<?php
include("pslib.php");
include("header.php");
output_news("Common Lisp Bindings", "9 March, 2012",
"For those programming in Lisp there is a binding available at
<a href=\"https://github.com/cage2/cl-pslib\">https://github.com/cage2/cl-pslib</a>.
");
output_news("New version 0.4.5", "1 April, 2011",
"After a long time of silence a new version of pslib is ready for release.
This one has support for reusable images which can reduce the overall
file size of the postscript document and speed up its processing.
Reusable images are turned on by default but can easily be turned off
to retain the old image handling. Check the
<a href=\"examples.php\">examples page</a> for a demonstration.
");
output_news("Updated installation instructions", "13 April, 2008",
"The instructions for accessing the cvs server were way outdated. They
still listed the old server before pslib had moved completely to
sourceforge.");
output_news("Updated examples", "12 July, 2007",
"The list of examples has increased. You can find a new release
in the download area. All examples can now be build for win32 using
Visual C++ Express.");
output_news("New Version 0.4.0", "12 July, 2007",
"Another bigger step in the development of pslib. This release
adds the possibility to create Typo3 fonts and finally, it can
be compiled for Win32 with either MinGW or Microsoft Visual C++!
");
output_news("New Version 0.3.0", "25 June, 2007",
"Another year passed by. This is mostly a bug fix release with
some initial work for upcoming features. What needs to be mentioned
about this release
is support for other input encodings (though only ISO-8859-2 was added
so far) and support for color separation.
");
output_news("New Version 0.2.7", "6 June, 2006",
"It took a long time for the next release but finally it is ready.
This one has some really nice additional features like support
for bmp, gif, and tiff images. The PS_show_boxed() function now
accepts a height of 0.0 which will create a box large enough to
hold the whole text. The actual size can be requested through
the 'boxheight' value. And of course, there has been many bug
fixes.");
output_news("New Version 0.2.6", "28 July, 2005",
"Did you ever suffer from problems with grey scale or cmyk images?
This release is likely to fix it. There have been several improvements
to load jpeg images and also for the first time the posibility to
load eps images from memory. Some small bugs in PS_add_bookmark() and
the encoding vector have also been fixed.");
output_news("Updated example page of the web site", "20 June, 2005",
"Thanks to the great work of Stefan Schröder all examples (and
some more) are also available for the python binding. Check the
<a href=\"examples.php\">example page</a> for an easy start in
using pslib with python.");
output_news("Added success stories to web site", "24 May, 2005",
"If you have ever asked yourself whether pslib is mature enough
to be used professionaly. You can find the answer on the new
<a href=\"success.php\">page</a> with success stories.");
output_news("Examples 0.0.8", "14 January, 2005",
"Nothing fancy, just a new example image.c and some tiny bug fixes.");
output_news("New Version 0.2.5", "14 January, 2005",
"The last versions of pslib had several minor issues which showed
up when the user Friedemann Kleint compiled it on Solaris. There has
also been some work on image handling which isn't finished yet.");
output_news("Examples 0.0.7", "27 July, 2004",
"For those who didn't realize already. There was a new release of
the pslib examples. It includes a new example file demonstrating
shading, which was introduced in pslib 0.2.3.");
output_news("New Version 0.2.4", "21 July, 2004",
"The last version had some minor problems with templates which are
fixed in this version. I also fixed another memory leak and did some more
error checking when registering resources. Ascii85 encoding should
now work on little endian architectures.");
output_news("New Version 0.2.3", "19 July, 2004",
"This is a bit of an experimental version, because it has many new
features. The most striking ones are gradient fills, support for
jpeg images, and a more simple way of changing the graphics state.
A bug in <A HREF=\"doc/PS_fill_stroke.html\">PS_fill_stroke()</A>
was fixed and embedded images take less disk space because of a better
encoding. <A HREF=\"doc/PS_save.html\">PS_save()</A> now takes over
the previous graphic state.");
output_news("Examples 0.0.6", "29 June, 2004",
"If you like to check out the new features of pslib 0.2.2, than you
want to try the new pagehook.c example. There is also an
unspectacular memory.c example which demonstrates in memory creation
of a document.");
output_news("New Version 0.2.2", "29 June, 2004",
"Creating documents in memory has been a feature for some time,
but it somewhat was a fake. This release has real in memory creation
and implements <A HREF=\"doc/PS_get_buffer.html\">PS_get_buffer()</A>
to retrieve the document. There has
also been a nasty bug in memory profiling and some memory leaks
has been fixed. Files are now being searched not just in the
current directory but also in a self defined search path and in
<instdir>/share/pslib. This makes font loading more convenient.
So called page hooks allow to execute arbitrary PostScript commands
at the beginning and end of a page. Very helpful to put a 'Draft' in
large letters on each page. There are already three page hooks
(grid.ps, exectime.ps, draft.ps) included in this release.");
output_news("Update of examples", "16 June, 2004",
"The new functions for using spot colors and overprinting has brought
two brand new <a href=\"examples.php#spotcolor\">examples</a> and many improvements
for the existing ones.
