Bug#317256: tetex-bin: \pdfadjustspacing and \pdfprotrudechars no longer working

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 11.07.05 Silas S. Brown (ssb22@cam.ac.uk) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse writes:

Hi,

> > Did you try to clarify that on any kind of mailing list/newsgroup
> > etc?
> 
> No because I'm not sure which newsgroups would understand me if I
> said "the Debian package".
> 
Well, you should give the pdfTeX version before and after that
upgrade. I guess that should be sufficient.

> > Further I think it was never a good idea to implement that
> > manually, cause there are packages to get protrusion. pdfcprot
> > should work even with the version in woody, cause it has about
> > the same age.
> 
> pdfcprot does work in woody and also in sarge.  But the problem is
> that microtype doesn't work (so no font expansion).
> 
Correct. microtype does not work. You need a more recent pdfTeX. You
could compile one from teTeX 3.0 and dpkg-divert it into teTeX 2.0.2.

> >   Last question: Could you tell, which pdfTeX version we had in
> > 1.0.7? I don't have a pure woody installation any more.
> 
> Neither do I.  I've upgraded to sarge, and that's when I reported
> the bug.  Doing it manually worked fine in woody but not in sarge. 
> I'm sorry I didn't keep a backup of my woody installation (I only
> backed up the user data).
> 
OK, I'll have a look at that.

H.
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