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This appendix provides the release notes for each version of HTMLDOC.
- Fixed a crash bug that appeared when more than 10 blank pages were
present in a document (PR #6223)
- Color changes were not reflected in PRE text (STR #129)
- Remote URLs did not always work on older operating systems (PR
#6179)
- Image filenames using % escapes were not decoded properly.
- Rows using BGCOLOR that spanned across multiple pages did not render
properly (PR #6149)
- Rows no longer start on a new page due to a cell with both HEIGHT
and ROWSPAN specified (PR #6086)
- CMYK JPEG images caused HTMLDOC to crash (PR #6106)
- Table cell width calculations didn't always account for the proper
minimum width (STR #121)
- Images were not copied when generating indexed HTML output to a
directory (STR #117)
- Changing the bottom margin resulted in text that was formatted below
the bottom margin.
- The Monospace-Oblique font was not embedded properly in PDF files.
- Outline and keyword strings in PDF files are now stored as Unicode
(STR #113)
- The Flate compression code could get in an infinite loop if it ran
out of memory (STR #101)
- Book files saved from the GUI did not handle filenames with spaces
(STR #105)
- Fixed and re-enabled the ASCII85Device filter support in PostScript
Level 2/3 output (STR #116)
- Character entities in the first word of a file were not rendered
properly (STR #111)
- Fixed-size table columns were incorrectly resized when a table width
was also specified and there was extra space to distribute (PR #6062)
- Text could "walk" up or down when in-line images were used (PR
#6034)
- Row backgrounds incorrectly replaced cell backgrounds when the first
cell in a row used ROWSPAN (PR #6033, PR #6036)
- HTMLDOC did not correctly parse FONT FACE attributes (PR #6006)
- Images in Level 2/3 PostScript output did not work on some printers
(PR #6000)
- The GUI did not use the first page header (PR #5978)
- Added "--overflow" and "--no-overflow" command-line options to show
or hide the content-too-large errors; the default is "--no-overflow".
- Added "--header1" command-line option and "HEADER1" page comments to
set the page header for the first page of each chapter.
- Added "timing" and "remotebytes" debug data generation.
- Added DejaVu font collection to better support Cyrillic and Greek
text; the new fonts are available under the generic names "monospace",
"sans", and "serif".
- Added "--referer" command-line option and corresponding CGI-mode
support to pass Referer: information in HTTP requests (STR #91)
- On Windows, HTMLDOC now logs CGI mode errors to a file called
"htmldoc.log" in the Windows temporary directory.
- HTMLDOC no longer uses Base-85 encoding for image data when
producing Level 2 and 3 PostScript output. It appears that many
printers and PostScript interpreters cannot properly decode this data
when the original image data is not a multiple of 8 bits.
- HTMLDOC now renders STRONG elements in boldface instead of
bold-italic to match the W3C recommendations.
- HTMLDOC now automatically inserts a TR element before a TD or TH
element as needed to improve web site compatibility; this also triggers
a HTML error in --strict mode.
- "$HFIMAGEn" didn't work in a header/footer string.
- HTMLDOC could crash when rendering a table.
- Book files were not used in CGI mode (STR #69)
- Cookies were not sent in HTTP requests (STR #71)
- Table cells were not aligned properly when the ROWSPAN attribute was
set to 1 (STR #73)
- HTMLDOC crashed when rendering unresolved hyperlinks in aligned
images (STR #62)
- Documented the HTMLDOC_NOCGI environment variable (STR #63)
- HTMLDOC sometimes crashed when rendering tables with background
colors (STR #65)
- HTMLDOC would crash when writing encrypted strings longer than 1024
bytes (STR #66)
- HTMLDOC didn't set the data directory when running in CGI mode on
Windows.
- HTMLDOC could crash when loading the Symbol.afm file (STR #93)
- HTMLDOC did not always honor HEIGHT attributes in table rows.
- Tables with a mix of colspan and rowspan sometimes caused cells to
be moved vertically outside the cell.
- HTMLDOC now provides limited cookie support via the "--cookies"
command-line option and via the cookies passed by a browser in CGI
mode.
- HTMLDOC now features a CGI mode which provides PDF conversion
functionality for web servers.
- HTMLDOC now generates a document outline for each input file or URL
in webpage mode; the outline shows the title for the file and links to
the first page containing that file.
- HTMLDOC now offers an "htmlsep" output type which generates HTML
output with a separate file for each heading in the table of contents.
- HTMLDOC now includes LINK elements in generated HTML so that
intelligent browsers like Mozilla can show next/prev/contents/top
buttons.
- HTMLDOC now supports the BORDERCOLOR attribute for tables, a MSIE
extension.
