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<p class="MsoNormal">Great thank you Jonathan. Actually the issue has been resolved.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Jonathan Fine <jfine2358@gmail.com> <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, November 3, 2023 6:28 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> pdftex@tug.org; TeXhax <texhax@tug.org><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Xie, Emma <emma.xie@bofa.com>; Ulrike Fischer <news3@nililand.de><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [pdftex] pdftex throwing error despite no image<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Emma<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I apologise for the rude reply that Ulrike gave you. Please don't let that discourage you from using TeX.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I did a google search for the error message "<span class="gmail-im">See the pdftex.def package documentation for explanation" for most helpfully supplied. Here's some links for you to look at:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/tex.stackexchange.com/questions/280215/package-pdftex-def-error-file-pics-pdf-not-found__;!!I2XIyG2ANlwasLbx!Qjc8tZSGjNQCz0hGFoUDkSEszUjwL_CIwd-yYq1Jm82Krr7laX7Ypb_TvTkW-VXRjmkNU3eG3r_lItbC$">https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/280215/package-pdftex-def-error-file-pics-pdf-not-found</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/texhax.tug.narkive.com/gs6LICXo/package-pdftex-def-error__;!!I2XIyG2ANlwasLbx!Qjc8tZSGjNQCz0hGFoUDkSEszUjwL_CIwd-yYq1Jm82Krr7laX7Ypb_TvTkW-VXRjmkNU3eG3uxxmhn8$">https://texhax.tug.narkive.com/gs6LICXo/package-pdftex-def-error</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/latex.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7316__;!!I2XIyG2ANlwasLbx!Qjc8tZSGjNQCz0hGFoUDkSEszUjwL_CIwd-yYq1Jm82Krr7laX7Ypb_TvTkW-VXRjmkNU3eG3lwZagoI$">https://latex.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=7316</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/8913__;!!I2XIyG2ANlwasLbx!Qjc8tZSGjNQCz0hGFoUDkSEszUjwL_CIwd-yYq1Jm82Krr7laX7Ypb_TvTkW-VXRjmkNU3eG3qhUMWTR$">https://github.com/ipython/ipython/issues/8913</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=288724__;!!I2XIyG2ANlwasLbx!Qjc8tZSGjNQCz0hGFoUDkSEszUjwL_CIwd-yYq1Jm82Krr7laX7Ypb_TvTkW-VXRjmkNU3eG3pQllUBD$">https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=288724</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Oddly, none of these links refer to the pdftex.def package documentation. A search produced
<a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/ctan.org/pkg/pdftex-def__;!!I2XIyG2ANlwasLbx!Qjc8tZSGjNQCz0hGFoUDkSEszUjwL_CIwd-yYq1Jm82Krr7laX7Ypb_TvTkW-VXRjmkNU3eG3jrzTk-I$">
https://ctan.org/pkg/pdftex-def</a>, which for documentation provides a very short README.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I suggest you look at the links above. Ulrike is correct, that this list is not the correct place for dealing with your problem. I've forwarded it to texhax, which is a better place.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/tug.org/mailman/listinfo/texhax__;!!I2XIyG2ANlwasLbx!Qjc8tZSGjNQCz0hGFoUDkSEszUjwL_CIwd-yYq1Jm82Krr7laX7Ypb_TvTkW-VXRjmkNU3eG3kemX6y_$">https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/texhax</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">However, this is a better place to discuss what could be done to improve the error message. In particular I'd like to see a search for the "pdftex.def package documentation" produce a useful result. Ulrike is far more expert than I am on
where such documentation might be found.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">with kind regards<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Jonathan<o:p></o:p></p>
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