Announcing the release of TransFig version 3.2.3-beta    December 14, 1999

This is a BETA release.

TransFig 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.

TransFig 3.2.3 is available from:
       ftp://www-epb.lbl.gov/xfig
       http://www.xfig.org/xfigdist
       ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/applications/drawing_tools
       ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/X11/contrib/applications/drawing_tools
       from any CTAN machine, e.g. ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/pub/archive/graphics.
       See http://math.nmu.edu/Web/TeXArchives/ctansite.html for a long list
           of CTAN sites.

Be sure to set binary mode when transferring.

You also need a JPEG library, which can be found in ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/libraries.

The transfig directory contains the source for the transfig command
which generates a Makefile which translates Fig code to various graphics
description languages using the fig2dev program.  In previous releases,
this command was implemented as a shell script.

The fig2dev directory contains a general program for translating from
Fig code to other graphics desciption languages.  The dev subdirectory
contains a library of output drivers used by fig2dev.

Drivers currently exist for the following graphics langauges:
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.

I have taken over the maintenance of TransFig from Micah Beck so please send any
bug notices, fixes, contributions etc to me at [email protected].

- Brian V. Smith
- Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

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Following is a description of the CHANGES for 3.2.3 beta

[N.B. There was no transfig/fig2dev 3.2 patchlevel 2]

NEW FEATURES
       o If DBM file for RGB databse does not exist, read "rgb.txt" instead.
       o If a file such as /usr/local/lib/fig2dev/A3.ps exists, insert it
         when generating PostScript output to select paper tray, for example.
       o Messages from bitmap output (GIF, JPEG, etc) are captured and printed
         if there is any error during the export
       o New PDF driver (uses ps2pdf from the ghostscript distribution)
       o New CGM driver (Computer Graphics Metafile) from Philippe Bekaert
         ([email protected])
       o More page sizes (Japanese JIS B0-B10 and ISO A0-A9)
       o Autocad Slide format called "sld" now instead of "acad"
         (e.g. fig2dev -L sld ...)
       o -L eps is required for Encapsulated PostScript now, instead of fig2dev
         just using the -P (add showpage) option to distinguish EPS from PS
       o The compile-time symbol EPSF in fig2dev/Imakefile has been changed:
         comment out the DDLATEX2E_GRAPHICS = ... line if you don't want to use
         the standard graphics package distributed w/ LaTeX2e
         Uncomment the DDEPSFIG = ... line if you want to use the deprecated
         epsfig macros distributed w/ LaTeX2e (DDLATEX2E_GRAPHICS must also be
         defined)
       o The default is now to compile for DVIPS
       o Arc-boxes available for LaTeX now
         from C. Scott Ananian <[email protected]>
       o New import picture formats supported - TIFF and PPM

BUGS FIXED
       o splines were interpolated slightly differently than in xfig
       o Add description about "-j" option to help message (when I18N is enabled)
       o if imported PCX image file couldn't be opened, fig2dev tried to close
         the file, which is a bad thing
       o %%EndProlog has been removed since it was not needed and there was
         never a %%BeginProlog
       o needed pi.h for gentk.c (tk driver)
       o bzero macro defined globally now (wasn't defined in readpcx.c) for
         those systems which don't have it (it is defined to use memset)
       o didn't include "pi.h" in dev/gentk.c for machines that don't have M_PI
       o Moved JPEGLIBDIR and JPEGINCDIR definition closer to the top in the
         fig2dev/Imakefile
       o Output to GIF, JPEG, etc. (bitmap formats) didn't work properly if the
         destination was stdout
       o "make install" changed because some systems' install program can only
          take one file at a time
       o Added a "newpath" command after the initial clip command for PostScript
         output just in case an object is drawn without a preceding newpath
       o M_2PI was redefined without first being #undef'd
       o the "-" character in Fig files should really be a hyphen, not a dash as
         it was encoded for PostScript output.  This is fixed thanks to info
         from Robert Maier.
       o Splines didn't come out exactly as they did in xfig.
       o In transfig, character used instead of int when checking for EOF on
         file. From Geoff Keating ([email protected])
       o %%EndDocument only written for imported EPS files (not XPM, etc)
         From Dick Wesseling ([email protected])
       o Added "if defined(FreeBSDArchitecture)" to include -lcompat library
       o Changed fig2dev.h to always include <sys/param.h>
       o Bounding box variables were uninitialized
       o Cleaned up error reporting of line numbers in Fig file
       o Text bounding calculations ignored the "include" directive for center-
         and right-justified text, which is used to flag whether text should be
         included in the bounding area.  This would affect the LaTeX, PicTex,
         PSTeX, TexTyl, and IBMGL drivers.
         From Anton Wilder <[email protected]>
       o Clipping for arrowheads so that thick lines wouldn't "protrude" through
         the arrow tip modified so that it works properly with ghostscript 5.50.
       o Allocation error in reading some pcx files

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