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The pdfTEX user manual

The pdfTEX user manual
´ Hàn Thê Thành Sebastian Rahtz Hans Hagen Hartmut Henkel Paweł Jackowski Martin Schröder January 25, 2007 Rev. 1.675

The title page of this manual represents the plain TEX coded text “Welcome to pdfTEX!”

\pdfoutput=1 \pdfcompresslevel=0 \font\tenrm=ptmr8r \tenrm Welcome to pdf\TeX! \bye

The pdfTEX user manual

Contents
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . About PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Getting started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Macro packages supporting PDFTEX . . Setting up fonts . ....

1 Introduction
The main purpose of the pdfTEX project is to create and maintain an extension of TEX that can produce pdf directly from TEX source files and improve/enhance the result of TEX typesetting with the help of pdf. When pdf output is not selected, pdfTEX ...

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About this manual
This manual revision (1.675) tries to keep track with the recent pdfTEX development up to version 1.40.0. Main text updates were done regarding the new configuration scheme, font mapping, and new or updated primitives. The primary repository for the...

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Legal Notice
´ Copyright C 1996--2007 Hàn Thê Thành. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version

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The pdfTEX user manual

published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License”.

2 About PDF
The cover of this manual lists an almost minimal pdf file generated by pdfTEX, with the corresponding source file on the next page. Unless compression is enabled, such a pdf file is rather verbose and readable. The first line specifies the versi...

9 0 obj << /Type /Catalog /Pages 5 0 R >> endobj
Here 9 0 obj ... endobj is the object capsule. The first number is the object number. The sequence 5 0 R is an object reference, a pointer to another object (no. 5). The second number (here a zero) is currently not used in pdfTEX; it is the version ...

/Root −→ object 9 −→ /Pages −→ object 5 −→ /Kids −→ object 2 −→ /Contents −→ object 3
As soon as we add annotations, a fancy word for hyperlinks and the like, some more entries will be present in the catalog. We invite users to take a look at the pdf code of this file to get an impression of that. The page content is a stream of draw...

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The pdfTEX user manual

example is one of the 14 so--called standard fonts that should always be present in any pdf viewer and therefore need not be embedded in the pdf file, it is left out here for brevity. However, when we use for instance a Computer Modern Roman font, w...

\pdfobj{/Type /Catalog /Pages 5 0 R}
inserts an object into the pdf file, while \pdflastobj returns the number pdfTEX assigned to this object. Unless objects are referenced by others, they will just end up as isolated entities, not doing any real harm but bloating the pdf file. In gen...

3 Getting started
This section describes the steps needed to get pdfTEX running on a system where pdfTEX is not yet installed. Nowadays virtually all TEX distributions have pdfTEX as a component, such as TEX Live, teTEX, XEmTEX, MikTeX, proTEXt, and CMacTEX. The ready...