Notation: --------- In the list below some paragraphs (or lines) are marked either by a '#' or a '*' or a '?'. A '*' marks some internal change of which the user doesn't see anything. '#' denotes a change which is noticeable by the user. '?' describes a known problem which is not fixed yet. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.1.6 (8 April 1997) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% # Fix the 'Filters' menu which was broken in 3.1.4 (showed entries with all spaces removed) * Redefine 'InstallProgram' in the source/Imakefile to respect BINDIR and GV_BINDIR (which was a problem on Solaris). # On VMS use a smaller font in the 'Path' field of the file selection popup. # Let the file selection window grow in width when the path or filter becomes longer. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.1.4 (6 April 1997) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% # Tim Adye (adye@v2.rl.ac.uk) and William Bader (william@nscs.fast.net) sent me a large patch which has been merged into this version. Their changes include: - an excellent improvement to the postcript scanner which allows to ignore bogus 'End of File' (EOF) comments. The main effect is that if you have a document which embeds other documents without the proper 'BeginDocument', 'EndDocument' comments then the chances are good that they can still be previewed. And believe me, there are many such documents .... This feature can be turned on/off by means of the '-eof' and '-noeof' command line option or via an entry in the 'State' menu or via ... . - a 'confirm quit' popup which (by default) shows up when trying to leave gv while PDF to PS conversions are still in progress. - a signal handler to clean up ghostscript subprocesses when gv receives a SIGQUIT, SIGINT or SIGTERM signal. SIGHUP causes gv to display a new version of the current if it exists. - an FAQ which is now part of the documentation. - better name suggestions when saving data. - and about 3681 other improvements which are not mentioned here. # More work on the postscript scanner: increase initial buffer size and adjust its size increment when reallocation is needed. Also increase the anumber of bytes read in one turn. This reduces memory reallocation and memory shifting to a minimum. # Fix a bug in the postscript scanner which caused faulty behaviour when reading lines longer than about 100kB. # Add a "Next Page" and "Previous Page" button to the main window. # Further extend the "Options" menu. # Add a "Watch file" feature which checks the displayed file periodically if activated. If the document changes the new version is displayed. # Add a menu "State" to the main window which holds entries previously found in the "File" menu without having anything to do with any file. # Add Mouse bindings for two button mice: actions bound to the third button can be accessed by using the second button while pressing the Shift key. # Include some 'memmove()' replacement for systems which don't provide this function. The code will be activated by defining 'USE_MEMMOVE_CODE' in the configuration file 'confg.Unix'. # Use the 'Vlist' widget (instead of the 'List' widget) to display files and directories in the file selection popup. # Add scrolllbars to the file selection popup. They are not needed since scrolling can be done directly in the windows of the file and directory lists by using the event sequence 'button down, move mouse, button release'. However, the scrollbars reappeared since the mails asking why the lists cannot be scrolled start to fill my hard disc. # Fix the 'A' key (for antialiasing) which stopped working recently. # *Try* to provide some more helpful message when gv detects incompatible resources. # Change the format of the manpage. * Change 'ifdef _DECC' to 'if defined (__DECC) && defined (VMS)' in error.c. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.0.4 (1 April 1997) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% # Allow to choose and save a default filter from within the options menu. # Add the filter 'GV*filter: no .*' to the user resource file. This defines the filter 'no .*' as default when opening the file selection popup. # Fix the 'two-pixel' bug that caused the page marks to overlap with the indicator for the current page. # Correct syntax in Imakefile which was not understood by non-'GNU makes'. * Avoid unnecessary drawing of shadows in the table of contents. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 3.0.0 (31 March 1997) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% # Provide a new 'Look and Feel' by using - 'feather touch' buttons, toggles and menus instead of the standard ones with raised shadows. - a new table of contents. Apart from looking better this has the side effect that the table of contents can now be scrolled in the same way as the main window, the zoom window and the file and directory lists in the File Selection popup (it should be clear now that I don't like Scrollbars :-). # Redo the File Selection popup. Changes include but are not limited to - the addition of a menu with pre-definable directories. - the removal of the 'Tmp' and 'Home' buttons. The functionality offered by these two buttons is now available via the 'Directories' menu. - the addition of a menu with pre-definable filters. # Add all relevant preferences to the 'Options' popup so that users don't have to mess around with resource files in order to change some options. # Add an 'Antialias' entry to the 'File' menu. # Allow for multiple wildcards '%s' in the print command. Each such wildcard will be replaced by the file to be printed. # Add a bugfix for the bugfix added to cure some problems when scanning postscript files with incorrect structuring comments. