1pdfTeX is an extended version of eTeX that can create PDF directly from
2TeX source files and enhance the result of TeX typesetting with the help
3of PDF. When PDF output is not selected, pdfTeX produces normal DVI
4output, otherwise it produces PDF output that looks essentially
5identical to the DVI output. An important aspect of this project is to
6investigate alternative justification algorithms.
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8pdfTeX is based on the original e-TeX sources and Web2c, and has been
9successfully compiled on many systems. It is no longer under active
10development and only bug fixes and small enhancements are expected.
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12See the file NEWS for changes to the program.
13Documentation about pdfTeX can be found at http://www.pdftex.org.
14Mailing lists:
15http://lists.tug.org/pdftex - help requests, general user discussion
16http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-pdftex - bug reports, development
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19LEGAL ISSUES
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22pdfTeX is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
23terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
24Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
25version.
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27pdfTeX is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
28WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
29FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
30details.
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32You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
33with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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35pdfTeX uses code from TeX; for these parts the original copyright by Don
36Knuth applies. See the source files for details.
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38pdfeTeX uses code from eTeX; for these parts the original copyright by
39Peter Breitenlohner applies. See the source files for details.
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41CONTRIBUTORS
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44Karl Berry, Peter Breitenlohner, Ricardo Sanchez Carmenes, Otfried
45Cheong, Thomas Esser, Hans Hagen, Hartmut Henkel, Taco Hoekwater, Pawel
46Jackowski, Pavel Janik, Tom Kacvinsky, Akira Kakuto, Reinhard Kotucha,
47Derek B. Noonburg, Heiko Oberdiek, Jiri Osoba, Fabrice Popineau,
48Sebastian Rahtz, Bernd Raichle, Tomas Rokicki, Leonard Rosenthol, Martin
49Schr�der, Petr Sojka, Ralf Utermann, Olaf Weber, Jiri Zlatuska.
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51Some companies have supported the developement of pdfTeX: Adobe Systems
52Inc., ArtCom GmbH, Pragma ADE, QuinScape GmbH.
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54pdfTeX is built on top of TeX, written by Donald Knuth cum suis (Frank
55Liang et al.), and e-TeX, written by Peter Breitenlohner cum suis;
56the advanced paragraph optimization is inspired by the work of Hermann Zapf.
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