[pdftex] pdftex Digest, Vol 64, Issue 12

[The Thanh Han]

An overview can be found here
www.tug.org/pracjourn/2007-3/laurens/laurens.pdf 

I don't know if a more detailed documentation is available.
The synctex package comes with instructions how to build it
and the format it uses, but no information for end users yet.


Thanh

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 07:18:41PM -0400, ivo welch wrote:
> could someone please point me to the documentation for synctex?  I saw
> some exchanges on the mailing lists, and it sounds really interesting.
>  I have long looked for a way to determine how tex source corresponds
> to the tex output page, and vice versa.  regards, /iaw
> 
> 
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> >   1. Notes in documents created with pdfLaTeX (Martin Heller)
> >   2. pdftex-1.40.8-rc1 (The Thanh Han)
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Martin Heller <mr_heller at yahoo.dk>
> > To: pdftex at tug.org
> > Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 11:14:14 +0200
> > Subject: [pdftex] Notes in documents created with pdfLaTeX
> > Notes in pdf documents created with pdfLaTeX does not print correcty from Acrobat Reader 8.0 and Acrobat Professional 7.0.
> >
> > This document
> >
> > \documentclass{scrartcl}
> > \usepackage{hyperref}
> > \usepackage{pdfnotiz}
> > \usepackage{lipsum}
> > \begin{document}
> > \pdfmarginnote[Note]{This is a note.}
> > \lipsum
> > \end{document}
> >
> > when printed with comments summary (Ctrl+T in Acrobat Reader/Professional) will not print the text (Lorem ipsum...).
> >
> > This prints correctly (documentclass changed):
> >
> > \documentclass{article}
> > \usepackage{hyperref}
> > \usepackage{pdfnotiz}
> > \usepackage{lipsum}
> > \begin{document}
> > \pdfmarginnote[Note]{This is a note.}
> > \lipsum
> > \end{document}
> >
> > If I add a note with Acrobat Professional in this document
> >
> > \documentclass{article}
> > \usepackage{lipsum}
> > \begin{document}
> > \lipsum
> > \end{document}
> >
> > The text does not print. I can compile the same document with latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf and add a note with Acrobat Professionel and it prints correctly.
> >
> > If I add a note with Acrobat Professional in this document (hyperref added)
> >
> > \documentclass{article}
> > \usepackage{hyperref}
> > \usepackage{lipsum}
> > \begin{document}
> > \lipsum
> > \end{document}
> >
> > and compile with pdflatex it prints correctly.
> >
> > I am using MikTeX 2.6 with the latest updates installed with the package manager.
> >
> > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.4 (MiKTeX 2.6) (preloaded format=pdflatex 2008.2.28)  28 MAY 2008 11:07
> > entering extended mode
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: The Thanh Han <hanthethanh at gmail.com>
> > To: pdfTeX list <pdftex at tug.org>, pdfTeX developers list <ntg-pdftex at ntg.nl>
> > Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 11:50:33 +0200
> > Subject: [pdftex] pdftex-1.40.8-rc1
> > Hi,
> >
> > a RC for 1.40.8 is available for testing. This release
> > is suppposed to be included in texlive2008.
> >
> > http://sarovar.org/frs/download.php/1234/pdftex-1.40.8-rc1.tar.bz2
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > pdfTeX 3.1415926-1.40.8-rc1 was released on 2008-05-28
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > - Incorporated synctex
> > - Incorporated the new version of TeX: 3.1415926
> > - The pool file is now compiled in
> > - Bugfix:
> >  - Fonts from included PDFs for which maplines existed missed their /StemV
> >    values
> >  - \pdflastximagepages was broken for JBIG2 images
> >  - included PDFs with a negative lly in the MediaBox with a depth != 0 with
> >    \pdfximage were wrongly vertically diplaces (936)
> >  - PDF inclusion was broken on ppc-darwin (941)
> > - pdfTeX uses libpng 1.2.29
> >
> >
> > Thanh
> >
> >
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