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Mart, It seems that pdfetex is broken (it is not etex) in this beta? [taco@hal tmp]$ pdfetex -ini *plain This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21b-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) (INITEX) \write18 enabled. entering extended mode [taco@glenlivet context]$ pdftex -ini *plain This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.30.0-beta-rc1 (Web2C 7.5.4) (INITEX) %&-line parsing enabled. ! I can't find file `*plain'. <*> *plain PANIC! Taco Martin Schröder wrote:
http://sarovar.org/download.php/637/pdftex-1.30.0-rc1.zip
Here's a beta of the release announcement: -------------------------- The pdfTeX team is happy to announce the release of a new stable version:
=========================================================================== pdfTeX 1.30.0-rc1 ===========================================================================
This is the announcement of pdfTeX 1.30.0-rc1, an extended version of TeX that can create PDF directly from TeX source files and enhance the result of TeX typesetting with the help of PDF.
=========================================================================== Main changes of pdfTeX 1.30.0-rc1 ===========================================================================
- pdfxtex (introduced with 1.20a) is gone; all extensions are now in pdf(e)tex. - Some primitives have been renamed; the old names will still work, but are deprecated and give a warning that they are obsolete: \pdfoptionpdfminorversion -> \pdfminorversion \pdfoptionalwaysusepdfpagebox -> \pdfforcepagebox \pdfoptionpdfinclusionerrorlevel -> \pdfinclusionerrorlevel - pdftex knows two new units: - new Didot (1nd=0.375mm) - new Cicero (1nc=12nd) - Inclusion of pngs has been greatly improved: It now does - alpha channel and transparency (only if %!PDF >=1.4) - 16-bit colour (only if %!PDF >=1.5); this must be enabled by setting \pdfimagehicolor to 1. - gamma correction; this must be enabled by setting \pdfimageapplygamma to 1. The device gamma is taken from \pdfgamma. If no embedded value can be found in the png image, then the value of \pdfimagegamma is used instead. - fast direct embedding of png streams, if their structure allows this; the automatic fall-back is to decompress and re-compress as before. - New primitives: pdfTeX now has an interface to the precise system time (if available) as an aid in benchmarking TeX macro code. - \elapsedtime is a read-only integer that (initially) returns the amount of time passed since the start of this run. This amount is given in `scaled seconds': the value 65536 counts as one second. If more time has passed than 32767 seconds, (2^31)-1 will be returned. - \resettime updates the internal timer, such that subsequent calls to \elapsedtime will restart from 0. - New primitive \pdfxformname <object number>, which expands to the number in the corresponding form XObject name. - New primitives \leftmarginkern <box number> and \rightmarginkern <box number> that tell the margin kern at the left and right side of the horizontal list stored in box <box number>. - New primitive \pdfpkmode, which is a token register that sets the MF mode for pixel font generation. The contents of this register is dumped into the format, so one can (optionally) preset it e.g. in part of pdftexconfig.tex. - The effects of font expansion can now be logged: There is now a new integer variable \pdftracingfonts. It is zero by default, then we get a log (with fontexpansion) like this ...\tenrm t ...\tenrm (+20) e Without font expansion, this default should be compatible with TeX's original log output. If \pdftracingfonts is set to 1 (or greater), we get a more verbose log: ...\xivtt (cmtt10@14.0pt) t ...\xivtt (cmtt10+20@14.0pt) e See also bug 304. - Numerous bugfixes
For complete release notes see http://www.pdftex.org/NEWS
=========================================================================== Legal notice / license ===========================================================================
pdfTeX is copyright (c) 1996-2005 Han The Thanh,
pdfTeX is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
For a complete README (with a full discussion of the license) please look at http://www.pdftex.org/README
=========================================================================== The files / installation ===========================================================================
You should first try to get a new version of pdfTeX through your distribution.
If you want to compile it yourself, have a look at http://www.pdftex.org -- there you can find links to the pdfTeX sources on CTAN and precompiled binaries for most operating systems. And some useful documentation.
=========================================================================== Mailing lists / web pages: ===========================================================================
Mailing list: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex
Related web pages: http://www.pdftex.org http://sarovar.org/projects/pdftex/ http://www.tug.org/tex-live/ http://www.tug.org/tetex/ http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes http://www.dante.de/ http://tug.org/ http://www.pragma-ade.com/
Have fun! --------------------------
Now we have to update the manual...
Best Martin