Re: Problems with texexec

[Tobias Burnus <burnus@gmx.de>]

Hallo Dirk, hallo Hans, hi all,

>I am using the latest tetex distribution under Solaris UNIX.
Which teTeX version?
a) teTeX 1.0.6
b) teTeX 1.0.7
c) teTeX beta 12 February 2000
a and b contain an rather old pdftex, c contains the newest pdftex
b and c conatin both a rather new context (as of begining of february,
whereas in a is a rather old (and buggy \frac) context.

> Texexec should run ok.
Indeed, what does $PATH_TO_TETEX_BINARIES/texexec --version produce?

> The main thing left to do is to uncomment the
> context format lines in the tetex config file.
fmtutil --edit
fmtutill --all

> >Using a document like pdftex-a.pdf I get in addition an error message
> >
> >   Error (1024) PDF version 1.3 -- xpdf supports version 1.2 (continuing
> >   anyway
> This means that there is a pdf 1.3 option used (probably the resource in
> the mirrored page is not recognized). Normally this does not hurt, and some
> day the xpdf libraries will catch up.
Well I use xpdf version 0.90, and in help (`?') I have the line:
Supports PDF 1.3, so you might update.
(Can one force PDF 1.2? Using ps2pdf of Ghostscript 6.01 one can choose
ps2pdf13 and ps2pdf12)

Tobias