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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label pdftex</title>
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<h3>The PDFTeX project</h3>
<p>PDFTeX (formerly known as TeX2PDF) arose from
Han The Thanh's
post-graduate research at Masaryk University, Brno, Czech
Republic.  The basic idea is very simple: to provide a version of
TeX that can output PDF as an alternative format to
DVI.  PDFTeX implements a small number of new
primitives, to switch to PDF output, and to control various
PDF features.
Han The Thanh
worked on PDFTeX throughout his Ph.D. research into
typesetting, and the latest release includes facilities he wrote to
support novel typesetting techniques that he was studying.
<p>Since he completed his studies, Han has had little time to work on
PDFTeX, and day-to-day support is provided by a team of experts
(mostly in Europe).
The latest sources are available on CTAN, and
implementations are available as part of Web2C, as well as in the
teTeX, mikTeX, fpTeX, CMacTeX and TeX live distributions
A version (by the author of CMacTeX) for use with OzTeX is also
available on CTAN.
<p>A mailing list discussing PDFTeX is available;

  subscribe via the
  <a href="http://www.tug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdftex">TUG <i>mailman</a> interface</i>.
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<dt><tt><i>pdftex</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/pdftex/pdftex.zip">systems/pdftex/pdftex.zip</a>
<dt><tt><i>pdftex for OzTeX</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/nonfree/systems/mac/pdftex/pdftex_for_oztex.sit.bin">nonfree/systems/mac/pdftex/pdftex_for_oztex.sit.bin</a>
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<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=pdftex">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=pdftex</a>
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