[pdftex] strange bug!

Paulo Ney de Souza desouza at math.berkeley.edu
Sat Mar 24 13:53:59 CET 2001


I get the problem when running both on our machines here at Berkeley, as well
as the pre-installed software under RedHat 7.0. Does anyone know if the
installs
below are current ?

solaris 2.7 -> pdflatex -v
pdfTeX (Web2C 7.3.1) 3.14159-0.14e-pretest-20000210
kpathsea version 3.3.1
Copyright (C) 1999 Han The Thanh, Petr Sojka, and Jiri Zlatuska.
.
redhat 7.0 -> pdflatex -v
pdfTeX (Web2C 7.3.1) 3.14159-0.13d
kpathsea version 3.3.1
Copyright (C) 1999 Han The Thanh, Petr Sojka, and Jiri Zlatuska.

Aiko: Can you send me the result of your "pdflatex -v" ?

Paulo Ney

Aiko Huckauf wrote:

> Saturday, March 24, 2001, 9:30:51 PM, Paulo Ney de Souza wrote:
>
> > The file below, when processed with pdflatex and the 3 comments does NOT
> > produce the second (uncommented) picture. If the 3 comments  are taken
> > OUT then it produces both pictures! The (strange) behaviour does not show
> > when one use stardard "latex"... so I am assuming it is a problem with
> > "pdflatex". Does anyone knows what is going on ?
>
> I have tested the document, both with one of my own pdf-graphics and
> the foo.pdf from you. I can't reproduce the problem - in my case
> everything worked fine, i. e. as expected: I get one graphic if I let
> the first picture commented and two graphics when I remove the
> comments.
> Are you sure your pdfTeX is set up correctly? Does it work with other
> .tex files? Which OS and which editor do you use? Maybe the problem is
> due to this. If not, I have no idea...
>
> Greetings from Kiel
>
> Aiko Huckauf
>
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