[tex-live] Re: [tex-k] TeX finding filenames with spaces

[Hans Hagen]

At 21:31 13/01/2004, you wrote:
>On Jan 13, 2004, at 5:25 PM, Martin Schröder wrote:
>
>>On 2004-01-13 12:01:24 -0400, George N. White III wrote:
>>>pdf[e]tex already has dvi support.  The bigger issue to me is that
>>>pdftex is linked to additional libraries (zlib, libpng, etc. needed
>>>to support images) and in the past has broken when these libraries
>>>were changed (e.g., to fix bugs affecting security).  I hope a
>>
>>The problems have been (if at all) pre2003. The currently
>>distributed binaries are not dynamically linked against different
>>libraries than tex.
>
>Any chance for 'serialized PDF' (or whatever its real name)?

for that a second pass is needed and pdftex (as most pdf producing apps) is 
one-pass (this is one reason why pdf has this indirect object mechanism 
which permits forward referencing

Hans