Release notes for MECCA 2000 version 3.02.  Apr/11/2003


Fixes:

1. "preview" program no longer chops the base file name to 9 characters.
   That behavior caused bcompose to sometimes not find any processed file,
   and so generated no hard-copy print.  It also affects interactive "Batch
   Compose": sometimes, setting "Open when done" doesn't load anything
   after compose.

   For example if a text file to be composed is named:

	myBIGbatch.txt

   "preview" produced page files "myBIGbatc001.g", "myBIGbatc002.g" etc.
   (note the 'h' got chopped off).  Both interactive batch-compose and
   bcompose, however, are looking for "myBIGbatch001.g" etc., and won't
   find any.

   In addition, preview has been updated to deal with non-native raster
   data formats that usually result from merging in an external ELF
   file (preview).

2. Minor re-arrangement of PDF print options (print.tcl).

3. The "master font list" display order reversal caused the display list
   index, and the in-memory font list index, to be in the wrong order,
   which causes run-time error (text.tcl).

4. galeyc was incorrectly marking up the same flag for both UNDERSCORE
   and SPACE commands -- "\us" and "\sp" (galeyc).

5. /usr/mecca/fonts/fontinfo/psfxlfd was tricked by an existing fnt/styl
   PFB (one that isn't listed in laser.sub), it then added bogus entry
   into /usr/mecca/fonts/x11/fonts.dir file.

6. When loading ELF, external non-native raster data conversion left open
   file pointers hanging around (m2kbin, dwgvupd10, addpartdims).

7. When updating from a v8 file, raster end-color is picked up as-is,
   but that color was ignored before mono raster graduation was added.
   Now when updating from a v8 file, raster end-color is set to the
   same as start-color (m2kbin, dwgvupd10, addpartdims).

8. V3.0 update introduced typos for Int25, UPC-A and UPC-E barcodes
   Attributes dialog setup (int25.tcl, upca.tcl, upce.tcl).

9. When changing panto from a 4-digit one to a 3-digit one, the panto
   number was incorrectly set; likewise for a border (m2kbin).


New/Changed:

1. exptxt, and abcfmt are two programs used in the batch compose work
   chain.  A new program, prepcomp, has been made to combine those two
   into one.  It can be used to replace "exptxt | abcfmt" pipe in some
   cases (prepcomp, bcompose).

2. bcompose provides an option, "-m", to indicate a Flash job (high-speed
   merge using flash).  The help text of that program, however, didn't
   make this clear.  It has been slightly edited to reflect this.

   High-speed merge with flash requires no separations, and that the job
   page set-up matches the output device without rotation.  For normal
   merge form that does not use flash, "-m" should not be used.

3. In Print dialog, "Print Only a Rectangular Region" has also excluded
   graphic components that are completely outside the indicated region, 
   to keep the print job file small and so prints quicker.

   An additional check-box, "Exclude components outside the region", has
   now been added, for the cases where step+repeat components originate
   outside, but steps into, the indicated print region.  Note that this
   new check-button always defaults to ON when user indicates a print
   region, and can only be turned off manually.  If turned OFF, all
   components in the drawing will be output for printing, same as normal
   printing w/o a sub region, but the user indicated rectangle is marked
   as a "clip box" for the PostScript RIP (print.tcl).

4. In Raster function, a raster image can now be exported as BMP file.
   Please note this works on a single image basis, it does not export all
   images in a combined group as one file.  It also does not export a B/W
   image with color, nor a gray-scale raster with color/density adjustment
   (raster.tcl, ixtobmp).