Release notes for MECCA 2000 version 4.06.  Aug/23/2005



Fixed:

1. laserp was not handling left/top margins given as fractional inches
   (laserp).

2. Certain kind of EPS files contain long encoded data stream -- longer
   than 2K bytes without a line break, and typdrv was truncating such
   cases (typdrv).

3. bprt2, the processor for "Compose with Spec", did not account for
   multi-page output, and so effectively only the last page was output
   (bprt2).

4. When opening a batch composed result page that used merge form with
   EPS, the eps object position was wrong (m2kbin).

5. The new file dialog box introduced in v4.05 had a problem where the
   dialog sometimes takes longer to display, and so caused occasional
   "grab error" message (dbox.tcl).

6. Version 4.05 TrueType/OpenType font support introduced a bug into the
   install-font-selection dialog, which caused it to exit after user
   selected an AFM file (t1font.tcl).

7. Incompatibility in data flow between prepcomp and exptxt/abcfmt has
   been corrected (bcompose, bprt, compwidth.tcl).

8. Separated output (black or colored) no longer uses CMYK composite
   color simulation, and instead uses the PostScript Separation color
   space directly (typdrv, PSgradtext.ps, PSbasic.ps, PSgraduate.ps,
   PSSepOper.ps).

10. When printing with "one part per page", the dialog will show all seps
    in selected part(s) to be "on" (print.tcl).

    Also, "one part per page" composite output now will always output
    colored PS file(s).

11. PS converter had some mis-matched screen/color values, sometimes they
    caused "hang" or core-dumps (PS).

12. Typdrv had traditionally inconsistent treatment on the device size
    values, and this has now been corrected as follows:

    In all_res.parms file, the Page size and Clipping (imageable area)
    values are in hop (hundredth of points), with 72.3 points to an inch.

    In LWP file given to typdrv, the "device_size" parameters width and
    height are in points, also 72.3 points to an inch.

    As a result, customers may need to change their values in the
    all_res.parms file.  For example, U.S. Letter Size page is:

	Dev-X = 7230 * 8.5 = 61455
	Dev-Y = 7230 * 11  = 79530

    A value under Dev-X as 61200 is definitely "wrong" (it is 8.5 inch
    but based on 72 points to an inch).

    The above written in LWP to typdrv would be:

	device_size: 614.55 795.3 0 0

13. The Batch merge-figure command with a non-zero ORN produced incorrect
    results (preview, typdrv, m2kbin).

14. Corrected the case of "an extra page the end" in batch compose, where
    the second last page had a condition that caused a new page to be set
    up, however the placement logic determined the new page was not needed,
    but the new page was left open anyway (galeyc, pmunu).

15. Corrected problem introduced back in v4.0 where graphic attribute dialogs
    "Reset to defaults" were not working (fcplist.tcl).


Changed/New:

1. Replaced M_LO_RES_PARMS and M_HI_RES_PARMS in "mecca_env.tcl" with
   M_RES_PARMS, and changed software to work with it  (mecca_env.tcl,
   typdrv, print.tcl).

2. Added "xorg.conf" in mk_x11fonts script so as to include Xorg X11
   as compatible (mk_x11fonts).

3. In PostScript output, graduated screens now are handled by using the
   "shfill" for Level-3 RIP's (PSgraduate.ps, PSgradtext.ps, PSSepOper.ps).

   For Level-2 or lower RIP's, there is no change in graduated screens
   processing.

4. For all sep outputs (spot and process), when outputting to colored
   device, per-sep color is used to retain color attributes.  There is
   no longer CMYK composite color generation for printing seps
   (typdrv, PSbasic.ps, PScuts.ps).

5. Added a new batch mark-up command:

	\SPEC NAME=PATH_TO_SPEC_FILE \END

   So an external (e.g. often used) separation specs file can be called
   in, to tell the PostScript file generator (typdrv) what color model
   (spot or process) this compose job is using (galeyc, pmunu, preview).

   Please note this command belongs to the "set-up group" of commands,
   i.e., if used it should be used only once in the job, and fairly
   early on.  It is NOT an immediate command.

   Also, this command is intended for use when not using the interactive
   MECCA 2000 (i.e., directly from a login shell), and when not using
   the spec-file option with bcompose.

   As of this release, typdrv will assume process color model, composite
   printing from a batch job where no spec file was given.