- The "strict HTML" mode now reports unresolved local links.
- Added support for HP LaserJet 5000 and Xerox DocuPrint 2000/100
printer commands.
- Added multiple header/footer image support.
- Links to external URLs are now resolved so that the output file can
be moved without affecting them.
- The command-line now allows --fontsize values from 4 to 26 to match
the GUI.
- Now use a 0.001 point tolerance when checking for content that
overflows the page/cell.
- HTMLDOC no longer enables interpolation of 2-color images.
- The default vertical alignment of images is "BOTTOM" to match the
HTML specification.
- Paragraph spacing is only applied to the first table after a
paragraph.
- The tabloid media size was 10 points too short in length.
- The table formatter now subtracts the outside border and padding
widths for percentage-based widths. This helps to eliminate "truncation
or overlapping" errors.
- Dropped support for FLTK 1.0.x when building the GUI.
- The default vertical alignment is now "bottom" inside paragraphs to
correctly align different sized text and images to the baseline.
- Indexed images are now written as PDF image objects when encryption
is enabled; this works around a serious bug in Acrobat 6 which tries to
decrypt the colormap of in-line images twice, causing some very strange
colors!
- Table captions can now be bottom aligned.
- Blocks now break at the bottom of a page if the current line height
+ standard line height goes below the bottom of the page; this prevents
images with captions from getting erroneously moved to the top of the
next page.
- Character entities are now supported in HTML attributes and unknown
or invalid character entities are left as plain text.
- Changed handling of NOWRAP for some tables.
- The --permissions option now supports multiple permission keywords
in a single invocation.
- Dropped support for MacOS 9 and earlier.
- HTMLDOC now breaks between images that are too large to fit on a
single line, to match the behavior of Mozilla/Netscape (STR #7).
- HTMLDOC now handles XHTML input more cleanly.
- HTMLDOC no longer specifies an interpolation preference for images
in PostScript or PDF output (STR #8)
- The DT element no longer applies an italic style (PR #5178)
- HTMLDOC now ignores content inside a STYLE element (PR #5183)
- Switching between landscape and portrait orientations would cause
margin creepage.
- Images did not default to align=bottom, and the align=bottom line
spacing calculation was incorrect.
- Whitespace before a link was underlined.
- Fixed a table column sizing bug.
- HTMLDOC didn't read back the HTTP response properly in all
situations.
- Fixed some more PNG transparency cases.
- The PageBoundingBox comments in PostScript output did not account
for the back page when duplexing was enabled.
- HTMLDOC generated an incorrect image mask for some images.
- The first page of each chapter did not use the custom page number if
it was placed inside the heading.
- HTMLDOC did not reset the rendering cache before each page when
producing N-up output; this caused font errors in some cases that
prevented the document from printing or displaying properly.
- Eliminated a common cause of "table too wide" formatting errors,
- Fixed a bug when applying a table background color to a cell without
a border that cross a page boundary.
- Fixed some calls to strcpy with overlapping arguments.
- The names object was never set when the name objects were written.
- Character entities were not decoded/encoded inside HTML comments.
- The current heading was not always correctly substituted when used
in the page header or footer.
- When converting web pages from the GUI, the table-of-contents page
number preferences were incorrectly used.
- PDF page effects/transitions were not put in the right part of the
page dictionary, causing them not to be used by the PDF reader
application.
- The _HD_OMIT_TOC attribute was not being honored for HTML output.
- HTMLDOC now handles "open" messages from the MacOS X Finder (STR #3)
- The GUI did not load or save the "strict HTML" setting (STR #6)
- The HTML version of the title page did not set the ALT attribute for
the title image (STR #10)
- The HTML version of the table of contents did not correctly nest the
lists in the parent items (STR #10)
- Borders around left and right-aligned images were not drawn properly
(PR #5112)
- Grayscale PDF output was not truly grayscale (STR #32)
- Fixed a table-of-contents bug introduced in 1.8.24rc1 which caused
the PDF document outline and actual TOC pages were not rendered
properly (STR #37)
- Links were not rendered due to a bug that was introduced in
1.8.24rc2 (STR #41)
- HTMLDOC now supports a full alpha channel in PNG files.
- HTMLDOC now reports an error when a table, image, or section of text
overflows into an adjacent table cell or off the right edge of the
page.
- The NEW SHEET page comment now breaks on N-up boundaries when N is
greater than 1.
- HTMLDOC tried to format tables with no rows or columns. While the
HTML in technically not in error, it is not exactly something you'd
expect someone to do.
- HTMLDOC didn't report an error when it could not find the specified
title page file.
- HTMLDOC could crash if it was unable to create its output files.
- HTMLDOC could crash when writing HTML output containing unknown HTML
elements.
