Everything about PdfTeX
Extension of Knuth's typesetting program TeX
The computer program pdfTeX, sometimes typeset as pdfTeX, is an extension of Knuth's typesetting program TeX, and was originally written and developed into a publicly usable product by Hàn Thế Thành as a part of the work for his PhD thesis at the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. The idea of making this extension to TeX was conceived during the early 1990s, when Jiří Zlatuška and Phil Taylor discussed some developmental ideas with Donald Knuth at Stanford University. Knuth later met Hàn Thế Thành in Brno during his visit to the Faculty of Informatics to receive an honorary doctorate from Masaryk University. Wikipedia →
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Using pdfTeX IV: micro-typographic extensions
Using pdfTeX IVa: simplification of hz-algorithm
About pdfTeX possibilities
Používáme pdfTeX: vkládání obrázků
Using pdfTeX III: movie and sound for presentation
Using pdfTeX II: document for photographs presentation; how to create a hypertext
Using pdfTeX V: current typesetting position
pdfTeX primitives (syntax)
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