Release notes for MECCA 2000 version 3.05.  Nov/18/2003

Fixed:

1. The per-sep notes added in v3.04 caused bcompose to mis-read spec files,
   and this was not caught before v3.04 was released (bcompose, bprt2).

2. The "character code chart" builder, invoked when installing a Pi font,
   was not properly counting its "available fonts" counter (mkcodechart,
   mkcodechart_all).

3. Graphic file dump utility, gpcdump, has been updated to indicate whether
   a raster image contains transparency masks (gpcdump).

4. Batch Compose w/Specs dialog provided choice to only output a range of
   pages (From/To page numbers), but selecting it was ineffective
   (compose2.tcl, bprt2).

5. Raster function group did not properly unset its state upon exiting,
   causing subsequent operation to miss state registration by one, thusly
   pop-up menus were out of sync (raster.tcl).

6. Multi-level state unwind did not decrement the tracking index, which
   potentially could have caused the program to loop (popups.tcl).

7. The PNG file import converter did not properly calculate resolution in
   DPI (pngtoix).

8. Introduced in v3.04, win-cen (window center) function provided arrow-key
   panning.  However, picking a position after arrow keys was not effective;
   that is now fixed (m2kprocs.tcl, keycoords.tcl, m2kbin).

9. For merge-form applications (the \MFORM batch command) where non-zero
   orientation is set, many graphic components were not handled correctly.
   This is now fixed.  However, please note output time will lengthen when
   using raster images in rotated merged forms (m2kbin, preview, typdrv,
   dwgvupd10, addpartdims).


New/Modified:

1. PSDots.ps provided 3 more positions for potential, customer-supplied
   screen dot procedures, however this was not well integrated with
   MECCA 2000, until now.  Customers wishing to use their own dot procedures,
   can designate them as dot procedures 7, 8, and 9 (in PSDots.ps), then
   provide links to them in the new menu file
   /usr/mecca/menus/scrndots.menu (m2kbin, PSDots.ps, scrndots.menu).

2. Certain other software generates separation specs including more than
   4 seps for process color job, MECCA 2000 now deals with this by ignoring
   process color separations beyond CMYK seps (m2kbin, typdrv, addpartdims,
   dwgvupd10, bprt2, bcompose).

3. Mouse Button-3 (right click) over any of the green Part check-boxes
   in the Print dialog, will now toggle all the parts on/off for printing
   (print.tcl, tclIndex).

4. PSgraduate.ps has been updated to use a different way to generate
   graduated shades, when the Postscript file is processed by Adobe
   Distiller into PDF; this is so to overcome the 8-bit, 256-shade
   limitation in certain versions of that product (PSgraduate.ps).

5. A color raster image (RGB, CMY or CMYK type) can now be assigned a
   density percentage between 0 and 100% (m2kbin, typdrv, query.tcl).

   Please note: Using Change, and change color value to somewhere between
   600 and 700 on a color raster image, will cause its density to change:
   color 600 corresponds to 0%, and 700 to 100%.

   Also, in line with the Window -> Raster Intensity behavior, a reduced-
   density color raster image will be displayed darker in Type mode; it
   does not mean the image will be printed darker.

6. bcompose program now added "range of pages to output" specification for
   each file (bcompose).

7. The preview program now will issue an error message when the specified
   start-page is out of range, e.g., setting Start Page to 3 when there are
   only 2 pages in the job (preview).

8. Raster image export now exports in either BMP or PNG format, depending
   on whether the selected image contains mask (raster.tcl, ixtopng, m2kbin).