Directory obsolete/systems/pdftex
README
pdfTeX ====== README for version 3.1415926-1.40.11 ==================================== This directory contains the version 1.40.11 of pdfTeX, an extended version of eTeX that can create PDF directly from TeX source files and enhance the result of TeX typesetting with the help of PDF. When PDF output is not selected, pdfTeX produces normal DVI output, otherwise it produces PDF output that looks identical to the DVI output. An important aspect of this project is to investigate alternative justification algorithms, optionally making use of multiple master fonts. pdfTeX is based on the original eTeX sources and Web2c, and has been successfully compiled on Unix, Win32 and DOS systems. It is no longer under active development and only bug fixes are to be expected; it produces reasonable PDF code. See the file NEWS for changes to the program. Documentation about pdfTeX can be found at http://www.pdftex.org There is also a mailing list on pdfTeX; go to http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex for more information about it. Its searchable archive can be found at http://tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/ Please read http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html before asking any questions on the pdfTeX mailing list. A mailing list for the developement of pdfTeX can be found at http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-pdftex LEGAL ISSUES ============ pdfTeX is copyright (c) 1996-2010 Han The Thanh, <thanh@pdftex.org> pdfTeX is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. pdfTeX is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with pdfTeX; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. pdfTeX uses code from TeX; for these parts the original copyright by Don Knuth applies. See the source files for details. pdfeTeX uses code from eTeX; for these parts the original copyright by Peter Breitenlohner applies. See the source files for details. WHAT TO DO IF YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE FOUND A BUG IN pdfTeX ======================================================== Please read http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html and follow the guidelines there. Then go to the sarovar site of pdfTeX (http://sarovar.org/projects/pdftex/) and submit your bug report there. Here you can also report feature requests or patches. CONTRIBUTORS ============ Peter Breitenlohner, Ricardo Sanchez Carmenes, Otfried Cheong, Thomas Esser, Hans Hagen, Hartmut Henkel, Taco Hoekwater, Pawel Jackowski, Pavel Janik, Tom Kacvinsky, Akira Kakuto, Reinhard Kotucha, Derek B. Noonburg, Heiko Oberdiek, Jiri Osoba, Fabrice Popineau, Sebastian Rahtz, Bernd Raichle, Tomas Rokicki, Leonard Rosenthol, Martin Schr�der, Petr Sojka, Ralf Utermann, Olaf Weber, Jiri Zlatuska. Some companies have supported the developement of pdfTeX: Adobe Systems Inc., ArtCom GmbH, Pragma ADE, QuinScape GmbH. pdfTeX is built on top of TeX, written by Donald Knuth cum suis (Liang and so), and eTeX, written by Peter Breitenlohner cum suis; part of the paragraph optimization is inspired by the work of Hermann Zapf. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please send bug reports, offers of help, etc. to pdftex@tug.org
