Bug#131628: tetex-extra: pdfwebmac and pdftex disagree about directives

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Dear Taral,

would you be so kind and keep the bug number in the archive? This makes
sure the mails are archived, and the other tetex maintainers also see
it. 


Taral <taral@taral.net> wrote:

> Thanks for your reply.
>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:10:40AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>
>> Please provide a minimal document that can be run through pdftex to
>> produce your problem (is it just the two lines above? We need
>> everything, preamble an stuff.) and what you expect to see as
>> output. Also please provide the exact error message so that we can
>> compare it with more recent versions of the tetex package (most of us
>> are using the version from Debian unstable).
>
> Uhh... it's been way too long for me, so I don't have the doc anymore...

I feared that...

> The basic problem is that pdfwebmac hasn't been updated to the new
> syntax used by pdftex. 

So this means that pdfwebmac and pdftex in tetex as it is in stable are
not compatible? This is indeed a bad bug. However, we won't be able to
change anything in stable, since also security fixes will get there. 

Therefore we should find out wether the problem is still there in
unstable, or tetex-2.0.2.

> Look up the \pdfcatalog statement and you'll see
> that the correction is pretty patent.

I fear I don't see it - I've looked up pdfcatalog in
pdftex-syntax.txt.gz and pdftexman.pdf, but I don't understand neither
of your two versions.

However, in /usr/share/texmf/pdftex/plain/misc/pdfwebmac.tex on current
tetex, the last lines read as follows:

\def\makeoutlines{%
  \def\?##1]{}\def\Z##1##2##3{\pdfoutline goto num ##2{##1}}
  \input CONTENTS\relax}
\pdfcatalog{/PageMode /UseOutlines}
\endinput

So does that mean that it has been corrected yet?

Thank you for your help,
Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie