[pdftex] pdftex oddity???

[Reinhard Kotucha]

>>>>> "Marc" == Marc van Dongen <dongen at cs.ucc.ie> writes:

    > I am experiencing a difference between pdftex and LaTeX
    > generated documents which I cannot explain. I use a recent TeTeX
    > distribution.

pdftex is ok, though the version you use is known to have some
problems with tiff inclusion.

    > Am I overlooking anything?  

Yes. You can't use the acrobat reader to create PostScript.  It simply
has too many bugs.  Some people call it "acrobug".

    > Any suggestions as to how to solve this?

Use pdftops which is part of the xpdf distribution. 

    ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/pub/tex/support/xpdf		    

Regards,
  Reinhard

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