CTAN package update: LaTeXPiX
Date: January 13, 2005 6:22:19 PM CET
A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should shom be at
your favorite mirror.
Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: LaTeXPiX
Author's name: Nick van Beurden
Location on CTAN: /systems/win32/latexpix
Summary description: As Is
License type: nosource
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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Updates of the current version (CTAN15 release) include:
* Completely rewritten internal database to store objects allowing faster
drawing and editing of the objects with less memory. Thanks to Robert
Rutten for early testing and debugging.
* PGF output functionality added, though not stable yet. Only added for
demonstration purposes.
* EEPIC output changed to have extension .eepic instead of .out. The PGF
drawings will have the extension .pgf. This change was moreover done
because .out is already an output extension for LaTeX.
* Multilevel undo and now working on more stages of the drawing process.
* All objects selectable with CTRL+A. Arrow drawing used to have this
shortcut key and is now assigned to CTRL+W.
* Stripped buggy and more or less useless features like zoom form,
instances, anti-aliasing.
* When previewing PDF output, now closes all documents when Adobe Acrobat
Reader is already open. The preview PDF file couldn't be overwritten in
previous versions of LaTeXPiX because when it is opened in Acrobat the
file gets a read-only status.
* Added rulers with support for centimetres and inches. Moreover, the
grid distance is also controllable from the main drawing grid.
* Some preferences were not stored, thanks to Robert Rutten for finding
this bug.
* Crash occurred when registering manually. Thanks to the various users
for pointing this out.
* Set unitlength to 0.254 because in EEPIC 1 inch which equals 2.54 cm
so 0.254 mm.
* Transparency can be set for Windows NT based systems.
* Using MDI form for drawing canvas, making toggling of toolbar redundant
and offering more stable user interface.
* Using RGB colours instead of CMYK colours. This prevents unnecessary
conversions and is somewhat more accurate.
* Option added to snap to grid without forcing the mouse to snap to grid
too.
* Log file can be save containing all statusbar messages for debugging
purposes.
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You can have a look at the package at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/latexpix
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror
of CTAN that is near to you; see
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors
LaTeXPiX – LaTeX picture editor for Windows
LaTeXPiX is a picture editor for LaTeX and works on all Microsoft Windows versions. LaTeXPiX offers advanced picture drawing, editing and generation beyond the scope of most other available editors. Features include: drawing and resizing squares and circles; show the bounding box of inserted images; Polish and Japanese translations.
Package | LaTeXPiX |
Version | 2009-12-28 |
Maintainer | N. J. H. M. van Beurden |
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