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Recommended Updating Procedure
From the Help Menu within PCTeX, select Help..Updates..Check for updates now
The software will connect to our servers over the Internet, check for available updates, download the appropriate updates, and automatically install them.
If you have a firewall installed, it may prevent the PCTeX Updater from communicating with our servers. If you cannot configure your firewall to grant our updater access to the Internet, then you will need to manually download the update and install it yourself. Follow the instructions in the section below.
Manual Updating Procedure
All updates for Version 6 (the currently shipping version) are listed below. Each link below contains all prior updates, so to bring your PCTeX software up-to-date all you need to download is the most recent update.
Click on the link to download the update.
If you wish to run the update directly, choose "Open" when prompted by your browser. To run the update later, choose "Save" when prompted by your browser. The updater is completely self-contained in the single file. You may copy it to removable media to update computers that are not part of a local network.
Updates for PCTeX Version 6
October 17, 2007
- Landscape orientation detected from DVI file
- When opening a file in DVI mode, the page orientation (portrait or landscape) view will be automatically adjusted
- The print orientation is also set automatically
- Graphics inclusion will use Figure Files path
- When including figures or graphics, the Figure Files path in Settings..Directories will be searched
- Graphics Wizard will use different units, e.g. cm, pt, ...
- The Graphics Wizard dialog will allow the use of different units when resizing the graphic image
- Caption & Reference fields in Graphics Wizard are more TeX-friendly
- The contents of these fields will be checked and adjusted so that there will not be errors when the document is typeset
September 16, 2007
- Fixed bug with landscape display and printing in DVI mode
August 23, 2007
- Fixed bug where large files BoundingBox information was misinterpreted.
- Fixed eps bounding box computation for Include Graphic dialog display
- Fixed bugs with loading missing language dictionaries
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
June 27, 2007
- Updated package archives to the TeX Live 2007 set
- The original PCTeX6 released in February 2007 was provided with the TeX Live 2005 package archive
- For those users who have this version, the working archive will continue to be the TeX Live 2005 - it will not change automatically to TeX Live 2007
- Rationale: this avoids mixing packages from two archives, avoiding possible conflicts.
- To update to the TeX Live 2007 package archive you will have to uninstall PCTeX6, delete all PCTeXv6 directories, and then install the June 27 release (this will be available to beta testers on June 27 and will be in distribution shortly after).
- PCTeX will allow multi-language spell checking - over 20 dictionaries are available
- Use Settings..Default Settings..TeXSpell to set the default language for spell checking
- Use the Insert..Language wizard to set the spell check language for a document
- Allows editing the custom dictionary for each language word list
- Spell custom dictionaries were moved to ispell/ispell_<lang>.dic . For example, CUSTOM.DIC is moved to spell/ispell_american.dic
- TeXSpell dialog titles show which dictionary is being used, e.g. "american"
- On Insert..Language will add \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
- PCTeX will now try to load missing package files either from the internet or from local archives
- It uses a new strategy to load missing packages, and maintains a local database of packages
- Added an "Enable Net Access" checkbox to Packages dialog to inhibit accessing the internet archives if desired
- Fixed bug: when reading files from the internet archive, will not hang if net access not available
- Will find BoundingBox in eps files more successfully - previously eps files with large headers would not load into the Insert Graphic dialog
- Will find LaTeX preamble more successfully
- Fixed bug with spellcheck replace - will keep case of original word. For example, replace "Lod" with "load" gives "Load".
- Fixed bug accessing Adobe Acrobat 8.1 as PDF reader
- Fixed bug in source->DVI find - previously this was not consistent
- Fixed bug with graphics inclusion file names - this was giving false invalid file name warnings
- Miscellaneous bug fixes
April 18, 2007
- Added Settings..Editor option to turn on/off auto-complete LaTeX commands
- Added Settings..Editor option to turn on/off auto-spellcheck
- Added full key/value options to Class and Package configuration wizards. For an example see the package geometry
- Set Settings..TeX Fonts to always typeset Character Table in DVI mode
- Fixed PDF mode logic to allow re-typesetting if references are unresolved
- Removed restriction on PS->PDF conversion in PCTeX 6 Regular
- Added TeX-friendly captions & references in Insert Graphics
- Before, adding the file "graph_13.eps", for example, would provide the caption "Caption for graph_13". The "_" would cause a typesetting error. Now gives "Caption for graph\_13".
- Fixed ctrl-] to do match brace (wasn't working)
- Fixed miscellaneous bugs
February 13, 2007
- Initial release
Most recent Version 5 Install image
Most Recent Update (contains this and all previous updates):
No updates at this time.PCTeX Updates for Version 5
- More robust communication with typesetter and PS/PDF engine to address remaining freezes during typesetting and postscript rendering.
13th Jul, 2005
- Recovers gracefully from missing EPS files
- Support for GIF/LZW and TIFF/LZW (now patent-free) formats
- Fix for MFC Error when topmost project file removed from disk
- Support for pdfetex as primary TeX Engine
25th Jan, 2005
- Fix support for "true" dimensions in specials
- Fix clipping support in specials
- Allow larger page sizes, include A0-A6 as presets
- Selection column toggling for Braille reader
- Fix for Export to PDF error when running as a restricted user
- Integrated newer version of Edit control for JAWS Braille reader
- F3 in Editor fixed
30th Nov, 2004
- Updated help file, new getting started topic
- Allow non-emacs line kill
- BibTeX options passed through
- Wait Cursor behavior better on slower machines
- PDF distilling producing lines around graphics fixed
- Page displacement of 2-up pages behavior fixed
- Enhanced project customization
- Clipboard DIB scaling information passed
Find window moves out of the way - Fix for source files being removed out from under project files
3rd Sep, 2004
- Case sensitivity issue in PDF previewer
2nd Sep, 2004
- Help file revisions
- Help file extensions Win9x support
28th Aug, 2004
- Load packages directly from the internet
- New help file
- Fatal bugs w/ empty projects vs maximization fix
- Advanced pane: fix TEX/DVI file association button
- Package manager: Right pane reinstall bug
- Package manager: Right pane repositioning fixed
- Package manager: Right pane uninstall bug
- Package manager: Descriptions for web files
- Bug 566: File->New to not force .tex file creation
- Bug 447: default view size, maximization, etc.
