFCFG environment variable
  • Tested on SCO Unixware 7.0 by Zyle, Algis J
  • Tested on FreeBSD 4.0 by Ilya Naumov
12/13/1999 version 2.5 11/01/1999 version 2.4 09/18/1999 version 2.3
  • txt2pdf is able to handle ascii or latin1 documents formatted for typewriter-like devices. These texts (as e.g. produced by "groff -Tlatin1") contain bold characters represented by the sequence 'CHARACTER BACKSPACE CHARACTER' and italics using the sequence '_ BACKSPACE CHARACTER'. Reverse ('ESC-7') and half reverse ('ESC-8') line feeds are unusual but could appear in rare cases. They should be removed prior to processing with txt2pdf. [from Soenke J. Peters]
  • OpenVMS support [from Dave Smith]
  • Documentation about Year 2000 Compliance
07/20/1999 version 2.2
  • URL support (https: file: ldap: news:)
06/19/99 Version 2.1:
  • every word like mime:... will become a link that launch the correct application and opens the file [from Eric Wagner]
    Examples of file specifications
    SystemSystem-dependentpath Written as ...
    DOS..\pdfdocs\spec.pdf (no drive)mime:../pdfdocs/spec.pdf
    DOSr:\pdfdocs\spec.pdfmime:/r/pdfdocs/spec.pdf
    UNIX/user/fred/pdfdocs/spec.pdfmime:/user/fred/pdfdocs/spec.pdf
    UNIXpdfdocs/spec.pdf (relative)mime:pdfdocs/spec.pdf
04/25/99 Version 2.0:
  • Border line
  • URL support (mailto: http: ftp:)
  • Allowinparse option [from Matt Johnson]
    At the moment the options aren't multiline
    [!yellow][!/yellow]
    [!red][!/red]
    [!green][!/green]
    [!blue][!/blue]
    [!italic][!/italic]
    [!bold][!/bold]
  • Bugfix: added support for landscape option inside configuration file
  • End of txt2pdf_opt support
02/08/99 Version 1.3:
  • Added recursive option using File::Find module
  • Added match option. Now you can select the files you want find with recursive option (e.g. *.pdf, a?.*)
  • Added blue color
  • Added A5 paper format
  • Now multiple file selection with metachars (e.g. *.txt) works correctly [from Charles Wilt]
12/13/98 Version 1.2:
  • Added page number option
  • Added BeginFile and EndFile option
09/19/98 Version 1.1:
  • Minor bugfix
    • mark italic
    • If txt2pdf wraps the text, then sometimes, txt2pdf inserts a space at the beginnings of lines.
    • Some of the lines run off the right hand edge of the page
  • All the options in the configure file are now also line options in txt2pdf_opt (necessary to use txt2pdf in a cgi-bin) [from Eric Lease Morgan]
  • Added -2 option to convert text in 2 columns PDF
06/19/98 Version 1.0
First public release
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