2025-02-26 0.6.5.2
Epspdftk: compatibility fix for Tcl/Tk 9.
2023-02-13 0.6.5.1
Epspdf: An erroneous and unnecessary check for writability, with
possible security implications, has been removed. For MiKTeX,
os.execute replaces os.spawn invocations, since os.spawn gave
trouble in my tets on MiKTeX.
2020-01-09 0.6.5
Ghostscript invocations: no more .setpdfwrite, which is now
deprecated
epspdftk: improved handling of selection of Unix pdf- and
Postscript viewers
Updates to the manual
2019-02-01 0.6.4
pdf_crop: epdf replaced by pdfe if available (LuaTeX >= 1.9)
Better handling of pdfs with negative coordinates in MediaBox and
some corner cases
Ghostscript: support for later versions of pdf format
Eps files with large boundingbox coordinates: added a -r300
resolution parameter when asking Ghostscript to calculate their
boundingbox. Hopefully, this prevents grossly inaccurate results.
Pdftops on Windows: always use pdftops from searchpath
Some refactoring
epspdftk: no more black console windows under windows
epspdftk: use of ttk widgets; no more support for Tk versions
prior to 8.5.
epspdftk: updated selection of viewers under `plain unix'
Updates to the manual
2016-05-06 0.6.3
Pdf page selection and cropping: simplified and updated the
generated TeX file to be compiled by LuaTeX. Now compatible with
both LuaTeX 0.95 and older versions.
Windows: test whether pdftops is in TeX binary directory. If so,
do not offer a configuration option for the location of pdftops.
Minor tweaks to the manual
Windows executable once more based on Tclkits from Patrick Thoyts
at
http://www.patthoyts.tk/tclkit/
2015-10-28 0.6.2
Replace obsolete luatex primitives \pdfpagewidth and
\pdfpageheight with \pagewidth and \pageheight respectively
Minor tweaks to the manual
2014-11-30 0.6.1
Windows ececutable based on a newer tclkit, from the KitCreator
project (
http://kitcreator.rkeene.org/fossil/index). This
necessitated a new test for being a starpack, viz. by checking the
name of the executable, instead of the previous test for
tclkitpath.
Epspdf now modifies the process searchpath and calls luatex,
ghostscript and pdftops by basename to sidestep problems with
spaces in path names, especially on Windows.
Removed use of cmd /c, which was a bug workaround for some old
version of LuaTeX.
Some code cleanup(?): fewer globals, all non-trivial
initialization in one block following the function definitions.
The temporary directory has been placed under %TEMP% under
Windows, and under either $TEMPDIR or /tmp on other systems.
To give Windows >= Vista a better chance to remove temporary
files, epspdf first waits one second.
Check for epswrite/eps2write ghostscript output devices.
epspdftk.tcl: updated list of Unix PostScript- and pdf viewers.
2013-02-07 0.6.0
Command-line component rewritten in TeXLua
Texlua's epdf library replaces Ghostscript's pdf2dsc.ps.
Grayscaling done by Ghostscript; both old grayscaling options now
do the same thing.
When going from eps to pdf, a PostScript wrapper is no longer
used. Instead, Ghostscript now takes care of translating the eps
boundingbox to a pdf MediaBox. This implies that the hires
boundingbox will be used if available.
Pdf crop adapted from Heiko Oberdiek's pdfcrop perl script
ATM custom options for GhostScript and pdftops are no-ops.
AppData is once more read from the environment, because texlua
does not provide access to the registry.
AppleScript wrapper dropped since I no longer own a Mac.
2011-02-27 0.5.3
Windows: AppData now read from registry, because this value may not
always be available as environment variable
AppleScript wrapper now uses `do shell script' with some
heuristic path additions, instead of `tell application Terminal
do script'
2010-12-25 0.5.2
Eliminate need for wrappers under Unix, as suggested by
Peter Breitenlohner; update manual
2010-05-09 0.5.1
Bug fix: test for i_hrbb >= 0 instead of true
2010-02-28 0.5
GUI module replaced with separate Tcl/Tk frontend. To this end,
epspdf.rb now has options for reading/writing settings over
stdin/stdout.
Epspdf.rb now also aborts on Unix if Ghostscript is missing.
Both logs and config moved to subdirectory: %APPDATA%/epspdf
under Windows, $HOME/.epspdf otherwise. On-demand log window.
Logo/icon added
Documentation updates
Manual in info format is now part of the distribution
2009-09-11 0.4.3
Patch for Ruby 1.9 compatibility (Ruben Stein). Patch for
compatibility with newer Ghostscript under Windows. Fix for option
gRAY with ps => pdf. `epspdf --version' now prints
version. Documentation updates.
2009-09-11 0.4.2
More liberal documentation license. Slight documentation updates.
2009-03-12 0.4.1
Documentation: added section on bitmaps. Windows setup program:
added missing Tcl/Tk licenses. Mac: double-clickable epspdftk.app
with included epspdftk replaces double-clickable epspdf.app
add-on.
2009-03-02 0.4
Handles hires boundingbox. Can use MikTeX Ghostscript. Updated,
streamlined Ruby subset. Simpler testing of prerequisites. In
particular, no pdftops version testing. More tolerant boundingbox
parsing. Windows: View with... button. OS X: use open command for
viewing. Converting... text in main window.
2008-07-28 0.3
TeX Live integration. Packaging for CTAN. Bug fixes: more tolerant
pdftops version testing; no inappropriate warning about missing
viewers under Mac OS X.
2006-11-20 0.2.12
Bug fixes: log rotation now works. Solved quoting problems under
w2k by using short names. Minor updates to documentation.
2006-11-03 0.2.11
Minor fixes. Changes in documentation.
2006-10-29 0.2.10
Computed boundingbox padded by 1pt, to prevent some
cropping. Amount bb_spread is manually configurable. The File Open
dialog remembers the last directory visited (between function
calls, not between program sessions). Changes in documentation.
2006-08-14 0.2.01
epspdf.app now packaged separately. Bug fix to Applescript applet
epspdf.app for starting up epspdftk under Mac OS X.
2006-07-30 0.2
Original release
