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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label nonpdfsp</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>Non-PDF special ignored!</h3>
-<p/>This is a PDFTeX error: PDFTeX is running in PDF output
-
-mode, and it has encountered a
-<a href="FAQ-specials.html"><code>\</code><code>special</code></a> command. PDFTeX is
-able to generate its own output, and in this mode of operation has no
-need of <code>\</code><code>special</code> commands (which allow the user to pass
-information to the driver being used to generate output).
-<p/>Why does this happen? LaTeX users, nowadays, hardly ever use
-<code>\</code><code>special</code> commands on their own &#8212; they employ packages to do the
-job for them. Some packages will generate <code>\</code><code>special</code> commands
-however they are invoked: <i>pstricks</i> is an example (it&#8217;s very
-raison d&#8217;&#234;tre is to emit PostScript code in a sequence of <code>\</code><code>special</code>
-commands). <i>Pstricks</i> may be dealt with by other means (the
-<i>pdftricks</i> package offers a usable technique).
-<p/>More amenable to correction, but more confusing, are packages (such as
-<i>color</i>, <i>graphics</i> and <i>hyperref</i>) that
-specify a &#8220;driver&#8221;. These packages have plug-in modules that
-determine what <code>\</code><code>special</code> (or other commands) are needed to generate
-any given effect: the <code>pdftex</code> driver for such packages knows not to
-generate <code>\</code><code>special</code> commands. In most circumstances, you can let
-the system itself choose which driver you need; in this case
-everything will act properly when you switch to using PDFLaTeX. If
-you&#8217;ve been using <i>dvips</i> (and specifying the <code>dvips</code> driver)
-or <i>dvipdfm</i> (for which you have to specify the driver), and
-decide to try PDFLaTeX, you <em>must</em> remove the <code>dvips</code> or
-<code>dvipdfm</code> driver specification from the package options, and let the
-system recognise which driver is needed.
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>pdftricks.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pdftricks.zip">macros/latex/contrib/pdftricks</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pdftricks/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pdftricks.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>pstricks.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks.zip">graphics/pstricks</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pstricks/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/pstricks.html">catalogue entry</a>
-</dl>
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=nonpdfsp">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=nonpdfsp</a>
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