[pdftex] Why does pdflatex needs pictures?

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 13 January 2011 David Carlisle wrote:

 > On 13/01/2011 09:53, Martin Schröder wrote:
 >  > 2011/1/13 Lars Madsen<daleif at imf.au.dk>:
 >  >> \usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
 >  >
 >  > \usepackage[demo]{graphicx}[2009/02/05]
 >  >
 >  > Or when was that added? :-)
 >  >
 >  > Best
 >  >     Martin
 > 
 > It was always there, since the first test releases of graphics.


$ diff /opt/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty \
       /opt/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/graphics.sty
10a11
> %%              Copyright (C) 2005--2006 David Carlisle, LaTeX3 Project
15c16,18
< %% Either version 1.0 or, at your option, any later version.
---
> %% Either version 1.3c or, at your option, any later version.
> %%
> %% This file has the LPPL maintenance status "maintained".
19c22
<           [2001/07/07 v1.0n  Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)]
---
>           [2006/02/20 v1.0o  Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)]
43a47,51
> \DeclareOption{demo}{%
>   \AtBeginDocument{%
>     \def\Ginclude at graphics#1{%
>       \rule{\@ifundefined{Gin@@ewidth}{150pt}{\Gin@@ewidth}}%
>       {\@ifundefined{Gin@@eheight}{100pt}{\Gin@@eheight}}}}}
48a57,58
> \DeclareOption{dvipdfmx}{\def\Gin at driver{dvipdfmx.def}}
> \DeclareOption{xetex}{\def\Gin at driver{xetex.def}}


Regards,
  Reinhard

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