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0.2 (95-dec-12)
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First public release.


0.3 (96-jan-13)
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LZW patent workaround.
Implemented inline images.
Fixed (mostly) disjoint polygon fills.
Added remote server stuff.
Added page number on command line.
Fixed problem with font encodings which caused character misalignment.
Fixed inverted CCITT decoding and inverted image mask drawing.
Now compiles under gcc 2.7.x (ignore those stupid 'unused parameter'
  warnings).
Many minor bug fixes and optimizations.


0.4 (96-apr-24)
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Implemented DCT filter.
Implemented PostScript output; wrote pdftops program.
Implemented links.
Implemented font rotation -- I was wrong: X11R6 servers *do* support
  font rotation (by specifying a matrix in place of a size).
Added bindings for Home/End, Page Up/Down, arrow keys.
Added initialZoom resource and -z option.
Added geometry resource and -g option.
Fixed image size off-by-one bug.
Fixed bug where page content is reference to an array of streams.
Cleaned up uninitialized variables which were causing random problems
  on various platforms.
Manually skip whitespace before calling atoi() for startxref.
Replaced calls to XrmCombineFileDatabase() with calls to
  XrmGetFileDatabase() and XrmMergeDatabases() so it will work under
  older versions of X.
Fixed problem with reading multiple xref tables in updated PDF files.
Check for encryption and print appropriate error message.
Rudimentary dithering of images.
Fixed bug in CCITTFax filter (pass mode followed by horizontal mode).
Optimized drawImage() and drawImageMask().
Changed several things to ease porting:
  - changed '__inline' to 'inline' (to adhere to the ANSI standard)
  - surrounded interface/implementation pragmas with #ifdef _GNUC__
  - got rid of empty array initializer lists
  - moved Operator type definition from Gfx.cc to Gfx.h
  - renamed String, uint, etc.
  - ability to uncompress to file (NO_POPEN and USE_GZIP flags)
  - added definitions of XK_Page_Up/Down and XPointer for old versions
    of X
For VMS port:
  - use correct Xdefaults name for VMS, get rid of ltkGetHomeDir()
  - added '#include <stddef.h>' before all X includes
  - renamed files with multiple periods in their names
Fixed window resizing infinite oscillation bug.
Fixed problem with string-type (as opposed to stream-type) indexed
  color space lookup tables (which are used in inline images).
If an X font is not found, try smaller and then larger sizes (this is
  useful for old or broken X servers which can't scale bitmap fonts).
Added -rgb (color cube size) option.
Various minor bug fixes.


0.5 (96-may-23)
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Fixed bug in LTKWindow which broke the remote server mode.
Fixed PostScript output:
  - doesn't seg fault if file is unwritable.
  - incorrect DSC comment - need colon in '%%Page:'.
  - use 'imagemask' command for masks.
  - output filters in the correct order.
  - Stream::isBinary() checks the next-to-bottom, not top, stream.
  - if page width > height, rotate it 90 degrees.
  - if page is larger than paper size, scale it down.
Set default MediaBox to 8.5" x 11" to deal with non-compliant PDF
  files which don't specify a MediaBox.
Added DEBUG_MEM stuff in gmem.c and gmempp.cc.
Fixed memory leaks:
  - LTKWindow didn't delete the LTKBox.
  - LinkAction needs a virtual destructor.
Use $(RANLIB) variable in goo/Makefile and ltk/Makefile.
Allocate image data after calling XCreateImage, using
  image->bytes_per_line -- works in 24-bit mode now.
DCTStream rounds width of rowBuf lines up to the next multiple of
  mcuWidth, so last MCU doesn't run off end of buffer.
Increase size of block (from 255 to 1024 bytes) read at end of file to
  search for 'startxref'.
Skip past garbage at start of file, look for '%PDF'.
Moved more compiler options out of Makefiles into Makefile.config.
Top-level Makefile uses '$(MAKE)' instead of 'make' for making
  subdirectories.
Space/PageDown/Next and Backspace/PageUp/Previous now moves to
  next/previous page if already scrolled to bottom/top of current
  page.


0.5a (96-jul-09)
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[not a public release]
For PDF 1.2 (a.k.a. Amber, a.k.a. Acrobat 3) support:
  - look for trailer after first xref instead of at end of file.
Deal with font subsets by converting character names of the form
  'Cnnnn' to the appropriate character from the standard encoding.
Extract encoding from embedded Type 1 fonts.
Kludge to fill one-pixel thick polygons.
Changed X font encoding to use endash for hyphen (gets rid of too-long
  hyphens).
Handle Resources key in Pages dictionaries (needed for pstoedit
  output).
Fix comment handling in Parser (needed for pstoedit output).
Move Bezier curve conversion from GfxState to XOutputDev; look at
  flatness parameter in GfxState.
Change all of the path functions in XOutputDev (stroke, fill, clip) to
  use the same path transformation/conversion function.
Rewrote PostScript output driver as a subclass of OutputDev; removed
  duplicated code (ps_ functions) from Gfx.
Fixed bug in xref code with small (< 1024 bytes) PDF files.
Implemented BX/EX operators.
Added PDFDoc class.


0.6 (96-nov-12)
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Add support for PostScript output to stdout (-) and to a command
  (|lpr); added -ps option and psFile resource.
Decryption is implemented but not included in the distribution due to
  legal restrictions: the decryption algorithm is a trade secret of
  RSA, Inc., and the U.S.A. still has bogus export controls on
  cryptography software.
Added .xpdfrc config file:
  - Added fontmap parameter: user can map PDF font names to X fonts.
  - Added fontpath parameter: search for Type 1 font if encoding is
    not in PDF file.
Incremental display: display is updated after every 200 commands.
Added forward and backward by-10-page buttons.
Links:
  - Implement links with "Launch" actions that point to PDF files.
  - Draw borders around links.
  - Handle links with named destinations.
  - GoToR links specify a page number instead of a page reference.
Optimizations:
  - Rewrote Stream to use buffering, and added lookChar() functions;
    rewrote Lexer to take advantage of this.
  - Use hash tables for name->code mapping in font encodings.
  - Made XOutputDev::doCurve() iterative, changed /2 to *0.5, and
    changed the flatness test.
Added file name to window title.
Implemented RunLength filter.
Implemented forms.
Convert ObjType to an enum.
Changed isDict("Pages") to isDict() (in Catalog.cc) to deal with
  incorrect PDF files.
Changed color selection so that very pale colors don't map to white.
Fixed bug in CCITTFax filter (multiple make-up codes).
In GString::clear(): need to set length to 0 before calling resize().
Base initial window size on first displayed page, not page 1; deal
  correctly with rotated pages.
Added ltkGetIntResource() and LTKApp::getIntResource().
PostScript output fixes:
  - Escape backslashes in strings.
  - When doing ASCII85 encoding, keep both chars of EOF marker ('~>')
    on same line.
  - Add extra line '%-EOD-' after image data streams; call wrapper
    functions for image and imagemask which look for this line -- this
    should fix the 'too much data in stream' bug.
  - Font tags can be reused for different fonts on different pages --
    so use font object reference (number/generation) instead.
Initialize character widths to zero (this caused crashes on OSF/1).
Handle image masks which go outside of pixmap.
Makefile.config changes:
  - Remove -o in C++ compile rule.
  - Add $(AR) variable.
Code which read char widths from font dictionary read all but the last
  width.
Add 'return 0;' to main() in xpdf and pdftops.
Allow fonts to use StandardEncoding.
Convert man pages to VMS help files.