pdftex.cfg (was: pdf(e)tex status)
On 2004-01-29 01:15:49 +0100, Staszek Wawrykiewicz wrote:
can you tell me about the status of expected changes to pdf(e)tex?
Stasz, I want to fix the cfg problem in the next release (1.12a, planned for early February).
Just to recall, here is the current problem: how to avoid reading pdftex.cfg while running pdf(e)tex --ini
As I recall the main problem was not that a cfg was found and read but that it wasn't found and pdftex failed. I just want to make a missing cfg a non-fatal error.
I would vote for dumping the *default* output to the format, say latex will use \pdfoutput=0, pdflatex will use \pdfoutput=1
Good idea.
So latex etc. could be linked just to pdfetex, without any other command line switch (anyway not yet available). For such command&format I'd suggest not reading pdftex.cfg at all (it sets things rather concerned to pdf output).
pdftex.cfg should be left as it is for commands&formats which use pdf output by default. Just to avoid a mess with new command line parameters for pdf(e)tex, more config files, and... for transparent use as (e)tex replacement as the main engine (actually not true).
True.
Ps. I'm overflooded by spam mails, often sent from your, Sebastian and other people addresses...
Yes. Spammers like to fake their addresses and use publically known addresses. Unfortunately ours are all over the web. :-( Use SpamAssassin with procmail. :-( Best regards Martin -- Martin Schröder, ms@artcom-gmbh.de ArtCom GmbH, Lise-Meitner-Str 5, 28359 Bremen, Germany Voice +49 421 20419-44 / Fax +49 421 20419-10 http://www.artcom-gmbh.de
On 2004-01-29 11:31:42 +0100, Martin Schröder wrote:
As I recall the main problem was not that a cfg was found and read but that it wasn't found and pdftex failed. I just want to make a missing cfg a non-fatal error.
I have fixed this (changed a pdftex_fail into a pdftex_warn). Best regards Martin -- Martin Schröder, ms@artcom-gmbh.de ArtCom GmbH, Lise-Meitner-Str 5, 28359 Bremen, Germany Voice +49 421 20419-44 / Fax +49 421 20419-10 http://www.artcom-gmbh.de
Pdftex produces broken PDF when its HZ implementation is used with \pdfuniqueresname = 1, like it is set in example.tex. Then xpdf issues errors, e. g.: Error: Unknown font tag 'F54?:E3_+10' Reason is, that in the page contents stream there is e. g. some /F54?:E3_+10 but the page resources look like /Font << ... /F54+10?:E3_ ... The font_tag "+10" and resname_prefix "?:E3_" are swapped (and it's no prefix anyway, more like an inbetweenfix). This can easily be cured by just swapping two lines in pdftex.ch, then it's a postfix :-) --- pdftex.ch-orig Mon Oct 6 10:38:51 2003 +++ pdftex.ch Tue Feb 3 20:47:41 2004 @@ -1590,8 +1590,8 @@ pdf_begin_text; pdf_print("/F"); pdf_print_int(k); - pdf_print_resname_prefix; pdf_print_font_tag(f); + pdf_print_resname_prefix; pdf_out(" "); pdf_print_bp(font_size[f]); pdf_print(" Tf"); Seems to work then. Have fun! Regards, Hartmut ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hartmut Henkel, Oftersheim, Germany ------------------------------------------------------------------------
On 2004-02-03 21:23:20 +0100, Hartmut Henkel wrote:
The font_tag "+10" and resname_prefix "?:E3_" are swapped (and it's no prefix anyway, more like an inbetweenfix). This can easily be cured by just swapping two lines in pdftex.ch, then it's a postfix :-)
--- pdftex.ch-orig Mon Oct 6 10:38:51 2003 +++ pdftex.ch Tue Feb 3 20:47:41 2004 @@ -1590,8 +1590,8 @@ pdf_begin_text; pdf_print("/F"); pdf_print_int(k); - pdf_print_resname_prefix; pdf_print_font_tag(f); + pdf_print_resname_prefix; pdf_out(" "); pdf_print_bp(font_size[f]); pdf_print(" Tf");
Seems to work then. Have fun!
Thanks! Best regards Martin -- Martin Schröder, ms@artcom-gmbh.de ArtCom GmbH, Lise-Meitner-Str 5, 28359 Bremen, Germany Voice +49 421 20419-44 / Fax +49 421 20419-10 http://www.artcom-gmbh.de
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