On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 03:14:12PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: > Angus Lees wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 01:12:29PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: > > > Angus Lees wrote: > > > > At Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:39:31 +1000, marty wrote: > > > > > what tools are people using to create PDFs? > > > > > > > > i use pdftex (or rather, pdflatex). > > > > > > Can I ask how? > > > both pdftex & pdflatex just reject all the latex stuff with !undefined > > > control sequence and the doco is no help. > > > > hmm.. it just works for me (unless you do something silly like try and > > use pstricks) > > Okay, that means I'm fundamentally doing the correct thing. Just a few > crinkles involved > > > > > what version of pdftex (--version) ? > > [terryc@owl 2002]$ pdftex -version > pdfTeX (Web2C 7.3.1) 3.14159-0.13d
0.13d is *ancient* (by pdftex standards) my (standard debian "unstable" tetex packages) have: pdfTeX (Web2C 7.3.7) 3.14159-1.00a-pretest-20011114-ojmw iirc, the latest pdftex release is 1.00b-pretest and included in tex live. its possible to compile a newer pdftex and drop it over an existing install (i've done it). you have to remember to rebuild the pdflatex format, and install the relevant .pool files - not just the pdftex binary. > > which tex installation? version? (distro?) > > Whatever came on the RH7.1 CDs from Everything Linux. I haven't upgraded > anything yet. redhat use the latest stable release of tetex. everyone else (suse, debian, tex live) are using tetex-beta. the only places where tex is evolving fast enough these days for that to be a problem is pdftex and context. if you need either of these, always look around for a newer version. it looks like thomas esser will be releasing a new "stable" version of tetex fairly soon though. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
