How to update pdftex ?

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Wed, 10 May 2000, Nicolas Marchand wrote:

> I've installed fpTeX-0.3 and updated it by unzipping the zip files of the latest beta
> version (fptex-0.3d). I would like to update my pdftex since my version (13d) seems to
> have some problems with the hyperref package. How can i do this ? I don't understand why
> the pdftex.exe of PDFTEX-0_14E-RELEASED-20000217-WIN32.ZIP is 1 Mo big when my old
> pdftex.exe is only 16 ko. Is this normal ?

Yes. Look at the size of the dlls it loads.  I suggest you upgrade to
fptex-0.4alpha3, which seems of releasable quality to me, and better than
0.3.


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