pdftex documentation
Hi, is there newer documentation for pdftex available than that in the TeXLive repository? The manual in the TL repository seems to be out-of-date and I'm sure that Pawel already has something better. For this documentation (or documentation in general), a smaller value of \pdfminorversion would make more sense. Not everyone has the latest version of Acroread and some people avoid AR7 because it is so slow. Regards, Reinhard -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Reinhard Kotucha Phone: +49-511-4592165 Marschnerstr. 25 D-30167 Hannover mailto:reinhard.kotucha@web.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft isn't the answer. Microsoft is the question, and the answer is NO. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
On 2005-10-09 02:55:41 +0200, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
is there newer documentation for pdftex available than that in the TeXLive repository?
Yes, included in the pdftex distribution on CTAN or sarovar. That covers up to 1.30.x
For this documentation (or documentation in general), a smaller value of \pdfminorversion would make more sense. Not everyone has the latest version of Acroread and some people avoid AR7 because it is so slow.
Already fixed. :-) Best Martin -- http://www.tm.oneiros.de
Yes, included in the pdftex distribution on CTAN or sarovar. That covers up to 1.30.x Ok, I see links on http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/ to the -[las] pdf files, so I grabbed those, and also pdftex-syntax.txt. I don't see any updates for these files: pdftex-i.tex pdftex-t.txt pdftex-w.pdf pdftex-w.tex Also, I see sources in the zip file, but no output in the zip file, or elsewhere on CTAN. Am I missing it? It would be convenient to have it there. wget from sarovar doesn't preserve timestamps (besides being slow). Thanks, Karl
"KB" == Karl Berry writes:
Yes, included in the pdftex distribution on CTAN or sarovar. That covers up to 1.30.x
KB> Ok, I see links on http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/ to the KB> -[las] pdf files, so I grabbed those, and also pdftex-syntax.txt. and the comment in pdftex-s.pdf says: This manual revision (1.596) tries to keep track with the recent pdfTEX development up to version 1.21b. so if it's indeed covering up to 1.30.x, please update it to say so. Best, v.
On 2005-10-09 22:55:26 +0400, Vladimir Volovich wrote:
and the comment in pdftex-s.pdf says:
This manual revision (1.596) tries to keep track with the recent pdfTEX development up to version 1.21b.
so if it's indeed covering up to 1.30.x, please update it to say so.
Will do. Best Martin -- http://www.tm.oneiros.de
"MS" == Martin Schröder writes:
and the comment in pdftex-s.pdf says:
This manual revision (1.596) tries to keep track with the recent pdfTEX development up to version 1.21b.
so if it's indeed covering up to 1.30.x, please update it to say so.
MS> Will do. i looked at random email in ntg-pdftex mentioning recently added primitives, and i see that e.g. \pdfforcepagebox is present in pdftex 1.30.3, but is not even mentioned in pdftex-s.pdf. so i guess that pdftex-s.pdf is not "covering up to 1.30.x" please do make sure that all primitives are described in the manual... Best, v.
On 2005-10-10 11:52:05 +0400, Vladimir Volovich wrote:
"MS" == Martin Schröder writes: MS> Will do.
i looked at random email in ntg-pdftex mentioning recently added primitives, and i see that e.g. \pdfforcepagebox is present in pdftex 1.30.3, but is not even mentioned in pdftex-s.pdf.
so i guess that pdftex-s.pdf is not "covering up to 1.30.x"
please do make sure that all primitives are described in the manual...
They are; the pdftex-s.pdf you get is just too old. If you generate it from the current sources (distributed e.g. on CTAN), you will find its description on page 47. Best Martin -- http://www.tm.oneiros.de
They are; the pdftex-s.pdf you get is just too old. Ah, the essence of the problem. I got that pdftex-s.pdf (and the others) from the links on pdftex.org, blithely and incorrectly assuming they were up to date. So maybe you should update those links? (Once again, having a canonical source for the doc, formatted versions included, would make things so much simpler, for both users and distributors.) Anyway, I will rebuild the pdf's from the sources. When I did that last year, though, Hans decided we should rebuild it all in Optima at the last minute ... Hans, do you plan to do that again this year :)? Thanks, k
On 2005-10-09 13:37:19 -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
Also, I see sources in the zip file, but no output in the zip file, or elsewhere on CTAN. Am I missing it? It would be convenient to have it
No. A simple "make" should get you the output (if you have a recent enough ConTeXt & pdfTeX). Best Martin -- http://www.tm.oneiros.de
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