[pdftex] request for help with pictures and pdflatex

[Stephan Lehmke]

On Wed, 07 Aug 2002 21:00:35 +0800, "Alfred K. K. Wong" wrote:
>
> I
> installed the newer version of pdftex (compiled the code and replaced
> the files pdftex, pdftex.pool, and ttf2afm); but got the following error
> when running pdflatex:
> 
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-released-20010417 (Web2C 7.3.3.1)
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)

I think you have to recreate format files.

How this is done depends on your distribution, but

texconfig formats

might be a start.

regards
Stephan