[pdftex] PTEX.FileName contains file system information

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Tue Aug 7 18:13:58 CEST 2007


Peter Schmitt wrote:

> Upward compatibilty is very important, but it should not be a dogma:
> In a case like this -- which does not even concern the typesetting --
> adding a switch (either a commandline switch or a primitive to be set)
> should be considered as correcting a bug (an oversight), and
> the default setting should be the more cautious choice.
> (A message in the logfile could be added.)

well, as mentioned before, it's not a bug nor an oversight (actually, 
adding full resource names has been very custom in publishing because it 
permitted to include a low res graphic to be replaced by a high res in 
the final stage), it's a feature present for a long time now; and now 
this feature can be disabled

Hans

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