preamble for pdftex-documents

[Sebastian Rahtz]

Serge-Eric Thiam writes:
 > What preambles r needed  - appart those of noraml tex (I'm using teTeX)-
 > when processing a tex doc through pdftex. I checked out the example.tex that
none. unless you want to use a package which translates your
cross-refs to hyperlinks. try

 \usepackage[pdftex]{hyperref}

but its not *necessary*

example.tex is plain TeX; i guess you are a LaTeX user.

 > The "pdftex.def"-file? hre is it supposed to be in the directory-structure
 > and how do i use it?
put it wherever you have dvips.def. and say
 \usepackage[pdftex]{color}
 \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
if you need them.

 > Where do I get more infos on usind the pdftex primitives ? 
in the manual, at http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/, where
you'll also find a FAQ

sebastian