[OS X TeX] LaTeXiT 1.2 released

Bruno Voisin bvoisin at mac.com
Fri Jul 15 13:28:13 CEST 2005


Le 15 juil. 05 à 09:40, Bruno Voisin a écrit :

> In a rush: there was a thread "Deprecated pdfTeX primitive lurking  
> in gwTeX" starting on 8 July. I think the fix will have to wait  
> until Gerben Wierda comes back from holiday.

I'm just realizing the list digests at <http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac- 
tex/MacOSX-TeX-Digests/2005/default.html> have not yet reached 8  
July. Here's a copy of the thread, saved from Mail.app and hand- 
edited to remove all email addresses.

Bruno Voisin


> 

De : Bruno Voisin
> Date : 8 juillet 2005 11:46:19 HAEC
> À : TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List
> Objet : [OS X TeX] Deprecated pdfTeX primitive lurking in gwTeX
>
> Is anybody else seeing this, in gwTeX installed with the latest TeX i-
> Package using the TL2005 Devel. setup: upon typesetting with pdfTeX,
> a warning in the console window:
>
>      ! pdfTeX warning: Primitive \pdfoptionpdfminorversion is
> obsolete; use \pdfmino
>      rversion instead.
>
> This seems to be caused by the command \pdfoptionpdfminorversion
> lurking inside /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/tex/generic/config/
> pdftexconfig.tex:
>
>      \pdfoptionpdfminorversion=4
>
> and being hence built-in when creating the pdfTeX and pdfLaTeX  
> formats.
>
> Possible causes IMHO: Gerben using pdftexconfig.tex from an outdated
> (2004?) version of teTeX, or pdftexconfig.tex still containing the
> error in the current teTeX.
>
> The warning is totally harmless, of course, in any case.
>
> Bruno Voisin
>
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>
> De : Peter Dyballa
> Date : 8 juillet 2005 12:54:02 HAEC
> À : TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List
> Objet : Rép : [OS X TeX] Deprecated pdfTeX primitive lurking in gwTeX
>
>
> Am 08.07.2005 um 11:46 schrieb Bruno Voisin:
>
> > This seems to be caused by the command \pdfoptionpdfminorversion
> > lurking inside /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/tex/generic/
> > config/pdftexconfig.tex:
> >
> >     \pdfoptionpdfminorversion=4
> >
>
> My version contains the same, I only get:
>
>     [1{/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/
> pdftex.map}
>     Non-PDF special ignored!
>     Non-PDF special ignored!
>     Non-PDF special ignored!
>     Non-PDF special ignored!] (/Users/pete/Library/texmf/tex/latex/bh/
> t1slst.fd)
>     (./Alt.toc) [2
>     Non-PDF special ignored!]
>     (
>
> And I have no idea why some tex files show this!
>
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>
>    Pete
>
> There's no sense in being precise when you don't
> even know what you're talking about.
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>
>
> 
De : Herbert Schulz
> Date : 8 juillet 2005 14:50:59 HAEC
> À : TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List
> Objet : Rép : [OS X TeX] Deprecated pdfTeX primitive lurking in gwTeX
>
>
> On Jul 8, 2005, at 4:46 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
> > Is anybody else seeing this, in gwTeX installed with the latest TeX
> > i-Package using the TL2005 Devel. setup: upon typesetting with
> > pdfTeX, a warning in the console window:
> >
> >     ! pdfTeX warning: Primitive \pdfoptionpdfminorversion is
> > obsolete; use \pdfmino
> >     rversion instead.
> >
> > This seems to be caused by the command \pdfoptionpdfminorversion
> > lurking inside /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/tex/generic/
> > config/pdftexconfig.tex:
> >
> >     \pdfoptionpdfminorversion=4
> >
> > and being hence built-in when creating the pdfTeX and pdfLaTeX
> > formats.
> >
> > Possible causes IMHO: Gerben using pdftexconfig.tex from an
> > outdated (2004?) version of teTeX, or pdftexconfig.tex still
> > containing the error in the current teTeX.
> >
> > The warning is totally harmless, of course, in any case.
> >
> > Bruno Voisin
> >
>
> Howdy,
>
> I also have that in that file but I also have a pdftexconfig.tex in
> texmf.local that does not contain that line. Does pdftex pick the
> first one it finds in the search path? When installing TeX I picked
> letter paper size and that might be why that file was created. I
> assume you used the default a4 paper; maybe the installer doesn't