- HTMLDOC could crash when writing HTML output if the output document
had no title.
- The htmlGetText() function used a fixed-size (10k) buffer which
allowed for a buffer overflow. The new code (from HTMLDOC 1.9)
allocates its buffer instead.
- The header/footer text was not centered properly if the
header/footer font size was different than the default body font size.
- The GUI interface incorrectly localized URLs when doing a "save as"
operation.
- The PNG background color was not correct for PNG files using <= 8
bits per pixel.
- Now support many Windows code pages in addition to ISO charsets.
- HTMLDOC could crash when checking if a URL is already cached.
- HTMLDOC didn't adjust the top margin when changing the page header
if the comment didn't appear at the top of a page.
- HTMLDOC didn't initialize the right number of TOC headings.
- When using a logo image in the header, the header was placed too low
on the page.
- HTMLDOC now supports heading levels 1 to 15.
- HTMLDOC now allows the author to omit headings from the TOC using
the _HD_OMIT_TOC attribute.
- HTMLDOC now supports remote book files when running from the
command-line.
- HTMLDOC now supports hexadecimal character constants (ÿ)
- HTMLDOC now calculates the resolution of the body image using the
printable width instead of the page width.
- HTMLDOC should now compile out-of-the-box using the Cygwin tools.
- HTMLDOC no longer inserts whitespace between text inside DIV
elements.
- HTMLDOC now supports quoted usernames and passwords in URLs.
- HTMLDOC now defaults unknown colors to white for background colors
and black for foreground colors. This should make documents that use
non-standard color names still appear readable.
- "make install" didn't work in the fonts directory.
- "€" didn't work, while "€" did: the character name table
was not sorted properly...
- Links didn't always point to the right page in PDF output.
- XRX comment output could crash HTMLDOC.
- Fixed-width columns in tables could be resized by HTMLDOC.
- When writing PostScript commands, some printers reset their
duplexing state when a new setpagedevice command is received; we now
cache the current duplex state and change it only as needed.
- The MEDIA SIZE comment didn't adjust the printable size for the
current landscape setting.
- HTMLDOC placed the header one line too high.
- When continuing a chapter onto the next page, H3 and higher headings
would be indented the wrong amount.
- New --nup and NUMBER-UP options for PostScript and PDF output.
- HTMLDOC now logs HTML errors.
- HTMLDOC now supports the A3, B, Legal, and Tabloid size names.
- HTMLDOC now supports embedding of the base Type1 fonts in PostScript
and PDF output.
- The HTML parser now allows BODY to auto-close HEAD and visa-versa.
- HTMLDOC wouldn't compile using GCC under HP-UX due to a badly
"fixed" system header file (vmtypes.h).
- Generating a book without a table-of-contents would produce a bad
PDF file.
- The Xerox XRX comments used the wrong units for the media size,
points instead of millimeters.
- IMG elements with links that use the ALIGN attribute didn't get the
links.
- Header and footer comments would interfere with the top and bottom
margin settings.
- Fixed a bug in the htmlReadFile() function which caused
user-provided title pages not to be displayed in PS or PDF output.
- The table-of-contents would inherit the last media settings in the
document, but use the initial settings when formatting.
- Now support the "subject" meta variable.
- Updated the HTML parser to use HTML 4.0 rules for embedding elements
inside a LI.
- Now check for a TYPE attribute on EMBED elements, so that embedded
Flash files do not get treated as HTML.
- Now put the COPYRIGHT meta data in the Author field in a PDF file
along with the AUTHOR meta data (if any).
- No longer embed the prolog.ps command header when PostScript
commands are not being embedded in the output.
- HTMLDOC now properly ignores the HTML 4.0 COL element.
- Squeezed tables were not centered or right-aligned properly.
- Cells didn't align properly if they were the first things on the
page, or if there were several intervening empty cells.
- The preferred cell width handling didn't account for the minimum
cell width, which could cause some tables to become too large.
- Remote URLs didn't always resolve properly (like the images from the
Google web page...)
- The font width loading code didn't force the non-breaking space to
have the same width as a regular space.
- PRE text didn't adjust the line height for the tallest fragment in
the line.
- HTMLDOC tried to seek backwards when reading HTML from the standard
input.
- The media margin comments did not work properly when the current
media orientation was landscape.
- Added support for remote HTML title pages.
- Now accept all JPEG files, even if they don't start with an APPn
marker.
- Now only start a new page for a chapter/filter if we aren't already
at the top of a page.
- ROWSPAN handling in tables has been updated to match the MSIE
behavior, where the current rowspan is reduced by the minimum rowspan
in the table; that is, if you use "ROWSPAN=17" for all cells in a row,
HTMLDOC now treats this as if you did not use ROWSPAN at all. It is
unclear if this is what the W3C intends.
