Bug#660254: marked as done (texlive-binaries: pdftex -output-format dvi is ignored)
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Package: texlive-binaries
Version: 2009-11
Severity: normal
Hello Debian TeX Maintainers,
pdftex man page say:
-output-format format
Set the output format mode, where format must be either pdf or dvi. This also
influences the set of graphics formats understood by pdfTeX.
However 'pdftex -output-format dvi' actually produces a .pdf file.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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> Dear Frank,
>
> I am very grateful for your quick answer, and I confirm that this work on your
> test file on my system, but it does not work with my file:
>
> $ cat plaintest.tex
> \ifx\pdfoutput\undefined
> \else
> \pdfoutput = 1
> \fi
> hallo
> \bye
>
> But this is probably a bug in my file and not with pdftex.
> Sorry for the trouble.
The option --output-format sets the initial value of \pdfoutput to 0
if you have --output-format dvi and to 2 for --output-format pdf (I'm
not sure why 2 and not 1, incidentally). Your code then tests whether
\pdfoutput is defined - which it always is if you are using pdftex -
and then sets \pdfoutput to 1, which overrides your command-line
option.
I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve here. If you want to test
whether you're in pdf mode or not, use the ifpdf package (which works
for plain TeX as well). If you want to find out whether you're using
pdftex or a derivative of it, something like what you're doing will
work.
Closing this non-bug.
Julian
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