> produce the texmf.local version under those conditions.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
>
>
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>
>
> 
De : Bruno Voisin
> Date : 8 juillet 2005 15:05:19 HAEC
> À : TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List
> Objet : Rép : [OS X TeX] Deprecated pdfTeX primitive lurking in gwTeX
>
> Le 8 juil. 05 à 14:50, Herbert Schulz a écrit :
>
> > I also have that in that file but I also have a pdftexconfig.tex in
> > texmf.local that does not contain that line. Does pdftex pick the
> > first one it finds in the search path? When installing TeX I picked
> > letter paper size and that might be why that file was created. I
> > assume you used the default a4 paper; maybe the installer doesn't
> > produce the texmf.local version under those conditions.
>
> That's indeed the case: my default paper size is A4, and as a result
> I have no pdftexconfig.tex in texmf.local. There's one inside
> texmf.gwtex and containing:
>
>      % Set pdfTeX parameters for pdf mode (replacing pdftex.cfg file).
>      % Thomas Esser, 2004. public domain.
>      \pdfoutput=1
>      \pdfcompresslevel=9
>      \pdfdecimaldigits=3
>      \pdfpagewidth=210 true mm
>      \pdfpageheight=297 true mm
>      \pdfhorigin=1 true in
>      \pdfvorigin=1 true in
>      \pdfpkresolution=600
>      \pdfoptionpdfminorversion=4
>      \endinput
>
> and the other inside texmf.tex and containing:
>
>      % Set pdfTeX parameters for pdf mode (replacing pdftex.cfg file).
>      % Thomas Esser, 2004. public domain.
>      \pdfoutput=1
>      \pdfpagewidth=210 true mm
>      \pdfpageheight=297 true mm
>      \pdfpkresolution=600
>      \endinput
>
> The first one is read and creates the problem.
>
> Bruno
>
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>
> 
De : Herbert Schulz
> Date : 8 juillet 2005 15:37:59 HAEC
> À : TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List
> Objet : Rép : [OS X TeX] Deprecated pdfTeX primitive lurking in gwTeX
>
>
> On Jul 8, 2005, at 8:05 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
> > ...
> >     % Set pdfTeX parameters for pdf mode (replacing pdftex.cfg  
> file).
> >     % Thomas Esser, 2004. public domain.
> >     \pdfoutput=1
> >     \pdfpagewidth=210 true mm
> >     \pdfpageheight=297 true mm
> >     \pdfpkresolution=600
> >     \endinput
> >
> > The first one is read and creates the problem.
> >
> > Bruno
> >
>
> Howdy,
>
> The one I have in texmf.local is the same as the texmf.tetex version
> except for the 8.5x11in letterpaper size setting.
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
>
>
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>
>
> 
De : Peter Dyballa
> Date : 8 juillet 2005 16:03:53 HAEC
> À : TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List
> Objet : Rép : [OS X TeX] Deprecated pdfTeX primitive lurking in gwTeX
>
>
> Am 08.07.2005 um 15:05 schrieb Bruno Voisin:
>
> >> pdftexconfig.tex
>
> I have three of them:
>
> -rw-r--r--  1 Admin  admin  200  5 Jul 10:28 .../texmf.local/tex/
> generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex
> -r--r--r--  1 root   admin  312 10 Mar  2004 .../texmf.gwtex/tex/
> generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex
> -rw-r--r--  1 pete   pete   200  9 Jul  2004 .../texmf.tetex/tex/
> generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex
>
> They come from two sources: tex.ii2/tex.19.tar.bz2 has the 200 B
> twice, tex.ii2/tex.4.tar.bz2 has the 312 B twice.
>
> Now looking into the report I see:
>
> .../texmf.local/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex gets generated
> whenever a format is being built.  .../texmf.tetex/tex/generic/config/
> pdftexconfig.tex probably is the fall-back ressource, or a remains,
> because owned by me (Admin is doing the installation)! And .../
> texmf.gwtex/tex/generic/config/pdftexconfig.tex is probably fine-
> adjusting PDF creation, setting the PDF version number ...
>
>
> The reason could be that the pdfetex binary is compiled for Tiger and
> for Panther, Jaguar and below. Could be that Apple's PDF support
> changed between the Panther and Tiger, so you get this notion because
> the binary is using functions from your modernized frameworks, and I
> get something different ...
>
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