- The "--webpage" option didn't force toc levels to 0, which caused a
bad page object reference to be inserted in the PDF output file.
- Background colors in nested tables didn't always get drawn in the
right order, resulting in the wrong colors showing through.
- The HEADER page comment didn't set the correct top position in
landscape orientation.
- Improved table-of-contents generation, with chapter headings at the
top of new TOC pages and page numbers based on the header/footer
string.
- Added new "--no-localfiles" option to disable access to local files
for added security in web services.
- Long lines in book files can not be broken up using a trailing
backslash.
- Added a modern "skin" to the GUI interface.
- Made some changes in how COLSPAN and ROWSPAN are handled to better
match how Netscape and MSIE format things.
- HTMLDOC now handles .book files with CR, LF, or CR LF line endings.
- Changed the TOC numbering to use 32-bit integers instead of 8-bit
integers...
- Now handle local links with quoted (%HH) characters.
- The command-line interface no longer sets PDF output mode when using
--continuous or --webpage.
- HTMLDOC now opens HTML output files in binary mode to prevent extra
CR's under Windows, and strips incoming CR's from PRE text.
- Now support inserting the current chapter and heading in the
table-of-contents headers and footers.
- The table cell border and background were offset by the cellpadding
when they should only be offset by the cellspacing.
- The buffer used for periods that lead up to the page number in the
table-of-contents was not large enough for a legal-size document in
landscape format.
- If a book only contained chapter headings, the PDF bookmarks would
be missing the last chapter heading.
- Table cells that ended with a break would render incorrectly.
- Fixed the table pre-format sizing code to properly account for
borders, padding, etc.
- Fixed the table squeezing code to honor minimum widths and properly
resize the remaining space.
- The MEDIA SIZE page comment did not reset the printable width and
length of the page.
- Tables that used COLSPAN did not honor WIDTH values in non-spanned
cells.
- Now break before and after DIV groups to match most browsers (the
HTML spec is ambivalent about it...)
- HR elements didn't render properly.
- Background images didn't render properly and could lock up HTMLDOC.
- The "HALF PAGE" comment would lock up HTMLDOC - HTMLDOC would keep
adding pages until it ran out of memory.
- SUP and SUB used a fixed (reduced) size instead of using a smaller
size from the current one.
- Empty cells could cause unnecessary vertical alignment on the same
row.
- Now support media source, type, and color attributes in PS output.
- Now support per-page size, margins, headers, footers, orientation,
and duplexing.
- Now support plain text for headers and footers, with $ variables to
include page numbers and so forth.
- New device control prolog file for printer-specific option commands.
- Now support a new continuous web page mode that doesn't
automatically insert a page break with each HTML file or URL
(--continuous).
- Now draw border around inline images as needed.
- Now support MacOS X (only command-line at present).
- Now support the "page-break-before", "text-align", "vertical-align"
style attributes, but only for style information in an element's STYLE
attribute.
- Now load images into memory only as needed, and unload them when no
longer needed. This provides a dramatic reduction in memory usage with
files that contain a lot of in-line images.
- Now use the long names for the Flate and DCT filters in all
non-inline PDF streams. This avoids a stupid bug in Acrobat Reader when
printing to PostScript printers.
- HTMLDOC now strips any trailing GET query information when saving
the start of files (target) in a document.
- Unqualified URLs (no leading scheme name, e.g. http:) now default to
the HTTP port (80) instead of the IPP port (631).
- Optimized the image writing code to do more efficient color
searching. This provides a significant speed improvement when including
images.
- Now hide all text inside SCRIPT, SELECT, and TEXTAREA elements.
- OS/2 port changes from Alexander Mai.
- If a document started with a heading greater than H1, HTMLDOC would
crash.
- Full justification would incorrectly be applied to text ending with
a break.
- Images using ALIGN="MIDDLE" were not centered properly on the
baseline.
- Table cells that used both ROWSPAN and COLSPAN did not format
properly (the colspan was lost after the first row.)
- Tables that used cells that exclusively used COLSPAN did not format
properly.
- When writing HTML output, image references would incorrectly be
mapped using the current path.
- Images with a width or height of 0 should not be written to PS or
PDF output.
- The CreationDate comment in PostScript output contained a bad
timezone offset (+-0500, for example, instead of -0500).
- The PHP portal example now verifies that the URL passed to it
contains no illegal characters.
- Added support for 128-bit encryption.
- Added support for GET form request data in the PHP and Java "portal"
examples.
- Most output generation limits have been removed; HTMLDOC now
dynamically allocates memory as needed for pages, images, headings, and
links. This has the happy side-effect of reducing the initial memory
footprint significantly.
