pdftex – A TeX extension for direct creation of PDF
An extension of TeX which can be configured to directly generate PDF documents instead of DVI. All current free TeX distributionsm including TeX live, MacTeX and MiKTeX include pdfTeX (Plain TeX) and pdfLaTeX (LaTeX). ConTeXt was designed around use of pdfTeX (though it is now migrating towards LuaTeX).
| CTAN path | /systems/pdftex |
|---|---|
| Documentation |
Readme User manual Announcement of the release Development news |
| Home page | http://www.pdftex.org |
| Version | 1.40.11 |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Copyright | 1996-2008 Hàn Thế Thành |
| Maintainer | Hàn Thế Thành the pdfTeX team |
| Contained in | TeXLive as pdftex |
| MiKTeX as miktex-pdftex-bin-2.9 | |
| Topics |
TeX (or TeX-alike) typesetting engine |