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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label whatpdftex</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>What is PDFTeX?</h3>
-<p/>One can reasonably say that PDFTeX is (today) the main stream of
-TeX distributions: most LaTeX and ConTeXt users nowadays use
-PDFTeX whether they know it or not (more precisely, they use
-PDFTeX extended by
- <a href="FAQ-etex.html">e-TeX</a>).
-
-So what is PDFTeX?
-<p/>PDFTeX is a development of TeX that is capable of generating
-typeset PDF output in place of DVI. PDFTeX has
-other capabilities, most notably in the area of fine typographic
-detail (for example, its support for
- <a href="FAQ-overfull.html">optimising line breaks</a>),
-
-but its greatest impact to date has been in the area of
-PDF output.
-<p/>PDFTeX started as a topic for H&#224;n The Th&#224;nh&#8217;s Master&#8217;s thesis,
-and seems first to have been published in <i>TUGboat</i> 18(4), in 1997
-(though it was certainly discussed at the TUG&#8217;96 conference in
-Russia).
-<p/>While the world was making good use of &#8220;pre-releases&#8221; of PDFTeX,
-Th&#224;nh used it as a test-bed for the micro-typography which was the
-prime subject of his Ph.D. research. Since Th&#224;nh was finally
-awarded his Ph.D., day-to-day maintenance and development of
-PDFTeX 1.0 (and later) has been in the hands of a group of
-PDFTeX maintainers (which includes Th&#224;nh); the group has managed
-to maintain a stable platform for general use.
-<p/>Development of PDFTeX has (in essence) stopped: the brave new world
-is to be <a href="FAQ-luatex.html">LuaTeX</a>.
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=whatpdftex">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=whatpdftex</a>
-</body>