- Now call setlocale() when it is available to localize the date and
time in the output.
- The table parsing code now checks to see that a ROWSPAN attribute
fits in the table; e.g., a ROWSPAN of 10 for a table that has only 6
rows remaining needs to be reduced to 6...
- Tables with a lot of COLSPANs could cause a divide- by-zero error or
bad pages (NAN instead of a number.)
- Table cells with a single render element would not be vertically
aligned.
- The --quiet option would enable progress messages on the
command-line.
- Table cell widths could be computed incorrectly, causing unnecessary
wrapping.
- Added support for secure (https) URLs via the OpenSSL library.
- Added support for Acrobat 5.0 (PDF 1.4).
- Added support for transparency in PostScript and PDF 1.1 and 1.2
output.
- Added a --no-jpeg option (same as --jpeg=0)
- Added support for the CSS2 page-break-before and page-break-after
properties.
- Added a PHP example.
- External file references to non-PDF files now use the "Launch"
action so they can be opened/executed/saved as allowed by the OS and
PDF viewer.
- Changed the indexed/JPEG'd transition point to 256 colors when using
Flate compression. This makes PDF files much smaller in general.
- Changed the in-line image size limit to 64k.
- Now allow "<" followed by whitespace, "=", or "<". This violates the
HTML specification, but we're sick of people complaining about it.
- Preferences are now stored in a user-specific file under Windows,
just like UNIX. This provides user-specific preferences and allows
preferences to be kept when upgrading to new versions of HTMLDOC.
- The book loading code now allows for blank lines, even though these
are not a part of the format. (added to support some scripted apps that
include extra newlines...)
- Changed the leading space handling of blocks to more closely match
the standard browser behavior.
- The table formatting code adding the border width to the cell width,
while Netscape and MSIE don't. This caused some interesting formatting
glitches...
- The table formatting code didn't account for the preferred width of
colspan'd cells.
- The table formatting code tried to enforce the minimum cell width
when squeezing a table to fit on the page; this caused the table to
still exceed the width of the page.
- The PDF catalog object could contain a reference to a /Names object
of "0 0 R", which is invalid. This would happen when the "--no-links"
option was used.
- Several HTML elements were incorrectly written with closing tags.
- When piping PDF output, the temporary file that is created needed to
be open for reading and writing, but HTMLDOC only opened the file for
writing.
- Image links did not work.
- The JPEG image loading code did not correctly handle grayscale JPEG
images.
- JPEG images were not encrypted when writing a document with
encryption enabled.
- The user password was not properly encrypted.
- The colormap of indexed images were not encrypted when writing a
document with encryption enabled.
- The temporary file creation and cleanup functions did not use the
same template under Windows, causing multiple conversions to fail when
temporary files were used.
- Paragraphs could end up with one extra text fragment, causing the
line to be too long.
- The command-line program would clear the error count after reading
all the files/URLs on the command-line, but before generating the
document. If there were problems reading the files/URLs, HTMLDOC would
return a 0 exit status instead of 1.
- Image objects that were both JPEG and Flate compressed would not
display (filters specified in the wrong order.)
- Images with more than 256 colors would cause a segfault on some
systems.
- Background images would generate the error message "XObject 'Innn'
is unknown".
- Added new "--batch" option to convert HTMLDOC book files from the
command-line.
- Added support for the "-display" option on systems that use X11.
- Now use image objects in PDF output for images when the image width
* height * depth > 32k.
- Now use JPEG compression when the number of colors would be > 32
colors or 16 gray shades.
- True transparency support for GIF files in PDF 1.3 output!
- The GUI now automatically changes the extension of the output
filename as needed.
- The GUI now collects all error messages and shows them once after
the document is generated.
- Added support for HSPACE and VSPACE attributes for images with
ALIGN="LEFT" or ALIGN="RIGHT".
- Added new Java interface to HTMLDOC.
- Consolidated temporary file management into new file_temp()
function. The new function also makes use of the Windows "short lived"
open option which may improve performance with small temporary files.
- Updated book file format and added an appendix describing the
format.
- Now default to PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4.0) output format.
- Now output length of PDF streams with the stream object; this offers
a modest reduction in file size.
- The HTTP file cache now keeps track of previous URLs that were
downloaded.
- The HTTP code now supports redirections (status codes 301 to 303) to
alternate URLs.
- Limit the height check for table rows to 1/8th of the page length;
this seems to provide fairly consistent wrapping of tables without
leaving huge expanses of blank space at the bottom of pages.
- The HTML output now also includes a font-family style for PRE text;
otherwise the body font would override the PRE font with some browsers.
