[pdftex] pdf ducument info (possible bug of 0.14f)

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Tim Brunne wrote:

> Using pdflatex 0.14f with hyperref-package: I set document
> information using the
>
> 	\pdfauthor, etc.
>
> commands in the \hypersetup block of the LaTeX source.

There is no command \pdfauthor, but an option pdfauthor.

> NOW: I had a file I prepared in August/September 2000 with
> a version of pdftex before release 0.14f. Everything was fine.
>
> After upgrading (Debian GNU/Linux system) to 0.14f I found that
> the (same) acrobat reader (as before) gave an error message
> when I wanted to look at the document info, of a pdf-file
> generated from the old sources with the 0.14f-release.

Perhaps you have downgraded hyperref to an old version.
Which version you use?

> Looking at the PDF-source directly in emacs confirmed that the
> corresponding parts of the pdf-file seem to be broken.

What do you mean with "broken"? A small example?

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at ruf.uni-freiburg.de>