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First stable release in a new html2ps branch. Improved CSS support and a lot of bugfixes inside.

This script update features speed memory optimizations; it is still in "alpha" state, though.

Several minor bugfixes in this release. This version is considered stable and recommended to all html2ps users.

This pre-release contains several bugfixes and changes aimed to more graceful processing of non-valid HTML.

A pre-release version of HTML2PS. It contains a lot of improvements and bugfixes. Most notable new features are interactive forms (you may generate interactive controls directly from your HTML and event submit them to your server-side script); script-generated headers and footers (so that you may easily add them to PDF files generated from remote HTML source) and batch file processing.

Note that we've jumped over some versions numbers - from now on html2ps releases downloadable from tufat.com and sourceforge will have the same version number.

The release contains several minor bugfixes in PS and FPDF output and minor improvements in beta interactive forms support (FPDF/PDFLIB).

* Several updates in documentation & source code comments
* Added support for interactive text form fields
* Added support for interactive submit form fields
* Fixed: a part content after the manual page break could be printed on the same page
* A0-A3 and A6-A10 paper sized added to the list of predefined media sizes
* Lengths given in relative 'em' and 'ex' units were incorrectly calculated for 'background-position' property
* Fixed a PHP 5 compatibility problem, causing an fatal error message
* TH attributes were completely ignored
* Fixed the issue related to printing the text on the page margins inside the fixed-positioned elements
* Updated the "custom fonts" HOWTO

The script have been optimized for pages contaning a lot of text; speed boost of 10-30% expected.

This release contains following bug fixes:
Fixed: <input type="button"> could not be hidden using 'display: hidden'
Fixed: ##page## / ##pages## fields alignment problem
Fixed: ##page## / ##pages## fields could be ignored if there were no space before the field
Fixed: elements having 'position: fixed' were drawn several times on the same page
Fixed: elements having 'position: fixed' could cause script to die without any error messages
Fixed: class name confict with Active-Link DOM XML extension

Greetings all html2ps/html2pdf users.

All of you know that html2ps is rather resource-consuming at the moment. Of course, we're doing our best, but... I doubt that the wonder would happen and requirements would decrease more that by 5-10%. On the other side, some users do not need the whole range of CSS/HTML - just a simple text formatting / table layout engine.

Thus, an idea of making an alternative light-weight simpler layout engine have appeared. It could support the most widely used subset of CSS/HTML suitable for most applications and used instead the default (current) engine using the API. We would like to know your opinion about this idea.... read more

This release contains several minor bug fixes in PS/PS2PDF output. Also, a new configuration file option is introduced, allowing users to choose whether fonts should be embedded in generated files (FPDF/PDFLIB output only at the moment).

An example of using Fetcher interface added.

If you're interested in development of HTML2PS programming API, please check http://www.easterpig.com/demo/html2ps/help/api.html - the very first draft.

Feel free to post your suggestions in the support forum: http://www.tufat.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=63 or here.

Thank you.

This update contains several minor bugfixes.

We're planning to give a draft version of html2ps programming API for discussion in 2-3 days. If you're interested in developing with the html2ps, you're welcome to make your comments and propositions.

This update contains several small bugfixes and a new output method: "Compact" PS. Generated PS files are DSC compatible, 2-3 times smaller than the ones generated by the "old" PS output method, and are rendered by printers/ghostscript significantly faster. This requires the presence of font metric files on the server, though (usually packaged with the Ghostscript installation).

Minor bugfix release; fixes several PHP5 compatibility issues and minor layout problems.

Monor bugfix/improvements update. The most important is the FPDF output now is in pre-release state.

This release includes minor bugfixes and feature imporovements.

The bug fixes include the following:
- NewPage commands did not work in PDFLIB output method
- better image quality in PS2PDF output method
- several PHP 5 compatibility issues
- several table & floats layout problems

The most important new features are:
- basic support for 'page-break-after' CSS property,
- support for 'position: fixed',
- support for @media CSS rules,
- possibility to insert hyperlinks into generated PDF documents,... read more

Release 0.7.1 contains many layout bug fixes mostly in PDFLIB output. PDF generation via PDFLIB have been imporoved, allowing national charaters in generated files.

Our aim for the next release is to make PS/PS2PDF output more stable.

The most important features in this release:
- PDFLIB output method makes smaller PDFs with better image quality
- floating boxes support; most modern sites use floats in its desings.
- more understandable error notifications
- enhanced image support in postscript; generated files renders much faster and are 2-3 times less in size.
- support for most CSS properties

Also, it is a bugfix release. More that 100 bugs were fixed since the last file release.

We have added the experimental (alpha) PDFLIB output method in current CVS version. It will make generated PDFs smaller and a little bit faster to display. This method will work even in 'safe mode' (provided you have PDFLIB PHP extension installed, though).

Also, we're planning to add support for pure PHP FPDF library; thus, PDF generation will be available even without access to Ghostscript or PDFLIB - so, almost any hosting will be suitable.

Check CVS for a support of 'float' and 'clear' CSS properties. Also, implemented 'align' attributes of IMG and TABLE tags.

At last, first file release on surceforge.net. Most layout issues are solved; now we're working on float support and more reliable and system-independent PDF generation.

Check http://www.tufat.com for support forum, info and other information.

At last current version of html2ps have been uploaded to CVS on sourceforge.net. Bugs and feature requests open on that moment are available in tracker.