Release notes for MECCA 2000 version 5.01.  Feb/27/2009

Note: Version 5.00 starts the new MECCA 2000 binaries for FreeBSD 6.4
or later.  Binaries in 5.x series will not run on older FreeBSD versions.


Fixed:

1. Trailing empty text lines on input crashed MECCA (m2kbin).

2. Typdrv had an internal limit of 100 connected segments in one line
   of composed text, but did not check if the limit is reached (typdrv).

   There is no pre-set limit anymore.

3. Displacement values for merged external EPS were incorrectly scaled up
   by a factor of 1.004167 (typdrv).

4. Name of the artwork file was not set when output to EPS (print.tcl).

5. A code change in v4.20 PPD file parsing (to deal with syntax errors)
   caused a mis-count of characters when accumulating key values, causing
   errors in printing that referred to PPD (typdrv, ppdsetup).

6. bcompose did not compare tray names properly when it tries partial name
   match (bcompose).

7. A stand-alone or leading CBC command can sometimes crash MECCA (m2kbin,
   galeyc).


New/Changed:

1. If Ghostscript is found on the system, a new "EPS Preview" button will be
   added to Window dialog, so users can enable a bitmap image to be displayed
   as the EPS contents (m2kbin, eps2ix, ppmtoix, m2kprocs.tcl, window.tcl,
   grid.tcl, tclIndex).

   Please note:

   a. With EPS Preview mode on, each EPS can produce 2 raster images: one the
      original upright representation, the 2nd with any transformation applied.
      If there are large number of such EPS objects, not only will display time
      suffer, temporary storage (M2K_TMPDIR as defined in "mecca_env.tcl) may
      be filled and cause severe problem.

   b. Similarly, if the Preview mode raster resolution is set too high,
      processing time and disk storage will suffer.

   c. When EPS Preview mode is on, both the EPS object boundary and its raster
      image can be picked.

2. GNU Ghostscript (7 or later) is now deemed a level-3 RIP for color
   graduation (PSgraduate.ps).

3. When printing a spot color job as composite, components having density
   100% (color 700), and are on layers that "print on all seps", will now
   appear as Black in one-sheet proof, but on all seps when the composite
   output is separated by the RIP (typdrv).