There is also a new example on the use of ligatures.
The latest version is 0.0.5. It is available as usual in the
<a href=\"http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=10725\">download section</a>.");
output_news("Version 0.2.1 is out", "16 June, 2004",
"Working with colors in pslib has been ok so far. Now it is real
fun! pslib now supports spot colors and overprinting, thanks to the
help of Henrik Johansson who has done a lot of testing and provided
the publishing background. This version distinguishes between fill and
stroke color and also has gone through a lot
of internal changes with improvements in resource management and
text output. If you have experienced crashes in text output, then
this version might fix it. The documentation has been improvent, especially,
the overview manual page <a href=\"doc/pslib.html\">pslib(3)</a>.");
output_news("Initial release of python bindings!", "8 June, 2004",
"Thanks to Stefan Schröder who has provided a python module
for pslib. It's not containing mappings for the lastest functions,
but should be complete enough to get started.");
output_news("Version 0.2.0 is out!", "3 June, 2004",
"Some nasty little bugs have been fixed since last
version but no big changes were made. It also issues more warnings
if glyphs are used which are not provided by the font. Everybody having
problems with PS_findfont() should try this version.");
output_news("New version 0.1.15", "12 Mai, 2004",
"A brand new release is bringing templates and patterns. Both are
not well tested but should work. Templates are especially good for
repeating parts in a document like page headers or a logo. Pattern
are used for fancy filling of areas. There has also been a lot
of work on fixing memory leaks. This should be reasons enough to
check it out right away.");
output_news("Updated documentation", "30 April, 2004",
"The <a href=\"documentation.php\">documentation</a> has been outdated
a bit. This is now fixed. Some
new functions have been included any many stupid errors have been fixed.");
output_news("Updated examples 0.0.3", "29 April, 2004",
"The examples have not been updated for some time. Basically because
they did not change to much. This release comes with two new examples.
One to demonstrate hyphenation and a second one to demonstrate the
new PS_symbol_xx() functions.");
output_news("New version 0.1.14", "29 April, 2004",
"This release is another big step forward towards version 0.2.0. Several
new functions and a much better handling of the font encoding have
made it into this release.");
output_news("Updated web pages", "23 April, 2004",
"There is now a section on how to get the CVS version and the C example
files has been linked to the currently latest version in CVS. All man pages
are now available as html.");
output_news("New version 0.1.13", "22 April, 2004",
"There is not much new in this release except for a nicer behaviour
of <a href=\"doc/PS_hyphenate.html\">PS_hyphenate()</a> and many cleanups
of the man pages. Those users of pslib
who tried to untar the distribution on a system other than i386 or
ppc should have experienced some problems. Those are fixed in this
release, too.");
output_news("New version 0.1.12", "19 April, 2004",
"This release just improves the hyphenation of words. Programs
using PS_show_boxed() many times should experience a large speed
improvement. Hyphenation of words with capital chars is much better.
<P><EM>Note for Debian-Users:</EM> Since pslib is in sid for
some versions already, there will be no more files uploaded to
sourceforge.");
output_news("New version 0.1.11", "07 April, 2004",
"Well, did I say 0.1.10 is the most bug free ever? There is this
little problem with pslib's header files which suddently showed
up in /usr/include. They are now back in /usr/include/libps.
And best of all, bookmarks can now be nested. That should be reasons
enough to give this another try.");
output_news("New version 0.1.10", "06 April, 2004",
"If you asked yourself what happened to 0.1.9. Well, its been
a complete mess and basically not usable, that's why it was only
for a short time available and disappeared without a notice. Just
don't mention it. 0.1.10 is probably the most stable version for
a long time. Several bugs has been fixed which only caused segm faults
on i386 platform but not on my PPC development platform. Anyway,
this one should be fairly well
tested and also has an updated build process.");
output_news("New version 0.1.8", "31 March, 2004",
"There aren't many new features in this release but a lot of code
cleaning and internal changes to data structures which should speed up
things a bit. Text written to the PostScript file is now propperly
encoded and each function call will do some scope checking, e.g. calling
PS_show() outside a page will generate an error. PS_rect_fill() has
been removed, but that was not documented anyhow and consequently
rarely used. Path construction is much more straight forward. Calling
PS_rect(), PS_arc(), etc. will just extend the path. Check the man pages
for more detailed information.");
output_news("New version 0.1.7", "25 March, 2004",
"This release comes with several improvements for text rendering.
Underling is much better and ligatures made of more than two
characters a treated propperly. The configure option --with-png
finaly works as expected and can be used to turn png support
completely off.");
output_news("Relaunch of web site", "23 March, 2004",
"After lots of development on pslib turning it into a powerful
library to create PostScript documents, the web site has finally
been overhauled.");
output_news("New version 0.1.6", "16 March, 2004",
"The release of verion 0.1.6 brought many new features to pslib
for boxed text output. Check the
<a href=\"examples.php#einstein\">einstein example</a>
which has been created to test many of the new features.");
include("footer.php");
?>