[pdftex] PTEX.FileName contains file system information

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Tue Aug 7 18:41:28 CEST 2007


Hans Hagen wrote:
> Peter Schmitt wrote:
> 
>> Upward compatibilty is very important, but it should not be a dogma:
>> In a case like this -- which does not even concern the typesetting --
>> adding a switch (either a commandline switch or a primitive to be set)
>> should be considered as correcting a bug (an oversight), and
>> the default setting should be the more cautious choice.
>> (A message in the logfile could be added.)
> 
> well, as mentioned before, it's not a bug nor an oversight (actually, 
> adding full resource names has been very custom in publishing because it 
> permitted to include a low res graphic to be replaced by a high res in 
> the final stage), it's a feature present for a long time now; and now 
> this feature can be disabled

My vote is with Martin and Hans. pdftex 1.50 it is.

Taco


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