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 2.9.4 (20 March 1997) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% # Add another mouse binding in the main window. A double click with the left mouse button in the left/right half of the shown page causes the previous/next page to be displayed. # Add yet another mouse binding in the main window. A click with the right mouse button pops up a small menu offering a few standard action. # Allow gv to either respect or ignore document structuring comments when opening a file. This should be helpful when viewing documents with faulty structuring comments. To toggle between these two states a new menu entry has been added to the 'File' menu. A keyboard binding to toggle DSC parsing on and off has beem added as well. By default the key is 'I'. Alternatively the new command line options '-dsc' and '-nodsc' may be used. # Keep the point located in the center of the visible area of the displayed page centered when changing the magnification or orientation. # Add resources 'minimumWidth' and 'minimumHeight' to allow users to specify a size beyond which gv will never shrink so that all controls and titles remain accessible when changing the magnification or the page media or ... For both resources the default value is 400. # Merge in a few patches enlarging and correcting the set of allowed papersizes. [ thanks to Andreas Schott (schott@rzg.mpg.de) ] # Add Keyboard binding to toggle antialiasing on and off. By default the key 'A' is used. # Add Keyboard binding to toggle the resize behaviour of the main window between 'Fixed Size' and 'Variable Size'. By default the key 'Z' is used. # Update the documentation. The new sections mainly cover resources and key and mouse bindings. # Fix a bug that causes gv to crash when the current page media is 'Bounding Box' and the user disables automatic page media selection. # Fix a bug that causes wrong page media selection when changing from a document with document specific papersizes to one without document specific papersizes (or vice versa). %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 2.7.6 (1 November 1996) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% # 'Upgrade' postscript scanner to be able to read buggy Windows NT generated postscript files. Mark Pfeifer (pfeiferm%ppddev@comet.cmis.abbott.com) found that Windows NT generates files which show some non-comment postscript code after the '%%EndSetup' and before the first page comment '%%Page: x y'. # VMS: Built in Rick Dyson's (dyson@blanc.physics.uiowa.edu) two small changes for the Xmu library to allow compilation with DECC 5.2. Note that these changes do not affect the sources of gv itself, it's only the VMS specific archive xmu_4.zip which was modified. # Use my own scrollbar widget to avoid problems people encounter with hacked Xaw3d libraries. # Make 'make depend' cleaner. [thanks to Thomas Gellekum (thomas@ghpc8.ihf.rwth-aachen.de)] # Include Xfuncs.h in ps.c and Ghostview.c to avoid unresolved memmove() on SunOS [thanks to Harald Boehme (boehme@informatik.hu-berlin.de)] # VMS: Fix a problem which reapperared in 2.7 b5 and caused certain file formats (non LF_STREAM,CR_STREAM) not to be read correctly. [thanks to Tim Adye (adye@v2.rl.ac.uk)] # Correct wrong URL in the documentation. [thanks to Helmut Geyer (hardy@lynx.ps.uci.edu)] # Change some resource bindings s that gv works on SunOS. [thanks to Matthias Klose (doko@cs.tu-berlin.de)] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 2.7 b5 ( 1 August 1996) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% # Add doc/gv.man, doc/gv.ps, doc/gv.html to provide at least some documentation about gv's command line options. # Unix: Fixed the 'Update File' button (everything related to updating the displayed file when the modification date changed didn't work correctly). [thanks to Lars Bruecher (bruecher@dipmza.physik.uni-mainz.de) for telling me about the bug] # Fixed 'Reopen'. After reopening a (changed) file gv displayed the first page instead of the current page. [thanks to Lars Bruecher (bruecher@dipmza.physik.uni-mainz.de) for telling me about the bug] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 2.7 b4 (31 July 1996) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% # Fixed extracting pages [thanks to Arne Mueller (amuelle3@gwdg.de) for telling me about the bug] # Allow for a possible extra byte in front of the "%!PS-Adobe-" identifier at the beginning of the file for comaptibility reasons. [thanks to Ronan Melennec (MELENNEC_Ronan@cena.dgac.fr) for suggesting this change] # Fixed errorneous detection of the "-arguments " command-line option. [thanks to Dr. Gunnar Ribitzki (ribitzki@clri6f.gsi.de) for his patch] %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 2.7 b3 (15 June 1996) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% # Fixed code for appending s at the end of ps-sections of oriented files on Unix systems (thanks to Tim Adye (adye@v2.rl.ac.uk)). %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 2.7 b2 (8 June 1996) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% # VMS: use explicit ftell() calls in ps.c to get reliable file positions whenever possible (thanks to Tim Adye (adye@v2.rl.ac.uk)). * Use read() instead of fread() in ps.c to unify VMS and Unix code. