CTAN update: xpdfopen
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Jim Hef{}feron
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: xpdfopen
Version number: 0.80
Author's name: Jim Diamond
Location on CTAN: /support/xpdfopen
Summary description: A program to make various PDF viewers reload the file
being displayed
License type: other-free
Announcement text:
--
pdfopen is a program which can be used to both start a new
instance of a PDF viewer program as well as to instruct that
program to reload the PDF file. This is particularly useful
if pdfopen is called automatically whenever tex is (re-)run.
This version has an updated pdfopen and pdfclose that work
with Adobe Reader 5, 7, 8 and 9 as well as xpdf.
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http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/xpdfopen
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http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/xpdfopen
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CTAn Update: softmaker-freefont
On Tue, 4 May 2010 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the softmaker-freefont package. Summary description: Support files for SoftMaker free fonts available at www.freefont.de License type: lppl Announcement text: -- In June 2009 www.freefont.de offered a beautiful handwriting font for free download: The Softmaker Stone Handwriting. As handwriting fonts are a quite limited resource in the LaTeX world, i decided to create support files for this beautiful font. Therefore, Stone Handwriting will be the starting point for the softmaker-freefont bundle. Other fonts will be included in future. Supported fonts at the moment: Artistic, Baskerville-Nova (regular + bold + italic + bold italic), Canossa (regular + bold + light), Congress (regular + bold + italic), Delano-Caps, Flagstaff, Henderson Iceberg (regular + bold), Jugendstil, Old Blackletter, Stone Handwriting, Sunset (regular + bold) License: LPPL (not the fonts themselves) New in v1.11: - added support for the font Softmaker Artistic (regular + faked slanted + faked small caps) Attention: The font is not included! This font is font of the month (May 2010) and can be downloaded for free (at least this month) at: http://www.freefont.de Later you can buy it from Softmaker -- This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/fonts/softmaker-freefont/ . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=softmaker-freefont (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . -- Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf ___ Ctan-ann mailing list Ctan-ann@dante.de https://lists.dante.de/mailman/listinfo/ctan-ann
CTAN update: skeyval
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Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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Name of contribution: skeyval
Version number: 0.7
Author's name: Ahmed Musa
Summary description: Many extensions to the xkeyval package
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
--
Native and toggle boolean keys now accept 'on' and 'off'
as values, in addition to 'true' and 'false'.
\DeclareKeyCommand has been introduced with a light
interfcace.
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CTAN update: asymptote
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Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: Asymptote
Version number: 1.94
Author's name: John Bowman
Summary description: 2D 3D TeX-Aware Vector Graphics Language
License type: lgpl
Announcement text:
--
Work arounds for MSWindows registry problems and obsolete
runtime libraries were implemented. The SimpleHead arrowhead
was fixed. Additional matrix routines and casts were
implemented. The pair dir(path, path) routine now returns a
unit vector. Variable conflicts coming from the contour
module were addressed. A RadialShadeDraw filltype was
implemented. A guide bug was fixed. Redundant mismatched
version warnings are avoided. Support for fitting one 3D
picture within another was added. The documentation was updated.
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