ctan-ann - fig2vect

CTAN update: fig2vect 1.0.2

2005-06-17T12:24:38Z

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 Dirk Krause submitted an update to the

  fig2vect 

package.

Location on CTAN: /support/fig2vect
Summary description: Converter from *.fig to *.mp, *.eps, *.pdf, *.tex and *.svg
License type: bsd

Announcement text:This is a bugfix release. 
In version 1.0.1 and older the PDF output driver contained
a possible buffer overflow, this is removed now.
In version 1.0.0 and older the special comments in the
document level comment range were not processed by all

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CTAN update: fig2vect-1.0.3

2005-06-24T16:52:50Z

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 Dirk Krause submitted an update to the

  fig2vect 

package.

Location on CTAN: /support/fig2vect
Summary description: Converter from *.fig to *.mp, *.eps, *.pdf, *.svg and *.tex
License type: bsd

Announcement text:Bugfix: In former versions the PDF output driver silently
aborted operation without error messages when problems
with embedded PNG images occured. This is fixed, an error
message was added.


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CTAN update: fig2vect-1.1.3

2006-01-11T15:45:14Z

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Dirk Krause submitted an update to the

  fig2vect

package.

Location on CTAN: /support/fig2vect
Summary description: Yet another Fig to vector converter
License type: bsd

Announcement text:The former EPS driver was changed into a PS/EPS
driver. It can produce either PS or EPS now.
The showpage and setpagedevice operators can only
be used when producing PS.
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CTAN Update: fig2vect 1.1.8

2007-05-31T17:04:18Z

On Thu, 31 May 2007, Dirk Krause submitted an update to the

  fig2vect

package.

The fig2vect program converts figures from jFig, XFig and WinFig to 
MetaPost, EPS, PDF, TeX and SVG.

Program highlights:
 - Designed for use with LaTeX/pdfLaTeX. Handling of special text is left 
   up to LaTeX, for non-special text you can choose whether or not to use 
   LaTeX.  For text handled by LaTeX you have three choices:
    - Use the fonts exactly as specified in the Fig file.
    - Convert to use fonts in the same features 
      (serif/sans-serif/monospaced, normal/bold, upright/italic).
   This allows to use the same font families in the graphics as in the 

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