pdfTeX creates invalid PDFs

[Cristian Klein]

pdfTeX version 1.40.3, which is included in Ubuntu Intrepid creates PDF which cannot be read by Adobe Acrobat Reader, as reported in [1].

As a workaround, I created a pdfTeX package in my PPA [2], which installs pdfTeX 1.40.9 and divers the pdfTeX of the texlive-base-bin package.

[1] http://www.nabble.com/PGF-2.0---Beamer-3.07-have-a-problem-with-Acrobat-td16728995.html
[2] https://edge.launchpad.net/~cristiklein/+archive

[markus haider (markus.haider)]

Thank you very much Christian. There is another issue with pdfTex 1.40.3, namely that it gives an error stating that pdftex cannot handle page groups. I installed you package, and that solved my problem.

I wonder why the standard Tex packages have to be that old...

[Cristian Klein (cristiklein)]

markus haider a écrit :
> Thank you very much Christian. There is another issue with pdfTex
> 1.40.3, namely that it gives an error stating that pdftex cannot handle
> page groups. I installed you package, and that solved my problem.
>
> I wonder why the standard Tex packages have to be that old...
>

I can't wait for Debian to pack the new TexLive 2008. I heard they did
great improvement in XeTeX and hyphenation.

[Norbert Preining (preining)]

On Sa, 17 Jan 2009, Cristian KLEIN wrote:
> I can't wait for Debian to pack the new TexLive 2008.

Help is welcomed!

Best wishes

Norbert

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