- The snprintf/vsnprintf emulation functions were not included in the
HTMLDOC makefile.
- RGB hex colors are now recognized with or without the leading #.
This breaks HTML standards compliance but should reduce the number of
problem reports from buggy HTML.
- The stylesheet generated with the HTML output no longer contains
absolute font sizes, just the typefaces and a relative size for
SUB/SUP.
- The title image is no longer scaled to 100% in the HTML output.
- The web page output was not divided into chapters for each input
file.
- The "make install" target did a clean.
- The configure script would remove the image libraries if you did not
have FLTK installed.
- The fix_filename() function didn't handle relative URLs for images
(e.g. SRC="../images/filename.gif")
- Comments in the source document were being closed by a ".
- The command-line and GUI interfaces looked for "outlines" instead of
"outline" for the page mode.
- The HTML output code didn't output closing tags for empty elements.
- The GUI interface started with the compression slider enabled, even
for HTML output.
- The beginnings of some lines could start with whitespace.
- Wasn't aligning images and text on lines based on the line height.
- The compression slider was enabled in the GUI even though HTML
output was selected.
- The Perl example code was incorrect.
- Fixed the check for whether or not pages were generated.
- htmlSetCharSet() wasn't reloading the character set data if the data
directory changed.
- The GUI did not reset the default background color.
- The 'C' page number style (chapter page numbers) started at 3
instead of 1.
- The chapter links were off by 1 or 2 pages when no title page was
included.
- Added support for PDF security/encryption!
- Now support TABLE height attribute.
- Now generate an error message if no pages are generated (with a
suggestion to use the webpage option.)
- New "paths" option to specify additional directories to search for
files. This is useful when the source files use absolute server paths.
- Added missing casts in htmllib.cxx that were causing a compile
warning with some compilers.
- No longer draw borders around empty cells in tables...
- Now disable the TOC tab when using webpage mode.
- Now scale title image to 100% in HTML output.
- Now handle comments with missing whitespace after the "<!--".
- Nested tables didn't take into account the table border width,
spacing, or padding values.
- HTMLDOC crashed under Solaris when reading HTML files from the
standard input.
- <ELEM>text</ELEM> <MELE>text</MELE> was rendered without an
intervening space.
- The configure script now uses the local PNG, ZLIB, and/or JPEG
libraries when they are new enough.
- The configure script now uses the -fno-rtti, -fno-exceptions, and
-fpermissive options as needed with GCC (smaller, faster executables,
works around X header bugs in Solaris.)
- Added a --toctitle option to set the table-of-contents title from
the command-line (was only available in the GUI in previous
releases...)
- New "<!-- NEED amount -->" comment to force a page feed if there is
not sufficient room on the page for the following text.
- Page comments are now supported in tables.
- Table rows are now allocated dynamically, MAX_ROWS at a time.
- Increased default MAX_PAGES to 10000 (was 5000.)
- File links in book files now point to the top of the next page.
- <TABLE ALIGN=xyz> now aligns the table (previously it just set the
default alignment of cells.)
- Transparent GIFs now use the body color instead of white for the
transparent color.
- Updated to LIBPNG 1.0.6 in source distribution.
- Updated the default cellpadding to be 1 pixel to match Netscape
output.
- Updated line and block spacing to match Netscape.
- DL/DT/DD output now matches browsers (was indented from browser
output.)
- Now only output link (A) style if it is set to "none". Otherwise
Netscape would underline all targets as well as links.
- Increased the MAX_COLUMNS constant to 200, and dropped MAX_ROWS to
200. Note that the new table code now allocates rows in increments of
MAX_ROWS rows, so the actual maximum number of rows depends on
available memory.
- Now ignore illegal HTML in tables.
- The VALIGN code didn't handle empty cells properly.
- Wasn't offsetting the start of each row by the cell padding.
- The JPEG image loading code didn't work for some JPEG images,
particularly those from digital cameras (JPEG but not JFIF format.)
- The strikethrough line was not being drawn in the correct position.
- Wasn't setting the height of BR elements, so <BR><BR> didn't insert
a blank line.
- The table of contents would show the wrong page numbers if no title
page was generated.
- Cell widths did not subtract any border, padding, or spacing from
the "preferred" width, causing formatting differences between web
browsers and HTMLDOC.
- The PNG loading code did not handle interlacing or transparency.
- The HTML parsing code did not prevent elements in embedded files
from completing elements in the parent file.
- The table CELLSPACING amount was being applied twice in the table
sizing calculations.
- New linkcolor and linkstyle options.
- Minor source changes for OS/2 compilation.
- SUP and SUB now raise/lower text more to be consistent with browser
look-n-feel.
