This page contains downloadable updaters for use with our product.

We recommend that you use the update facility within the program if possible. This is accessible by choosing Check for Updates from the Help menu within the program.

Users in some corporate or government environments may have a firewall in place that prevents our updater from contacting the servers. Additionally, some home users may have a personal firewall in place that may also disrupt updater communication.

If you are unable or unwilling to configure your installation to receive updates directly from the Check for Updates facility within PCTeX, you may download and run one of the updaters below.

To use an updater, click on a link below within your browser. You may run it directly (by choosing Open when prompted by the browser), or you may save it to a location of your choosing and run it at a later time.

The updater is completely self-contained within the one file; you may place it on removable media and use that to update computers without network access.

Each updater contains all earlier patches.

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26th Oct 2005

• More robust communication with typesetter and PS/PDF engine to address remaining freezes during typesetting and postscript rendering.

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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

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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

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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 roducing 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

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3rd Sep, 2004

• Case sensitivity issue in PDF previewer

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2nd Sep, 2004

• Help file revisions
• Help file extensions Win9x support

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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)

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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

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26th February, 2004

• Fix for crashes in certain printer drivers
• Fix for slow PDF distillation when using transparent images

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28th January, 2004

• Fix for dvips filename truncations

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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)

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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

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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

11th November, 2003

• AMSPlain, MLAMSPlain format problem caused incremented page numbering

22nd October, 2003

• Fix reference point in seteps.tex and setps.tex to be v4 compatible

16th October, 2003

• Corrects for some printer drivers which corrupt output
• PCTeX Helper buttons corrected
• Support for printing directly to Adobe Distiller