[tex-live] PTEX.Fullbanner

[Enda]

I think that it gives away too much information about the user's software, for example the default is like

TeX Live:
/Producer (pdfTeX-1.40.11)
/Creator (LaTeX with hyperref package)
/PTEX.Fullbanner (This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11-2.2 (TeX Live 2010) kpathsea version 6.0.0)

whereas on Debian, it is like:

Debian:

/Creator (LaTeX with hyperref package)
/Producer (pdfTeX-1.40.10)
/PTEX.Fullbanner (This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10-2.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian) kpathsea version 5.0.0)


/Producer and /Creator already give enough information, is /PTEX.Fullbanner necessary?


-- Enda



----- Original Message -----
From: Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de>
To: Enda <enda_k2 at yahoo.com>
Cc: "tex-live at tug.org" <tex-live at tug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: [tex-live] PTEX.Fullbanner

On 2013-09-17 at 14:14:10 -0700, Enda wrote:

> /PTEX.Fullbanner (This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11-2.2 (TeX Live 2010) kpathsea version 6.0.0)
> 
> When a latex file is compiled with pdflatex, the above is included
> in the pdf file. Is the PTEX.Fullbanner necessary to be put in the
> pdf file

The PDF file would be valid without it too, of course.  But what is
your problem?

Regards,
  Reinhard 

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