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Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9.3

  • Fixed formatting bug with aligned images (Issue #322)
  • Fixed support for three digit "#RGB" color values (Issue #323)
  • Fixed character set support for markdown metadata.

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9.2

  • Added Markdown table support.
  • Fixed parsing of TBODY, TFOOT, and THEAD elements in HTML files.

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9.1

  • Fixed monospace font size issue (Issue #309)
  • Added support for reproducible builds (Issue #310)
  • Added limited support for the HTML 4.0 SPAN element (Issue #311)
  • Added (extremely limited) UTF-8 support for input files (Issue #314)
  • Fixed buffer underflow for (invalid) short HTML comments (Issue #316)
  • Now indent PRE text, by popular request.
  • EPUB output now makes sure that <element property> is written as <element property="property">.
  • Now support both NAME and ID for table-of-contents targets.

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.9

  • Added support for repeating a single header row for tables that span multiple pages (Issue #16)
  • Added support for embedding the current filename/URL in the header or footer (Issue #50)
  • Added EPUB support (Issue #301)
  • Added Markdown support (Issue #302)
  • Fixed a regression in header/footer image scaling (Issue #303)
  • Documentation updates (Issue #305)
  • Compiler fixes (Issue #304, Issue #306)
  • Fixed a bug when running HTMLDOC as a macOS application.
  • Updated the bundled libpng to v1.6.29.

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.8.30

  • Updated documentation to reflect new project page on Github.
  • Dropped old CDE and IRIX desktop integration files.
  • Cleaned up the GUI and adopted new default text editors for Linux and macOS.
  • PAGE BREAK comments at the end of a file in web page mode would lose the first page (Issue #251)
  • Fixed the scaling of header/footer images to limit them to the height of the header or footer (Issue #273)
  • Fixed an issue with the top-level makefile not exiting with an error as needed (Issue #282)
  • Fixed a URL referencing bug when the same hostname but a different port was used (Issue #290)
  • Fixed build issue on macOS (Issue #291)
  • Fixed handling of indexed+alpha PNG images (Issue #295)

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.8.29

  • Updated local PNG library to version 1.6.20.
  • Updated local JPEG library to version 9b.
  • Dropped support for OpenSSL.
  • Added configure script support for libjpeg-turbo.
  • Updated HTTP code to latest CUPS/ippsample sources.
  • Duplex PDF output incorrectly forced an even number of pages
  • The table of contents showed the wrong page numbers after headings containing the "_HD_OMIT_TOC" attribute.
  • Fixed reported build issues
  • The configure script's --enable-local* options did not work.

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.8.28

  • Updated local zlib to version 1.2.8.
  • Updated local PNG library to version 1.6.8.
  • Updated local JPEG library to version 9.
  • Updated default PDF version to 1.4.
  • SECURITY: Fixed three buffer overflow issues when reading AFM files and parsing page sizes.
  • Fixed incompatibility with Fortify's version of strcpy, which does not work properly with variable-length arrays
  • Fixed compilation against PNG library 1.5 or later
  • Fixed documentation errors
  • Marked Zapf-Dingbats as a standard font
  • Fixed GPL license text in GUI
  • Fixed a table formatting problem when a column has multiple colspan values
  • Fixed parsing of HTML comments
  • Fixed potential out-of-bounds read in table-of-contents rendering code
  • Fixed handling of image URLs with ampersands in them
  • Fixed top/bottom margins for logo and header/footer images
  • Fixed image alignment bug
  • Fixed X11 build problem

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.8.27

  • Fixed a crash bug that appeared when more than 10 blank pages were present in a document
  • Color changes were not reflected in PRE text
  • Remote URLs did not always work on older operating systems
  • Image filenames using % escapes were not decoded properly.
  • Rows using BGCOLOR that spanned across multiple pages did not render properly
  • Rows no longer start on a new page due to a cell with both HEIGHT and ROWSPAN specified
  • CMYK JPEG images caused HTMLDOC to crash
  • Table cell width calculations didn't always account for the proper minimum width
  • Images were not copied when generating indexed HTML output to a directory
  • Changing the bottom margin resulted in text that was formatted below the bottom margin.
  • The Monospace-Oblique font was not embedded properly in PDF files.

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.8.26

  • Outline and keyword strings in PDF files are now stored as Unicode
  • The Flate compression code could get in an infinite loop if it ran out of memory
  • Book files saved from the GUI did not handle filenames with spaces
  • Fixed and re-enabled the ASCII85Device filter support in PostScript Level 2/3 output
  • Character entities in the first word of a file were not rendered properly
  • Fixed-size table columns were incorrectly resized when a table width was also specified and there was extra space to distribute
  • Text could "walk" up or down when in-line images were used
  • Row backgrounds incorrectly replaced cell backgrounds when the first cell in a row used ROWSPAN
  • HTMLDOC did not correctly parse FONT FACE attributes
  • Images in Level 2/3 PostScript output did not work on some printers
  • The GUI did not use the first page header

Changes in HTMLDOC v1.8.25

  • Added "--overflow" and "--no-overflow" command-line options to show or hide the content-too-large errors; the default is "--no-overflow".
  • Added "--header1" command-line option and "HEADER1" page comments to set the page header for the first page of each chapter.
  • Added "timing" and "remotebytes" debug data generation.
  • Added DejaVu font collection to better support Cyrillic and Greek text; the new fonts are available under the generic names "monospace", "sans", and "serif".
  • Added "--referer" command-line option and corresponding CGI-mode support to pass Referer: information in HTTP requests
  • On Windows, HTMLDOC now logs CGI mode errors to a file called "htmldoc.log" in the Windows temporary directory.
  • HTMLDOC no longer uses Base-85 encoding for image data when producing Level 2 and 3 PostScript output. It appears that many printers and PostScript interpreters cannot properly decode this data when the original image data is not a multiple of 8 bits.
  • HTMLDOC now renders STRONG elements in boldface instead of bold-italic to match the W3C recommendations.
  • HTMLDOC now automatically inserts a TR element before a TD or TH element as needed to improve web site compatibility; this also triggers a HTML error in --strict mode.
  • "$HFIMAGEn" didn't work in a header/footer string.
  • HTMLDOC could crash when rendering a table.
  • Book files were not used in CGI mode
  • Cookies were not sent in HTTP requests
  • Table cells were not aligned properly when the ROWSPAN attribute was set to 1
  • HTMLDOC crashed when rendering unresolved hyperlinks in aligned images
  • Documented the HTMLDOC_NOCGI environment variable
  • HTMLDOC sometimes crashed when rendering tables with background colors
  • HTMLDOC would crash when writing encrypted strings longer than 1024 bytes
  • HTMLDOC didn't set the data directory when running in CGI mode on Windows.
  • HTMLDOC could crash when loading the Symbol.afm file
  • HTMLDOC did not always honor HEIGHT attributes in table rows.
  • Tables with a mix of colspan and rowspan sometimes caused cells to be moved vertically outside the cell.