Ignoring pdftex primitives

[Hans Hagen]

Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> 
> Robert Howlett writes:
>  > I was imagining a situation where a person who doesn't have
>  > access to pdftex and has never heard of it comes to me and
>  > says "I've got this tex file from Prof. Bloggs, but when I
>  > run it I get the message
>  > undefined control sequence \pdfimage.
>  > What can I do?"
> 
> I would answer "send it back to Prof. Bloggs and tell her not to be so
> silly" :-}

Well, in due time all tex will be pdfetex, I guess,

\def\pdfimage#1.#2#3#4%
  {{\tt[Wanna see this #2#3#4 figure? Just install pdftex]}} 

Hans

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