Januari 2008
- Released version 2.5.6
- honour /etc/papersize file
November 2006
- Released version 2.5.5
- apply Fedora restricted font and scale patches
September 2005
- usage fixes
- use /tmp instead of /usr/tmp
- Duplex featrure settings go into %%BeginSetup section.
November 2004
- Small updates to manual page
May 2004
- Released version 2.5.4
- Do not explicitely switch of duplex mode when -t is not given.
- Add redhat utf-8 patch
- Add -u option to switch off utf-8 checking
August 2003
RedHat fixes
- check for empy optarg in arg processing.
Suggested by J.D. Laub <jdl@access-health.com>:
- -V option to show mpage version
- -- option to stop process options (remaing args are files)
- add -- option to prprog when filename starts with a -.
From: Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk>
- %% and \n fixes for Duplex Beginfeature settings.
October 2002
- Released version 2.5.3
- Start moving mapge into the GPL...
- Fixed double 'showsheet' output when processing postscript.
- Added A0 to page_desc in glob.c.
- Remove newline after formfeed. (Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>)
- the -X option now always prints the filename/header on the left
and the physical page number on the right. Per suggestion of
Marc Branchaud <marcnarc@xcert.com>
- From Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>: define showheet using
the load operator instead of the bind operator. This might solve
situations where showpage is redefined elsewhere.
- From Ilgiz Latypov <ilgizl@pcauto.comk>: -J option to set an
initial value to the pagenum counter.
- Improved processing of "BeginDocument/EndDocument" directives
resulting in much better handling of included EPS graphics.
Should improve processing of dvips files a lot...
Jun 2002
from: jdl@access-health.com
- When processing stdin, 'pr' was hardcoded instead of using the
prprog variable.
- Removed useless strcpy when processing command line args
(could even give unpredictable results)
from: dlarson@brookings.net
- explicitely set duplex printing to false in the default case.
from: George.Pajari@Faximum.com
- using -m while printing in duplex creates useless margins: punching
holes may go through the printed areas on one of the sides.
Jan 2002 Marcel J.E. Mol marcel@mesa.nl
- lib/mpage -> share/mpage
Nov 2001 Marcel J.E. Mol marcel@mesa.nl
- Changes from redhat
* use mkstemp instead of mktemp.
* kanji support.
Oct 2000 Marcel J.E. Mol marcel@mesa.nl
- Added A1 and A2 to page_desc in glob.c.
Aug 1999 Marcel J.E. Mol marcel@mesa.nl
- Added -e option and related code from Enrique Melendez Asensio <ema@csn.es>
to allow 4,1,2,3 booklets... Needs cleanup and extended to txt too.
- Patch from Gabor Ribarik <ribarik@math-inst.hu> to take of
dvips(k) 5.78's output if it contains many postscript figures.
(see indoc variable in post.c)
He (or actually Attila Karpati) also implemented multiple -j options.
Fix the %%Page director when pages are skipped (with -j).
- Include amiga port from Andreas R. Kleinert <info@ar-kleinert.de>:
* added smakefile, smakefile.ppc and SCOPTIONS
* added #ifdef AMIGA section to mpage.h
* mpage.h now #undefs MAXINT if already #define
(before re-#defining it iself)
* LIBDIR has been #define within SCOPTIONS;
used MPAGE: assign, which you may redirect
yourself, then...
Jun 1998 Marcel J.E. Mol marcel@mesa.nl
- Clipping logical page was terribly wrong. This was visible when
specifying negative pagemargins (-M).
Apr 1998 Marcel J.E. Mol marcel@mesa.nl
- Corrected types (lvirden@cas.org)
Mar 1998 Marcel J.E. Mol marcel@mesa.nl
- for EPS files that have %%Trailer and are included in PS files
mpage will stop after the first %%Trailer. Made check on %%Trailer
(and %%PSTrailer) a runtime option -k ('kill on trailer');
- When input text file has no newline at last line, mpage forgot to
print that line...
- Updated manual page and usage (lm@cs.rmit.edu.au)
- warning in -b option failed.
- Changed defining paper types (to add new papger tpyes, just add to
the paper array in glob.c).
Jan 1998 Marcel J.E. Mol marcel@mesa.nl
- Removed save/restore statements for PS input processing. They seem
to generate 'memory overflow' errors.
- Removed 'TexDict begin' additions for dvips files.
- OS/2 changes (Alexander Mai <st002279@hrzpub.tu-darmstadt.de>)
- Makefile: create install dirs if not there (jwessel@uiuc.edu)
- Check for %PSTrailer (for Mathematis program) (jwessel@uiuc.edu)
- version 2.5 introduced bug in handling formfeed in text files. Fixed.
Nov 1997 Marcel J.E. Mol marcel@mesa.nl
- Released version 2.5
- Small hack to improve dvips handling. Hope this solves a few of the
problems...
- Check on EOF for netscape output. (thanks ppomes@Qualcomm.com)
- -o -H showed darker outline instead of no outline at all!
