The ReportLab Toolkit is Open Source PDF library. This library
implements a flexible layout engine named Platypus that builds documents
from components like headlines, paragraphs, fonts, tables, bitmap
images, vector graphics, etc. These flowable elements are placed in a
document "story" following a set of templates for frames, pages and the
entire document itself. In addition to the standard 14 PostScript fonts
there is full support for custom embedded Type-1 as well as for Asian
fonts. The included graphics subpackage provides a set of primitive
shapes as well as reusable widgets building on them. Among the sample
collections is a very useful set of business chart diagrams, including
bar charts, line charts and pie charts. Different renderers can be used
to create vector graphics (in fact, even full document pages) as
individual components not only in PDF, but also in EPS and in a variety
of bitmap formats including JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP and PICT.
Submitted and maintained by <Aleksander.Piotrowski at nic.com.pl>
Memoir is a flexible class for typesetting general fiction,
non-fiction and mathematical works as books, reports, articles or
manuscripts. Documents can use 9pt, 10pt, 11pt, 12pt, 14pt or 17ptas
the normal font size. Many methods are provided to let you create your
particular design.
from Morten Liebach <m at mongers.org>
AUCTeX is an extensible package that supports writing and formatting
TeX files for most variants of GNU Emacs. AUCTeX supports many
different TeX macro packages, including AMS-TeX, LaTeX, and Texinfo.
Maintainer: Rich Cannings <cannings@openbsd.org>
WWW: http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/
- Use autoconf.
- Move the libtiff check after the libz one.
- Bring libtiff check in line with libpng one (which also needs -lz),
and insert an inconspicuous check for libjpeg.
ok jakob@
A problem with Ghostscript could make it possible to execute
arbitrary commands. The vulnerability exists when GhostScript
is used to process specially formatted PS files.
An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by creating a
malicious PS file which, when processed with GhostScript, will
result in the execution of arbitrary system commands.
Bump version to 7.05p1
ok naddy@
The Hewlett-Packard Co. Linux Inkjet Driver Project is an add-on to the
GNU Ghostscript application. This driver is based on the Hewlett Packard
Appliance APDK for deskjet printers.
WWW: http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/
from Benjamin Lerman <benjamin.lerman@ambre.net>
Apsfilter is the number one magic filter for printing under Unix
environment. Its highly configurable and most flexible by global
and printer dependend config files and allowing users to choose
between different print options with lpr on the commandline to get
easy control over layout, speed and quality of the printing process.
Apsfilter supports PS (Postscript) printer and non-PS capable printer
by using Ghostscript as PS emulator. Printing on locally connected
(serial, parallel, USB) and on network printer like Unix-, Windows-,
Novell and AppleTalk remote printer is supported.
WWW: http://www.apsfilter.org/
from Benjamin Lerman <benjamin.lerman@ambre.net>
- mainly bugfixes and some updates of styles and pdftex(1.10b)
- this version of the port includes a simplified setup so that
metafont mode, papersize and dvips printcmd can be configured
persistently in ${SYSCONFDIR}/tetex.cfg
- remove a4 FLAVOR, use tetex.cfg instead
The long awaited update:
- lots of updates to current packages
- lots of bugfixes
- lots of new packages
- cleanup of licenses, it's all free now (GPL, LPPL, ...)
see ${PREFIX}/share/texmf/ChangeLog for details
This release mainly fixes a very bad bug where configuring LyX
as root (never recomended) could lead to deleting the /dev/null
special device.
Also a bug where LyX would create zombie processes has been
fixed.
More details in http://www.lyx.org/announce/1_2_3.txt
brad@ ok
submitted by Sebastian Stark <seb@todesplanet.de>
Prosper is a LaTeX class for writing transparencies. It is written on
top of the seminar class by Timothy Van Zandt. It aims at offering an
environment for easily creating slides for both presentations with an
overhead projector and a video projector. Slides prepared for a
presentation with a computer and a video projector may integrate
animation effects, incremental display, and such.
pvalchev@ OK
Zen Parse found a local buffer overflow in gv version 3.5.8 and earlier.
Under this vulnerability, an attacker can create a carefully crafted,
malformed PDF or PostScript file that, when viewed using gv, executes
arbitrary commands on the system.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=103428425111983&w=2
When GV detects that the document is either a PDF file or a
GZip compressed file, it executes some commands with the help of the
system() function. Unfortunately, these commands contain the
filename, which can be considered as untrusted user input. It is then
possible to distribute a file (with a meticulously chosen filename,
that even seems innocent) that causes execution of arbitrary
shell commands when it is read with GV.
http://www.epita.fr/~bevand_m/asa/asa-0000
