[pdftex] Re: [Mac OS X TeX] pdflatex bug

Sherlock Holmes sherlock at rna.nl
Mon Jul 16 22:23:37 CEST 2001


On Monday, July 16, 2001, at 07:00  PM, Troy Goodson wrote:

> At 9:54 AM +0100 7/16/01, Lawrence C Paulson 
> <Larry.Paulson at cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Slightly off-topic, but I don't know where to report this problem.
>>
>> I have spent hours tracking down a problem with a PDF file.  It boils 
>> down
>> to a SINGLE line in the .ind file:
>>
>>   \item \isa {someI_ex} (theorem, \bold){71}
>>
>> Here \bold is defined by
>>
>>   \gdef\bold#1{\textbf{\hyperpage{#1}}}}
>>
>> Obviously the culprit an incorrect \index entry, but the real worry is 
>> that
>> pdflatex+hyperref doesn't give an error message: it generates bad PDF. 
>> or
>> sometimes crashes (segmentation fault).
>>
>> Where can I report this pdflatex/hyperref bug?
>> --
>> Larry
>>
>
> How about the pdftex mailing list?

What version of pdftex and what version of hyperref are we talking about 
here?

SH




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