Ignoring pdftex primitives

[George White]

Well, plus 5 merit points for not assuming that Prof. Bloggs is a male, 
but minus 5 for the implication that a female academic might be silly!
In any case, Prof. Bloggs is currently engaged in a field trip to 
Mars and isn't responding to messages from students.

It should be an objective of pdftex to ensure that there is a 
straightforward mechanism by which "reasonable" pdftex documents
can be processed using tex and produce a .dvi file that approximates
the .pdf within "reasonable" limits.  This goal is more important 
given the current somewhat fragile state of pdftex and related tools
than it might be in the long term.

--
George White <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca> Halifax, Nova Scotia

On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, 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" :-}
> 
> sebastian
>