v1.9

HTMLDOC 1.9 is a limited feature release that adds support for Markdown input and EPUB output. Changes include:

• 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.

Enjoy!

v1.8.30

HTMLDOC 1.8.30 fixes some known build and formatting issues. Changes include:

• 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)

v1.8.29

HTMLDOC 1.8.29 fixes some known build and formatting issues, updates support libraries, and drops support for OpenSSL. Changes include:

• 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 (Bug #525)
• The table of contents showed the wrong page numbers after headings containing the _HD_OMIT_TOC attribute.
• Fixed reported build issues (Bug #500, Bug #507, Bug #510, Bug #533)
• The configure script's --enable-local* options did not work.

Enjoy!

v1.8.28

HTMLDOC 1.8.28 fixes some known security issues and formatting bugs. Changes include:

• 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 (STR #235)
• Fixed compilation against PNG library 1.5 or later (STR #243)
• Fixed documentation errors (PR #6593, PR #6595)
• Marked Zapf-Dingbats as a standard font (STR #198)
• Fixed GPL license text in GUI (STR #222)
• Fixed a table formatting problem when a column has multiple colspan values (PR #6709)
• Fixed parsing of HTML comments (STR #181)
• Fixed potential out-of-bounds read in table-of-contents rendering code (STR #183)
• Fixed handling of image URLs with ampersands in them (STR #186)
• Fixed top/bottom margins for logo and header/footer images (STR #174)
• Fixed image alignment bug (Bug #231)
• Fixed X11 build problem (Bug #243)

Enjoy!