[ePiX-users] New unstable release (Version 1.1.3)

[Andrew D. Hwang]

FEATURES

epix-1.1.x implements ePiX-2's color capabilities, including named models 
(RGB, CMY, CMYK, and Gray), color blending, filtering, CMYK separation, 
limited transparency, as well as color filling and colorable arrows in 
eepic, decorable screens, and page markup. The user syntax is similar to 
Version 1.0.x, and should be backward compatible. The global parameters 
x_min, etc., should be replaced with function calls, e.g. xmin(), from now 
on.

This is the first release from the 1.1.x source tree suitable for general 
testing. It is not a stable release, however.


DOWNLOADING

Please see the "News" section on the project page for the link to the 
source package. Sample files are a separate download.

  http://math.holycross.edu/~ahwang/software/ePiX.html#News


NOTES

Files using many colors (e.g. shaded surfaces) will require up-to-date 
dvips and pstricks, and probably hugelatex (latex with the maximum amount 
of memory allocated). Use the "-H" or "--huge" options in elaps to invoke 
hugelatex. The page

  http://sysadmin.cs.caltech.edu/docs/help/software/hugetex

gives step-by-step instructions for installing hugelatex on your system.

epix-1.1.3 has been tested on GNU/Linux (gcc-3.3) and Mac OS X (Apple's 
gcc-4.0). Some features are as-yet unimplemented or otherwise known not to 
work perfectly. These include screen cropping with non-rectangular masks, 
non-solid (dashed and dotted) lines, path clipping, spherical plotting, 
and scattered errors when filling surface mesh elements. For the moment, 
you must set the viewpoint with camera.at(P). The contrib package is 
broken.

Please post to the list if you encounter problems not mentioned here.

--Andy

Andrew D. Hwang                 address@hidden
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