(noted by jburt@nass.usda.gov)
- Added support for A3 paper size (thanks <mguimaraes.etec@ip.pt>)
- Included mergeps.l and mergeps.txt from <mguimaraes.etec@ip.pt>.
Feb 1997 Marcel J.E. Mol marcel@mesa.nl
- Added "%%BeginProlog" to output...
Dec 1996 Marcel J.E. Mol marcel@mesa.nl
- Fixed possible bufferoverflow in text.c in array text.
Sep 1996 Marcel J.E. Mol marcel@mesa.nl
Version 2.4
- Set PS id string to level 2 instead of 1. Hope this is ok...
- Added -b option to select paper type. Option string is
case insensitive. Now -A and -U option may be removed, they are
not mentioned in the usage() anymore, but are in the man page.
- Added support for Legal paper size: option -bLegal
May 1996 Marcel J.E. Mol marcel@mesa.nl
- Try detecting dvi2ps files: scan %%Title on .dvi. The catch the
TeXDict to to init the PS state , bescause it interferes with
mpage setup. TeXDict will be called internally for each page.
This setup seems to work for plain TeX text, but figures seem to
have mind of their own and do not scale...
- -X option accepts an optional argument that is used for physical
pageheader, instead of current filename + physical page number.
The argument is centered on the pageheader.
April 1996 Marcel J.E. Mol marcel@mesa.nl
Version 2.3b
- Included OS/2 port based on code from Tilmann Boess
<tilmann@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>. See README.OS2.
I cannot test on OS/2 so the merge of the Makefile might be wrong...
March 1996 Marcel J.E. Mol marcel@mesa.nl
Version 2.3a
- Some compilers cannot process strings running on multiple lines (AIX)
- Remove any leading ctrl-d characters from the input file.
Some postscript files (micros*ft) start with it. Hope this is
no problem on text files starting with ctrl-d's
(suggested by Eric Lammerts <ERIC@scintilla.utwente.nl>)
Changes based on diffs by: mingso@netcom.com (Ming Yau So)
- Added -s option to set the tabstops.
- Added compile time option to set spooler type.
- Adjusted usage to display printer settings etc
Februari 1996 Marcel J.E. Mol marcel@mesa.nl
Version 2.3
- Changed semantics of -C option. With subargument it takes it as
a character encoding name to use (needs a file from $LIBDIR/mpage).
Without subargument it toggles the usage of encoding. An internal
default encoding is added to the code.
Suggested by Jens Poenisch <J.Poenisch@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de>
- Removed all the RCS stuff as I don't use it.
- Added -R option: print pages left to right, bottom to top. Suggested by
vilhuber@cs.colorado.edu.
- Add -X option to print a header on each physical page. Currently just
the filename and the physical page number.
Changes based on suggestions by Björn Torkelsson <torkel@cs.umu.se>:
- Made -t a toggle instead of forcing duplex mode.
- Add -D option to specify a strftime date format to be used in printing
in page headers.
- Add -T option to tumble every second pages in duplex mode.
November 1995 Marcel J.E. Mol marcel@mesa.nl
Version 2.2.2
- Added -d option to force certain input file type. Currently
only -da and -dp exist to force ascii or postscript input.
-dp probably is not useful or does not work as you might expect,
so this is not mentioned in the usage page...
manual page not updated yet...
September 1995 Marcel J.E. Mol marcel@duteca.et.tudelft.nl
- Hm, version numbering is a bit odd. Gues gonna call this 2.2.1
- Option -P without argument send output to stdout instead
of default printer. Fixed, thanks Patrik Hagglund <patha@ida.liu.se>
and Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@mch.sni.de>
- Added -B option to draw a box around certain text, by
E. Robert Tisdale <edwin@pink.cs.ucla.edu>
May 1995 Marcel J.E. Mol marcel@duteca.et.tudelft.nl
Version 2.2
Processing postcript files is much better now...
- Included several user contributions, see below.
- Recursive mpage usage seems to work now...
- ditriff output seems to work again...
- xv postscript output seems to work (at least xv 3.1)
- Added -O and -E options, contributed by Grigor Pavlov Nikolov
December 1994 Jan Kasprzak <kas@foresta.cz>
Created Encodings/ISO-Latin.2 file.
December 1994 Jonathan Ross <cjross@bbn.com>
- Some systems need string.h in mpage.c
- removed some non-ansi preprocessor usages (i.e. #endif DEBUG)
- fixed description for -P
December 1994 Ron van den Burg (burg1@ksla.nl).
Produced a better description of the changes between 2.13 and 2.14
version 2.13 defaults: mpage -4onuvA
version 2.14 defaults: <not explicitly stated>
Disappeared:
-b use -o to toggle between b(lank) and o(utlines)
-n use -l to toggle between n(ormal) and l(andscape)
-s use -v to toggle between s(ilent) mode and v(erbose)
-u use -a to toggle between u(pdown) and leftright
New:
-H Create header line
-Cencodingfile
Specify then character encoding file. Default is none.
The should be in the mpage library directory
(/usr/local/lib/mpage).
-Ffontname Specify font. Default is Courier.
