Philip TAYLOR (Webmaster, Ret'd) wrote:
A supplementary question, if I may ? The PdfTeX reference manual as found at Tug.Org has Chapter Eight entitled "Graphics and color"
whereas the version to be found on CTAN at ftp://ctan.tug.org/tex-archive/systems/pdftex/pdftex-a.pdf has Chapter Eight entitled solely "Graphics" and is apparently of a much more recent vintage
November 23, 2010 Rev. 655
compared to
January 25, 2007 Rev. 1.675
at http://www.tug.org/texmf-dist/doc/pdftex/manual/pdftex-a.pdf So : a couple of questions. 1) What is the rationale for the change in version numbering, from 1.671 (January 2007) and 1.675 (also January 2007) to 655 (November 2010). It is certainly not easy to compare these two numbers, in the absence of the corresponding dates. 2) Is there any obvious reason why the TUG copy is so out-of-date ? Although Google search results are not entirely consistent, repeated tests have shewn that it has a marked preference for displaying the TUG copy well above the CTAN copy, and therefore most users could reasonably be expected to fetch their copy from TUG rather than from CTAN (as did I, whence my original surprise that a Chapter entitled "Graphics and Colour" should have nothing to say about colour). ** Phil. -- Not sent from my i-Pad, i-Phone, Blackberry, Blueberry, or similar such poseurs' toy, none of which would I be seen dead with even if they came free with every packet of cornflakes.