- Non-breaking space by itself was being output. Now check for that
and ignore strings that consist entirely of whitespace.
- New progress bar.
- Didn't add whitespace after a table caption.
- Nested tables caused formatting problems (flatten_tree() didn't
insert breaks for new rows)
- A cell whose minimum width exceeded the available width for the
table would cause the table to go off the page.
- Cells that spanned more than two pages were drawn with boxes around
them rather than just the sides.
- The stylesheet info in the HTML output specified the H1 size for all
headings.
- The title page was incorrectly formatted when an image was specified
- the text start position was computed using the pixel height of the
title image and not the formatted height.
- 1 color images didn't come out right; the "fix" to work around an
Acrobat Reader bug was being done too soon, so the color lookups were
wrong.
- HTML file links now work properly.
- Now limit all HTML input to the maximum size of input buffers to
avoid potential buffer overflow problems in CGIs.
- If a row had a predefined height, HTMLDOC wasn't making sure that
the row would fit on the current page.
- THEAD, TFOOT, and TBODY caused problems when formatting tables.
Note: THEAD and TFOOT are *still* not supported, however the code now
properly ignores them and parses the rows in the TBODY group.
- The VALIGN code introduced in the 1.8.5 release didn't check for
NULL pointers in all cases.
- New "--titlefile" option to include an HTML file for the title
page(s).
- New 'C' header/footer option to show current page number within
chapter or HTML file.
- Allow adding of .book files to import all HTML files in the book.
- New "HALF PAGE" page comment to feed 1/2 page.
- Added VALIGN and HEIGHT support in tables.
- Now optimize link objects in PDF files (provides a 40k reduction in
file size for the HTMLDOC manual alone)
- Table rows that cross page boundaries are now rendered more like
Netscape and MSIE.
- Now support HTMLDOC_DATA and HTMLDOC_HELP environment variables
under UNIX (for alternate install directory)
- Now show error messages when HTMLDOC can't open the AFM, character
set, or PostScript glyph files.
- The logo image is now scaled to its "natural" size (as it would
appear in a web browser)
- Now recognize VALIGN="MIDDLE" or VALIGN="CENTER".
- Generation of PDF files to the standard output (i.e. to the web
server + browser) didn't work on some versions of UNIX. HTMLDOC now
writes the PDF output to a temporary file and then copies it to the
standard output as needed.
- PDF links were missing the first 5 characters in the filename; the
code was trying to skip over the "file:" prefix, but that prefix was
already skipped elsewhere.
- Nested descriptive lists (DL) did not get rendered properly.
- Tables had extra whitespace before and after them.
- Multiple aligned images confused parse_paragraph(); the images would
overlap instead of stack on the sides.
- More configure script changes for FLTK DSOs.
- FileIcon.cxx was still using NULL for outline (an integer), which
caused some ANSI C++ compilers to complain.
- The Fonts and Colors tab groups did not extend to the full width of
the tab area, which prevented the Browse button from working when
clicked on the right side.
- The help dialog window did not scroll all the way to the bottom of
the text.
- The chapter ("c") header/footer string did not work.
- The heading ("h") header/footer string did not always match the
first heading on a page.
- The header and footer fonts were not used when computing the widths
of the header and footer strings.
- The Windows distribution did not create the right shortcut for the
Users Manual in the Start menu.
- The command-line code did not accept "--grayscale", only "--gray"
- Multi-file HTML output did not use the right link for the
table-of-contents file if no title page was being generated.
- Extra whitespace before and after tables has been eliminated.
- New "--browserwidth" option to control scaling of images and tables
that use fixed pixel widths.
- The configure script now looks for the OpenGL library (required if
you use a shared FLTK library with OpenGL support.)
- Increased the max number of chapters to 1000.
- Page break comments didn't force a paragraph break.
- --no-toc prevented chapters from being output in PS and PDF files.
- Filenames didn't always get updated properly when doing a "save
as"...
- Fixed some more leading/trailing whitespace problems.
- Wasn't freeing page headings after the document was generated.
- Wasn't range checking the current chapter number; now limits the
number of chapters to MAX_CHAPTERS and issues an error message whenever
the limit is exceeded.
- New "setup" program for UNIX software installation.
- Documentation updated for new UNIX "setup" program and "..." usage
for headers and footers.
- Changed margins to floating point (instead of integer) to improve
table column accuracy.
- HTMLDOC could crash under Microsoft Windows with some types of HTML
files. This was caused by a stack overflow, usually when processing
nested tables.
- Multiple HTML files weren't being converted properly in web page
mode - only the last file would be generated for PostScript output, and
no file for PDF output.
- Wasn't preserving the whitespace between "one" and "two" in the HTML
code "one<I> two</I> three".
