[tex-live] (TeXLive 2008) Fix for small dvipdfm(1) configuration file error

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Mon Dec 8 21:32:53 CET 2008


John Murdie writes:
 > Karl Berry wrote on Fri Dec 5 00:40:46 CET 2008:
 > > Hi John,
 > >             < V 2
 > >             ---
 > >             > V 3
 > > 
 > > Thanks.  For dvipdfmx, we have V 4.  Do you know of some reason we
 > > should not use 4 for dvipdfm too?  I'll change it to that barring advice
 > > to the contrary.  (Those PDF version "errors" are so uselessly painful.)
 > 
 > I've no reason to think that V 4 won't do - the value just needs to be
 > consistent, of course. Thanks!

Hi John and Karl,
V 4 is definitely a good choice because recent versions of ghostscript
create PDF-1.4 by default.  And thus, epstopdf too.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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