- Bug 416: workspace remembers view page
- Bug 539: Tools and env vars (emacs works!)
- Allow use of 5-6-5 encoded 16bit bitmaps
- Fix for parentheses in directory names confusing dvips
- Fix for certain specials not being inserted correctly in large documents
- Editor reverse scrolling behavior in word-wrapped paragraphs
- Migrate to not using My PCTeX Files by default.
- Automatically install licenses on a per-machine basis
- Fix "user.map" warning after update when no user fonts installed
- Printing multiple copies to non-PS printer drivers made more efficient
- Font installer finds Native Windows fonts under Win95/98/ME
- Font installer now handles some non-standard font encodings (symbol, etc)
21st May, 2004
- Font installer is now active, and allows adding TrueType (TTF) and PostScript (PFB) font files
- Font installer warns about installing "naked fonts"
- Font installer distinguishes between 8A and 8R encodings
- Font list dialog "decimal only" bug fixed
- Editor will now jump from source text to DVI/typeset view
- Support was added for printing to Acrobat Distiller 3,4,5,6
- An option was added to allow embedding of PS35 standard fonts during PDF export
- Standalone preview of troublesome EPS files fixed
- PDF output refinements were implemented, including automatic landscape detection
- Antialias "Always" is now the default in the PS mode viewer
- Antialias radio buttons problem in View Settings fixed
- Evaluation watermark revised, and moved to bottom of display page
- The evaluation dialog appears at every startup (Evaluation licenses only)
- Writer level now correctly allows AI export
- Reader level now correctly allows PS export
- Update/Install location fixed for ease in managing multiple installations
26th February, 2004
- Fix for crashes in certain printer drivers
- Fix for slow PDF distillation when using transparent images
28th January, 2004
- Fix for dvips filename truncations
23rd January, 2004
- Support for applying DVI-level \magnification to \special graphics
- Add odd/even, reversed printer support
- Settings->Directories bugs w/ text limits and abbreviations
- Legacy special commands (eps:) support
- Honors printer dialog selections (n-up, copies, collation, etc.) for postscript printing
- Enhanced project-based tiling
- fix for "unable to initialize RIP" during PDF export
- Advanced support for selecting method of PS rasterization
- Workaround for users with bad Win2k network file shares (lacking Modify access)
25th November, 2003
- fixed support for low bit-depth bitmaps transparencies in Postscript/PDF
- Some bitmap heights could go get scaled to zero when exporting PS/PDF
20th November, 2003
- More intuitive File->New and File->New->Browse behavior
- Guard against legacy path searching variables
- TTF support in all view/print modes
- Text dragged in Output windows causes errors fixed
- Viewing of large documents with many graphics sped up in PS-mode
- BMP (16bit depth) to Postscript conversion fixed
- WMF, EMF graphics transparencies fixed
- Improved support for binary/DOS preview EPS files
- Printing routines sped up
- Math mode coloring more intuitive
- Better compatibility with problematic printer drivers
- Better DVI recovery when TFM files missing
- Add support for PDF internal compression
- AMSPlain, MLAMSPlain format problem caused incremented page numbering
- Fix reference point in seteps.tex and setps.tex to be v4 compatible
- Corrects for some printer drivers which corrupt output
- PCTeX Helper buttons corrected
- Support for printing directly to Adobe Distiller
Updates for Older Versions
PCTeX 4.2.05 Update
This will update your PCTeX 4.2 program to the latest version. Download the file and place it on your Desktop. Double-click on the icon to perform the update. The update program will ask you to verify that it has found the correct PCTeX folder. Click Open and the update will be applied.
To update a network copy of PCTeX 4.2, you must run the update program from a client which has full access to the PCTeX folder on the server. When you are asked to verify the correct PCTeX folder, direct the update program to the PCTeX folder on the server.
Click here to download the PCTeX 4.2.05 update.
PCTeX 4.01 Update
This will update your PCTeX 4.0 program to version 4.01. Download the file and place it on your Desktop. Double-click on the icon to perform the update. The update program will ask you to verify that it has found the correct PCTeX folder. Click Open and the update will be applied.
To update a network copy of PCTeX 4.0, you must run the update program from a client which has full access to the PCTeX folder on the server. When you are asked to verify the correct PCTeX folder, direct the update program to the PCTeX folder on the server.
Click here to download the PCTeX 4.01 update.
PCTeX 4.0 Editor Update
This will update your PCTeX 4.0 editor, making it operate faster on large files, and eliminating the bug with extra line spaces. Download the file and place it on your Desktop. Double-click on the icon to perform the update. The update program will ask you to verify that it has found the correct PCTeX folder. Click Open and the update will be applied.
To update a network copy of PCTeX 4.0, you must run the update program from a client which has full access to the PCTeX folder on the server. When you are asked to verify the correct PCTeX folder, direct the update program to the PCTeX folder on the server.
Click here to download the PCTeX 4.0 editor update.
PCTeX Versions Prior to 4.0
Personal TeX no longer provides support for these versions.
Please take advantage of our generous upgrade options.