Date:  Fri, 06 Oct 2006 11:27:06 -0400
From:  madodel <madodel at ptdprolog.net>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: PDFMergeNX Version 1.9.alpha.9

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From: Herwig Bauernfeind <herwig.bauernfeindDESPAM at DESPAMaon.at>

This is the second publicly announced release of PDFMergeNX, the successor 
to PDFMerge/2.

PDFMergeNX is an application to manipulate PDF and PS files in various 
ways. Its capabilities go far beyond those of PDFMerge/2. PDFMergeNX 
provides a graphical user interface and acts as glue between GhostScript, 
XPDF 3.01.pl1 and ePDF (these all must be installed as a prerequisite).

PDFMergeNX is a tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents and 
PostScript files. Currently it can be used to

     * Merge PDF/PS/TIF/FAX/image files
     * Split PDF/PS files into single pages
     * Print PDF/PS files
     * View  PDF/PS files (builtin Mini-PDF/PS-Viewer)
     * Compare (text) content of 2 PDF/PS files (using Araxis PMDiff)
     * Extract PS files from PDF files
     * Flip pages upside down
     * Add simple bookmarks
     * Add and update PDF metadata such as title, subject, author, keywords
     * Rearrange pages
     * Load/save listfiles to add sets of PDF/PS files at once
     * more features to be added.

What is new/changed/in this release?

Summary: If you had problems to get an earlier version of PDFMergeNX to 
work at all, you might want to try this one.

  Added: Progress bar for "Add Many" dialogue
  Added: Another attempt to make PDFMergeNX more intelligent regarding
the setup of the XPDF components.
  Added: Options to choose where to read .xpdfrc from (%HOME% or
%PATH_TO_XPDF% or PDFMergeNX directory).
  Changed: Rearranged properties dialogue in a more logical way.
  Changed: PDFMergeNX adds a line of comment to .xpdfrc in case it has to
recreate it.
  Changed: Rewrote font detection routine
  Changed: As JPEG2PS did not work as I had expected I switched to
NCONVERT.EXE.
           Disadvantage: It is slower (2 conversions instead of 1).
           Advantage: Virtually all kinds of image files are supported now
                      (officially BMP GIF and PNG were added)
  Fixed: Some omissions in the german NLS file.
  Fixed: Opening the PDF info window of a PDF/PS files without fonts
crashed PDFmergeNX
  Fixed: Now XPDF executables are (almost) always called with the -cfg
parameter pointing
         to our .xpdfrc
  Fixed: Mark/Unmark now enables/disables the "Merge" button correctly
  Fixed: The splitbar still could get into an invisible area making the
container unusable.
  Fixed: Creation of local PATH_TO_XPDF did not work

PDFMergeNX is still under heavy development, neither feature set, 
documentation nor  installation process is complete yet and therefore 
feedback of all kinds is appreciated.

Get PDFMergeNX from http://members.aon.at/herwig.bauernfeind/os2.html

Regards,
Herwig Bauernfeind

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