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GV 2.7 b1 (2 June 1996) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% This version # offers an improved PDF capability: a) Page numbers are shown, allowing to freely move through the document. b) Saving marked pages of a PDF file (or the whole file) is now a valid operation. The file will first be converted to postscript, then the pages are extracted and saved to the destination file. Since the PDF->PS conversion takes a considerable amount of time it is done "in the background" to not block the user interface. c) Printing marked pages of a PDF file (or the whole file) is now also a valid option. The marked pages are first saved in postscript format, then they are printed. Printing is also done "in the background" due to the involved PDF->PS conversion. # provides an additional layout of the main window for those who want to minimize the on-screen-area consumption of gv. To use it start gv by executing $ gv -style gv_spartan.dat The file gv_spartan.dat contains a layout description which omits some of the buttons shown in the standard version and which uses a different on-screen arrangement of the remaining widgets. # provides an option to reverse the scrolling behaviour in the main window. # widens the class of previewable postscript documents by a) removing the constraint that lines shouldn't have more than 255 characters. b) allowing LF, CR and CR LF as line terminators. # removes the concept of a "forced" orientation and media. Instead the orientation and papersize menus offer the "Automatic" entry, which, if selected, advices gv to use the orientation and media extracted from the DSC comments. # uses a different algorithm for smoothing the scrolling process in the main window. The new method is based on taking an average of the last few motion events. # handles some resources more restrictive for security reasons. Those resources are prefixed by "GVintern" and may only be set via a command line option or in the resource file "~/.gv" (or "DECW$USER_DEFAULTS:GV.DAT" on VMS). Affected are, for instance, "GVintern.printCommand" and "GVintern.gsArguments". After installation the file "gv_intern_res.dat" contains a complete list of these resources. # uses by default a Pixmap instead of requesting Backing Store from the X Server (GV*useBackingPixmap: True). # uses an improved version of the FileSelection Widget. # fixes a bug in the file selection widget which causes a crash on OpenVMS VAX. # doesn't show tons of String-to-Pixmap conversion warnings on Motif displays anymore. # corrects a bug in the layout of the main window which caused a wrong horizontal scaling behaviour. # fixes a bug which caused the comment '%%Pages: 0" to appear in saved postscript files. # fixes problematic file inclusion macros in "paths.h" which caused errors for a lot of people. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GhostView-VMS 2.3 (1 March 1996) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 1) New platform (linux) 2) New widgets: Clip,Frame,Aaa 3) New Layout 4) New method to define regions to be magnified by zoom popups. 5) New Zoom Popups (scrollable) 6) New Bugfixes 7) New Bugs %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GhostView-VMS 2.1 (18 January 1996) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 1) added "basic" PDF support. PDF files are handled in the same way as unstructured PS files now. 2) fixed a quite large memory leak which appeared in the VMS_DIR.C code. 3) added the -landscape,-portrait, -seascape and -upsidedown options which somehow got lost in previous versions. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GhostView-VMS 2.0.3 (1 February 1995) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% 1) callback 'cb_moveSlider' in file CALLBACKS.C calls 'XtCallActionProc' which is buggy in the VMS/X11R4 implemetation and causes a crash at startup -> fixed Related problem appears in ACTIONS.C when in action_panner XtRemoveCallback(pageview,XtNreportCallback,...) is called. Also a problem only on R4 ... -> fixed (thanks to Martin Zinser who provided an account on an X11R4 machine, so that the tests could be made). 2) color specifications of type 'rgb:x/y/z' do not work on VMS/X11R4. They got replaced in the resource files by specifications of type 'grayX'. 3) some ps-formatters include the 'end' command in the last page, not in the trailer. These may cause ghostscript to break if switching from the last page to another page. Therefore the compile time option 'GV_RESTART_IF_BUSY' has been introduced (see CONFIG.H). Enabling this option may help but will slow down performance for many correctly formatted files also. By default this options is not activated. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% GhostView-VMS 2.0 (1 January 1995) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Original Release