[pdftex] letter-sized manual on pdftex.org corrupt?

[Hans Hagen]

At 04:58 PM 12/17/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>William Adams <wadams at atlis.com> writes:
>
> > I've not been able to d/l and view more than the first page of:
> > http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/pdftex-l.pdf
> >
> > (The screen, A5 booklet and A4 sized files all worked fine)
> >
> > Just FYI.
>
>I recall this coming up several times a year.  I think it is never
>fixed because the people who could fix it are A4 snobs, snubbing
>letter-sized paper.  ;)

Definitely! Also, maybe there are more A4-pdftex users.

Btw, since the original is ok, it must have been a copying problem.

Also, but this probbably went unnoticed by letter lovers, pdftex does a 
better job in typesetting on A4 paper unless you say \pdfoutput=254 -)

Hans

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