[pdftex] PDF generated from pdflatex causes acroread to grow without bounds?

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Jon Leech wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 02:41:20AM +0200, Heiko Oberdiek wrote:
> > On Fri, 3 Aug 2001 pdftex at oddhack.engr.sgi.com wrote:
> > > (I haven't yet figured out why references
> > > imbedded in a table in a {sideways} environment show up in the link
> > > color, but aren't clickable - but that's not a big deal).
> >
> > This is a limitation of pdfTeX. It does not take rotation
> > or scaling into account. :-(
>
>     OK, good to know.
>
> > >	pdfTeX Version 3.14159-13d, distributed with
> >
> > This is a very old version, current is 14h.
>
>     Is there a reasonably straightforward way to overlay 14h on a
> tetex-1.0.7 install? Judging from the tetex maintainer's note at
>
> 	http://www.mail-archive.com/tetex@informatik.uni-hannover.de/msg01041.html
>
>     this could be quite challenging.

Yes, on Linux.  Binaries are available and just drop in (you will need to
remake the formats).  At least, that's our experience on Red Hat.

Not that I recall seeing the problem you mention back in the days of -13d.

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