[pdftex] pdftex compliance..

Martin Schröder ms at artcom-gmbh.de
Sun Aug 5 17:18:19 CEST 2001


On 2001-08-05 10:11:55 -0400, Y&Y Support wrote:
> At 13:43 2001-08-05 +0200, Martin Schröder wrote:
> >On 2001-08-04 18:19:47 -0400, K. R. Subramanian wrote:
> > > This is with regard to doing NSF proposals using pdflatex. Is the following
> > > from NSF Fastlane Help Desk
> > > true? I would have thought that using conversion tools to go from 
> > dvi-ps-pdf
> >
> >PDF compliance is normally tested by putting the PDF through some
> >PDF comsuming application, i.e. normally Adobe Acrobat or through
> >a PDF normalizer. I know of no problems the current pdfTeX causes
> >there, although some PDF RIPs have problems with PDF produced by
> >pdfTeX.
> 
> You can, however, see how they would be nervous about that,
> given that PDF produced by pdfTeX could not be printed
> from Acrobat Reader 5.0 to a PostScript printer.  This is the
> kind of issue they are concerned about.

The problem has been fixed.

Best regards
        Martin
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