-t Print on both sides of the paper. This will enable
duplex mode of the printer. Use this option only if
your printer is capable of printing in duplex mode.
(default off).
-zprintcommand
Specify command to use to send output to. Default is
lpr . You can specify command line options, but see -Z
option. For example -zlp for system V Unix.
-Zprintprog_queuename_arg
Specify what option to use for the "-z printcommand" to
specify a printqueue. For example -zlp -Z-d for system
V Unix.
Changed:
-c Is a toggle now.
-o Is a toggle now. Makes -b obsolete.
-v Is a toggle now. Makes -s obsolete.
-l Is a toggle now. Makes -n obsolete.
-f Is a toggle now.
-a Is a toggle now. Makes -u obsolete.
november 1994 Marcel J.E. Mol <marcel@duteca.et.tudelft.nl>
Version 2.14
Added -z and -Z option to set the print command and its queuename
argument (defaults to lpr and -P).
Send out to the world...
august/september94 Marcel J.E. Mol <marcel@duteca.et.tudelft.nl>
Included old patch to allow ISO characters:
- [ Aug 1992 at@cc.tut.fi ] ISO-modifications. Conforms to standards
ISO-216 (provided that it really is the same as SFS EN 20216) and
ISO-8859.1, (provided that the table these were taken was
8859.1-conforming). Does not break 8-bit characters any more (because
it prints them).
[ ISO-216 defines A4-sized paper and ISO-8859.1 8-bit character set
which includes many useful national characters used in European
languages ]
Modified ISO code:
character encoding table is read from file, specified by -C option.
The default encoding is Courier without 8-bit support.
(see Postscript reference manual, appendix E?)
Check on 'doprint' instead of '*printer' for closing outfd. Suggested by
byrnes@ee.cornell.edu to fix core dunps on their old VAX.
Removed all mp_ prefix from source files.
Deleted RCS subtree.
Added %%Orientation and %%DocumentMedia in postscript comments (looks
good when viewing output with ghostview).
Removed unecessary array declarations and variables.
Added -F option to specify other than default Courier font.
Specifying "-P-" turns of 'printing' as specified by an MPAGE environment
variable.
july94 Marcel J.E. Mol <marcel@duteca.et.tudelft.nl>
Get rid of changing source when someone want US letter as default
paper size or A4: Now it is settable in Makefile.
In version 2.13 pagemargin_xxx processing on postscript input was gone.
Should work again now.
july94 Sisira Jayasinghe <sisira.jayasinghe@sdrc.com>
implemented -t option to print in duplex mode. Spell checked the
man page. Made US letter size paper to be default.
may/june94 Marcel J.E. Mol <marcel@duteca.et.tudelft.nl>
Version 2.13
Changed processing of pagemargin_xxx so that the -H option
could be implemented.
-H option: let mpage print page headers in a different font. This
way no 'pr' processing is needed.
Added function declarations to mp_head.h so that gcc -Wall does
not complain so much anymore.
may94 Marcel J.E. Mol <marcel@duteca.et.tudelft.nl>
Implemented -a, -c, -f, -l, -o and -v options as toggles ->
remove -s, -b, -n and -u options.
-c option: do not start each file on a new page.
-m option can now specify all four margins seperately (iWith help
from Frank ten Wolde <franky@duteca.et.tudelft.nl>)
New option -M to specify all four margins inside logical pages.
Printing MS-Windows postscript files with mpage *might* work now...
"xx pages printed" message brought under -v option.
oct93-mar94 Marcel J.E. Mol
Bump version to 2.12 and send out ...
Added -I option: indent text.
Fixed bug in fold option, when an escaped char is at the end of a line ...
Fixed bug when readne '/r'
Added -m (set page margin) and -f (fold long lines) options.
Changed -p (allow to give a 'pr' command string) and -P (defaults
to default printer) options.
...
Many changes have been made between Version 1 and Version 2:
- *BIGGIE* Printing of backspaces, overwrites, formfeeds and other
text is greatly improved. I changed the whole way text was processed
and the code went from 3 unreadable pages to one very readable page.
It is amazing what the right approch can do.
- *ANOTHER BIGGIE* PostScript documents can now be printed. Most
conforming will be properly printed, multple pages per sheet. There
is still clean up to do here, but it seems to work. I think that when
I hit upon the right paradigm for this, it will clean up just like the
text processing code did. (XRef: TODO)
- Outlines are now optional. If you like to see them (as I do) put the
"-o" option in your MPAGE environment variable.
- Added recognition of the PRINTER and MPAGE environment variables.
- Added the beginnings of support the European A4 paper. (The method
should be extended to legal sized paper.) Credit goes to Michael
Fingerhut, System Manager, IRCAM Paris (France), (...!uunet!ircam!mf)
for the inspiration for the proper way to do this.
- MPage now prints a message stating how many pages (sheets) were
created and to which printer it was spooled.
- Stuffed the sources under RCS to keep track of changes.
* Revision 1.1 89/05/22 14:19:56 mark
* Initial revision
