From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-08-25T21:37:16+09:00
Subject: [ANN] PDF::Writer 1.1.2

I am pleased to announce the release of PDF::Writer 1.1.2. This releaseprimarily fixes some page numbering bugs and issues with the coordinatetransformation matrices. I have to thank the wonderful users ofPDF::Writer:
  * Thomas Gantner found two bugs with page numbering and provided a    patch for one of them. Marc Vleugels found one of the same bugs that    Thomas did and reported it as #2204 on the RubyForge tracker.  * Mike Leddy found an issue with PDF::SimpleTable and provided a    patch in #2129 on the RubyForge tracker.  * Marc Vleugels found several minor issues and one major issue with    PDF::Writer's handling of index-based PNG transparency. I fixed the    minor issues and can reproduce the major issue, but do not as yet    have a fix for it. See #2245 on the RubyForge tracker for more    details.
= What is PDF::Writer for Ruby?It provides the ability to create PDF documents using only native Rubylibraries. There are several demo programs available in the demo/directory. The canonical documentation for PDF::Writer is the 95-pagemanual "manual.pdf", which can be generated using bin/techbook (just"techbook" for RubyGem users) and the manual file "manual.pwd".
Homepage::  http://ruby-pdf.rubyforge.org/pdf-writer/Download::  http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=81Copyright:: 2003�2005, Austin Ziegler
This software is based on Adobe's PDF Reference, Fifth Edition, version1.6. This and earlier editions are available from Adobe's PDF developerwebsite[1].
== LICENCE NOTESPDF::Writer is generally available under an MIT-style licence with fewrestrictions, but there are subtle restrictions on portions of thelibrary, and there are patents for which some rights have been grantedby Adobe. Please read the file LICENCE[2] for more information.
== Requirements and InstallationPDF::Writer requires Ruby 1.8.2 or better, color-tools 1.3.0[3] orbetter, and Transaction::Simple 1.3.0[4] or better.
Once these packages are installed, PDF::Writer can be installed with:
 % ruby setup.rb
Alternatively, you can use the RubyGems version of PDF::Writer availableas pdf-writer-1.1.2.gem from the usual sources. The gem knows itsdependencies on Transaction::Simple and color-tools and offers toinstall them.
== Demo ProgramsFor the first time, the demo programs are available as a separatelydownloadable package.
If PDF::Writer has been installed with RubyGems, then the demos willneed to be run explicitly referencing RubyGems:
 % ruby -rubygems chunkybacon.rb
== PDF::Writer 1.1.2: August 25, 2005* Thomas Gantner found a problem with the interpretation of the  placement of page numbers and provided a patch. Thanks!* Thomas also reported a problem with an inability to place page  numbering on the first page of a document, as well as strange results  from not providing a starting page number. This has been fixed. Also  reported as #2204.* Modified PDF::Writer requirements to require color-tools version 1.3.0  or later. This necessitates that Color constants be changed to  Color::RGB constants.* Updated supporting library documentation to include information on  color-tools version 1.3.* Fixed a bug with Graphics#transform_matrix truncating one of the  transform parameters.* Applied a fix to PDF::SimpleTable submitted by Mike Leddy in #2129 on  the RubyForge tracker.* Applied a partial fix for PNG with index-transparency provided by Marc  Vleugels in #2245 on the RubyForge tracker. NOTE: This does not solve  the transparency problem; at this point, PDF::Writer cannot be said to  support PNGs with transparency. This will be fixed in a later version  of PDF::Writer.
-austin1: http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/pdf/index_reference.html2: http://ruby-pdf.rubyforge.org/pdf-writer/licence.html3: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=2954: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=81--Austin Ziegler * halostatue@gmail.com             * Alternate: austin@halostatue.ca