[OS X TeX] Deprecated pdfTeX primitive lurking in gwTeX

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jul 8, 2005, at 4:46 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Is anybody else seeing this, in gwTeX installed with the latest TeX  
> i-Package using the TL2005 Devel. setup: upon typesetting with  
> pdfTeX, a warning in the console window:
>
>     ! pdfTeX warning: Primitive \pdfoptionpdfminorversion is  
> obsolete; use \pdfmino
>     rversion instead.
>
> This seems to be caused by the command \pdfoptionpdfminorversion  
> lurking inside /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/tex/generic/ 
> config/pdftexconfig.tex:
>
>     \pdfoptionpdfminorversion=4
>
> and being hence built-in when creating the pdfTeX and pdfLaTeX  
> formats.
>
> Possible causes IMHO: Gerben using pdftexconfig.tex from an  
> outdated (2004?) version of teTeX, or pdftexconfig.tex still  
> containing the error in the current teTeX.
>
> The warning is totally harmless, of course, in any case.
>
> Bruno Voisin
>

Howdy,

I also have that in that file but I also have a pdftexconfig.tex in  
texmf.local that does not contain that line. Does pdftex pick the  
first one it finds in the search path? When installing TeX I picked  
letter paper size and that might be why that file was created. I  
assume you used the default a4 paper; maybe the installer doesn't  
produce the texmf.local version under those conditions.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)


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