[pdftex] formatting problem when coverting into pdf

[John Culleton]

On Wednesday 05 November 2003 05:25 am, Always Bishan wrote:
> hi
>
> I'm new with pdftex. I converted a tex file with
> proper formatting into pdf and lot of formatting was
> lost.

OK slow down a moment.  Are you starting with a TeX file
(e.g., foo.tex)? Are you processing it with a statement like
pdftex foo.tex
or
pdflatex foo.tex
(depending on how you wrote the file of course, in plain TeX or 
LaTeX.)

These statements take the place of:
tex foo.tex
or
latex foo.tex

You don't do one and then the other.

If you do either pdftex (file) or pdflatex (file)  you 
should have a properly formatted pdf file. 

Now, you listed some error messages. What program or 
facility is giving you these error messages?

John Culleton