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+<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label whatpdftex</title>
+</head><body>
+<h3>What is PDFTeX?</h3>
+<p/>PDFTeX has entered the main stream of TeX distributions: most
+LaTeX and ConTeXt users nowadays use PDFTeX whether they know
+it or not (more precisely, they use an amalgam of PDFTeX and
+<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&agrave;n The Th&agrave;nh&rsquo;s Master&rsquo;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&rsquo;96 conference in
+Russia).
+<p/>While the world was making good use of &ldquo;pre-releases&rdquo; of PDFTeX,
+Th&agrave;nh used it as a test-bed for the micro-typography which was the
+prime subject of his Ph.D. research. Since Th&agrave;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&agrave;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>