On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 22:41, Michael Green wrote:

One other question. which pdftex shows that it's in the minimal distribution

They released a patch for this problem in April 2009. Specifically, they patched the binary files dvips and pdftex

Have these patches been applied to the versions of dvips and pdftex in the minimals?

Not for dvips for a simple reason. It's not in minimals. The sources for minimals contain the latest stable pdftex branch (that's returning errors during compilation at the moment). The exact pdftex version depends on whether some particular maintainer has already recompiled the binaries or not, but you can check on http://svn.contextgarden.net/minimals/bin/tex/ if curious. In case of Mac that's SVN #578, while the version in repository is #581.

If not, is there any reason why I shouldn't substitute these patched versions for the ones in the minimals?

They may be older than the ones in minimals (and they will be overwritten if you don't put them to the right place). I don't know any details about LuaTeX. (I would assume that Taco did apply the patch, but I don't know details.)

Source for the patch: http://www.tug.org/mactex/fontcache/ http://www.tug.org/mactex/fontcache/patchedbinaries.tar.gz

Mojca PS: I admire the discovery of the bug, but some PDFs that Mathematica generates manage to crash even Safari when trying to attach the document and many of my own (manually generated) EPS images are pure crap when viewed with Preview ... TeX seems innocent in comparison ... :)