[tex-live] source or source.development?
Hans Hagen
pragma at wxs.nl
Fri Nov 5 15:28:53 CET 2004
Karl Berry wrote:
> One of the fundamental differences between tex and pdftex is that pdftex
> has to know the characteristics of the document output, since it is
> producing the final output. Thus, page size, page offsets, resolution,
actually, the page format has to be known at any stage since the page
construction (as done by macros) may depend on it; in dvi one can use specials
to communicate the page characteristics; the main difference between dvi and pdf
is the reference point, which in pdf is at the lower left corner, which makes it
more sensitive to a non specified paper size since it needs to know the height
of the page.
Hans
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