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Bug 67353

Summary:	dvipdfm worth including?
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Aleksey Nogin <aleksey>
Component:	distribution	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	rvokal
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	FutureFeature
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://gaspra.kettering.edu/dvipdfm/
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Last Closed:	2003-03-25 16:59:19 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	83355
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Description Aleksey Nogin 2002-06-23 09:15:46 UTC

Dvipdfm (see http://gaspra.kettering.edu/dvipdfm/ and
http://nogin.org/RPM/dvipdfm.html) is a DVI to PDF translator. Its features
include TeX \special's that approximate the functionality of the PostScript
pdfmarks used by Adobe Acrobat Distiller, the ability to include PDF files and
JPEG files as embedded images, support for both Type1 and PK fonts, support for
arbitrary linear graphics transformations, a color stack accessible via
\special's, partial font embedding and stream compression for reduced output
file size, native, portable graphics via TPIC \specials, balanced page and
destination trees for improved reader access on very large document files.

Comment 1 Aleksey Nogin 2003-03-08 21:21:44 UTC

If I understand correctly, TeTeX includes dvipdfm starting with version 2.0

Comment 2 Tim Waugh 2003-03-08 21:41:32 UTC

dvipdfm also has security issues.

Comment 3 Tim Waugh 2003-03-25 16:59:19 UTC

The ones I pointed out to the maintainer a while back seem to have already been
dealt with.