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Changes in HTMLDOC v1.8
- 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.