- Paragraph spacing was inconsistent.
- <TABLE WIDTH="xx"> wasn't formatted properly.
- The command-line code wasn't opening HTML files in binary mode. This
caused problems under Microsoft Windows.
- The configure script didn't update the ARFLAGS variable for *BSD
operating systems (no "s" option to build the symbol table...)
- Changed the installation commands to only create the installation
directory if it does not exist. This prevents installation errors on
some platforms the second time around.
- Now use the Microsoft definitions for characters 128 through 159
that are otherwise unused by the ISO-8859-x character sets.
- Now set optimization settings when we know the compiler.
- Now always quote attribute values in HTML output to make HTML lint
programs happy.
- Wasn't using TOC title string in PDF document outline.
- Preformatted text in tables didn't force the column width.
- Cells using COLSPAN > 1 didn't contribute to the width of columns.
- The table code didn't enforce the per-column minimums under certain
circumstances, causing "scrambled" columns.
- The configure script and makefiles didn't work when FLTK was not
available. They now only build the "gui" library when it is available.
- The Windows distribution was installing files under PROGRAMDIR
instead of TARGETDIR. This prevented users from customizing the
installation directory.
- The configure script overrode the LDFLAGS environment variable,
preventing FLTK from being located in a non- default directory.
- Now support PDF 1.1 (Acrobat 2.x) and PDF 1.3 (Acrobat 4.0).
- Now support PDF page modes, layouts, and effects, and the first page
that is displayed in Acrobat Reader.
- Now support PostScript Level 3 output with Flate image compression.
- Now support PostScript commands for page size and duplexing.
- Now add filenames as needed to HTML links.
- Added optimizations to output code to further reduce PDF and
PostScript file size.
- Now support alternate 8-bit character sets. Currently we supply data
files for the ISO-8859-N character sets.
- Added chapter headings to the available header/footer formats.
- The GUI file chooser is significantly improved and supports
selection of multiple HTML files.
- The GUI now provides on-line help.
- Many other GUI improvements.
- Added support for DIR and MENU block elements.
- The header and footer text can now be made boldface, italic, etc.
- Font settings are now exported to HTML files in a style sheet.
- Now support page breaks using HTML comments.
- The image dimensions are now exported to HTML files.
- Added landscape printing option.
- Added CAPTION support for tables.
- Filename links now work for HTML files included in a document.
- Now support BGCOLOR in tables.
- Lots of documentation changes.
- Much better table formatting.
- Changed HTML output to use less invasive navigation bars at the top
and bottom of each file. This also means that the "--barcolor" option
is no longer supported!
- Updated to use existing filenames in HTML (directory) output.
- Now recognize any local PDF file as a local file link (i.e. you just
need "HREF=filename.pdf" and not "HREF=file:filename.pdf")
- <TT>, <CODE>, and <SAMP> no longer reduce the font size.
- Now put whitespace after image data in PDF files. This change was
needed to work around a bug in Acrobat Reader 4.0.
- Now generate a complete encoding vector for fonts in PDF files. This
change was needed to work around a bug in all versions of Acrobat
Exchange that did not recognize the WinANSI encoding defined in the PDF
specifications.
- Now filter out the BREAK attribute from HR elements.
- Now only load images once.
- Wasn't escaping &,<, or > in HTML output
- Wasn't preserving
- Links in multi-file HTML output were off-by-one.
- BLOCKQUOTE needed to be like CENTER and DIV.
- Needed to use existing link name if present for headings to avoid
nested link name bug in Netscape and MSIE.
- Extremely long link names could cause TOC generation to fail and
HTMLDOC to crash.
- PDF output was not compatible with Ghostscript/Ghostview because
Ghostscript does not support inherited page resources or the "Fl"
abbreviation for the "FlateDecode" compression filter.
- PostScript DSC comments didn't have unique page numbers. This caused
Ghostview (among others) to get confused.
- Some functions didn't handle empty text fragments.
- Images couldn't be scaled both horizontally and vertically.
- <LI> didn't support the VALUE attribute (but <OL> did...)
- Fixed whitespace problems before and after some markups that was
caused by intervening links.
- The indexed image output code could generate an image with only 1
color index used, which upset Acrobat Reader.
- Fixed a bug in table-of-contents handling - HTMLDOC would crash on
some systems if you converted a web page on the command-line.
- Wasn't setting the font size and spacing soon enough when generating
files on the command-line.
- Didn't hide EMBED elements when generating indexed HTML files.
- Didn't always set the current drawing position before drawing a box
or line.
- Base85 encoding of image data was broken for PostScript output.
- JPEG compression was broken for PostScript output.
- Didn't set binary mode for the standard output under Windows and
OS/2 needed.
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