Re: [ROOT] pdf output and pdflatex

From: Olivier Couet (couet@mail.cern.ch)
Date: Wed Dec 08 2004 - 09:47:24 MET


Dear Maxim,

 See my previous answer to roottalk. I attached canvas.pdf (generated with 
pdflatex) to it.

 Cheers,     Olivier


On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Maxim Nikulin wrote:

> Dear Olivier,
> 
> My thanks for your help, but I'm afraid the problem hasn't become clearer.
> 
> You wrote:
> > 
> >  The c1.pdf files you sent me are polluted with <CTRL>M characters at the 
> > end of each lines. Just like some files coming from Windows are sometimes. 
> 
> It seems there is a "smart" program which is distorting the data. I 
> don't see <Ctrl>M (0x0d byte) in my c1.pdf passed through roottalk 
> mailing list. I tried to save the file through IMAP with mozilla and 
> through the web interface of my mail server. The result was identical. 
> The file downloaded from the roottalk archive has one additional byte 0x0a.
> 
> > So I cannot use it (pdf is very sensitive on the number of characters in a 
> > file). If I generate c1.pdf with the macro you sent me all works just 
> > fine. My pdflatex is:
> > 
> > pcepsft15> pdflatex -v
> > pdfTeX (Web2C 7.3) 3.14159-0.13c
> 
> I found
> pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-released-20010417 (Web2C 7.3.3.1)
> pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-0.12h (Web2C 7.2)
> in the our Zoo. Their behavior is different but they both don't succeed 
> in inclusion of your c1.pdf.
> 
> Finally I got the file compiled with
> pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1)
> Now I agree that ROOT PDF files can be included into documents produced 
> by pdflatex. Probable I'll tell the story to pdflatex developers, but
> now I think ROOT EPS is better.
> 
> 

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